Star Wars (film) inspired by the silver female robot Maria, the "Maschinenmensch" from Fritz Lang's 1927 film "Metropolis". The film was originally released in 1977 with the title ""Star Wars"". The subtitles "Episode IV" and "A New Hope" were only added to the opening crawl in subsequent re-releases. Official sources state that the change was made at the theatrical re-release of April 10, 1981. The retroactive addition of these subtitles was intended to bring the film into line with the introduction to its sequel, "The Empire Strikes Back", which was released in 1980 bearing the designation ""Episode V"". Lucas has claimed to have
The Hour That Never Was before laughing gas is set off leaving them in hysterics. Production for the episode was completed from 5 July to 20 July 1965. In the production set of the airfield buildings, the designer purposefully opted for a "meiosis", creating "an effect not simply of diurnal normality but of deliberate neutrality", to create the atmosphere of abandonment. Ray Austin, an ITC regular director, had an uncredited cameo role in the episode as the dead milkman. The Hour That Never Was "The Hour That Never Was" is the ninth episode of the fourth series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series