A blog about Star Wars (Episode IV A New Hope) the first time around in the 1970s.
Including production, first release, reviews, merchandising, the novelization, Super 8 movies, Marvel comics and more.
Mark Hamill voiced Corey in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Jeannie
How the animated series Jeannie introduced children to Mark Hamill
Back in 1977, which Star Wars performer was the best-known?
It would have been quite an easy question for adults to
answer, since it would just have involved a toss-up between Peter Cushing and
Sir Alec Guinness. But not so for children.
Star Wars makes the cover of Look-In on March 11, 1978
The last in our short series of posts about the British weekly magazine Look-In focuses on the mini-posters that adorned many a bedroom wall after the release of Star Wars.
This Friday, I'll be publishing the last (for the time being) in my short series of posts about how Star Wars was featured in the youth magazine Look-In in the UK. I'll be sharing some of the impressive colour posters that the magazine ran in 1977-78.
In the meantime, though, any child of Britain in the 1970s will find it impossible to resist this TV ad I found on YouTube. It's a commercial for the March 11, 1978, edition of Look-In, which featured plenty of Star Wars, including an interview with Harrison Ford. Watch it and be transported back to a time when 10p could buy you enough glossy entertainment to last a week. And don't forget to return to the 21st century for this Friday's post.
Gerry Anderson of Thunderbirds fame: What did he think of Star Wars?
Gerry Anderson was a huge figure in millions of childhoods from the 1960s onwards, giving us the television series Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Stingray, Space: 1999 and more. He also, unwittingly, cost Star Wars a fair amount of money.
But what did he think of the film that threatened to replace his series in kids’ affections? Fortunately, a cutting from the British young people’s magazine Look-In lets us know.
It’s been quiet at Episode Nothing, but I have been laying plans for some in-depth blog content which I hope you’re going to like.
Until I get going with that, here are some memories of a youth culture magazine that first generation British Star Wars fans are sure to remember fondly.
Then and now: teaser ads for Star Wars in 1977 and Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
It's almost here. Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens will be released next month. And it's being awaited with such rapt anticipation that there's a danger we'll have nothing left in reserve to welcome the Second Coming.
How different is all this from the release of the first Star Wars in 1977? Episode Nothing considers
