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Podcast: Around the World in 80s Movies
Episode: The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) | Steve Binder (with David Acomba)
Description: The Star Wars Holiday Special is a two-hour made-for-TV musical variety show movie that aired on November 17. 1978 on CBS for its November sweeps period.). Variety shows were hot on TV in the 1970s and this effort would serve as a ratings bonanza, putting the hottest cultural phenomenon of the last year in front of as many eyeballs as they could on a Friday night when kids could stay up to watch TV. The Force was not with this one.
Chewbacca's family living in a giant treehouse on Kashyyyk. The family trio includes Chewbacca's wife Malla, his father Itchy, and his...