this is my 1st post here after lurking for many years

Found this interesting post from usnet from 1984:

Apparently CBS were gonna broadcast a vesrion of star wars with an extra whopping 22 minutes?!

From: rakrie...@watcgl.UUCP (Rob Krieger)
Newsgroups: net.movies.sw
Subject: 22 min of extra scenes in Star Wars on CBS on Feb. 26
Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 22:43:58 EST

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    The March,1984 issue of Video Review magazine, in its
Upcoming Television reviews claims that CBS will be showing
a version of "Star Wars" with 22 minutes of never before
seen footage.
    Running time is listed at 143 minutes.

        We'll see this Sunday.

            Stephen Trutiak
            { allegra!watmath!uogvax2!strutiak }

            { thanks to R. Krieger for posting this }