There is another version as well that is not shown on my Holiday Special versions page which is an edited version of the WCBS New York broadcast. This was also the first one to be touted as being "remastered", I believe. Until the KCCI version showed up, this edited/remastered version was the best quality I had ever seen. Its source was a guy who taped the show himself, and he sold it for quite a few years for $30 a copy.

Here's a breakdown of the differences in this version:

- edited intro: since the opening Falcon shot was missing and some of the beginning footage was messed up, footage from a later Falcon cockpit shot was taken and edited in to fill out the scene. Han says "All right" when he shouldn't here. But the edit is very good, so good that I didn't notice it for quite a while.

- no WCBS logo: this is inherent to the original WCBS broadcast, where the logo was shown during a news promo spot. But since the edited/remastered version does not include commercials, it's otherwise very difficult to tell that it's the WCBS version.

- edited end credits: whoever "remastered" this version dropped in music from the Star Wars soundtrack at the end in place of the soundtrack music that was already there to cover up the announcer's voiceover talking about upcoming programs that appears in all other US broadcast copies. Again, it is very well done, so it took me some time to figure this one out as well.

If you have this copy, you have the second best version that's out there. But it's also not a "true" copy of the Special, in the sense that it's been creatively edited.

--SKot