Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
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Answers.com wrote:The Star Wars Holiday Special was a two-hour television special (including commercials) broadcast on November 17, 1978 on CBS. In it, Chewbacca and Han Solo visit Kashyyyk, Chewbacca's home world, to celebrate Life Day. Along the way, they are pursued by agents of the Galactic Empire who are searching for rebels on the planet. The special introduces three members of Chewbacca's family: his father, Itchy, his wife, Malla, and his son Lumpy. Later Star Wars novels would also feature these characters, notably Michael P. Kube-McDowell's Black Fleet Crisis trilogy, Patricia Wynne's "The Wookiee Storybook," and Matthew Stover's "A Forest Apart."
The program also features cameos by other Star Wars characters, including Luke Skywalker, C-3PO, R2-D2, Darth Vader, and Princess Leia (who sings the film's "theme song", set to the music of John Williams' Star Wars theme, near the end).
The Holiday Special is important for being the first film-length Star Wars story after the original movie, and for showing an expanded look at parts of that universe. For the most part, however, the plot serves as little more than a means to string together a series of musical numbers, celebrity cameos, and other variety-show acts. These include songs and comedy routines by such '70s talents as Jefferson Starship, Diahann Carroll, Art Carney, Harvey Korman, and Bea Arthur. Easily the most notable segment is an animated cartoon featuring the pre-Empire Strikes Back debut of Boba Fett.
Star Wars Holiday Special @ IMDB
Jynks wrote:The search for the perfect copy of the Star Wars Holiday Special continues. Here is a great new release I found that is already spreading like wild fire though emule. This IS NOT the old Holiday Special posted on this site ages ago but a "new" transfer from a home made lazer disk bootleg from asia. This version has NO ADDS. It is also the 2nd best quality version I have ever seen... have fun.
The best quality version I have, but unfortunately it is a 2 VCD set and disk r29 get crc errorsSo until I can find a replacement for that file or another copy of it this version seams to be the best I can see.
Just remember that this show is despised by Georgie Boy and has never seen a re-release from the original TV airing in 1978. So the only copies taht exist in the world are dubs of dubs of dubs from that original broadcast.
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