Info Wanted: QVC Star Wars specials - anyone have them?

Author: digitalfreaknyc
Date: 14-Feb-2007, 2:45 PM

Author: digitalfreaknyc
Time: 14-Feb-2007 2:45 PM (Edited)
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Does anyone have these? Are they even worth archiving?

I think I have the very first one with Mark Hamill. I used to record them all…and then stopped.

Author: Number20
Time: 14-Feb-2007 2:55 PM
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What is on them? Are they just typical QVC sales, but it happens to be Star Wars stuff, or do they interview him, etc. If they have any interview segments between the sales, it might be worthwhile to edit out the stuff for sale and put together the interview parts.
Of course, this brings to mind the Saturday Night Live sketch where Mark Hamill is on home shopping network that was pretty funny.

Author: none
Time: 14-Feb-2007 3:01 PM
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Worth archiving? Yes, if times permits. I've got two of the recent (RotS) ones. When several get archived and distributed, it will be fascinating to see the change in mass marketing of the franchise over the decades. When was the Mark Hamill one from?
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Author: digitalfreaknyc
Time: 14-Feb-2007 3:10 PM
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They must be from the early/mid 90's.

I know Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels did a few of them...along with Steven Sansweet. They would talk about the movies and the products, etc.

Author: Number20
Time: 14-Feb-2007 3:39 PM
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Sounds like it might be worth perserving. Would be interesting to hear what is said, and Star Wars memoribilia collectors would almost certainly like them, and they almost certainly won't get official releases. How long are the specials? About an hour?

Author: digitalfreaknyc
Time: 14-Feb-2007 4:07 PM
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Originally posted by: Number20
Sounds like it might be worth perserving. Would be interesting to hear what is said, and Star Wars memoribilia collectors would almost certainly like them, and they almost certainly won't get official releases. How long are the specials? About an hour?

All are 2 hours. But you can easily cut them down. I know they used to show clips from the films when they "went to commercial." I know a lot of them were done in the mid 90's because they would sell the letterboxed versions of the trilogy a lot. It seemed to be a big deal for them. Unfortunately, I think I threw out all of them except for this first one. I just found it the other day. I'm getting rid of all my VHS at this point.