1983 BBC Film 83 of Star Wars Return Of The Jedi

Barry Norman must have been off sick or on his holidays. The BBC's Film 83 programme reviews ROTJ

[@JohanHerrenberg]

Those were the days. I remember seeing the film three times in two days... Completely obsessed.

[@sexobscura]

George Lucas and the box-office, thanks you

[@truecrimeboozer]

0:04 "she saw it as an offence against nature, to sit in a darkened room on a sunny day". His mother was a wise woman.

[@TheEnglish-Saxon]

Wish I could go back and watch the stars wars trilogy for the first time in the cinema! Unfortunately I was too young back then! 😞

[@desertmav8632]

Empire was the first movie my dad ever took me to see in the cinema as a young kid in 1980

[@csairbrushartwork]

@@paulspopculture5592 what do you mean no internet did you try restarting your router😜

[@sexobscura]

Isn't that just your tough luck

[@SWR112]

Would love to go back and experience ROTJ for the first time.

[@BossLevelAudio24]

I was 13 when the trailer was released. Still never been so excited by a trailer and I'm 52 now.

[@amandeepv]

I saw it as a 12 year old when it came out and it was crap then, boring lots of exposition

[@wagonwheel6420]

😆😆 I am british and remember when TV was like this. I do not miss it at all.

[@thehumblegent]

Hang on, I missed this dude. Where’s Barry Norman?

[@mikemorgan7893]

He left for a year to Present the BBC arts program Omnibus.it didn’t work out and he returned to the film program later in 1983

[@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome]

That was a great summer/Autumn for films for me when I was 14. ROTJ, Octopussy, Superman 3, WarGames, Jaws 3D, Never Say Never Again. Went to see some of them multiple times.

[@RoaryUK]

You've mentioned 3 terrible movies and box office flops in one sentence, not exactly the best year for movies after all. 😂

[@GarethColquhoun]

@@RoaryUK Only Jaws 3d was terrible and a flop. Octo, Supes 3 and NSNA were enjoyable if not great and Wargames is a classic 80's movie. ROTJ is great aside from the teddy bears introduced to sell merch

[@white-dragon4424]

1983 was memorable for all the wrong reasons. On the other hand, 1982 was a classic year for cinema, with ET, Tron, Star Trek 2, Poltergeist, Blade Runner, Conan the Barbarian, First Blood, Rocky 3, and Firefox.

[@BAKEDPOTATOLARDYASS]

Great days when movies were great & life was simple

[@RogueWJL]

I can remember buying Starlog which had our six heroes (Lando was not in shot) on the bridge of the Imperial Shuttle. It was so incredibly exciting at the time and the weather was superb as well Happy memories

[@AlanTaylorCRSmusicproduction]

Richard Marquand was Welsh, not English.

[@russelledwards001]

It was 1980s probably weren’t allowed to say the word welsh on bbc.

[@jamesgraham814]

A few years ago I attended a parents evening with my son and was introduced to one of his teachers. I remember thinking her surname of Marquand was unusual, as I’d only ever known the name from Richard Marquand. After the meeting, my son told me that she’s his daughter in law! I was almost star struck!

[@LOLMAN9538]

And it's kinda sad that Marquand unexpectedly passed in 1987, a mere 4 years after "Jedi" released.

[@GarethColquhoun]

@@russelledwards001 chips on shoulders are such s bad look

[@tentringer4065]

​@@GarethColquhoun nearly as bad as having no sense of humour.

[@jedijones]

The summer was considered a dead zone dumping ground for movies before Jaws.

[@Moochtv]

I don't recall ROTJ taking place on Earth!

[@vhssnippets1799]

Broadcast on BBC1 6th June 1983

[@C4rlFletcher]

Would it be possible to reupload the Star Wars 1978 BBC Arena episode? Thank You

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

Wow. Thank you for uploading this.

[@FranzSanchez-ky9up]

It's odd, yet refreshing, to see the film clips look darker, because they haven't been contrast boosted to kingdom come like they have on some of the recent re-issues.

[@mooseyman74]

The dryness killed the frog joke.

[@soveren1335]

Stay off the dried frogs!

[@Charlieb82]

"Star War films..." 😂🙈

[@lloydshanahan154]

"Richard Marquand does him proud" A shame Celebration 23 didn't play that in their 40th anniversary panel.

[@grantcriddle1326]

Welsh Director

[@FantasyImage]

BBC have much to answer for here, this the third time we've seen "in a Galaxy far far away" and yet he still mistakes Endor for Earth! Wonder how many people gave Jedi a miss after this review?!

[@Lumibear.]

He’s no Barry Norman, nobody ever did it better than he did, but then, unlike most TV & Film reviewers, he wasn’t an idiot or a snob.

[@Thunderpuddle]

He even said, "the latest of the Star War films.."

[@Louisejames23]

The face of Frank Cannon and the body of a choc ice 😬😬. Classic.

[@neddystark3351]

What boring presentation, how did the BBC stop viewers slipping into a coma watching this show?

[@fluorosco]

This presenter is on the Jaws documentary on the making of jaws on the jaws bluray disc

[@mrdsjenzie]

did EVERYONE use that promo shot of vaders shuttle visit???

[@wwe52891]

Good evening to you too sir.

[@paymydues]

Just a shame Mr Daniels acted to snobbishly towards Kenny baker in real life.

[@davep2323]

Just any other workplace then. Not everyone gets on at work!

[@darthkek1953]

@Newsbender II His famous line is "the face isn't going on till the dwarf's in the can."

[@Ashworth6]

I think this was during the brief period when Barry Norman left the show to present Omnibus for the BBC. Do you have the complete episode of this btw? I'd love to see it again.

[@deccart5093]

Sadly I don't, just this bit

[@Ashworth6]

@@deccart5093 Oh, shame. Thanks for posting anyway, great to see this excerpt again after all these years.

[@naysmith5272]

@@Ashworth6 yes thanks to Dec Cart

[@DuderinoDeux]

Where's Baz?

[@donrosco]

C-3P0 has a really bad time is basically the whole story of Star Wars.

[@csairbrushartwork]

Not all the time, he had a lovely oil bath at Luke's place

[@gabrielcernat1523]

Respect

[@purefoldnz3070]

The presenter seems dead inside

[@NZealand]

Well he’s dead now

[@FrancisXLord]

Erm... The Jedi story gets in the way? Causing plodding exposition. If this guy was reacting to films today he would not criticise Return of the Jedi for its exposition.

[@beingsshepherd]

The Ewoks proved friendly? Didn't they ensnare and try to eat the protagonists?

[@Rocket1377]

Not Leia. They were friendly towards her from the start.

[@bas6628]

What happened to Barry Norman

[@csairbrushartwork]

He was on a three day coke sesh

[@bozotheclown169]

in a hotel room with his latest conquest

[@johnmc3862]

Lol, We’ll this guy didnt work out then did he?! 😅😅😅

[@MarkGodfrey73]

Who was the presenter?

[@MarkGodfrey73]

found out it was Iain Johnstone

[@swf4841]

Newsflash. ALL the action happens on earth.

[@Rocket1377]

No, some of it happens in space.

[@mandelbot5318]

“Quite a lot of the action takes place on Earth.” Um… 🤨

[@fluorosco]

He's not using his imagination is he🤣

[@mandelbot5318]

@@fluorosco He’s certainly underestimating how long ago and how far, far away the story took place 🤦‍♂️

[@bozotheclown169]

maybe the script writers for Masters of the Universe got the idea from watching this

[@911TVR]

Dennis Muren needs some special effect eyebrows…

[@jimthompson939]

WE WANT BARRY, WE WANT BARRY!

[@MrWizzleTeets]

StarWar films

[@rupes3618]

He really hated Star Wars. He reminds me of my teachers who also couldn’t understand the appeal of Star Wars.😊

[@tobygriggs5633]

Fell asleep at the cinema watching. I was only 5 though.

[@botz77]

Isn't 200 stone the same as 200 pounds in America? Jabba weighs a lot more than that. More like a ton.

[@darthkek1953]

One stone is 14 pounds, so its closer to 3000 pounds.

[@GarethColquhoun]

You could have googled that, but instead made yourself sound dumb smh

[@white-dragon4424]

Thank god the BBC have almost eliminated the use of RP from their roster of presenters.

[@meisterlymanu5214]

"my goodness sir! Its a spiffing tale of a 2 ton toad being strangled by a 50 pound pixie, a terrifying bounty hunter being killed off in the first scene by a burping hole in the ground, and cuddly bears who completely take the viewer from 77 star wars heaven into an early version of what Disney would become to the franchise...a complete liberal woke shit show"

[@stewmott3763]

I think you'll find it's spelt 'wookiee', not 'woke'.

[@GarethColquhoun]

Where was that rant from? It pretty much hits the mark, though ROTJ I still love (original, not Lucas fucked with edition) despite those moments. I rationalised Leia being able to strangle Jabba with her as yet unknown force ability. The Ewoks I thought were not that bad except they should not have been able to effectively take on stormtroopers, making the Empire's troops seem pathetically inadequate. Boba Fett's death was comically done and seemed like such a waste of a cool character. It was still better than the reanimated corpse Disney conjured up.

[@bb-gc2tx]

it must of been so boring being a kid in england in the 1980s

[@Rocket1377]

Nope. We had the best cartoons, the best toys, and the best films.

[@nickm8874]

“The last of the Jedi” made me shudder

[@bozotheclown169]

The Last Jedi lol

[@josh72456]

Flawed film.

[@criticalbil1]

Who the fuck is this?