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Guide To The Galaxy' was an original and ingenious idea by the
late Douglas Adams. It found success on radio and TV, and as one
of the most popular science fiction novels ever. STEVE SNEYD, of Hilltop Press, on the BBC Radio 4 Hitch-Hiker's Series "I've tried the new radio series, 'Goodbye and
Thanks for all the Fish', not been very taken, seems just
silly, and bringing the Earth back seems to undermine all
the edge..also, find Dent's new girlfriend extremely
irritating somehow..anyway, at least has eased my
ignorance as to source of title, it's message dolphins
inscribed on various Grail-like glass vessels they left
behind when mysteriously vanished from all the oceans." Good Beeb site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/
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Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy [1981] DVD Amazon.co.uk Review The problem here is not so much the low-budget
look as the script itself, which is lovingly
faithful to the radio series in a way that
Douglas Adams' novels aren't. The Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy was a lucid, satirical,
occasionally profound, utterly unique comic
invention on radio. As such, it has nothing to
gain from TV. The script needs no visual
elaboration--that's best left to the listener's
own imagination. Only the animated renditions of
the Guide itself enhance Peter Jones' wonderfully
dry narration; otherwise--paradoxically, perhaps--by
supplying images the concept is oddly diminished
here. On the DVD: A suitably eclectic not to
say eccentric collection of extra features makes
this a wholly satisfying two-disc set, neatly
packaged in a fold-out slipcase. On the second
disc there's an hour-long "making of"
documentary from 1992 featuring contributions
from the cast and crew, including Douglas Adams;
and then there's even more in a 20-minute section
entitled "Don't Panic!". A fascinating
behind-the-scenes peek at filming as the clock
runs out on studio time and a look at the
recording of the original radio series complete
the first part. Then navigate to the "Outer
Planets" to find outtakes, a deleted scene,
Zaphod's animatronic second head on Tomorrow's
World and Peter Jones's witty and shambolic
introduction to the first episode, plus more
besides. The series itself is presented in
standard 4:3 ratio and Dolby stereo. --Mark
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Earthman Arthur Dent is having a very bad day.
His house is about to be bulldozed, he discovers
that his best friend is an alien and, to top
things off, planet Earth is about to be
demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass.
Arthur's only chance for survival: hitch a ride
on a passing spacecraft. For the novice space
traveller, the greatest adventure in the universe
begins when the world ends. Arthur sets out on a
journey in which he finds that nothing is as it
seems: he learns that a towel is just the most
useful thing in the universe, finds the meaning
of life, and discovers that everything he needs
to know can be found in one book: The Hitchhikers
Guide to the Galaxy.
The original BBC radio adventures of
Arthur Dent (an ape-descendant whose anger at the
apparently inexplicable destruction of his home
planet Earth, situated in an obscure corner of
the outer spiral arm of the galaxy, is expressed
in frequent irritation at friendly automatic
doors and vending machines) and his travelling
companions, Ford Prefect (an itinerant towel-carrying
hitch-hiker originally from a small planet
somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse), Zaphod
Beeblebrox (the notorious ex-Galactic President
and patron of Eccentrica Galumbits, the triple-breasted
whore of Eroticon Six) and Marvin the Paranoid
Android (who's still suffering from that terrible
pain in all the diodes down his left side) proved
to be such a success for the BBC that its
transition to TV was (almost) inevitable. In 1981
several key members of the radio cast made the
move to the small screen. Simon Jones' bewildered
Arthur Dent remains the central character,
shambling around in his dressing gown (a fact
easy to forget on radio); Mark Wing-Davey's
Zaphod Beeblebrox is the same as his boastful
radio persona, even if the second head utterly
fails to convince. Unfortunately, newcomers David
Dixon (as Ford Prefect) and the irritating Sandra
Dickinson (as Trillian) are no match for their
radio predecessors.
The complete series based on the book by Douglas
Adams.