abstract
| - Star Wars and Beyond was a fan-made radio show/podcast created, hosted and produced by Robbie Chastain, whose initial idea for the show was conceived in early 2004 and the first episode took six months to conceive and produce as Robbie had to completely learn how to make and put together a radio show. Chastain credits Nathan P. Butler and Rich Sigfrit with teaching him how to make a radio show. One of Robbie's initial early ideas was that the show had to be different in some regard from what Butler was doing with ChronoRadio and what Sigfrit (along with Ron and Janine Garner) was doing with Requiem of the Outcast in that he felt that if the show were based on Star Wars only, it would be pretty much a copycat of what had been done with these other shows and that if it were Star Wars only topics, he'd run out of material fairly quickly. So in what was at the time, a rather revolutionary step for the Fanworks community, Chastain decided to include other material such as Star Trek for example, and other real world topics as part of the normal material that would be presented on the show instead of doing things like that in various special episodes not part of the normal broadcast. The first episode premiered on September 1, 2004 and regularly scheduled episodes released on a bi-monthly schedule from September 2004 through November 2005. There were eight regular episodes, two supplemental episodes and three interview editions released in that first fifteen months of broadcast.
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