Baronlando said:

It's like an insane long term prank that people even watch the special 35 years later. The networks cranked out about 5 of those stupid things a week to fill timeslots cheaply but people are like, scrutinizing this one. It's as if someone watched a random Judge Judy episode in 35 years and said "hey! This isn't very good! I was led to believe crime tv in the 2000s was pretty good!"

It's not quite the same since it does have the actors from the movies (which were a modest success back in the day) in it and Harrison Ford happened to have a film career afterwards. He's still pretty well known. I suppose that's what makes this one stand out. I know I couldn't believe they roped all these people (along with all these people who are completely unknown these days to anyone who hasn't been watching TV in the 70s, I assume. I haven't) into a crappy TV special when I heard about the SWHS.