High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Blue Harvest is the hour-long premiere to the sixth season of the FOX series Family Guy. It originally aired on September 23, 2007. The episode is a retelling and parody of the blockbuster film, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, recasting the show's characters into Star Wars roles. For this purpose, and for the first time in the history of Family Guy, this episode runs an hour long with commercials (48 minutes for the DVD version). It was also made to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Star Wars franchise. The name "Blue Harvest" was the fake working title for the 1983 production of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. It was written by Alec Sulkin and is directed by Dominic Polcino. It guest starred H. Jon Benjamin, Kirker Butler, Steve Callaghan, Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Mick Hucknall, Rush Limbaugh, Helen Reddy, Alex Thomas, Don Tai and Judd Nelson.