Asha

Asha

November 30, 1985 TV Episode Ewoks

Studio
Nelvana Limited
Animation studio
Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd., Cuckoo's Nest Studios, Hanho Heung-Up, Mi-Hahn Productions

Synopsis

While camping in the deep forest, Wicket, Teebo and Paploo find Kneesaa's older sister Asha, missing for years after a Hanadak attacked and killed her mother. Raised by a family of Korrinas, Asha has become as a wild creature, defending her animal friends from Dulok hunters.

Characters

Malani, King Gorneesh, Princess Kneesaa, Wicket, Teebo, Latara, Shodu, Logray

Credits

Directing

Director
Raymond Jafelice

Producing

Producer
Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert, Clive A. Smith
Executive Producer
Miki Herman
Supervising Producer
Lenora Hume
Associate Producers
Paul Dini, Peter Sauder

Writing

Writer
Paul Dini

Music

Music
Taj Mahal

Crew

Unit Director
Dale Schott
Assistant Unit Director
Lawrence Jacobs
Animation Directors
Charlie Bonifacio, Wendy Perdue
Voice Director
Rob Kirkpatrick
Recording Assistant
Susan Philips
Casting Director
Arlene German
Casting Assistant
Deborah Paiz
Art Director
Julie Eberley
Design Co-Ordinator
Cathy Parkes
Background Styling
Peter Moehrle, Barry Atkinson
Production Design
Jim Craig, Cynthia Swift, Dave Quesnelie, Shawn Seles
Storyboard Supervisor
Arna Selznick
Artists
Alan Bunce, Sam Dixon, Ray Mourin, Dave Cox, Raymond Jafelice, Dale Schott
Assistants
Ted Ravn, Nicholas Campbell
Layout
John Van Bruggen, Robert Cowan, Howard Lonn, Anthony Van Bruggen, Scott Bennet, Marie Carter, Jeff Dickson, Richard Forgues, John Hill, Antonio Iacobelil, Chris Labnoie, Barbara Massey, Armen Melikonian, Tom Nesbitt, Howard Parkins, Bill Payne, Brian Poehlman, Debra Pugh
Character Layout
Lil Andre, Willy Ashworth, Ian Freedman, Michelle Houston, Bob Jaques, Pat Knight, Mark Pudleiner, Allen Swerling, Dick Zondag
Special Effects Director
David Marshall
Special Effects Design
Trevor Davies, Jan Steel Moffatt, Alexis Wallrich, Peter Yamasaki
Animation Supervisor
Bill Perkins
Graphics
Kim Cleary
Color Design
Jan Leitch, Elleen Middleton, Carol Barbour, Parker McIntyre, Mary Eklund, Margaret Rol, Dana Orlando, Glen Binmore
Assistant Supervising Producer
Peter Hudecki
Unit Manager
Richard Pimm
Production Supervisor
Dale Cox
Production Co-Ordinators
Heather Walker, Judy Nelson
Production Manager
Karyn Booth-Chadwick
Production Assistants
Barbara Bjarnason, Steve Chadwick, Paul Hogarth, Garth Roerick
Production Secretaries
Joy Folla, Nancy Shenton
Quality Control
Brenda Kelly, Everlyn Baker, Diana Lyle, Rose Nangle, Betty Oldham, Lisa Ratke, Rhyette Zazinski
Co-Ordinator
Steve Fraser
Supervising Editor Pre-Production
John Broughton
Title Song "Ewoks" And Additional Songs And Music
Taj Mahal, Inshira Mahal
Score
Patricia Cullen, David Shaw

Companies and other credits

  • Additional Production At: Wang Film Productions Co
  • Additional Production At: Ltd. Cuckoo's Nest Studios
  • Nelvana Productions (C) 1985

Production notes

Those cute, bear-like denizens of Endor, first introduced in Return of the Jedi, received their own show two years later (not to mention some new action figures...). Ewoks had proven their continued popularity in the made-for-TV movies The Ewok Adventure and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor, and Saturday morning seemed like the next logical step.

The series revolved around a young group of Ewoks let by Wicket, the very same Ewok who discovered Princess Leia in the film. This time, however, the audience could understand Wicket and his brothers Widdle and Weechee, all of whom were regressed to teenagers. The three siblings, along with friends Princess Kneesaa and Latara, still lived on their forest moon home, engaging in one dangerous adventure after another.

In it's first season, Ewoks was a stand-alone series. The adventures ran the full half-hour of the show. For it's second season, Ewoks would be combined with Droids into a new, hour long show called, "Ewoks and Star Wars Droids Adventure Hour" (along with a name change to The Adventures of the Ewoks). In the second season, some half-hour segments were split into two eleven-minute stories. Later that year, ABC dropped the Droids and the show resurfaced as The All-New Ewoks. The retooled show lasted only one more season, after which rabid Star Wars fans had to content themselves with comic books, role playing games, and novels until the next feature installment in 1999.