Creature Features used to show episodes of the Flash Gordon serials before their featured film of the night. It had a host named Bob Wilkins who would also show movie clips of upcoming movies. One of those clips was Star Wars.
Despite my problems with Jedi, the OT were tight yet epic films. You could actually tell the OT saga orally like the Bards of old or around a campfire.
You can't really do that with he PT.