Robot Chicken: Star Wars Robot Chicken: Star Wars "Robot Chicken: Star Wars" (also known as "Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode I") is a 2007 episode of the television comedy series "Robot Chicken", airing as a one-off special during Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block on June 17, 2007. It was released on DVD on July 22, 2008. The 22-minute episode's sketches all relate to "Star Wars". The episode features the voices of: "Robot Chicken" had previously featured several "Star Wars" parodies in standard episodes of the show. One such sketch from the second season in 2006 featured Palpatine receiving a collect call from Darth Vader
Changes in Star Wars re-releases of the theatrical version. Lucasfilm offered the altered 1997 Special Edition release, but the Registry refused it as the first published version must be accepted. The Library of Congress, however, received a 35mm print of the film, without the "A New Hope" subtitle and subsequent alterations, in 1978 as part of the film's copyright deposit. The first film was released in 1977 under the title "Star Wars". The subtitles "Episode IV" and "A New Hope" were retroactively added to the opening crawl in a subsequent release. Accounts differ as to when this change occurred. Some, including Lucasfilm, date the addition