To wrap up the season, the team from Young Indy Chroniclers headed to the Presidio late last year for a very special screening of Attack of the Hawkmen, the Ben Burtt directors cut which had never been screened before. There’s all of this and plenty more in this jam-packed episode of Young Indy Chroniclers.

This is the season finale of The Young Indy Chroniclers — and it’s unlike any episode we’ve made before. It is a full account of our day at Skywalker Ranch, hosted by legendary sound designer, editor and director Ben Burtt, who wrote and directed Attack of the Hawkmen for Young Indiana Jones and is the four-time Academy Award-winning creator of the lightsaber sound, Darth Vader’s breathing and R2-D2’s voice.

Ben cleared his entire day for us. We filmed our interview with Ben for our documentary George Lucas: The Lost Golden Age, and we also spent hours in his office — a working space that doubles as his private museum of film history — watching never-before-seen behind-the-scenes footage from Young Indiana Jones, including second unit reels, blooper reels featuring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Daniel Craig, and test footage shot by George Lucas himself on a handheld camcorder. We walked the recording stage where the acoustics are designed to sound like a European cathedral, sat in George’s chair in the Stag Theater, and came face to face with an analog reel of the Wilhelm Scream sitting right there in his office.

Then, in the evening, Ben screened his personal director’s cut of Attack of the Hawkmen — running over two hours and including a significant amount of never-before-seen footage — for an audience of Lucasfilm employees, family and friends. Almost certainly the first time the episode has ever screened in a full-size theater.

But perhaps the most extraordinary thing we saw was Ben’s first cut of Beersheba, Palestine 1917 — the episode that would eventually become Daredevils of the Desert, featuring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Daniel Craig. This version is dramatically different from anything fans have ever seen — a completely different ending, a different set, no romance between Indy and Maya, and the Turkish spy subplot given far greater prominence. It reveals, for the first time, just how extensively the show’s episodes were reshaped between first cut and final broadcast.

We also visited Lucasfilm’s headquarters at the Presidio in San Francisco the following morning — and came home with a Howard the Duck hat.