Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the 14th mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts. 
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the 14th mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts.
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the 15th mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts.
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the 16th mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts.
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the 17th mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts.
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the 18th mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts.
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the 19th mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts.
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the 20th mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts. The Clone Wars shorts return – in a slightly less short format – in the spring of 2005, running up to the theatrical release of Episode III; on DVD, this is also the end of Volume One. This installment marks the first appearance of General Grievous. 
Dark Horse Comics publishes the fourth trade paperback collection of its Star Wars: Clone Wars comics, Light and Dark.
Carnie Mellon University inducts five new members to its Robot Hall Of Fame at a press event promoting the movie adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot. The 2004 inductees, again split almost evenly between fictional and real robots, are:
Judges for the 2004 Hall include SimCity creator Wil Wright, roboticist Ruzena Bajcsy and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Dark Horse Comics publishes the fifth trade paperback collection of its Star Wars: Clone Wars comics, The Best Blades.
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the 21st mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts.
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network airs the 22nd mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts.
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network airs the 23rd mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts.
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network airs the 24th mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts.
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network airs the 25th mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts.
Sony Classical releases John Williams’ soundtracks from the movie Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith.
The final film in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith is released, starring Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Jimmy Smits, Samuel L. Jackson, and Ian McDiarmid.
Meco Monardo releases the instrumental cover album Star Wars Party (which will be reissued under various other titles in the years to come).
Actor Phil Brown, who secured a permanent place in SF lore with the role of Uncle Owen in Star Wars, dies at the age of 89. After spending the early years of his career working in stage productions in New York, he moved to Hollywood and co-founded the Actors’ Laboratory. He was only one film into a directing career when he was blacklisted during the McCarthy hearings, and left America to work in London in 1952 as both an actor and director, not to move back to the US until 1993. He found that his Star Wars role, even as brief as it was, won him a place of honor at many SF conventions, and he spent recent years making the rounds and meeting his fans. He also appeared in Superman, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, the TV miniseries The Martian Chronicles, and played a brief part in a trailer assembled by Richard Hatch to pitch a revival of the original Battlestar Galactica series.
Sony Classical releases Kevin Kiner’s soundtrack from the movie Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Warner Bros. releases the CGI animated movie Star Wars: The Clone Wars, set during the Clone Wars between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, and featuring the voice talents of Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, and James Arnold Taylor. Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Daniels, and Christopher Lee reprise the voices of their live action characters. This is also the launching point for the upcoming Clone Wars television series, animated in the same style.
Cartoon Network airs the first episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. This project is unrelated to – and canonically supersedes – the earlier series of Genndy Tartakovsky animated shorts.
Cartoon Network airs the second episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Cartoon Network airs the third episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Cartoon Network airs the fourth episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Cartoon Network airs the fifth episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Cartoon Network airs the sixth episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Cartoon Network airs the seventh episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Cartoon Network airs the eighth episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Cartoon Network airs the ninth episode of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.