It is pretty well known that she was hopped up on drugs while filming. She was a drug addict.

I don't know if this is true or not, but I have heard this story a few times before: During the filming of the Empire Strikes Back scene where Han is about to be frozen and Leia finally says "I love you", Carrie was so drugged up she kept messing up that scene. Han's original line was supposed to be "I love you too." Because Carrie was messing it up so much and they had to keep redoing the scene over and over, Harrison was getting really impatient so he said "I know." Evidently, that was Carrie's best performance, and they thought the "I know" line suited Han's character more, so they kept it.

space drugs are the best.

I thought that was the story about Harrison Ford telling George Lucas that you can "write that shit, but you sure can't say it." So he decided to say "I know" instead. Eh, who knows...

Neither had I. Thanks, I'm going to go wash the bad taste out of my eyes...

OMG that was absolutely craptastic. I can see why Lucas is ashamed. I must now smash my monitor.

I also saw this when it aired November 17, 1978 on CBS.

I remember begging my dad to race home in the car so we could be in front of the tube in time to videotape this....

Who wouldn't be fooled into thinking this would be the coolest thing to hit the airwaves from this original ad in TV GUIDE?




Doesn't that ad make it look like Han, Luke, and Leia would be the main characters of the story with a bunch of new X-Wing/TIE Fighter battles mixed in?

Instead, you got Harvey Korman in drag, Bea Arthur dancing with Greedo, Wookiee erotica, and Jefferson Starship.

Not even the least bit true. She's not even in the same shot.

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I'm amazed at how many people have not seen this. its got to be the top of the bootlegs from way back in the vhs days to now.

I don't know those two fan docs were out there. Pretty interesting stuff.

I actually have been collecting different versions of it. I have the KCCI, KCMO, WCBS, and WMAR broadcasts so far. Yes I watched it live on November 17, 1978, and yes I'm a freak.

What's the differences?

sounds like a typical Carol Burnett Show episode

I've never seen this either... starting the download of the whole thing now.

Hey no wierder than collecting all the Evil Dead disks.

Man, I remember watching the Star Wars Holiday Special when it was first on.

I was so excited, and then - even though I was only 10 - I was so disappointed. I liked it, and had fun watching it, but I knew it was crap!

And this only 2 months after the greatness that was KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park! Ahhhh, 1978 TV - gotta love it!

Commercials, station logos, sound & picture quality, and in a couple of instances poor/late switching from commercial to program.

Today is Life Day, and the 43rd anniversary of the Holiday Special. Happy Life Day everyone!

The Star Wars Holiday Special confirms your grandfather's theory that everyone was on drugs in the 1970s.

I feel old now.

William Shatner had a funny tweet about this today....

Woulda been nice to post the tweet. Was it this one?

Twitter

I wonder what it was about the original Star Trek series that turned them all into dicks on Twitter?

Does Shatner remember he directed Star Trek V: The Final Frontier?