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Darth telly
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The Star Wars Holiday Special: The Definitive Release (Help Needed) (WIP)
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Date created
20-Feb-2022, 7:37 PM

Special thanks to Matt Mahdi, Snoopac, and Zman for making this project possible.

Hello everybody, the goal of this project is to create a definitive release of the star wars holiday special. I have gathered together VHS recordings of different airings of the special, the editdroid DVD, and many interviews with the cast and crew along with other little things released throughout the years to create the definitive release of The Star Wars Holiday special. This release will include the following:

My own version of the Special (expanded on below)
Editdroid DVD
KCCI airing
WCBS airing
WMAR airing
Tasjo’s WHIO edition
Zion V2
Digital Spy Anthony Daniels interview
Screen Rant Plus: Anthony Daniels on the lego star wars holiday special
beatrice arthur emmytvlegends.org interview
Bruce VIlanch emmytvlegends.org interview
Harvey Koreman emmytvlegends.org interview
Harrison Ford On Late Night with Conan O’Brien
Harrison Ford on the star wars holiday special and cowboys and aliens
Boba Fett screentest
Star Wars Holiday Special Boba Fett Animator JOHN CELESTRI Interview
Mark Hamill - Memories of Carrie Fisher, The Holiday Special, and a Broken Promise
JJ abrams on the canonicity of the star wars holiday special
the Simpsons I will not be home for Christmas
Skywalking through wonderland Steve Binder Interview
Fox News coverage
Cartoon anamatic
South Park: Uncle Hanks Christmas Classics
TV land segment on the special
Opie and Anthony: Mark Hamill
Opie and Anthony: Carrie Fisher
Star Wars Actor Anthony Daniels Recalls DREADFUL 1978 Holiday Special
Ten Questions for Carrie Fisher (2010)
Carrie Fisher Celebration VI (2012)
Carrie Fisher DragonCon Highlights (2011)
Carrie Fisher, Date with a Princess
Nerdeek Life: Mark Hamill
Peter Mayhew describes family
Peter Mayhew Home to the family
Peter Mayhew Never Got a Answer
The Star Wars Holiday Special at 40: How a landmark TV bomb was born
Cantina Archeology 40 Years of the SWHS
40 Years of Star Wars Holiday Special Collecting - Collecting Track 2019
Star Wars Holiday Special 2016 Retrospect With George Lucas & Cast
Star Wars Holiday Special 40th Anniversary Tribute - LosCon 2018
Nightline 2007 Star Wars Holiday Special Coverage
2010 TV Guide Coverage
White and Nerdy
Robot Chicken commercials
Holiday Special/Flying High Promo
Holiday Special/Flying High Promo 2
A Cosmic Christmas
Romie-0 and Julie-8
The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special
The Predator Holiday Special
Clips from the Flying High November 17, 1978 episode
Clips from Lucy Comes to Nashville
Hot City: the almost complete series (missing 2 episodes)
The interviews from the editdroid DVD
Honest Trailer
Ryan George Pitch Meeting
From the Desk of Charles Lippincott article
Vanity Fair Han Solo Comedy Hour article
Starlog #19
A Photo Gallery
All the interviews from www.starwarsholidayspecial.com
All the graphics from Holonet 59
Chef Gamora article in Holonet 59
The transcript
The original story treatment
The fourth Draft of the script
The production notes
Proto-Fett the Birth of Boba www.starwars.com article, along with all the graphics from the article.
The Depths of Kashyk
A Forest Apart

What I Need

  1. Dallas season 2 “Election” DVD rip
  2. All In the Family season 9 “Edith vs. the Bank” DVD rip
  3. KMGH airing
  4. KNXT airing
  5. WBNS airing
  6. ATV airing
  7. Network10 airing
  8. Full Sweden airing
  9. Scan of filmfax magazine 69/70
  10. Chasing Christmas 1080p Amazon Web-DL
  11. Blu-ray rip of the supergirl episode Reign
  12. 1080p Mandalorian web DL
    Chapter 1
    Chapter 5
    Chapter 9
    Chapter 14
    Chapter 15
    Chapter 16
  13. anything else you are able to contribute
    (for all airings a recording including commercials is preferable)

stuff I would like but I am not certain of their existence

  1. KCMO airing with commercials
  2. KCCI airing with commercials

Other things I need

  1. someone to create some nice blu-ray menus when I am done with everything else
  2. People who can subtitle the special in different languages
  3. someone who can create optional Wookie subtitles

Currently, I think this release will be on three Blu-ray 50s, but this might change later on.

My version of the special will aim to improve on Zion, Editdroid, and Tasjos’s work. Here is a outline of its goals.

  1. replace shots tooken from star wars with 4K77 footage
  2. Include the fighting the frizzies segment and any other promos/bumpers from different TV channels
  3. Have the option to watch with or without commercials
  4. Have synced french, Spanish, and Rifftrax audio tracks
  5. Have optional Wookie subtitles
  6. Compile an audio commentary from different Interviews (only a possibility)

The main source I will use for my version of the special will be The Editdroid DVD. Then I will use 4K77 for the sections taken from A New Hope, and the official Blu-ray for the stormtrooper search scene. Then I will be using tasjo’s WHIO release for the audio dropouts and missing frames in the editdroid version. I will be sourcing the commercials from the zion hybrid and the WHIO for the opening CBS bumpers.

If you can contribute anything please do.