Star Wars: Droids as well as Droids on VHS). "The Great Heep" only made one showing in 1989 on BBC's "Going Live!", which was a Saturday morning children's show—it was split into two parts over two weeks. Different episodes from different cycles were also screened across the five-year licence, with the Trigon cycle being shown in full in early 1991 on another Saturday morning children's show called "". In 1986, Marvel' Star Comics imprint published a "Star Wars: Droids" comic series spun off from the cartoon. The series ran for eight issues. Four issues and issue 5's cover of the series were drawn
Star Wars: Droids a television special following the series, serves as a prequel to the final arc. The series' opening theme, "Trouble Again", was performed by Stewart Copeland of the Police and written by Copeland and Derek Holt. The series was later shown in reruns on Sci-Fi Channel's Cartoon Quest. "Droids" is set four years after "", and fifteen years before the events of "A New Hope". The series follows the adventures of droids R2-D2 and C-3PO as they face off against gangsters, criminals, pirates, Boba Fett, IG-88, the Galactic Empire and other threats. During their adventures, the droids always find themselves with