Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 54 - Star Wars Holiday Special

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O-Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.

Episode 54

Star Wars Holiday Special

In This Episode Adam and Mark celebrate May the 4th with the oddest entry into the star wars filmic universe, from 1978 the Star Wars Holiday Special.

A seasonal show hastily greenlit by CBS to push merchandise and keep fans thirsty for The Empire Strikes Back, this hodgepodge production was never going to live up to the ground-breaking success of Star Wars 

Starring all the big stars from the first movie the special suffered from the script was revised within an inch of its life, actors in full Wookiee attire dropping like flies on set in the LA summer heat, director David Acomba walked away after filming just a handful of scenes. George Lucas, his name pointedly wiped from the production, has not only publicly condemned the show but called for the destruction of its now strictly bootlegged existence.

The Variety segments provide us with a flamboyant, psychedelic playground for misfits and performers. A camp cooking show has Harvey Korman in drag rustling up something called Bantha Surprise, a musical number set in the Mos Eisley Cantina unites its shady patrons in a spirited act of rebellion against an Imperial-enforced curfew. For some reason Jefferson Starship perform, singing into what look like neon hot dog – and the Art Carney plays a trader on the Wookie home world of Kashyyyk. where is also secretly a member of the Rebel Alliance.

The most impressive segment though is a short animation commissioned from Nelvana, an independent studio co-founded by Clive A Smith, a frequent collaborator of the Beatles. Instructed by Lucas to mimic the style of Jean Giraud, the studio created a mini-story within the Star Wars timeline that introduced Boba Fett for the first time. The sketch, with its pop punk palette and fluid, dreamy landscapes gave the bounty hunter a dazzling entrance into the franchise that the films simply couldn’t provide.

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