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15th Jun 2007, 11:37 PM #1
The STAR WARS Holiday Special 1978
The first TV spin off from the original 'Star Wars', and the first two hours of 'Star Wars' made after the first cinema film, two years before "The Empire strikes back".
And do you know what? ...it's gloriously shit! Luke Skywalker looks like he's on acid! Han Solo stops being cool and gets mushy with Chewie's family! The Imperials dig Jefferson Starship! It has the most ineffectual Stormtrooper ever! The performances make the big screen trilogy look like method acting! Princess Leia SINGS for freaks sake!!! This is comedy GOLD!
A big kitsch piece of crap that cost $1m in 1978, which in today's money is probably too much money to think about spending on a bad idea. George Lucas has , of course, disowned his first sequel completely.
Here's an abridged version off Youtube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asnVcbWQ2cg
I demand a DVD release!
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15th Jun 2007, 11:42 PM #2
It's non-canon and raped my childhood!*
Shame on you for digging it up, Baynes!
* well, if I had been old enough to see it...
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15th Jun 2007, 11:45 PM #3
I have been promised a DVD of this next time I see m'colleague. He says much the same as the above. In many ways I can't wait.
Dennis, Francois, Melba and Smasher are competing to see who can wine and dine Lola Whitecastle and win the contract to write her memoirs. Can Dennis learn how to be charming? Can Francois concentrate on anything else when food is on the table? Will Smasher keep his temper under control?
If only the 28th century didn't keep popping up to get in Dennis's way...
#dammitbrent
The eleventh annual Brenty Four serial is another Planet Skaro exclusive. A new episode each day until Christmas in the Brenty Four-um.
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16th Jun 2007, 12:01 AM #4
Happy Life day, chuck!
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16th Jun 2007, 12:27 AM #5
You can download it from this cool site - http://www.blueharvest.net/video/ - I haven't watched it yet but they do say the quality isn't that great alas.
"RIP Henchman No.24."
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16th Jun 2007, 7:00 AM #6
Itchy is a hairy old perv!
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16th Jun 2007, 9:13 AM #7
I thought the rumour was that Lucasfilm had had it burned, in a thorough, never-to-be-seen-again, Marco Polo sort of way? Doesn't it feature the first ever sighting of Boba Fett in a cartoon, or something (or am I now starting to include dreams I had now under the heading of actual facts)?
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16th Jun 2007, 11:33 AM #8
Yes! Boba Fett does make his screen debut in a cartoon!
Darth Vader is also in it as well! The shame!
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16th Jun 2007, 12:02 PM #9
I can really see why Lucas disowned it, it's appalling...I want to see it all.
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16th Jun 2007, 12:12 PM #10
"Obi-Wan never told you what happened to the 1978 Holiday special!"- Vader
"He told me enough! He told me it was shit."- Luke
"No, Luke, it was really shit"
"NOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"
"Search your feelings, Luke. You know you appeared in it and made an arse of yourself. Join me and I'll make sure no one gets to see it again.Together we can retrieve the copy that The Emporer watches for a laugh and bring order to the trilogy! He has forseen this. "
"You're on, let's burn it!"
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16th Jun 2007, 12:18 PM #11Pip Madeley Guest
It's not as bad as the He-Man Holiday Special when Skeletor turns nice.
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16th Jun 2007, 12:26 PM #12
But He-Man was always shit so it doesn't matter.
Its great seeing the Star Wars cast caked in make up too. And Carrie Fisher so off her tits that she's happy to sing the theme tune.
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16th Jun 2007, 12:30 PM #13Pip Madeley Guest
But He-Man could've killed Skeletor there and then, while he was being all cheesy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v6SjJ75-lk
WHY DON'T THEY KILL HIM WHILE THEY HAVE THE CHANCE?!
Not that I've screamed at the screen for him to kill Skeletor, no no.
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16th Jun 2007, 12:50 PM #14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVppu...elated&search=
He's not nice!
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16th Jun 2007, 12:54 PM #15Pip Madeley Guest
Was he high?
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16th Jun 2007, 4:39 PM #16
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16th Jun 2007, 8:22 PM #17Pip Madeley Guest
Evil Lyn would lick them for him.
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19th Jun 2007, 7:15 PM #18
When is ep 10 of The Skeletor Show going to be out?
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19th Jun 2007, 7:40 PM #19Pip Madeley Guest
Soon, I hope!
*says a prayer*
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20th Jun 2007, 9:55 AM #20
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21st Jun 2007, 11:08 AM #21
With a special edition the following year.
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21st Jun 2007, 3:30 PM #22
This looks as awful as I'd always heard that it was...
...I've got to see more!
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21st Jun 2007, 3:39 PM #23Dave Lewis Guest
I've got it on VCD somewhere... It's better than The Phantom Menace...
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26th Jun 2007, 12:16 PM #24
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29th Jun 2007, 6:04 PM #25I fully expect a dvd release before the year 2010.
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