This week join Andrew and Jonathan with special return guest Frank Bridges (The New Brunswick Music Scene Archive) as they struggle to get through the atrocity that is 1978’s The Star Wars Holiday Special. You’ve heard about, you’ve read about it, you might have even blinded yourself attempting to watch such garbage – but now listen to Inside the Box dissect the special and place it in context with the decline in popularity of TV variety specials at the end of the 1970s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4CtXcjib4o
- advertisement for the big night (attribution: blastr.com)
- cast assembled for the last scene (attribution: motherboard.vice.com)
- Mark Hamill with too much hair bleach, eyeliner, and pancake makeup (attribution: giphy.com)
- Chewie’s son watches holographic dance troupe (attribution: makingstarwars.net)
- Harvey Korman by way of Dan Aykroyd, by way of Star Wars (attribution: hardtickettohomevideo.com)
- Diahann Carroll seduces Chewie’s father (attribution: starwars.wikia.com)
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