Tomorrow is Life Day , and as you ’re direct your spaceship to Kashyyyk to lionise with your Wookiee relatives , take a moment to reflect on the secure possible style to commemorate this intergalactic holiday : By determine the Star Wars Holiday Special .
Here are just a few item from the oral chronicle that I did n’t know before and I ’m not certain I ’m felicitous to know now :
George Lucas come up with the concept , which he think would be a unspoilt manner to sell toy . “ His idea was fundamentally for a Wookiee Rosh Hashanah . A furry Earth Day . ”
Lucas told film writer that Han was matrimonial to a Wookiee , “ but that we could n’t cite that because it would be controversial . ”
Lucasfilm and Kenner produce paradigm natural action figures of Chewbacca ’s kin ( include his child , named Lumpy ) but they were never eject .
Bea Arthur , who peach a Sung dynasty in the cantina setting , did n’t know anything about Star Wars or the fictional character . “ She was middling much [ her television character ] Maude . ”
Jefferson Starship appears in the limited , but the squad was also work on another project with Lucasfilm and the Bee Gees . Nothing ever came of it .
When the high-pitched - budget television special aired , it lost the ratings warfare to The Love Boat , “ with a marked drop cloth - off following the close of the cartoon at the halfway point . ”
If you have n’t view the special before , it ’s definitely worth one of those pajama - clad , gift wrap - strewn Christmas good afternoon viewings . Disney ’s been annul uploads on YouTube but we foundone version in its entirety .
Enjoy . And thank the shaper that the Star Wars franchise has been wrest by from George Lucas once and for all .
[ Mental Floss ]
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