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The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) (TV)

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• The song Carrie Fisher "sings" is based on the theme from Star Wars (1977).
  
  
• The first appearance of the character Boba Fett, in an animated segment of the show produced by Nelvana Studios (which later went on the produce "Droids" (1985) and "Ewoks" (1985)).
  
  
• George Lucas famously attempted (and failed) to buy up all master copies of this special to ensure it was never broadcast again.
  
  

• This special has never been released on video; however, bootleg home-recorded videos have been circulating for years and are now all over the internet. George Lucas once remarked at an Australian convention that "if I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every bootlegged copy of that program and smash it."
  
  
• WILLHELM SCREAM: This, like every other incarnation of Star Wars, contains a Wilhelm Scream. We hear the scream in question when a storm trooper gets shot off of a balcony by Han Solo in Chewbacca's home.
  
  
• The large white rat suit in the Cantina scene was made for The Food of the Gods (1976).
  
  

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