Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 20th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. 
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 20th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
Abrams Books publishes Star Wars: The Original Topps Trading Card Series, Volume One by Gary Gerani, which both reproduces and reviews every card in the Topps trading card set chronicling the first Star Wars film.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 21st episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. Gina Torres (Firefly, Cleopatra 2525) guest stars.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 22nd episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 23rd episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 24th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. Clancy Brown (Highlander, Earth 2) guest stars.
The first Star Wars movie to be produced since Lucasfilm’s 2012 sale to Disney, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, premieres. Co-written and directed by J.J. Abrams, The Force Awakens stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver and Oscar Isaac, alongside original trilogy stars Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill, all reprising their roles. Seemingly universal anticipation for the continuation of the saga propels the movie’s box office take past a half-billion dollars within half a month of release.
Disney Music releases John Williams’ soundtrack from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, breaking with tradition by not making the soundtrack available until after the film’s premiere. For the first time in the history of the Star Wars film series, the soundtrack has been recorded with Los Angeles studio musicians rather than the London Symphony Orchestra (partly to accommodate composer Williams, now in his ’80s).
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 25th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. This episode introduces a teenage Princess Leia Organa to the Rebels storyline. Clancy Brown (Highlander, Earth 2) guest stars.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 26th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 27th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 28th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 29th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. Robin Atkin Downes (Babylon 5) guest stars.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 30th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 31st episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. James Earl Jones and Frank Oz reprise their roles from the original trilogy.
The designer and builder of the original R2-D2 props/costumes for Star Wars, roboticist and former toy designer Professor Tony Dyson, is found dead in Malta. Using Ralph McQuarrie’s artwork as his guide, Dyson built eight full-size R2 units for the 1977 film, some of them remote-controlled marvels of electronics, and others hollow shells to be operated by actor Kenny Baker. Dyson’s other film credits included Superman II and the James Bond film Moonraker. He provided other specialized droids for the original trilogy, and later formed a droid builders’ club in the UK, though he was legally forbidden by Lucasfilm to use his original 1976 design specifications. Some of his proteges went on to build R2 units for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Mr. Dyson was 68.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 32nd episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. Gina Torres (Firefly, Cleopatra 2525) guest stars.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 33rd episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 34th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. James Earl Jones guest stars as Darth Vader, and this story reintroduces the character of Darth Maul and closes the series’ second season.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 35th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels, a CGI animated storyline falling between the original and prequel trilogies of the Star Wars saga. James Earl Jones guest stars in the second season finale.
British actor Kenny Baker, whose long career as a circus performer and comedian took a sharp right turn when he first stepped into the “costume” of R2-D2 in 1977’s Star Wars, dies at the age of 81 due to complications from a respiratory ailment he had suffered for several years. Even though the continuing march of technology meant that Artoo was increasingly played on screen by real remote-control robots, Baker did at least some work inside the droid costume in all seven Star Wars movies that had been released at the time of his death, one of a very few performers to span all three trilogies. He had also appeared in Time Bandits, Flash Gordon, and The Elephant Man, among other TV and film appearances.
Cable channel Disney XD premieres the 36th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels. The third season opener guest stars Tom Baker (Doctor Who) as the mysterious Bendu, and reintroduces the character of Grand Admiral Thrawn (voiced by Lars Mikkelsen), originated in the 1991 novel “Heir To The Empire”, to the current Star Wars continuity.
Cable channel Disney XD airs the 37th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels. Tom Baker (Doctor Who) and Sam Witwer (Battlestar Galactica) guest star.
Cable channel Disney XD airs the 38th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels. Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Steven Universe, Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex) and Corey Burton (Alien Worlds) guest star.
Cable channel Disney XD airs the 39th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels. Robin Atkin Downes (Babylon 5) and Lars Mikkelsen (House Of Cards, Sherlock) guest star.
Cable channel Disney XD airs the 40th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels. Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Steven Universe, Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex) guest stars.
Cable channel Disney XD airs the 41st episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels. Keone Young guest stars.
Cable channel Disney XD airs the 42nd episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels. Lars Mikkelsen (House Of Cards, Sherlock) guest stars.
Cable channel Disney XD airs the 43rd episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels.
Cable channel Disney XD airs the 44th episode of the series Star Wars: Rebels. Clancy Brown (Highlander, Earth 2), Lars Mikkelsen (House Of Cards, Sherlock) and Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Steven Universe, Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex) guest star.