Unless you’ve been stuck upside down in a wampa cave, you probably have heard that Spike TV was airing the entire Star Wars saga, back in April 2008. In case anybody missed the news, Spike was telling the world about this television premiere with some head-turning outdoor ads, starting at Penn Plaza in New York City. Check it out: sk10
Along side the billboard adds Spiked TV also ran some Genius TV ads. Most people I know have only seen the first one that was aired, but here is a collection of all them:
NEW YORK, March 24 /PRNewswire/ — The Force is with Spike TV this April as the complete Star Wars presentation marks the first time that all six movies will be presented together on a basic cable network.
Spike TV’s presentation of the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, which is scheduled for release this summer.
Spike TV’s Star Wars schedule is as follows:
Stranded on the desert planet forces of darkness known as the Sith.
Ten years later, the galaxy is on the brink of civil war. Under the leadership of a renegade Jedi named Galactic Republic. When an assassination attempt is made on Senator Pe Amidala, the former Queen of Naboo, twenty-year-old Jedi apprentice Anakin Skywalker is assigned to protect her. In the course of his mission, Anakin discovers his love for Pe as well as his own darker side. Soon, Anakin, Pe, and Obi-Wan Kenobi are drawn into the heart of the Separatist movement and the beginning of the Clone Wars.
Three years after the onset of the Clone Wars, the noble Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa.
Nineteen years after the formation of the Empire, Luke Skywalker is thrust into the struggle of the Darth Vader, his former apprentice, Luke proves that the Force is with him by destroying the Empire’s dreaded Death Star.
Three years after the destruction of the Death Star, Imperial forces continue to pursue the Rebels. After the Rebellion’s defeat on the ice planet lightsaber duel with the Sith Lord, Luke faces the startling revelation that the evil Vader is in fact his father, Anakin Skywalker.
— Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi (1983, PG) Premieres Sunday, April 13 (8:00 – 11:00 PM, ET/PT); Encore Monday, April 14 (5:00 – 8:00 PM, ET/PT).
In the epic conclusion of the Saga, the Empire prepares to crush the Rebellion with a more powerful Death Star while the Rebel fleet mounts a massive attack on the space station. Luke Skywalker confronts his father Darth Vader in a final climactic duel before the evil Emperor. In the last second, Vader makes a momentous choice: he destroys the Emperor and saves his son. The Empire is finally defeated, the Sith are destroyed, and Anakin Skywalker is thus redeemed. At long last, freedom is restored to the galaxy.
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About Spike TV:
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* Ratings are TV ratings; MPAA ratings of each film differ.
