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What's yall's opinion of Brian Daley's Audio Dramas?

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I hadn’t realised the Han Solo trilogy of books by Brian Daley had been made into audio dramas! 😦

I’ve been meaning to read these again for a long while now - so will try and for the audiobook versions - thanks for the heads-up, thatsnomoon2. 👍

 

Edit: if you meant The Star Wars Radio Dramas - discussions and threads for those can be found in An Index for ‘Beyond the Original Trilogy’ - in the ‘7️⃣ • Other previous Star Wars releases…’ category:-
 

Star Wars Radio Dramas

 
• Star Wars Radio Dramas - a general discussion thread (2004 thread)

• Star Wars Radio Dramas - a review (2007 thread)

• NPR Radio Show - My Thoughts - a review (2009 thread)

• The Sound of Her Voice: How NPR’s Star Wars Taught Me to Build My World - a review (2017 thread)

• Star Wars Radio Drama - Special Edition - info thread

• Wikipedia page for the Radio Dramas

• PT Radio Drama (2010 thread)

• A thought on Prequel Radio Dramas (2014 thread)

 

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As in National Public Radio, John Madden directed Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. As well as Highbridge audio production of Return of the Jedi.

I have them all on CD in two sets.

I quite enjoy Perry King as Han Solo and Brock Peters as Darth Vader. Mark Hamill is very good in the first two. Tony Daniels is excellent. They even got Billy Dee for Empire. And John Lithgow played Yoda.

Billy Dee nor Mark reprised for JEDI.

But Billy Dee came back for Dark Empire for Time Warner audiobooks, but Mark did not. John Cygan played Luke Skywalker in that.

There are also further radio plays in The Dark Forces trilogy, Crimson Empire, and audiobooks of Dark Empire II and Empire’s End and Tales of the Jedi, and Dark Lords of the Sith.

Brian Daley only did the Star Wars trilogy before he passed away.

Tom Voegli did the NPR trilogy plus Crimson Empire and The Kyle Katarn ones.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but i do not believe there is radio adaptations by fans or books on tape for the Han Solo trilogy by Daley. Only abridged books on tape for the Ann C Crispin books.

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Thanks for reminding me I do know Brian Daley wrote that. He also wrote the Robotech novels with James Luceno. Under the pen name of Jack McKinney

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I listened to the ones for the original trilogy a few years ago. They were well produced, it was nice to have the John Williams music and the same sound effects. I thought the one for Star Wars was better than the other two. The audio dramas for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi felt rushed, especially the one for Return of the Jedi since it was only six episodes. The first one added a lot of scenes that had more character development, so that was interesting. If you want more of Biggs or Luke on Tatooine you definitely get that. The part where Leia gets tortured and sees Alderaan explode are even more intense than in the actual movie.

The different voice actors took a bit of time to get used to. Especially Vader since James Earl Jones is one of those voices that is irreplaceable, although Brock Peters (Tom Robinson from To Kill a Mockingbird) did a good job. Perry King as Han Solo felt a lot sleazier than Harrison Ford’s portrayal, which set him apart. He kind of reminded me of Dennis Reynolds from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. And then for some reason they had John Lithgow as Yoda and Ed Asner as Jabba the Hutt. I was glad they at least had Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, and Billy Dee Williams, but it just didn’t feel the same having so many of the parts recast, although most of them did a good job. And then the one for Return of the Jedi didn’t even have Mark Hamill in it, which was disappointing.

One thing that’s interesting for EU fans is that Mara Jade appears in the one for Return of the Jedi, disguised as a dancer at Jabba’s palace named Arica.

I probably won’t listen to the Empire and Jedi ones again, but I might listen to the first one again sometime. It kind of reminded me of listening to some of those Doctor Who Big Finish audio dramas. I would say listen to them if you’re a huge fan of the Original Trilogy and want more of the story.

All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph!