Star Wars: 10 Things That Didn’t Go The Way George Lucas Wanted

10. The Holiday Special

In isolation, the concept of putting together a light-hearted holiday special riffing on elements from a beloved franchise is pretty harmless and even potentially a fairly entertaining endeavour if executed well. Just look at the success of Star Wars' own LEGO variety of holiday treats and the understandable buzz surrounding James Gunn's upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy riff on the festive season.

However, with high levels of anticipation can sometimes come a bit of a lacklustre end product, evidenced in this galaxy far, far away's first attempt to bring a bit of festive cheer to George Lucas' corner of the small screen universe.

Absolutely destroyed by critics upon landing on CBS in November 1978, despite roping in the majority of the feature players from the smash hit that was A New Hope, Lucas' odd desire to have much of this TV Star Wars adventure centre around Chewbacca's Wookiee family didn't exactly bear the sort of fruit he was hoping for.

Outside of the animated introducing of instantly iconic bounty hunter Boba Fett, there's a reason Lucas has done everything in his power to distance himself from just about everything to do with this ill-fated special as the years have gone by.