The Lost Prince " The Lost Prince " is the fifth episode of " " . Written by Peter Sauder and directed by Ken Stephenson , the episode originally aired on ABC on October 5 , 1985 . Plot summary . C - 3PO and R2 - D2 arrive at the mining colonies of the planet Tyne ' s Horky . Searching for a new master , they accept positions as servers waiting tables at Doodnik ' s Café . They clumsily bumble their way about the place , spilling drinks and causing several disturbances . After one too many mishaps , Doodnik Sharpelz terminates their employ . Sollag Den enters the café and offers the bounty hunter Kleb Zellock 40 , 000 keshel s to find someone named Mon Julpa before the assassin droid IG - 88 finds him . Kleb accepts the offer . The two droids go to a nearby auction block and place themselves for sale . A young miner named Jann Tosh purchases them as well as a shoddy - looking work android . Kleb Zellock and his aide - de - camp , Yorpo Mog , arrive and notice that Mon Julpa is disguised as the android . Greedy for the 40 , 000 - keshel reward , they begin to give chase . Having no idea who the third strange droid truly is , Jann and the others escape from Kleb ’ s attack on a wheel bike . They drive out to the mine operated by Jann ’ s uncle , Putch Gundarian . After settling down , they discover that the third android is not a robot at all , but a mute , addle - brained Tammuz - an . They do not know the alien ’ s name , so they begin calling him Kez - Iban . Kez - Iban begins helping out with the work in the mines . Later , at Doodnik ’ s , Yorpo shows Zellock a sample of the element Nergon - 14 , which he had just recently discovered in Zellock ’ s own mining station . Zellock knows that the unstable mineral is valuable in the use of proton torpedoes and plans on selling it to the Galactic Empire . Jann and the others enter the café , and Zellock notices that Kez - Iban is with them . He sends Yorpo to sanction the alien and a fight breaks out . Jann wrestles about with Yorpa until a woman named Jessica Meade enters and zaps the large brown alien with a miniature stunner . Zellock gets the upper hand however and captures Jann , Kez - Iban and the droids . He puts them to work in the mines digging for Nergon - 14 . Before long , Sollag finds Kez - Iban and presents him with the royal scepter of Tammuz - an . Upon accepting the scepter , Kez - Iban recovers his faculties and acknowledges that he is in fact Mon Julpa , the rightful heir to the throne of Tammuz - an . An evil vizier had used magic to strip him of his identity in order to take the throne for himself . Mon Julpa and the others decide to escape from the mines . They discover that Zellock ’ s ore - cutters are cutting pockets into the bedrock , which is releasing flammable gas into the caverns . Too much of the gas will ignite the Nergon - 14 causing a massive explosion . They fight past Zellock ’ s miner droids and make their way into the criminal ’ s office . Zellock plans on abandoning them and keeping all of his money for himself . Yorpa is angered to discover that Zellock plans to leave him behind and turns on him . The droids manage to knock Zellock out and deliver him to the nearest security station . Mon Julpa is grateful to his new friends for helping him to regain his faculties . He prepares to return to Tammuz - an . Behind the scenes . This episode was given two separate VHS releases by : It was released on a tape by itself , and on " " Droids " Volume 2 " along with the episode " The New King " . It was also released by on a VHS entitled " " Droids " 2 : The Pirates and the Prince " . The VHS included several other episodes . The episode was released on VHS format in 1999 and on DVD in 2004 as part of the feature film " The Pirates and the Prince " . This episode was adapted into the children ' s storybook entitled " " by Ellen Weiss . The wheel bike that Jann Tosh uses to escape from the auction block is similar to the vehicle that General Grievous used in .