A Race to the Finish " A Race to the Finish " is the fourth episode of " " . Written by Peter Sauder and Steven Wright and directed by Ken Stephenson , the episode originally aired on ABC on September 28 , 1985 . Plot summary . C - 3PO , R2 - D2 , Thall Joben , Kea Moll and Jord Dusat are on their way to the Boonta Speeder Race in the " Sand Sloth " — with the White Witch attached to the hull . While Artoo and Threepio are securing the speeder for lightspeed , a broken down " Lambda " - class shuttle attacks out of nowhere . Commanding the shuttle is none other than Sise Fromm , the disgraced crime boss seeking revenge for the racers ' capture and destruction of his Trigon One super weapon . Manning the controls are Tig Fromm and Vlix Oncard , the only two henchmen Sise has left . Kea manages to jump to hyperspace just in the nick of time , but one of the engines gets hit badly and Jord hurts his left arm . After coming out of hyperspace and making their descent to the planet Boonta , the Starrunner crash - lands in the Boonta scrapyard . There , the group meet the old Proto Droid Proto One , to whom C - 3PO takes an immediate dislike . Proto still offers Kea to fix her broken ship while they take Jord to a medical unit . Meanwhile , Sise Fromm has hired Boba Fett to help him with his manhunt . Despite the fact that Jabba the Hutt has placed a price on Fromm ' s head , Fett decides to help the old gang leader because of a debt he owes him . Boba orders his droid BL - 17 to befriend C - 3PO and offer accommodations to fix the White Witch in time for the race . Artoo proposes to hire Proto One to fix the speeder , but Threepio will hear none of it . BL - 17 soon betrays the team , locking Kea and Artoo in the garage with a gas leak . However , Proto One and R2 - D2 manage to disable BL - 17 just in time for C - 3PO to realize that he has put his trust in the wrong droid . Boba Fett then arrives and tries to destroy the heroes . Tig Fromm , trying to get to the racers before Fett , manages to plant a Thermal detonator on the Witch . When the day of the Boonta Race arrives , Jord cannot compete because of the injury to his left arm , so Thall has to pilot the Witch . Boba Fett also competes , piloting his Silver Speeder as a late entry . Boba uses various weapons against Thall , but is knocked out of the race when the thermal detonator gets detached from the Witch ' s hull . Having lost the race , his speeder , his droid and nearly his life , Boba Fett decides that his debt to Sise Fromm is paid , and turns him over to Jabba the Hutt . After winning the race , the team is contacted by the Zebulon Dak Speeder Corporation and offered a position designing and building speeders for them . Taking the job would require C - 3PO and R2 - D2 to be reprogrammed , which Thall , Jord and Kea object to . Upon hearing this , R2 - D2 and C - 3PO decide that it is time to part ways with their friends , because it will enable the humans to take the job , and allow the droids to keep their memories intact for the time being . The droids enter an escape pod , and eject it into space . Behind the scenes . This episode was adapted into the children ' s storybook of the same name . In this episode , C - 3PO claims that another droid graduated from the same " production facility " as he had . This may be a continuity issue , as in it is revealed that C - 3PO was built by Anakin Skywalker , although this contradiction could be explained by the fact that his memory was set to be erased at the end of . The video game " " features similar racing tunnels to those found in " A Race to the Finish " .