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From: hsu@cvl.UUCP (Dave Hsu)
Newsgroups: net.movies.sw
Subject: Re: Episode IV:  A New Hope
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 18:45:45 EST
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> Have any of you ever seen the original *Star Wars* in recent release?
> The epigraph is somewhat changed.  It now says:  "Episode IV:  A New Hope"
> as a new title for the movie.
> 
> I imagine it has been like that for a long time now;  at least since it
> made its first run on subscription television.  I imagine this is old hat
> for many of you, but could someone explain why and how this was done?
> Was it simply to make it conform to "The Empire Strikes Back"?
> 

Exactly correct.  For more info, you Time magazine back-issue collectors,
check the issue with a ??? painting of Darth on the cover circa 1980.

-dave