Peter Mayhew

Mark Hamill

Carrie Fisher

Harrison Ford

Anthony Daniels

James Earl Jones

Bea Arthur

Art Carney

Paul Kantner

Diahann Carroll

David Freiberg

Marty Balin

Craig Chaquico

John Barbata

Harvey Korman

Mickey Morton

Paul Gale

Patty Maloney

Jack Rader

Stephanie Stromer

Michael Potter

Wazzan Troupe

Yûichi Sugiyama

Claude Woolman

Lev Mailer

David Prowse

Don Francks

Alec Guinness

Mary Ann Hay

Linda Hoxit

Ed Greene

Steve Binder

Gary Smith

Pat Proft

Leonard Ripps

Rod Warren

Ken Welch

Mitzie Welch

Jeff Starsh

Bruce Vilanch

Joe Layton

Ian Fraser

John B. Field

Dwight Hemion

Michael Lorenz

Jerry Bixman

Brian Bartholomew

Peter Cole

Vince Humphrey

Ben Burtt

Dean Okrand

George Lucas

Garrett Lewis

Ralph McQuarrie

Keith Crary

Verne Langdon

Bob Mackie

David Acomba

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The Star Wars Holiday Special

20th Century Fox Television

Smith-Hemion Productions

Winters Hollywood Entertainment Holdings Corporation

Lucasfilm Ltd.

Nelvana

United States of America

English

holiday

talk show

musical

space

drunk

space opera

variety show

Gimly

I recently spoke about how, in my opinion at least, _Attack of the Clones_ is the worst theatrically released _Star Wars_ of all time. The reason I had to put that "theatrically released" qualifier in there, is because of _The Holiday Special_, because it absolutely **blitzes** _Clones_ when it comes to how low it sinks. _The Holiday Special_ isn't just a bad _Star Wars_ movie, it isn't just a bad movie full stop, it basically isn't a movie at all. 

_Final rating:½ - So bad it’s offensive. I may never fully recover._

What were they even thinking? Astonishingly bad, and not even in a humorous way either.

After watching and, all in all, enjoying the main films from the <em>'Star Wars'</em> franchise, I thought I'd check out the many spin-off films. <em>'The Star Wars Holiday Special'</em> makes for quite the start!

I had heard bits and pieces about this down the years and those bits and pieces were usually pretty derogatory and now I can see why; it's far worse than I was anticipating though. The worst thing is that it doesn't even try to be silly and stupid, if actually attempts to be sincere and meaningful.

It's utterly dire, from start to finish. No idea how they roped Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher into this, you gotta especially feel for Fisher given that end scene... wow. I wish it was 'so bad it's good' so it could've been ironically fun to watch, but it's the furthest thing from that.

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The Star Wars Holiday Special( 1978)

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

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A review by Gimly

Written by Gimly on Wed Jan 01 2020

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