• Star Wars: The Original Radio Drama 1981 Mark Hamill

  • Aug 9 2022
  • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
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  • 2.3 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)
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Star Wars: The Original Radio Drama 1981 Mark Hamill

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  • Star Wars: The Original Radio Drama 1981 Mark Hamill

    When this series was first broadcast on National Public Radio in 1981, it generated the largest response in the network's history: 50,000 letters and phone calls in a single week, an audience of 750,000 per episode, and a subsequent 40-percent jump in NPR listenership.

    This landmark production, perhaps the most ambitious radio project ever attempted, began when Star Wars creator George Lucas donated the story rights to an NPR affiliate. Writer Brian Daley adapted the film's highly visual script to the special demands and unique possibilities of radio, creating a more richly textured tale with greater emphasis on character development. Director John Madden guided a splendid cast—including Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels, reprising their film roles as Luke Skywalker and the persnickety robot See Threepio—through an intense 10-day dialogue recording session. Then came months of painstaking work for virtuoso sound engineer Tom Voegeli, whose brilliant blending of the actors' voices, the music, and hundreds of sound effects takes this intergalactic adventure into a realm of imagination that is beyond the reach of cinema.

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    Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story: "It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the psychological dimension."

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that it is incomplete

This is an incomplete episode. It ends before the Death Star makes it to Yavin 4. Luke just met up with Biggs Darkloghter when the story suddenly switches to an Unsolved mysteries episode.

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A butchered edition of the Star Wars Radio Drama

I originally purchased the three Star Wars radio dramas separately, and I was quite pleased. Now they have been glomed together with some other content. For Star Wars, there were originally 13 episodes; each was it's own chapter for easy navigation. Now the whole play is one chapter. Well, I say the whole play; in actuality they've cut out the final battle. They have also ommitted the opening and closing narration, so the transition between chapters can be jarring and confusing. Please restore the original content.

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cuts off before the Battle of Yavin

I own the Star Wars radio drama on CD, and was excited to listen to a mobile version. However, the recording abruptly ends before the fighters launch against the Death Star.

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