The link between Star Wars and E.T. is not, as some of you might have thought, anything to do with George Lucas, for E.T. was directed, and thought up, by Steven Spielberg. However they did collaborate on another series, starring Harrison Ford (a Star Wars star) as Indiana Jones, on which note you may be intrigued to learn that Mr. Ford appears in this E.T. set, or his arm does, anyway, on card 33, "Trouble for Elliott". This is a scene you will not have seen in the film, because though he was cast as the school teacher, and filmed the scenes, they were cut from the film. There is another link here too, because his wife at the time was the screenwriter of E.T.
If that were not enough, there is a further connection between Star Wars and E.T., because if you know what you are looking for you can find Yoda, a Star Wars character, in E.T., and members of E.T.`s species in Star Wars. You can read more about this crafty collaboration courtesy of one of my favourite websites Collider/Connection - and though some mornings I could do without them sending me several "thought you might like to see this" emails all at once, on most mornings they cheer me up no end.
This set was issued in Canada, hence the bi-lingual wording. And at this time the cards were still packaged with gum, so they are true trade cards. In fact for your 25 cents each packet gave you ten cards, a sticker, and the one stick of gum, so quite a good deal.
You can also find these same cards, but issued by Topps, and you can easily tell them apart because of the fact that though the picture and frame is the same, these Canadian versions have two lines of text, in French and in English apart from some where the text is only the name of the character, and so it is the same in French and English. On the back, again, the Canadian cards have the text in both these languages.
I will eventually add this card in that version, so you can see it more easily.