In the mid-1980s, two Made-for-TV Movies based on the Star Wars franchise were created: The Ewok Adventure (1984), later retitled Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, and Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985). They star a young child, Cindel, whose family has crash-landed on Endor, and Wicket, the Ewok who befriended Leia in Return of the Jedi. The success of these movies led to an animated series, Ewoks, which ran for two seasons. The main character, Cindel, got a cameo much later in an Expanded Universe novel as a reporter.