Star Wars- The Clone Wars - Season 1 Apr 2026

A comedic but consequential episode. Jar Jar, on a supply mission, is captured by Weequay pirates allied with Dooku. Obi-Wan and Anakin are also captured. Jar Jar accidentally frees them by triggering an explosion while trying to “befriend” a giant space slug. The pirates turn on Dooku’s envoy, and the Jedi escape. Jar Jar is hailed as a hero by the Gungans, but the episode reveals Dooku is amassing a pirate fleet for a larger assault on the Outer Rim. Logline: A squad of untested clone troopers—including Cody, Rex, and the new recruit Fives—holds a remote listening post against a commando droid invasion.

On Maridun, a furry, nonviolent species (the Lurmen) shelters Ahsoka and a downed clone squad. Grievous arrives to test a new toxin. The Lurmen elder refuses to arm themselves. His son, Wag Too, steals a droid fighter to defend them, but Grievous massacres the colony. Ahsoka evacuates the survivors. Wag Too, now violent, tells Ahsoka: “Peace is a luxury of the powerful.” She begins carrying a second lightsaber. Logline: The liberation of Ryloth begins. Obi-Wan and a clone squad protect a village of Twi’lek children from a Separatist blockade.

Tagline: The war begins. The heroes are tested. The truth is a weapon. Episode 101: "Rising Storm" Logline: Anakin Skywalker and his new Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, must rescue Jabba the Hutt’s son from Separatist kidnappers—without starting a gang war. Star Wars- The Clone Wars - Season 1

Grievous arrives with reinforcements. Obi-Wan duels Grievous atop a collapsing bridge, losing his lightsaber but kicking Grievous off a cliff into a river of fuel (Grievous escapes, burning). Ahsoka, wracked with guilt, disobeys orders to save a platoon of Twi’ilf children. She confronts Ventress alone and is nearly killed—until Clone Captain Rex shoots Ventress in the shoulder, saving Ahsoka’s life. “You’re one of us,” Rex says. “We don’t leave our own.”

On Christophsis, Jedi Master Luminara Unduli and her Padawan Barriss Offee defend a crystal-mining city. Anakin discovers a clone, Slick, is selling battle plans to the Separatists out of disillusionment with the Republic. Slick is arrested but warns that more spies exist. The Republic wins the battle, but the victory feels hollow. Ahsoka begins doubting the war’s morality. Logline: R2-D2 is captured and reprogrammed. Anakin and Ahsoka must retrieve him from General Grievous’s secret droid factory. A comedic but consequential episode

The Malevolence , a Separatist dreadnought with an unblockable ion cannon, cripples Republic cruisers. Plo Koon is left adrift in space with his clone troopers. Anakin leads a squadron of Y-wings in a desperate trench run to destroy the ship’s main reactor. Ahsoka, left in command of a medical frigate, must navigate an asteroid field to rescue survivors. The episode ends with the Malevolence jumping to hyperspace—damaged but alive, setting up a recurring threat. Logline: Grievous retreats to a shadowy nebula. Padmé, held hostage aboard the Malevolence , must sabotage the ship from within.

Obi-Wan, Commander Cody, and Waxer & Boil (two clones) rescue a young Twi’lek girl, Numa, whose parents were killed. The clones shelter her during a droid assault. Waxer gives her his ration bar, and she follows them, calling Boil “nerra” (“brother”). The episode humanizes clones: they sing a marching song to calm Numa. They succeed, but the larger battle looms. Logline: Mace Windu leads a frontal assault on Ryloth’s capital—but discovers the Separatists are using Twi’lek civilians as living shields. Jar Jar accidentally frees them by triggering an

R2-D2 carries intel on a new Separatist superweapon—a “decimator” cannon. He is captured and his memory wiped. Anakin, Ahsoka, and a droid team (including the eccentric astromech “Goldie”) infiltrate the factory. Ahsoka fights Grievous’s IG-100 MagnaGuards while Anakin battles Grievous himself. They recover R2, but the decimator plans are uploaded to Dooku. The episode highlights Anakin’s attachment to R2 as a weakness. Logline: Jar Jar Binks is mistaken for a Jedi Knight and must save Padmé from a Separatist coup on Rodia.

Grievous lures Jedi to his lair on Vassek’s third moon. Master Kit Fisto and the inexperienced Nadhar are ambushed. Grievous kills Nadhar and nearly murders Fisto before the Jedi Master escapes using a Force whirlpool. The episode reveals Grievous’s hatred of the Jedi is personal—he keeps their lightsabers as a shrine. Fisto is scarred, both physically and mentally. Logline: Rex discovers a clone deserter living a peaceful life on a Separatist-held world—and must choose between duty and empathy.

On Rodia, Senator Padmé Amidala is arrested by the duplicitous Prime Minister. Jar Jar, arriving to deliver a “secret weapon” (a crate of fruit), is forced to impersonate a Jedi. Through accidental luck, he releases Padmé, causes the Separatist Viceroy to be eaten by a native beast, and triggers a popular uprising. Padmé negotiates Rodia back into the Republic. Jar Jar returns to Coruscant hailed as a hero—and a security risk. Logline: Asajj Ventress hunts a captured Separatist general on a prison ship. Ahsoka must outwit her first true dark side assassin.