One of the most atrocious television specials of all time aired exactly once in 1978: The Star Wars Holiday Special. Starring most of the cast of Star Wars (except for Alec Guiness who wisely dodged it), this unmitigated disaster has guest stars such as Bea Arthur, Art Carney, Harvey Korman, and a special guest appearance by Jefferson Starship.
The plot is simple: Han and Chewie are trying to get back to Chewie's home for Life Day, pursued by the Empire all the way. Chewie's family is hounded by stormtroopers while trying to get the meal together and the father watching what appears to be Wookie porn and his son watches cartoons starring Bobba Fett.
In the end, everyone gets home for the holidays and Princess Leia sings the Life Day song before Chewie and Hand go back to battle to get stranded on Hoth.
I remember watching it on televsion and I was in the prime young boy target audience at the time...and I thought it sucked. With my relatively undiscerning taste at the time, I still had no idea how much it REALLY sucked! Some things are so bad they are good...this went past that and back to being bad again.
For those with strong constitutions, the entire show is available on Google video.
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Oh Gawd! I remember this! The Ewok specials too. I was a bit of a Star Wars fanatic back then.
Wow never saw. Yaaa...I think I'll have to pass on watching the whole thing...
But it is a neat post for sure!
Never saw it either, and I'm not a Star Wars fan, but I'm downloading it just in case I ever become one.
This blog reminded me of a cheesy movie that I had to see back then Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park.
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