Editing Darth Vader (section)

== Other appearances ==
The ''[[Star Wars Holiday Special]]'', a television special broadcast by [[CBS]] in 1978, features a brief appearance of Darth Vader, who appears on-screen speaking with Imperial officer "Chief Bast" in footage cut from the original 1977 film. The sequence is dubbed with new dialogue, performed by James Earl Jones. In the story, Vader colludes with Boba Fett to entrap the Rebels.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hayes |first1=David C. |editor1-last=Rausch |editor1-first=Andrew J. |editor2-last=Riley |editor2-first=R.D. |title=Trash Cinema: A Celebration of Overlooked Masterpieces |date=2015 |publisher=BearManor Media |location=Albany, Georgia |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kQVBCgAAQBAJ&q=Star%20Wars%20Holiday%20Special%20darth%20vader%20bast&pg=PT140 |access-date=June 20, 2018 |chapter=The Star Wars Holiday Special |archive-date=January 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230115165217/https://books.google.com/books?id=kQVBCgAAQBAJ&q=Star%20Wars%20Holiday%20Special%20darth%20vader%20bast&pg=PT140 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The character appears in various [[Lego Star Wars#Films and videos|''Lego Star Wars'' shorts]], voiced by Matt Sloan as Vader and by [[Kirby Morrow]] as Anakin.

Darth Vader features in the 1981 [[Star Wars (radio)|radio drama adaptation of ''Star Wars'']], voiced by the actor [[Brock Peters]]. Vader makes his first appearance on the planet [[Ralltiir]], where he treats Princess Leia with suspicion. In later extended scenes, he is heard interrogating and torturing Leia on board his Star Destroyer and aboard the Death Star.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Brandon|last1=McKinney|first2=Scott|last2=Kolins|first3=Daniel|last3=Wallace|title=Star Wars: the Essential Guide to Planets and Moons|url=https://archive.org/details/essentialguideto00wall|url-access=limited|date=1998|publisher=Ballantine Publishing Group|location=New York City|isbn=978-0-345-42068-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/essentialguideto00wall/page/n169 157]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Derek|last=John|title=That Time NPR Turned 'Star Wars' Into A Radio Drama – And It Actually Worked|newspaper=NPR.org|url=https://www.npr.org/2015/12/18/460269884/that-time-npr-turned-star-wars-into-a-radio-drama-and-it-actually-worked|publisher=[[NPR]]|date=December 18, 2015|access-date=July 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170711085910/http://www.npr.org/2015/12/18/460269884/that-time-npr-turned-star-wars-into-a-radio-drama-and-it-actually-worked|archive-date=July 11, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

Darth Vader was voiced by [[Maurice LaMarche]] in the 2024 ''[[The Simpsons|Simpsons]]'' shorts ''[[May the 12th Be with You]]'' and ''[[The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2024 film)|The Most Wonderful Time of the Year]]''.{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}