Originally published at: Far-out commercial for Sharp electronics from 1978 tape of Star Wars Holiday Special (video) | Boing Boing
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The commercials have always been the best part of the Star Wars Holiday Special. My favorites:
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IIRC, Sharp Electronics were key to fighting the Frizzies.
That’s a Sharp Sidekick “Radio TV”!
My dad scored one of these TVs in a merchant giveaway for this Drug Store. It had that tiny little black-and-white screen we used to watch it in the backroom of the shop after school.
Did they just not show the microwave? Or is that weird-looking device a TV and a microwave? The round porthole thing surrounding the screen is really bizarre. I’m assuming it’s portable and the screen might have been hard to see in sunlight without something to shade it, but still…
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