The best Star Wars TV shows of all time

published 13 September 2023

The world of Star Wars has expanded in recent years, thanks to a number of small screen adventures happening on Disney Plus.

The latest of these, Ahsoka, as already proven to be one of the best Star Wars shows around, which got us thinking: which Star Wars shows are the ones you should be watching?

These are the best Star Wars movies of all time

Let’s take a look back through the years, and decades, at the best Star Wars TV shows produced to date.

Whether you prefer the invention of Visions, or at the one person who believesThe Book of Boba Fett is really where it’s at, this is the list for you....

Best Star Wars TV shows

Andor is probably the best all-round Star Wars show to date for adult viewers. It comes from the mind of Tony Gilroy, the writer of the Bourne films. And he also had a hand in writing Rogue One. Andor is set during the years before the events of Rogue One, as a group of rebels mount a resistance to the Empire, including Cassian Andor (played by Diego Luna). More grown-up and a slower burn than the Star Wars norm, Andor is an espionage thriller you shouldn’t miss. And yes, the first few slower episodes are worth plodding through to get to the good stuff.

This is the show that gave us Baby Yoda but it’s also quite possibly the best Star Wars show of the lot if you’re here for adventure rather than that dark and brooding side of Star Wars. Pedro Pascal is a the bounty hunter of the title, a gunslinger tasked with taking on gangs, aliens and beasts from episode to episode. This is also the show with the most involvement of key Marvel figure Jon Favreau, who wrote most of the episodes in the three seasons released to date.

Creator of the 2008 The Clone Wars and The Bad Batch Dave Filoni returned in 2022 with Tales of the Jedi. It’s an anthology series whose first season is made up of six shorts that touch on different points in the lives of Count Dooku and Ahsoka Tano. Good and bad, light and dark — a classic Star Wars move. It’s an exercise in filling in the gaps in existing lore, but Tales of the Jedi does so in style. The episodes are also only up to 15 minutes long, so why not jump in for a rewatch? A second season has also been commissioned, and is expected in 2024.

This original Clone Wars show is now often referred to as the Tartakovsky Clone Wars, after its creator Genndy Tartakovsky. It was drawn in a classic animation style, rather than the more CG-like 2008 rebirth. Unfortunately, this generally well-regarded series is no longer considered “canon” by Disney, thanks to conflicts with other pieces of Star Wars lore. It tells side stories set between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith. Still worth a watch? Absolutely.

Andrew Williams has written about tech for a decade. He has written for a stack of magazines and websites including Wired, TrustedReviews, TechRadar and Stuff.