The Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace, making it one of many series to take advantage of the vast galaxy and timeline the franchise has to work with. Meanwhile, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew offers a coming-of-age series to appeal to the younger side of Star Wars’ broad audience.
For those interested in further exploring Star Wars’ TV show collection, this guide will demonstrate how to watch every live-action and animated series in order and where to find them streaming online.
While most are familiar with the Disney+ Star Wars shows, the franchise moved to the small screen long before Disney’s acquisition. By 1985, sister animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, arrived.
Fortunately, by 2003, George Lucas had established Lucasfilm Animation, which rang in a new era of Star Wars TV shows. Star Wars: The Clone Wars follows Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Ahsoka Tano between the events of Star Wars: The Bad Batch.
Another prominent animated series is Star Wars Rebels, which follows Ezra Bridger, Kanan Jarrus, Sabine Wren, and the rest of the Ghost Crew as they retaliate against the Galactic Empire’s oppressive rule following Order 66.
In 2019, the first live-action Star Wars series arrived with Ahsoka.
The franchise has also explored additional periods through its shows, such as the Rebellion with Obi-Wan Kenobi.
How to watch all the Star Wars TV shows and in order
Unlike Marvel or DC, Star Wars TV shows aren’t divided into different universes. Almost all the shows are largely considered canon except the early Ewoks and Droids series and the anthology series Star Wars: Visions. Meanwhile, every series fits somewhere within the overall Star Wars timeline, making it possible to watch them in chronological order. Star Wars: Visions is the only show that doesn’t fit in the chronological order since it spans multiple timelines. Otherwise, here are all the Star Wars TV shows chronologically:
- Young Jedi Adventures
- The Acolyte
- Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Star Wars: Droids
- Star Wars: Tales of the Empire
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch
- Obi-Wan Kenobi
- Star Wars Rebels
- Star Wars: Andor
- Ewoks
- The Mandalorian
- The Book of Boba Fett
- Ahsoka
- Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
- Star Wars Resistance
The problem with chronological order is that many series take place over multiple years, are difficult to place because they are anthologies, or, in the case of The Mandalorian season 3 and Ahsoka season 1, sometimes run concurrently with one another. Hence, another approach is to watch by the release date order below:
