jooolz wrote: honestly, if you’ve never seen the Star Wars Holiday Special…
Well, I had never seen, nor even heard of Star Wars Holiday Special, so I did some investigation on the web. (What can I say? It’s XXXmas Eve Day and things are Quite Slow here at the office today!)
Star Wars Holiday Special
(Nov 17,1978)
The most infamous 2 hours of Star Wars programming ever to grace television sets! This show was so bad that it was never re-aired or released to video, and has become a cult classic among Star Wars fans.
The story surrounds Chewbacca’s family preparing for Life Day back on their home planet. The show features all of the major cast members from the movie(Luke, Leia, Han, R2 & C-3PO & Vader). Carrie Fisher even makes an attempt at singing! It’s so bad that it is fun to watch! Also features Art Carney, Bea Arthur, Harvey Korman, Diahann Carroll and the Jefferson Starship. The show is most noted for the 1st appearence of Boba Fett and the Holiday Special Cartoon. The program even included a classic Kenner Star Wars toy commercial with R2D2 & C3PO.
According to Steve Sansweet, at a convention in Australia, George Lucas said something to the effect “that if he had the time and a hammer, he would track down every bootlegged copy of that program and smash it.” I guess we won’t see a Special Edition of this program.
