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Anyone willing to share the Making/Behind the Scenes of the Star Wars Radio Dramas?

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I am looking for a copy of the Making/Behind the Scenes of the Star Wars Radio Dramas. I already have all of the original Radio dramas (bought and paid for), but the making of disk only came the collector’s limited edition set which retailed for over a hundred bucks. The extra disk is all I’m interested in getting and I don’t feel like handing out another hundred bucks for one disk.

Someone mentioned a while ago that they were working on Radio Drama DVD that included all 3 sets plus the behind the scenes stuff, but they weren’t going to make it available to the community.

Hopefully someone on this board can help me out. The effort is greatly appreciated.

Setting up a torrent would be cool seeing as I am probably not the only interested in this, or if you want to set up a trade that would be cool too.

Thanks ahead of time everybody.

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Hey there!!!

Check out this thread and PM the guy who started it....he might be able to help you out....

http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=9&threadid=2085&highlight_key=y&keyword1=radio
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Hello Rebel 11_38,

I am the lucky-one to own one of these 7500 copies, I think you are talking about. I really had to look, for it´s been quite a long time, having them in my hands. The more, I am German ;-))

Well, it is not a bonus disc, like for Lord of the Rings, some of these CD´s do have some bonus tracks, fron the actors and some radio spots.

I would have to rip them and make a compilation. Please pm me, so that I might me of some assistance. But be warned, it will take some two-three weeks until arrival, as I am busy with many other things, e.g. my family, house and so on....

Looking forward to your message

Greetings from Germany

geko
soundtrackmaster

all can be said with a symphonic score
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I just bought the Limited Edition Set (only 7500 printed)...sick. There's making of stuff, deleted scenes (it already has so, so, so much more than the movies). I was shocked that the audio quality was better than almost anything out there...John Williams score, Ben Burtt's sounds all here. Including Mark Hamill and many others in the cast. wow. Oh by the way, I got it off of Amazon, new, for $95, and not $195 retail (and that was in 1996 - this thing should be worth more than that). I think they misprinted it, but you can still buy 3 more copies from this guy.

Click this link and go to the "used and new link"...$95 for the whole limited edition set!!! NEW!!

Any fan should not, and can not pass this up.

16 years I wait and this is what I get???
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This was a complete review from amazon.com mentioning the limited edition set specifically at the bottom...

How did Luke come to know Biggs? How did Leia get the Death Star plans? What happened to her in her cell after Darth Vader came in with the interrogation droid? How did Luke become a Commander? These questions, which have been asked by many fans, are answered in the original radio dramatizations of the Star Wars Trilogy. Since some readers may be considering the purchase of one of the dramas or possibly the whole set, I will endeavor to give details of all the dramas. Please note that this is an in-depth review of all three dramas and is therefore somewhat more lengthy than many reviews you will encounter. If you would prefer a shorter review please feel free to scroll to the next review. I will start with the original Star Wars drama from 1981...

In 1981, the Star Wars radio drama was released. Many people were skeptical about the success of a completely sound-based Star Wars universe because Star Wars is a highly visual world that is based largely on visual special effects. They wondered how Star Wars could be experienced without the stunning special effects of the movies. Though the drama does lack visual effects, the sound effects from Ben Burtt and the wonderful score from John Williams provide a fabulous listening experience. Many of the characters from the movies have been replaced with substitutes. Mark Hamill takes on the role of Luke Skywalker and Anthony Daniels provides the voice of C-3PO. Although the substitutes take some getting used to, over all they make better representations of the characters than the movie actors do. Perry King provides a humorous Han Solo. Although his voice is gravelly, he seems to be the kind of guy who could be Han Solo. His wise mouth and humor enhance his image. Ann Sachs takes on the role of Princess Leia. Although she lacks the cold voice of Carrie Fisher, she displays more emotion. To illustrate my point, Carrie Fisher showed little audible horror when her planet and people were destroyed. Ann Sachs provides a more realistic outpouring of sorrow and grief as she screams and cries out as her planet is savagely blown into space dust. She also displays a great deal of emotion in the scene where Darth Vader is interrogating her in her cell. This scene was not in the movies. Though the scene is not for the squeamish, it does illustrate Vader's cruelty and utter lack of caring. His heartless mental attack and Leia's screams of anguish and pain serve to drive home the sheer evil of Darth Vader and the Empire. Brock Peters plays Darth Vader. Although he can not replace James Earl Jones, he has a deep booming voice that can turn from calm to anger in an instant. He also displays emotion more effectively than James Earl Jones. For example, in the freezing pit of Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back, he expresses glee, anger, pleading, and pain. It is obvious from his increasing tone, pitch and volume that he is becoming angry with Luke. Mark Hamill is irreplaceable as Luke Skywalker. He is the perfect Luke. No one can be Luke, not even a substitute. His cockiness at the beginning of the play when he races Fixer turns to fear and anger as he meets Ben and finds that the Imperial troupes have slaughtered his aunt and uncle. He eventually gives way to despair as Ben is killed, but he soon is filled with elation as he destroys TIE Fighters as the Millennium Falcon attempts to escape from the Death Star. He and he only could be Luke. Bernard Behrens plays Ben Kenobi. He does a wonderful job, especially in the scene where he and Vader fight. Anthony Daniels and Anthony Daniels only could play C-3PO. He does a stupendous job of enhancing the personality of C-3PO in this drama. We find out how he and R2-D2 met and how their relationship came into being. Anthony Daniels as C-3PO and the electronic R2-D2 have a deeper friendship than is apparent in the movies. Their quarrels are often humorous. The special effects in the drama are absolutely staggering. Many of the sounds from the movies, and many more not found in the movies have been included. Despite the early time of its release, the original drama is in full surround sound. Unlike in the movies, the characters are also in full stereo. In the movies, the characters occupy the center channel while sounds occupy the side channels. However, in the radio dramas the characters, music and sound all are stereo. You can hear them moving in different directions. In the movies, it is apparent what they are doing by looking at them. With radio there is no visual. Therefore, there must be some way of letting the audience know what is going on. Since there is no narration besides that found in the beginning and end, the characters must let the audience know what is happening. In many radio plays, this can be quite annoying. However, Brian Daley has cunningly written the script to make the descriptions realistic. Here is an example. "Han, Storm trooper to your left!" Blast! "Aaargh!" Storm trooper falls. "Got em!" Although the drama is not perfect, I would highly recommend it due to its staggeringly advanced nature. I would expect something of this magnitude and nature to have been made nowadays. I can hardly imagine how such a monumental task was under taken without most of the computer and digitalized technology of today. Over all, it is a stupendous performance. It spans thirteen episodes, each approximately a half hour for an overall running time of six and a half hours.

The Empire Strikes Back radio drama is another delight. The cast remains the same. Billy Dee Williams plays Lando just as he does in the movies. Paul Hecht plays the Emperor. He does a passable imitation of the emperor's voice, though it could be more sibilant. John Lithgow does a great job as Yoda. Although Frank Ozz is still the only true Yoda, John Lithgow's imitation is pretty good. This production features a huge number of sound effects not found in any of the movies. Those that are found in the movies have been used to their fullest extent. This drama, like the first, is also in full surround sound. The music, just like in the first, is absolutely stunning. Mark Hamill puts on another phenomenal performance of Luke Skywalker. When he is attacked, he screams in fright and pain. He coolly kills the wampa and escapes. He attempts to walk through a blizzard back to base. His performance there is wonderful as he strives to overcome hypothermia and the desire to lie down. He actually seems to be freezing and shaking with cold. His greatest achievement comes when he acts with Brock Peters in the scene on Cloud City. He meets Vader with cocky confidence. Vader overcomes him and eventually he lets out an agonized scream of pain as his hand is cut from his body. He seems to be in terrible pain as he learns that Vader is his father. He eventually falls onto a weather vane. His desperate cries for Ben and Leia are heart-wrenching. As always, the other members of the cast have made this play a distinct pleasure. There are a wide variety of new characters and actors. They all have done a wonderful job. Over all, I would highly recommend this dramatization as well, especially if it is combined with the first radio play. The show has ten episodes, each running for about a half hour for an overall running time of about five hours. It's a superb listening experience.

The period after the Empire Strikes Back radio drama was a dark time for Public Radio. Due to circumstances not related to the plays mentioned here, funding of Public Radio was greatly lowered. No more dramas were produced for many years. Finally funds were increased in the nineties. HighBridge Audio released the first two dramas on tape and CD in 1993. Their great success led to the decision to finally make Return of the Jedi. The production team for the original dramas was brought together again and the actors who had sta
16 years I wait and this is what I get???
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Thanks for the link Cable. I didn't know what thread that project was under.

The project that he's working on seems a lot like another multimedia DVD that someone put together for the ilovebees.com interactive game they had last year. The game was a tie in to the massively popular Xbox game Halo 2, but it was played across America using pay phones and the internet. I guess if you were able to figure a set of clues it would lead you to a pay phone and to the time it would ring. You would pick it up and it would play a piece of the radio drama they had created. I wasn't involved in the game at all, but someone put together a DVD compiling all of the seperate parts of the Radio Drama, deleted scenes, pictures of some of the players, and original scripts, and I got a copy of it. It was well done. The radio drama itself was several hours long.

It takes a lot of time to build something like that and I understand why you wouldn't necessarily want to give it away after you're done. I guess for me though, if I were to do something as cool as that, I would want to show it off.

Anyway, the ilovebees dvd was a well done project and if baby hum's project is anything like that, then it will be great.
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Thanks Obi-Wonton. I 've been trying to locate a cheap set, but I keep getting outbid. I'm still hoping to get a set, but money is tight, and I can't be spending $100.00 on something I already have essentially (at least without my wife knowing about it ).
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That description of the first Star Wars radio drama says that it explains how R2-D2 and C-3PO first met. Does anybody have any details on that?

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I got mine as a MIB copy from Amazon for 90 bucks with shipping a few Christmases ago, I'm the proud owner of set 2907.

And I must say, its worth every cent, and then some.

This set, and the LOTR BBC Radio Dramas, are possibly the best audio adaptations I have ever heard.
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In the third episdoe the script has C-3P0 telling Artoo that if astromech droids were smart enough to have been given voice boxes then they wouldn't protocol droids as counterparts. When Capt. Antilles asks C-3P0 why he has been paired with an astromech droid C-3P0 tells him that they found little need for protocol droids on this mission.

This was done well before the TPM, and it is insinuated that when C-3P0 was paired with Artoo it was the first time they had met. So, by the time you get to episode III of the radio drama and the first appearance of the droids, they have been working together for only a short time.
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Again, I am through the 3rd disc now and I got to say, they are incredible. So, so much more than is in the movie. What's funny is my anger for plot holes (like the aforementioned droids thing) is going away. There is so much more depth. It would be cool to put these discs to pictures from the graphic novels, art works, and pictures from the films...God that project would rock.
16 years I wait and this is what I get???