goutal (10/23/82)
Tuned in to one of the local NPR stations tonight, and found myself listening to a reading of the original STAR WARS! NOT, as near as I could tell, the original actors; OB1 was certainly not Alec Guiness, although Luke might have been read by Mark Hammill. Real sound track, too. Sound effects, of course, may or may not have been home-brew. The effects for R2D2 sounded quite authentic. Anybody else hearing this on their station? By the way, the segment I came in on was Luke's run over the death star. As near as I could make out, he did NOT miss on any first run with the computer, and later make good by using The Force; it sounded more like he started to make the run using the computer, but got talked out of it by Ben's ghost, on the same run. This seems to jive with how I remember the movie, though I could easily be wrong.
thomas (10/23/82)
Our local NPR station has run SW twice now. (Once was during their fund drive, and the played the whole thing all the way through in one piece - 6 1/2 hours of Star Wars!) As I recall, some of the actors were the "originals", but others were not. Can't remember who, now. =Spencer
majka (10/23/82)
Luke does not miss the Death-Star on a computer-targeted run. An earlier attempt by one of the other fighters does miss.
puder (10/25/82)
Yes, there was a Star Wars on NPR. It was a 13 part series, with Mark Hamill and Anthony Daniels in their original roles. The other roles were played by other actors with similar voices; though OB1 was not as close as could have been had, the others were hard to tell from the movie actors. Some of the story was different from the movie. In particular, there was more detail of Luke's life and 'friends' on Tatooine before he left, as well as on Leia's mission to get the Death Star plans. Of course, other details that were mostly visual got condensed out.