Star Wars:The Holiday Special!
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
Robservations with Rob Liefeld
4.8 • 743 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Rob takes you back to that fateful night in November 1978, the one and only showing of The Star Wars Holiday Special! We examine the culture of the 1970’s variety show format that informed the special as well as why access to anything Star Wars was at such a premium! Plus, Boba Fett! Life Day! Itchy! Lumpy! All that make-up on Luke Skywalker!
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| 0:00.0 | Today I am taking you all the way back to 1978 November to the epic first original and only airing of Star Wars, the holiday special. |
| 0:25.8 | You've heard a lot about this holiday special, but if you weren't there experiencing it in real time, |
| 0:31.5 | you don't understand the excitement that had been built around it and why it was so anticipated in the first place. |
| 0:38.8 | Does it have some wild and wacky and disjointed stuff in it? Absolutely it does. |
| 0:43.8 | But is there anything redeeming about the Star Wars holiday special other than the fact that it was |
| 0:49.6 | the return to us, the Star Wars fans of Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Harrison Ford is Hansel, |
| 0:55.4 | Harry Fisher, is Princess Leah for the very first time since the theatrical release. So much to |
| 1:00.8 | discuss. We're going to do it all today. Star Wars, the holiday special on an all new episode |
| 1:06.7 | of Rob'servations. Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Rob Observations. |
| 1:12.6 | Hey, everybody. |
| 1:15.5 | Welcome to another edition of Rob Observations. |
| 1:17.8 | I am your host, Rob Leifeld. |
| 1:19.3 | I make comics. |
| 1:20.3 | I draw comics. |
| 1:21.4 | I create comics. |
| 1:22.6 | I write comics. |
| 1:23.2 | I produce comics. |
| 1:25.5 | And here we talk about all things, |
| 1:29.5 | comic books, comic book superheroes, and how they have grown and sprouted into these giant industrial corporate mega iconic machines. Yes, that is how I would |
| 1:37.3 | describe the superheroes of today. They are these giant corporate, I, you guys, if you've |
| 1:42.8 | listened to the show, you know how much I despise the term |
| 1:45.1 | IP. It's an IP. Hey, what IP you got? What IP? I can't stand it. Nobody used to talk like that. |
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