The Star Wars Holiday Special: A Nightmare to Film

As weird, bad, and awkward as The Star Wars Holiday Special is to watch, apparently, it was just as terrible to film. That’s evident from an exclusive excerpt io9 has acquired from the new book A Disturbance in the Force: How and Why the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened by Steve Kozak. Kozak is the co-director of a documentary by the same name but chose to expand on it with the written word.

The 288-page result is set for release on November 15 (pre-order a copy here), but what follows is a short selection from the book detailing the absolute hell filming the infamous special was. Read all about it below the book cover. On the second day of shooting, cameraman Larry Heider came to work quite exhausted from the long night before. He had just spent over twenty hours shooting tumblers in hot pink costumes, jugglers, and a gymnast—not to mention a cross-dressing Harvey Korman with four arms. This was not the type of television variety Heider was used to shooting. But that morning, as he walked through the sound stage, he immediately recognized the cantina bar set from the fil

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