The Star Wars Holiday Special

TV Movie
1978
TV-PG
1h 37m

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Harrison Ford, Anthony Daniels, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew in The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)

On this IMDbrief and with some help from C-3PO himself, Anthony Daniels, we download the weird and wild history of the two Star Wars Holiday Specials.

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Chewbacca and Han Solo try to get to the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk to celebrate Life Day, but are impeded by an Imperial blockade. Chewie's family passes the time with various forms of e... Read allChewbacca and Han Solo try to get to the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk to celebrate Life Day, but are impeded by an Imperial blockade. Chewie's family passes the time with various forms of entertainment.Chewbacca and Han Solo try to get to the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk to celebrate Life Day, but are impeded by an Imperial blockade. Chewie's family passes the time with various forms of entertainment.

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IMDb RATING

2.2/10

17K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

3,904

1,757

See production info at IMDbPro

Ackmena
(as Beatrice Arthur)

Art Carney

Saun Dann

Diahann Carroll

Mermeia Holographic Wow

Marty Balin

Holographic Band Singer
(as The Jefferson Starship)

Craig Chaquico

Holographic Band Member
(as The Jefferson Starship)

David Freiberg

Holographic Band Singer
(as The Jefferson Starship)

Paul Kantner

Holographic Band Member
(as The Jefferson Starship)

Harvey Korman

Krelman…

Jack Rader

Imperial Guard Officer

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Trivia
According to Carrie Fisher, George Lucas gave her a copy of the special as a gift for recording the DVD commentary for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). She claimed that she played it at parties when she wanted her guests to leave.

Goofs
In the original film, the Millennium Falcon's flight deck had room for five people to be in the same shot together, a back panel of flashing lights, and a distinctive round blue VDU display high above Chewbacca's left shoulder. The flight deck is much smaller in this show, and the backdrop is obviously just a painted wall. The television special was filmed, on video tape, on a soundstage in Burbank, Hollywood, while the original Millennium Falcon set footage was filmed on 35mm film at Elstree film studios in England.

Quotes
Chef Gormaanda: Stir, whip, stir, whip, whip, whip, stir, beat.

Crazy credits
R2-D2 as R2-D2

Connections
Featured in Late Night with Conan O'Brien: Harrison Ford/Amy Adams/KT Tunstall (2006)

Soundtracks
Star Wars Themes
by John Williams

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Review

Featured review

1/10

It Isn't a Train Wreck- it Moves too Slowly

OK, if you are reading this, you have probably already heard about the nightmarish details of this film. Carrie Fisher sings, badly, an "inspirational" version of the Star Wars theme. Art Carney shows way too much skin. Mark Hammill looks like a drag queen, and Harrison Ford looks like he was dragged on set against his will by a gang of thugs.

The "musical numbers" are bizarre, irrelevant, and bear no resemblance to anything else. I think I speak for everyone when I say that I hope that mysterious orifice on the top of Harvey Korman's head has one, and only one, use.

But, gentle reader, I do not criticize the painful individual moments of this disaster, no matter how many there are. I do not even criticize the fact that Wookies are made to look like either obnoxious twits or creepy perverts. No, I want to talk about pacing, or in this work's case, p-a-c-i-n-g...

Taken as a whole, there was about enough plot here for a 30 minute network special. But, that would not be long enough. So, the viewer gets 20 minutes of wookie-speak, which goes nowhere. And dance numbers, which go nowhere... And Bea Arthur singing, which might go somewhere we don't want to know about... The fact is, amazingly little happens during this thing's excruciatingly long running time.

Having a martini handy is a must. Just do not drink every time you get bored.