The Travelling Jindas " The Travelling Jindas " is the fifth episode of the of " " . Written by Bob Carrau and directed by Raymond Jafelice , the episode originally aired on ABC on October 5 , 1985 . Plot summary . Latara is playing her flute outside of her hut , attracting several small animals , when her father approaches , telling her to finish her work . After beginning to scrub the floors , sad that she is not playing her flute , her friends arrive at her window inviting her to join them in looking at Paploo ' s new raft , unfortunately , she has to work so she declines . She tries to show them a song she recently created , but they awkwardly run away . She begins to play her flute to herself , but her mother approaches her and tells her to get back to work and to watch her brother and sister for her mother is going on errands , just then her young siblings run in and spill the bucket of water all over her . At King Gorneesh ' s hut , his wife Urgah is also dealing with bratty kids , screaming if she doesn ' t get a babysitter , then Gorneesh won ' t get any food . This causes the King to think of an idea , so he goes and tells Duloks X and O to go kidnap an Ewok and bring it back there . At the Bright Tree Village , Latara and her siblings are out picking berries when X and O spot her and plan on grabbing her when they are almost stepped on by a massive beast of burden ridden by the Tribe of Jindas , a traveling entertainment group . They convince Chief Chirpa to allow them to stay the night and perform for them . At the show , Latara ' s friends notice she has disappeared , wondering where to . Latara , having come up with the idea to go with them , since no one there appreciated her music , went to check out backstage . The next day , Chief Chirpa thanks the Jindas for the performance and says his farewells , while Latara ' s friends attempt to convince Latara not to go . Having made up her mind , she makes them promise not to tell anyone , and stows away in one of the beasts luggage boxes . As the Jundas leave , X and O find it a good opportunity to kidnap Latara , if they follow the caravan , but Chief Chirpa mentions to another Ewok that they most likely will not see them again for they have a tendency to get lost between performances . Some time in the caravan ' s journey , Latara makes herself known to Bondo , the leader of the Tribe , who assures her he will take care of her , but warns her that the entertainment business will have work too , but she still wants to join them anyway . During this conversation , X and O sneak onto the transport and try to grab Latara but fall off into the water because of the bridge they had begun to go over . Back in Bright Tree Village , Latara ' s friends decide to tell Logray that she has joined the Jindas . He sends them to find her with a magic seed to get them out of trouble if any occurred . As Latara washes clothes , Bondo speaks of their next performance that night , just as they arrive . The hardy leader jumps up to see who they are preforming before to discover a herd of tree goats . At the performance , X and O get ready to pose as tree goats , O unsure of the legitimacy of this plan , X shrugs all doubt off and continues with his plan . Bondo then takes the flute Latara has been playing , and places her in front of the tribe ' s magician , and says she will be performing with him that night . When Latara and the magician go on , Latara recognizes that X and O are not tree goats , so when the branch they are hanging on breaks , and they fall right in front of her , she asks if they are enjoying the show , accidentally causing their branch to launch them into the air . The next day , Latara , unhappy she has not been able to play her flute yet , decides she wants to return home , but when she tells Bondo , he reluctantly says they are lost , to which Latara begins tearing up over . Bondo reassures her and says after a while she will love the Jindas , but this does not cheer her up . X and O , finally catching Latara alone , capture her in a net just in time for her friends to arrive . They witness X and O taking her away , and Wicket gets an idea on how to rescue her . They get Bondo and the rest of the caravan to journey to the Dulok village and play for them , while Wicket and his friends rescue Latara , dressed up as some of the Tribe members . The Duloks allow the performance , although they are very rude during it , and eventually when the magician goes on stage , he asks for a volunteer , suggesting Latara , who declines but , the King forces her to , enjoying the show . She goes up , puts on the harness , looks up and sees her friends , about to pull her up . Excited to escape , she awaits to be lifted , and she is a little , before a not in the ropes gets the pulley system stuck . To stall , Bondo suggests she play a song on her flute , to which she agrees . During the song , the Ewoks attempt to untangle the ropes , but one of them falls with the rope wrapped around him , and pulls all of the others down , in the ruckus all of their costumes come off and the Duloks are angry to see Ewoks at their show . They chase the Ewoks , but Wicket takes the magic seed Logray gave them , and throws it into the swampy grounds the Duloks are running on . Suddenly vines spring out of the seed , grabbing any living thing nearby , all of the Duloks , and holds them for a while , allowing the Ewoks and the Jindas to return to Bright Tree Village and celebrate . Behind the scenes . A continuity error occurs in the episode : during the Travelling Jindas ' show at Bright Tree Village , the Ewoks appear with four fingers on each hand , in contrast with the other scenes . According to most " Star Wars " canon , the Ewoks had only three fingers on each hand : a thumb , a forefinger , and a ring finger . This episode was released on DVD in 2004 as part of the " Tales from the Endor Woods " feature film . It can be found on side 2 of the disc .