{"id":577,"date":"2015-12-17T13:21:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T13:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?p=577"},"modified":"2021-07-02T15:03:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T15:03:33","slug":"episode-24-the-star-wars-holiday-special-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Episode 25 &#8211; The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week join Andrew and Jonathan with special return guest Frank Bridges (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.rutgers.edu\/feature\/new-brunswick-music-scene-celebrated-new-archive\/20151129#.VnGFU26GeAP\">The New Brunswick Music Scene Archive<\/a>) as they struggle to get through the atrocity that is 1978&#8217;s The Star Wars Holiday Special. You&#8217;ve heard about, you&#8217;ve read about it, you might have even blinded yourself attempting to watch such garbage &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SWHS-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-581\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-581\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SWHS-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"SWHS (2)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SWHS-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SWHS-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SWHS-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/SWHS-2-624x468.jpg 624w\" 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for the big night (attribution: blastr.com)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?attachment_id=591'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/cast_last_scene-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-591\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-591'>\n\t\t\t\tcast assembled for the last scene (attribution: motherboard.vice.com)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/?attachment_id=592'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvhistorypod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/luke-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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