The Empire Strikes Back NBC Intro* [HD]

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  • Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024

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  • @ntscavengeo31
    @ntscavengeo31 4 года назад +63

    That was such an excellent lead in to the movie. Well done NBC. Wish they did stuff like that now.

  • @jameseckelman2293
    @jameseckelman2293 2 года назад +7

    Bro I was like 4 years old I saw this on TV the first time it was the coolest thing ever babe

  • @AndyAcker
    @AndyAcker 2 года назад +27

    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.

  • @jime6688
    @jime6688 10 лет назад +92

    Always thought it was neat they got James Earl Jones to record this special trailer for NBC.

    • @camcordernonsense5264
      @camcordernonsense5264 4 года назад +6

      Wonder if that cost a bunch.

    • @thewewguy8t88
      @thewewguy8t88 Год назад +2

      @@camcordernonsense5264 well i mean his 3rd biggest role other then darth vader and mufsa is "this is cnn."

    • @camcordernonsense5264
      @camcordernonsense5264 Год назад +2

      @@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.

  • @dookieboy81
    @dookieboy81 8 лет назад +88

    when a movie on basic channels were a big deal lol

    • @goldensolder44
      @goldensolder44 3 года назад +7

      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?

    • @rickricky6421
      @rickricky6421 2 года назад +5

      And now we have too much choice.

    • @rjzavala87
      @rjzavala87 8 месяцев назад +1

      It was a magical time...

  • @brianm5563
    @brianm5563 5 лет назад +26

    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.

  • @typorter-pp6lh
    @typorter-pp6lh 6 лет назад +40

    Whoa, this includes audio of Darth Vader actually saying "the Empire Strikes Back!" Awesome!

  • @zshaw7549
    @zshaw7549 11 лет назад +13

    Saw this NBC movie when I was younger. Still sticks in my mind. Explains the star wars fascination.

  • @JoseMorales-lw5nt
    @JoseMorales-lw5nt 3 месяца назад +3

    R.I.P. James Earl Jones 😢

  • @Erikalynn1977
    @Erikalynn1977 8 лет назад +29

    Omg I recorded this the night it aired on NBC
    I use to watch the into over and over

    • @DS8379
      @DS8379 6 лет назад +5

      erika rodriguez same!

    • @Action_Figure_King
      @Action_Figure_King 4 года назад +5

      Funny, I don't remember this airing. But...I recorded Return of the Jedi when it premiered on NBC.

    • @derp8575
      @derp8575 Год назад

      SIMPS be like, "Hi, Erika! I agree!"

    • @derp8575
      @derp8575 4 месяца назад

      @@rypo59 You say that like the internet is a bad thing. It's a giant library, you illiterate clown.

  • @calminaeon
    @calminaeon 8 лет назад +32

    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.

    • @jime6688
      @jime6688 7 лет назад +4

      calminaeon same here.

    • @ntscavengeo31
      @ntscavengeo31 4 года назад +4

      I have the same thing on VHS

    • @camcordernonsense5264
      @camcordernonsense5264 4 года назад +3

      I don't think we had Return. Just the other two. I wonder why that is.

  • @patrickc3419
    @patrickc3419 Год назад +2

    Soooooo loved the annual broadcasts of the original three Star Wars movies each year!!

  • @paulvanbeaumont7184
    @paulvanbeaumont7184 2 года назад +4

    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

  • @Cinefan1958
    @Cinefan1958 9 лет назад +11

    "It will be a day long remembered" On that evening, I was truly surprised that NBC would do such a different way to introduce this film. It was fun.

    • @darthkurland
      @darthkurland 2 года назад

      Do you happen to know what that date was?

  • @MTVCOPS
    @MTVCOPS 6 лет назад +15

    This was November 1987. NBC would never have premiered an expensive blockbuster in the summer.

    • @TGGaineyProductions
      @TGGaineyProductions Год назад +2

      Definitely November. I was in the first grade and my mother let me stay up to watch this.

  • @shermanhatch1916
    @shermanhatch1916 4 года назад +15

    Darth Vader:" welcome to this intergalactic broadcast!"-james earl jones as darth Vader

    • @brianmurphy250
      @brianmurphy250 2 года назад +3

      “And witness the glorious victory of the Galactic Empire”
      So fitting to have it from the empires point of view!

  • @bga33580
    @bga33580 8 лет назад +13

    got to love that orchestra music back in the day. i miss the old days. its nothing compared to the 80s and early 90s.

  • @superbrian1214
    @superbrian1214 2 года назад +1

    I recorded this on VHS and edited out the commercials. Wore that tape out over the years.

  • @redskinsgirl2011
    @redskinsgirl2011 11 лет назад +8

    I remember when NBC put this movie on their station like two or three times on NBC and they show it again for Anniversary of Star Wars.

  • @CCJJ160Channels
    @CCJJ160Channels 2 года назад +4

    Still can’t get over the power of James Earl Jones’ voice

  • @camcordernonsense5264
    @camcordernonsense5264 4 года назад +5

    Somewhere my dad has this recorded on VHS. We wore this out.

  • @beatricesanfilippo6925
    @beatricesanfilippo6925 2 года назад +2

    That was the message important of Darth Vader, without to tell everybody about Ezra Bridger, Ahsoka Tano and Bad Batch's existence

  • @eduardo_corrochio
    @eduardo_corrochio 4 года назад +10

    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.

  • @DS8379
    @DS8379 3 года назад +1

    Still have this on a VHS somewheres! When movies used to play on TV back then, it was a huge deal

  • @rawwwrrr4024
    @rawwwrrr4024 2 года назад +7

    An elegant intro for a more civilized age.

  • @brianmurphy250
    @brianmurphy250 2 года назад

    Thank you for posting this! May the force by with you…always!

  • @alfredshort3
    @alfredshort3 Год назад

    Still coming back to this jem in 2023. Greatest movie intro of all time

  • @mikedski9698
    @mikedski9698 2 года назад +1

    James Earl Jones's Darth Vader's Voice Has Done It Again!

  • @enything2000
    @enything2000 3 месяца назад +1

    RIP James Earl Jones

  • @Shadowbat.o_O
    @Shadowbat.o_O 3 месяца назад +3

    RIP

  • @andrewj2311
    @andrewj2311 9 лет назад +5

    my folks taped this back in the day. so my childhood version of this movie was a tv taped mix that just cut that bad ass intro!

  • @yurirentfro2743
    @yurirentfro2743 4 года назад +3

    I still have this on vhs that mom recorded for me!!

  • @jerrymoreno1714
    @jerrymoreno1714 2 года назад +1

    Whoa! That was amazing!

  • @derp8575
    @derp8575 Месяц назад

    71k people understood what it felt like to see a movie for the first time on network television! We prepared a week in advance. Our VHS players were prepped and ready to record.

  • @KML1980
    @KML1980 5 месяцев назад

    Wow watching that gave me the chills like it did back when I was 6 and saw it for the first time on TV lol

  • @ajb5347
    @ajb5347 2 года назад +3

    When TV was badass enough to get James Earl James to do your movie broadcast intro

    • @thewewguy8t88
      @thewewguy8t88 Год назад

      hey cnn got him to say "this is cnn"

  • @darkempire37
    @darkempire37 7 лет назад +2

    I love this ! thank you for sharing !

  • @patrickwilson1459
    @patrickwilson1459 6 лет назад +4

    Impressive HD!

  • @mikedski9698
    @mikedski9698 2 года назад +1

    STAR WARS THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK ON NBC Sunday Night At The Movies!

  • @camcordernonsense5264
    @camcordernonsense5264 4 года назад +4

    The NBC intro music meant something was going to happen.

  • @composerchris
    @composerchris 2 года назад +1

    I remember this and recorded it on our new vcr!

  • @samtr3992
    @samtr3992 2 года назад +1

    "He said the thing!"

  • @joshuachristian5443
    @joshuachristian5443 7 лет назад +2

    very cool. haven't seen that since 1991!

  • @fhb3
    @fhb3 Год назад

    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.

  • @kaijudirector5336
    @kaijudirector5336 2 года назад

    I think this makes me wanna watch it again...

  • @darkdoescosplays
    @darkdoescosplays 5 лет назад +2

    So cool

  • @Eli_Santin
    @Eli_Santin 5 лет назад +1

    I have the February 1991 broadcast of this same film

  • @mikedski9698
    @mikedski9698 Месяц назад

    R.I.P. The Voice Of Darth Vader.
    James Earl Jones.
    1931-2024.

  • @CaptainSpalding72
    @CaptainSpalding72 5 лет назад +1

    Best one ever

  • @TheJacksonRoykirk
    @TheJacksonRoykirk 2 года назад

    So cool!

  • @jasontodd8071
    @jasontodd8071 7 лет назад +4

    Back when NBC stood for Nothing but cool!

  • @CaptainSpalding72
    @CaptainSpalding72 5 лет назад +1

    Still have this on VHS

    • @bondfu
      @bondfu 5 лет назад +2

      Could you share the entire thing?

    • @bondfu
      @bondfu 5 лет назад +1

      All my tapes got destroyed

    • @derp8575
      @derp8575 4 года назад

      You have a gold mine.

    • @CaptainSpalding72
      @CaptainSpalding72 4 года назад +2

      Now I just downloaded this! The only Star Wars film to air on NBC.

  • @Joealc-pw2zx
    @Joealc-pw2zx 7 лет назад +2

    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..

  • @ThomasSellers
    @ThomasSellers 4 года назад +5

    "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!!!!🖖😘🌚😈😎

  • @MenaceFan
    @MenaceFan Год назад

    Two things. The aspect ratio isn’t correct and this aired in November during sweeps. No chance they debuted this in the summer.

  • @adizzle3349
    @adizzle3349 Год назад +1

    We all saw this as kids in the 80s lol

  • @drunkrumjack
    @drunkrumjack 3 месяца назад

    RIP James Earl Jones THE voice of Darth Vader.

  • @brickcowboy9994
    @brickcowboy9994 2 месяца назад

    Does anyone what the aurebesh-esque script in yellow translates into?

  • @moisesmunguiafalloutmoises112
    @moisesmunguiafalloutmoises112 3 месяца назад

    RIP James Earl Jones
    (AKA Lord Vader)

  • @birdie3rdie
    @birdie3rdie 2 года назад +1

    But Lord Vader that's your son.

  • @leonardpauca8184
    @leonardpauca8184 3 года назад

    First aired in late 1987, I think.

  • @godzillaboy021
    @godzillaboy021 Год назад

    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."

  • @darthkurland
    @darthkurland 5 лет назад

    Does anyone still have the raw original broadcast opening?

  • @benwasserman8223
    @benwasserman8223 2 года назад

    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?

  • @bluefyreawolf
    @bluefyreawolf 8 лет назад +3

    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.

  • @jedijones
    @jedijones 3 года назад +1

    This video compilation has an NBC ad for this airing from earlier in the week with more dialogue from James Earl Jones: ruclips.net/video/erDftdGqhNU/видео.html

  • @richardgillette5759
    @richardgillette5759 4 месяца назад

    E
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  • @angrybirdsfan2003
    @angrybirdsfan2003 10 лет назад +5

    Did this pre-empt My Two Dads?

  • @thisguyhere6641
    @thisguyhere6641 6 лет назад

    This must have aired on February 22, 1991!

  • @trekkiejunk
    @trekkiejunk 2 года назад

    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.

  • @birdie3rdie
    @birdie3rdie 2 года назад

    Anakin?

  • @mikedski9698
    @mikedski9698 Месяц назад

    Darth Vader: 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!

  • @JayZeeeeeeee
    @JayZeeeeeeee 2 года назад

    Yo this nigga sound hard.

    • @GabrielAnimateOfficial
      @GabrielAnimateOfficial Год назад

      OMG! You said the n-word! That is racist!

    • @derp8575
      @derp8575 Год назад

      I'm racist. Racism is cool😎@@GabrielAnimateOfficial

  • @MayumiC-chan9377
    @MayumiC-chan9377 Год назад

    husband has this on betamax

  • @FlyingV3rd
    @FlyingV3rd 3 месяца назад

    0:36-1:03 Me: That's what you think, Anakin!

  • @ArchangeZ
    @ArchangeZ 12 лет назад +3

    This is cool. That Imperial Broadcast =D !