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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Trivia Question
Message-ID: <833@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Dec-85 18:27:09 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 25 18:27:09 1985
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In article <141@mrstve.UUCP> mark@mrstve.UUCP (Mark Smith) writes:
>     What was the name of the original Star Wars movie. (Now don't go and
>     fire up the VCR; that's cheating...)
>
>    I stumbled onto the episode name quite by accident the other day.  I
>    didn't even know that the orignial had a name, so I thought I'd see
>    if anyone else knew.

The name wasn't added to the film until it was rereleased after The
Empire Strikes Back.  When it was first released they didn't know
whether it would be successful enough to warrant a whole series of
films, so he didn't include the episode name.

The name of the original movie was "Episode IV: A New Hope".
-- 
    Barry Margolin
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