corellian77: I did listen to all three radio dramas in their entirety (a friend of mine owned them and let me borrow 'em). And while it was a novelty the once through (the Vader voice as hilarious and the 'torture scene' quite disturbing), reading the original novel was much more fun for me. Back in the day somebody used the audio from the radio drama scene to add sound (pretty convincingly) to the "treadwell" scene, which was cool.
I find the cheesy acting, cheap sets and throwaway characters just enhance the universe of Star Wars and fit right into the spirit of the original film. Sure Lucas deleted it, but it's not like there's going to be one perfect version of the movie for all time (except the original theatrical version of course), and therefore it shouldn't ever happen. I'd much rather see Luke's friends than that crappily done Jabba scene anyday. Lots of us were disappointed back in '97 because we thought those scenes were finally going to be inserted back into the movie. Ah, those were the days, when we could still dream! With fan edits we can get a little bit of that magic back now and then.
I don't really plan to start a new thread here on it. Feel free to PM me your thoughts (I predict nobody will though, which is cool).
sluggo: I don't suppose you released that when you did?