*Restoration edit. NBC first showed The Empire Strikes back in summer 1987 (three years before I was born!). This is the intro that they used before they started the movie. Enjoy.
@@thewewguy8t88 I used to think that was cool when people went outside the characters for something else. it verified something to me when I was little. I dont know what. it just felt like cool water on a warm day.
At the time it was either this, or nothing. Well maybe a trip to the video store or Best Buy, but who would spend $49.99 on a VHS tape back in the day?
I just randomly had James Earl Jones's voice in my head as a kid, doing this spot for the network television debut, saying "The Empire Strikes Back." (Hadn't heard this since a little kid when it aired). Googled it. Found this. It's definitely from back in the day, pre-internet, when movies weren't widely available everywhere, and having them air on TV was a big deal. VHS tapes weren't even in every household yet, though dad and I sat and recorded it while trying to cut commercials. What a different time.
I still have this on a VHS tape, but the very beginning was missed - being able to see this uncut promo is fantastic. Probably the best promo for a TV version movie ever.
When the voice overs had feelings that made you shiver to your spine. A time trip back to the good old days,things weren't perfect back then,by any stretch of the imagination...but it's better than the world we live in now. Before the dark times, before the pandemic
I actually still have a VHS with this intro on it. It was the first time I saw ESB as a kid. I had actually seen Jedi in the theater before I ever saw Empire.
We need the vertical black bars on the side of the screen so we can see this intro as it was shown when it first aired ... no widescreen TV's at the time, LOL. This is nostalgic, and it was a big "event" night on TV that year. Good memories.
Three years earlier, CBS gave us the network television debut of A New Hope. On this night, it was no less epic... especially with this intro. It was an EVENT.
"We interrupt with a special message from the Galactic Empire!" Thanks, Lord Vader, for being nice enough to mess with subspace frequencies to tell us how dominant you were in 1980 when you righteously kicked Luke Skywalker's ass! BTW, how is your son, AKA "Cool Hand Luke"? LoL! Happy 40th to ESB! Let Lord Vader continue to dominate!!!! Force be with you!!!!🖖😘🌚😈😎
Nbc still does Sunday movie night today but rarely the movies that they recently showed just neighbors, ted, ted 2, a black and white film that I can't remember what is the name is, despicable me 1 and 2, and a fast and the furious movie but with no intros for Sunday night movie unfortunately..
Love this introduction. Though part of me can only laugh at the idea of Darth Vader getting prepared in a recording studio. Instead of makeup, does someone apply extra polish to his mask?
Cool to see. Unfortunate someone fucked with the aspect ratio though. I don't understand why so many people are determined to stretch, squeeze, squash and cut old images.
This video compilation has an NBC ad for this airing from earlier in the week with more dialogue from James Earl Jones: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-erDftdGqhNU.html
the Roman numerals at the end of your video reads "MMXXII", and that would be 2022, it should be MMXII for the year 2012. Just figured i'd let you know that.
0:36 "Welcome. Through this intergalactic broadcast, your planet and thousands like it, are witnessing the glorious victory of the Galactic Empire. Tonight, we will finally crush Luke Skywalker and his Rebel Alliance. This time, there will be no escape from the dark side of the Force. When The Empire Strikes Back."
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