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Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003) – Broadcast Restoration Project

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Over the past few months, I’ve been working on restoring and upscaling missing broadcast exclusive footage from Star Wars: Clone Wars (2003), content that never made it into any official home media releases. The goal is to end up with a version of the show that is 100% faithful to what was presented on the original broadcasts.

Using a mix of community sourced TV recordings and modern AI tools, I’ve been able to reconstruct many of these lost segments and bring them up to a quality that blends well with the existing 1080p HD footage.

Huge thanks to Gabindayback, his restoration thread was the inspiration behind this project and a major source of knowledge and material. I originally started posting my own work in his thread, but with this project growing into its own thing, I figured it was time to give it a dedicated space.

You can check out his original thread here - https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Star-Wars-Clone-Wars-Micro-Series-Original-Episode-Format-Restoration-RELEASED/id/109799/page/1

Footage Still Needed

If you have any of the following, or can confirm whether they ever aired, your help would be incredibly appreciated:

  • Chapter 10: Missing the outro (“Next time on…” segment)
  • Chapters 21–25: I’m looking for intros/outros for any of these. Recently an outro to Chapter 21 has surfaced as well as the general Cartoon Network bumper that was on these episodes.

If you have recordings with these segments (even in rough quality), or if you remember how these episodes aired, feel free to reply or message me directly.

I’ll update with new posts as I continue down this project. I’m currently hard at work on a new version of this project which should be available in the near future.

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Neat find…on the Brazilian Portuguese Chapter 7 we’re using to pull the intro segment, I spotted an oddity. The outro just says “Next” instead of “Next Time.”

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Every other version of the outro I’ve seen, no matter the language, uses “Next Time.”

NextTime

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Interesting. I only wish somebody would have the .m4v episodes from iTunes. Those remain a mistery.

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Considering those were released after the DVDs, I’m curious which versions of the show they would even be. Sadly probably not very useful for my broadcast recreation version with Cartoon Network bumpers, intros and outros.