Star Wars infamous Holiday Special, explained

How the 1978 spinoff accidentally shaped the Star Wars universe. Subscribe to our channel A long time ago in living rooms across the US, a bizarre 98minute Star Warsthemed variety show aired on CBS to an estimated 13 million viewers. It wasn t necessarily the first of its kind: hosts like Donny Marie Osmond and Richard Pryor had done TV variety shows with Star Wars charactersin 1977, which had helped boost box office sales. But unlike those shows, the Holiday Special featured th