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Help: looking for... Preservations of the 80s HBO and NBC TESB broadcasts?

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I had a look through the forum using Google and the search terms, “HBO”, “NBC” and “empire” but nothing came up. Is there any interest in preserving these, especially since the 87’ NBC airing featured a special intro by James Earl Jones? Does anyone know if they are from the same master used for the time compressed 1985 Pan and Scan CAV LD?

1987 HBO intro for The Empire Strikes Back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs5BQJ7QhFA

Remake of The Empire Strikes Back NBC Intro (the original clip seems to have vanished from YouTube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHzVjP9sH50

“Logic is the battlefield of adulthood.”

  • Howard Berk
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The NBC TV broadcast for Empire Strikes Back - [shown on 11-22-1987 - WOC] is up on MySpleen…

 
It is a 5.16gb mp4 file - and looks pretty decent:-
 

 

 
 


 

The NBC TV broadcast for Return Of The Jedi - [shown on 19-03-1989 - WOC] is up on MySpleen too…

 
It is a 4.53gb mp4 file - and also looks to be a decent quality image.
 

Description: 'Another one for all of the Star Wars geeks out there, here is the TV showing of ‘‘Return of the Jedi’’ as broadcast on NBC Sunday Night Movie on March 19th 1989, with all the original ads included. I am aware that there is already a recording of that specific broadcast on MySpleen, but I believe this one should be of much higher visual quality.

You can once again thanks GoBlue1977 for providing the raw footage for this upload and making sure it would get shared on the Spleen. I did my usual post-processing on the footage to make sure to give you guys the best image quality possible.’
 

 

 
 


 
 

Both the above ‘Empire Strikes Back’ & ‘Return Of The Jedi’ US NBC TV broadcast preservations are also obtainable via…

📍 A few available Original Trilogy Preservations - from a long time ago . . . . 📍

The HBO TV Premiere for Star Wars (1977) - from the 1st February 1983 - is also available… amongst others. 👍
 

A little patience goes a long way on this old-school Rebel base. If you are having issues finding what you are looking for, these will be of some help…

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A Project Index for Star Wars Preservations (Harmy’s Despecialized & 4K77/80/83 etc) : A Project Index for Star Wars Fan Edits (adywan & Hal 9000 etc)

Take your time to look around this site before posting… Do NOT just lazily make yet another ‘link request’ post - or a new thread asking for projects.

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Oh my goodness, oojason you’re a legend! Years have passed and I never expected to receive a reply about this request. I’ll have a look on MS. Perhaps at some point the HBO TESB broadcast will surface too - but it’ll likely be the same as the NBC one…

Cheers matey. 😃

“Logic is the battlefield of adulthood.”

  • Howard Berk