20th Century Mark said:

I too say the Holiday Special before Star Wars. I was 5 and remember watching it with my dad and sister. We went to see the movie shortly after, and I quickly forgot about the HS. I watched it again a few years back, and those terrible images now haunt me again!

There is another!

I can imagine that the impact of seeing Star Wars shortly after the Holiday Special would more easily erase those terrible images. In my case, I saw the Holiday Special in 1978 and didn't see Star Wars until after it hit video...1983 or so. So those images had a while to fester.

--SKot