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oojason
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The 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special - a general discussion thread
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18-Nov-2021, 5:59 PM

Star Wars Holiday Special - Full Movie with RiffTrax jokes - Upgraded SWHS Video for Life Day’:-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyykN8e_WXw - a 1 hour and 44 minute video at the official RiffTrax youtube channel.
 

The blurb:-

‘LIFE DAY As seen on TV - Star Wars Holiday Special with Commercials! Young Mark Hamil, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford and LUMPY - www.rifftrax.com/the-star-wars-holiday-special

 

Just Released: The Star Wars Holiday Special RiffTrax! 2007 OT•com thread : IMDB : TVTropes : Twitter : Website

 
 


 

Asaki said:

oojason said:

If Pablo is inferring there is a ‘high quality’ version of the Holiday Special in their archives… then hopefully one day we’ll see it up on Disney+. After all, there is not much point in such a version being kept in there and remaining unseen by the fans…

We already have a master tape copy, I don’t think it gets much higher quality than that.
Your average Joe is probably used to seeing 7th generation copies.

It seems some additional work may have been done to The Holiday Special…

As well as the article below, this also may be of some interest - https://twitter.com/nickytea/status/1459090754018504709

 

Disney+ Releases First Official Footage Of Star Wars Holiday Special (In HD)’:-

Disney+ releases their first official footage of the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, upgrading the original movie to high definition quality.

https://screenrant.com/star-wars-holiday-special-hd-footage-watch-online
 

‘Both sets of footage are interspersed with George Lucas reflecting on the special, saying, “they were doing this Holiday Special, and there wasn’t much of our involvement.”’
 

^ as stated in the article… despite George Lucas always seemingly trying to distance himself from his involvement in the 1978 Holiday Special… yet George himself did write a six page treatment for it.

 


 

Some general further reading (including contributions from George himself - before he “had walked away from it”)

The Dark Side: An Oral History of The Star Wars Holiday Special’:-

www.mentalfloss.com/article/72863/dark-side-oral-history-star-wars-holiday-special