Television episode
Tail of the Roon Comets
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"Tail of the Roon Comets" is the tenth episode of Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO. Written by Michael Reaves from a story by Ben Burtt and directed by Ken Stephenson, the episode originally aired on ABC on November 9, 1985.
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Facts
- Title
- "Tail of the Roon Comets"
- Series
- Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO
- Season
- One
- Episode
- 10
- Production
- D9
- Airdate
- November 9, 1985
- Runtime
- 22 minutes
- Director
- Ken Stephenson
- Writers
- Ben Burtt (story)
- Michael Reaves (teleplay)
- Timeline
- 15 BBY
- Prev
- "Coby and the Starhunters"
- Next
- "The Roon Games"
Who turns up here
Characters: 10
- Mungo Baobab (first appearance)
- C-3PO
- Gaff (first appearance)
- Bisad Koong (first appearance)
- Krox (first appearance)
- Palpatine (indirect mention)
- R2-D2
- Terrinald Screed
- Noop Yeldarb (first appearance)
- Archivist droid (first appearance)
Planets: 3
- Roon (first appearance)
- Manda (first appearance)
- Rainbow comet (first appearance)
Places: 2
- Tawntoom (first appearance, as a hologram)
- Baobab Archives (first appearance)
Galaxy: 3
- Cloak of the Sith (first appearance, as a hologram)
- Roon system (first appearance)
- Manda-Roon Merchant Route (first appearance)
Starships: 8
- Umboo Lightstation (first appearance)
- A/SF-01 B-wing starfighter
- Caravel (first appearance)
- Koong's cloudcraft (first appearance)
- Lambda-class T-4a shuttle
- New Umboo Lightstation (first appearance)
- Gladiator-class Star Destroyer
- TIE/LN starfighter
Organizations: 6
- Baobab Merchant Fleet (first appearance)
- Galactic Empire
- Imperial Army
- Stormtrooper Corps
- Stormtrooper
- Sith (mentioned only)
Events: 1
- Skirmish on the New Umboo Lightstation (first appearance)
Technology: 9
Lore: 3
- Galactic Emperor (mentioned only)
- Imperial officer
- Nergon-14
Everything else: 27
- Astromech droid
- R-series
- Probe droid
- Protocol droid
- Welding Beetle
- The Blue Nebula (first appearance)
- Admiral
- Emissary (mentioned only)
- Governor
- Pirate
- Cyborg
- Grav-cab
- Landspeeder
- Star Destroyer
- Starfighter
- TIE Series
- Armor
- Behavioral circuitry matrix (mentioned only)
- Electronic eye patch
- Force field
- Scomp link
- Tractor beam
- Asteroid
- Carbon-freezing (mentioned only)
- I have a bad feeling about this
- Radiation
- Roonstone (first appearance)
Not in the archive: 1
- Snic QC-5
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