The classic science fiction series Dune is one of the major bodies of work in the genre, having influenced many major movie and television films and countless science fiction novels in the time since it’s publishing in the mid-60s. One of the films to be heavily influenced by Dune was Star Wars, an influence that George Lucas is happy to admit to. Surprisingly, there were many homages to Dune in the early Star Wars scripts, though most of the Dune-like scenes were cut, there are still quite a few references in the final works which can easily be identified as clearly being influenced by Herbert’s magnificent work. Thanks to the mega-nerds at Star Wars Origins, there is an extremely informative piece on the history and influences behind Frank Herbert’s Dune and a detailed list of Dune references within the original Star Wars.

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Back when Twin Peaks was the hottest thing on television and ABC actually cared about marketing it, they showed this brief promo before Twin Peaks aired, hyping up the viewers before their minds were about to blown. Someone has thankfully found this promo and archived it, though no new bloopers or info about the show are on it, it’s still an interesting piece of retro television history, in VHS format.

Watch the promo after the jump..

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