This is the line I always choose when trying to explain how clever and different Douglas Adams' writing was. I love this series which I have on DVD, I have the books which I've read so many times I practically know them off by heart, I also bought in the 80's, and still have the very rare cassettes of the three books read by Stephen Moore - they are brilliant and hysterical and I've made them into MP3's so that I can play them in my car...
When I was seven I had a piano lesson once a week. My dad would pick me up afterwards from my teachers house at 7.00pm. He'd have radio 4 on and the latest installment of 'The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy' would just be starting. The drive home only took 10 minutes but my dad and I would stay in the car on the drive for another 20 minutes listening to Arthur and Ford's adventures every week until it finished. Happy memories!😀
OMG. That is exactly the same with me, just add three years. Piano lessons, Hitchhiker's on the radio after, same time even. Except I stayed in the car in the garage alone to finish listening to it. In the dark (the dark somehow added to the effect). Dad was/ is a great dad - I don't hold it against him the fact that we didn't share a love of Hitchhiker's Guide! He liked other BBC stuff though and let my siblings and I watch Monty Python and The Muppet Show. 😁
I watched the 2005 movie with a buddy in cinema. About one third in a fuse blew and the theater went dark. I could not help but to shout "Don't panic!"
😏 Best laugh I had in a cinema, the films just starting, and up pops the "15 - Trailer" certification screen, and some really rural english blokes voice booms out "my Dad's got a trailer".
I listened to the original radio four broadcast in the seventies and absolutely loved it, this television version captures the magic of the radio series and has never been bettered.
It all depends when you best experienced Hitchhikers. I enjoyed the book, then I enjoyed this when it was released, and got to see a modern interpretation, all with the same strain of humour, but contemporary to the time. The shows concepts were so timeless that they keep being relevant. I like em all.
I heard the 90 minute condensed radio edit first (on cassette), then I read the book(s), then heard the full radio program (version 2, I believe), then I saw the TV show, then saw that bummer of a Disney movie. That 90 minute condensed version is still my favorite, even if I do love, love, love the book(s).
My wife is from Guildford, and Ford Prefect was part of her family for years. Ford Prefect was quite difficult to get on with and so she can testify that this is total normality!
I always found the awful old BBC special effects as part of the charm of the old TV series. It's not a high budget epic like Star Wars, it's a bloke and his mate from Alpha Centauri stumbling into goodness knows what and the fun that ensues from that.
awful special effects? not all... watch the original bbc hitchhikers and remember that no computers were used... all the computer looking graphics on screen spoken by "the book"... were ALL hand drawn.... even the screen graphics on the heart of gold was hand drawn.... it fooled special effects creators.... won awards. its incredible... still holds up today
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You too, huh? Random quotes: "Saying hello to all intelligent life forms out there and to all the rest, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys." "Huge, yellow, slab-like somethings that hung in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't." "Come along, or you'll be late." "Late for what?" "What is your name, Earthman?" "Dent. Arthur Dent." "You'll be late, as in 'the late Dentaurthurdent.' Sort of a threat, you see. I've never been very good at them, but I'm told they can be very effective." "You know, it's at times like this when I'm stuck in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse about to be asphyxiated in deep space that I wish I'd listened to what my mother told me what I was young." "What did she tell you?" "I don't know! I didn't listen!"
11:29 "They hung in the air exactly the same way that bricks DON'T." It's these absolutely hilarious little things that made Adams a genius in my humble opinion.
"...the slightest thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of entering my mind..."😀😀... "They've got a page for people like you", so many timeless classics all in one film!
@@AI_Image_Master We just need a time machine so we can all get 6 pints for a fiver, we'd be well happy to drop a fiver every time, couldn't get two for that much now.
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so, nostalgia quintessentially so. Douglas was teaching us how to make sense of the here and now, keep your eyes open, just like he did and enjoy your life. Live god damn you live ❤️.
I saw this as a kid back in the day on US public television & was smitten. It had all the cheek & humor of Monty Python with a solid sci fi story. Just perfect for me.
I was channel surfing late one night and tuned to WTTW Channel 11 in Chicago. There I saw a man in a pub trying to convince his friend that the world was about to end. I was hooked.
I've never seen this version with the vogon ships shown as flying saucers, the dvd version I have has them as bug yellow boxy looking things, how interesting there were different versions. 100% my favourite TV series. The books and the radio series are genius and should be cherished.
The doctor was to be slarty bartfast in the later part of the trilogy who flew the bistromatic which used an opp (other person's problem) field which the doctor uses to hide from the master in modern Dr who.. he also mentions meeting a very weird fellow wearing a dressing gown.. and Fords outfir was based on the old series dr 8D
@@myautobiographyafanfic1413 They were basically in conjunction with the TV Series. The original TV Series was in 1981 the books were released between 1979-1984. So yeah, you wrong. Yep your just wrong. Do a little research, I guess.
@@freequest The guy you’re replying to is talking about the radio series coming out before the books. Ironically, the TV series is actually just slightly more accurate to the radio version than the books.
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so, nostalgia quintessentially so. Douglas was teaching us how to make sense of the here and now, keep your eyes open, just like he did and enjoy your life. Live god damn you live ❤️.
I don't think I quite noticed before how much the later Doctor Who characters owe to Ford Prefect - I knew Douglas Adams had done some writing for Doctor Who back in the '80s, but never quite noticed how much of Ford Prefect rubbed off on the Doctor starting around the Tom Baker era....
@@albaproductions9602 I remember David Tenant in a dressing gown (possibly for the whole episode) alluding to his friend Arthur near the end of the episode.
Absolute classic UK humour, outstanding sarcasm tinted with a good smudge of befuddlement resulting in total discombobulation. Oh and bring a towel. RiP Douglas Adams x
Found this on PBS back in the 80s as a teen. I was floored by the brilliant writing and god awful effects...lol. loved every minute of it. Bought the books and read them so often i still quote things from them today. When Marvin proved to the mattress how much smarter he was: "pick a number between one and ten" "Err..five"? "Wrong"
I loved this series. I started out with the books and then the BBC Radio 4 serialisation. Best SciFi ever. When I bought my Psion II I put a Don't Panic sticker on it.
a wonderful bit of nostalgia. watched on PBS when i was a kid. my dad turned me on to Douglas Adams at an early age. years on i am still celebrating towel day.
this is effing EPIC! have shivers down my spine listening to the theme music, and the narration. Haven't even seen Sandra yet....sigh...🥹 That girl was DREAMY!
The original and best Marvin ever, sorry Alan your take was awesome but the original was always the best... He was more sardonic and sulking and funny!!! I've seen it, it's rubbish.. Never uttered with so much depressing contempt..! Gta love Hitch hikers.... Douglas Adams you will always be with us... Don't Panic!!
Douglas was a huge fan of PG Wodehouse and there are many references. In “The Salmon of Doubt”, also available as an audiobook read by Simon Jones, he even wrote an introduction to “Sunset at Blandings”.
Thanks for posting and especially for the effort of putting this together. Clunky sets NEVER bother me. Give me great dialogue, plot, humour and acting over expensive special effects any day. anyway, I think architects would see this as analogous to "showing the structure".
@@alanmoss3603 I love this series much more than the movie that was made... Mos Def as Ford Prefect? He was crap, But Alan Rickman made a great voice of Marvin...
Fabulous! I only wish i could pull up all the programs without having to pay or go thru a load of palaver. I remember this being a radio series from beginning to end back in the 80's n we'd race home to catch it. It was so well written that you had no problems imaging the characters n what they were experiencing. Infact when the TV series came out it was amazing how what you'd imagined was pretty true to form. An absolute classic that's still as brilliant today as it was at the time it was written, became a radio series n then a TV series. Cheers alot for being able to pull it up for us all to enjoy. And maybe introduce it to a new audience. 😂🏴
Did you know all the Guide effects where done by hand, no CGI involved? The guy that created them even won a TV award for best computer effects in a TV series! So if you are calling them awful, then some context might be helpful.
everything computer looking when the "book" speaks (or on the heart of gold) ... is all 100% hand drawn.... not a single computer was used. Its amazing, even today
Independence Day eat your heart out! I was lucky enough to work with Rob Lord who made the 45 minutes of graphics that were used throughout the TV series. Fascinating man. And i was once lucky enough to meet Douglas Adams when he was working on Last Chance To See with Mark Carwadine. Douglas died far too young at only the age of 49 shortly after using a treadmill in an American Gym whilst trying to get the movie made. He was an atheist and i very much live by his quote: “Just because a garden is beautiful doesn’t mean there are fairies at the end of it.”. Hard working, uncompromisingly creative and an absolute inspiration. Thank you.
I love the quote by a mourner at Adam's funeral re dying in a gym - "When the end came, at least Douglas knew where his towel was!" He will be truly missed.
Thanks for this. I was starting to feel crazy, having sworn there was a Hitchhiker's Guide made before the American movie... I couldn't find a trace of this old series online a few years ago and had since forgotten about it. Then, randomly, this video of yours presents itself in my recommendations. So again: thanks, fellow nerd.
I grew up watching this series on dvd over and over, still have them, and reading the books, I also played the text based game on atari st!! I am autistic and used to write down the lines over and over to memorize them amd use them in conversation when I started college at 16. To this day I sneak in a line on the rare occasion when it presents itself. Everything about this I love ❤
I heard the second radio episode on the BBC World Service in the late 70s, (now defunct, Thatcher). Astonishing bloke (Douglas Adams). Banjaxed that young people understand this nowadays. Thanks.
The radio play is absolutely fantastic. You won't believe how fantastic it is. I mean, you might think Homer was fantastic, but that's nothing compared....
The books in the series are wonderfully trippy, but the closed captioning on YT takes it a few steps further! Case in point: at 34:45 "dying of asphyxiation 30 seconds after being thrown out of a spaceship" becomes "dying of a sexy Asian"! 😄 I think I need to make myself a T-shirt with this, to pair it with the "My hovercraft is full of eels" one LE: This is hilarious! At 36:09 "we have normality" becomes "we have raw manatee"! I hope it tastes ok! 😄 LE2: 46:40 "It would flummox a Vegan Snow Lizard" becomes "It would thrust her vag... snow lizzard"! Who said AI can't be funny? 😄
@@afitzsimonswho is in fact also in this TV version of HHGTTG, as the Ameglian major cow, who wants to be eaten, in Milliways, the Restaurant at the end of the universe
It's a shame because just before his death Adams stated that he was revising his latest Dirk Gently book because he's decided it would be another Hitchhikers! Then he went to the gym....
Clearly whoever directed "Independence Day" in the 90's had seen this. Almost identical shots of the ship moving over the city, the shadows over the buildings, even the ships themselves are almost identical. I haven't seen Hitchkiers since it aired, would love to watch the whole series again.
For the fans : the audiobooks are splendid ! Book 1 is read by Stephen Fry, books 2 through 5 by Martin Freeman. Martin has an immaculate timing and a large amount of voices. Even Trillian sounds like Trillian 😊😄👍🇳🇱
The books are still available read by Douglas. They even lifted his voice from the books so that he could posthumously play the part of Agrajag in the Tertiary and Quintessential series of radio plays.
I love the book(s). And I love the original TV series. Deffo in my top 10 favourite books. I vaguely remember listen to this on the radio as a small schoolboy.
Everything from in this, colour, sound, voices, music, textures, atmosphere…is so rich with the human warmth and creativity nowadays evaporated, annihilated by the machine’s fascism.
I used to record many BBC radio programs and stumbled upon the first transmission of the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I had a very good quality audio system and used to love the sound effects produced by the Radiophonics Workshop which sounded really spectacular. I was hooked! IMO because it left more to the imagination the radio version was better that the TV version and the TV version better than the film. Sadly the BBC isn’t funded to produce programs like this any more and the quality of their FM transmission doesn’t seem as good.😊
I have read the book, have heard the audiobook and saw the new film. But none of this could have prepared me for this excellent perfomance! I mean take a look at 17:30 to 17:50 - "its green, yes!" Those are proper actors!
Thanks for uploading this onto YT, Alan Moss! Enjoyed thoroughly. YT is rather lacking in this regard (Hitchhikers, BBC TV mini series), so watching has been a joy. A rare combo: great writing delivered by a perfect cast, along with the coolest of effects sans CGI!! LL
YT used to have the complete series in good quality - but it was pulled. Also this video was flagged for BBC copyright and removed for 3 years. It's only recently that people can watch it again.
@@alanmoss3603 Thanks for the info. I used to have the entire mini series on DVD, but traded in my disc collection for cash years ago. Not that I need to replace it, but at least I can still watch a sample from time to time on YT. Cheers, LL.
Peter Jones was a genius. No offense to Stephen Fry (in the movie, the voice of the book), but no one could even come close to Jones’ superb air of understatement and blithe indifference.
He does a great job of being slightly serious at the beginning of each narration, introducing a bit of levity as he explains how absurd it all is. Stephen Fry did the narration as if he were reading a children's story.
Six pints for less than five quid. Those were the golden times. The narrator of this version will _always_ be the _only_ narrator of THHGTTG. AI was created for the sole purpose of making the narrator's voice immortal.
"They hung in the air in the same way bricks dont"
I love Douglas Adams mind
What a tripper
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Grooooooouuuuuuuuunnnnnndddd .... (says the whale)
Oh no. Not again😑
That's pretty much how the Space Shuttle used to approach & land!
This is the line I always choose when trying to explain how clever and different Douglas Adams' writing was. I love this series which I have on DVD, I have the books which I've read so many times I practically know them off by heart, I also bought in the 80's, and still have the very rare cassettes of the three books read by Stephen Moore - they are brilliant and hysterical and I've made them into MP3's so that I can play them in my car...
When I was seven I had a piano lesson once a week. My dad would pick me up afterwards from my teachers house at 7.00pm. He'd have radio 4 on and the latest installment of 'The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy' would just be starting.
The drive home only took 10 minutes but my dad and I would stay in the car on the drive for another 20 minutes listening to Arthur and Ford's adventures every week until it finished. Happy memories!😀
OMG. That is exactly the same with me, just add three years. Piano lessons, Hitchhiker's on the radio after, same time even.
Except I stayed in the car in the garage alone to finish listening to it. In the dark (the dark somehow added to the effect). Dad was/ is a great dad - I don't hold it against him the fact that we didn't share a love of Hitchhiker's Guide! He liked other BBC stuff though and let my siblings and I watch Monty Python and The Muppet Show. 😁
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I was expecting some kind of punshline in your first paragraph because it felt like a quote straight out of a Douglas Adams Book.
That was a brilliant series.
I didn't know what was on when I turned on the radio. Then we just lay on the floor open mouthed.
hope you can recreate these memories with yr kids or nephews or based nieces.
I watched the 2005 movie with a buddy in cinema. About one third in a fuse blew and the theater went dark. I could not help but to shout "Don't panic!"
And probably got a good laugh.
@@richardl6751 And not ashamed to do so. TBH I was amazed no one beat me to the punch.
😏 Best laugh I had in a cinema, the films just starting, and up pops the "15 - Trailer" certification screen, and some really rural english blokes voice booms out "my Dad's got a trailer".
You should have actually shouted ‘what crap’
@@richardl6751 yeah they laughed at him cause the fool thought he was watching Dad's Army
I listened to the original radio four broadcast in the seventies and absolutely loved it, this television version captures the magic of the radio series and has never been bettered.
It all depends when you best experienced Hitchhikers.
I enjoyed the book, then I enjoyed this when it was released, and got to see a modern interpretation, all with the same strain of humour, but contemporary to the time.
The shows concepts were so timeless that they keep being relevant.
I like em all.
I heard the 90 minute condensed radio edit first (on cassette), then I read the book(s), then heard the full radio program (version 2, I believe), then I saw the TV show, then saw that bummer of a Disney movie. That 90 minute condensed version is still my favorite, even if I do love, love, love the book(s).
My wife is from Guildford, and Ford Prefect was part of her family for years. Ford Prefect was quite difficult to get on with and so she can testify that this is total normality!
Did he ever ever get a dent-arthur-dent?
I always found the awful old BBC special effects as part of the charm of the old TV series. It's not a high budget epic like Star Wars, it's a bloke and his mate from Alpha Centauri stumbling into goodness knows what and the fun that ensues from that.
It's a very Brirish view of science fiction, which adds to its charm
@@SamuelBlack84 it always charmed the pants off me. At least it would if I were wearing any.
@@Mercury-Wells too much information
awful special effects? not all... watch the original bbc hitchhikers and remember that no computers were used... all the computer looking graphics on screen spoken by "the book"... were ALL hand drawn.... even the screen graphics on the heart of gold was hand drawn.... it fooled special effects creators.... won awards. its incredible... still holds up today
@@gothicm3rcy426 I'm speaking more of dressing people up in tinfoil.
People like you are why youtube is still a platform worth watching . Thank you
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True
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Agreed 😊
No. Thank you all......
I can still recite much of this word for word.... bloody brilliant!
I’ve never seen this before but delighted how true to the book it is
@@1thatdeadrockstarwell, true to the radio series.
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You too, huh? Random quotes: "Saying hello to all intelligent life forms out there and to all the rest, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys."
"Huge, yellow, slab-like somethings that hung in the air in exactly the same way that bricks don't."
"Come along, or you'll be late."
"Late for what?"
"What is your name, Earthman?"
"Dent. Arthur Dent."
"You'll be late, as in 'the late Dentaurthurdent.' Sort of a threat, you see. I've never been very good at them, but I'm told they can be very effective."
"You know, it's at times like this when I'm stuck in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse about to be asphyxiated in deep space that I wish I'd listened to what my mother told me what I was young."
"What did she tell you?"
"I don't know! I didn't listen!"
11:29 "They hung in the air exactly the same way that bricks DON'T." It's these absolutely hilarious little things that made Adams a genius in my humble opinion.
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"...the slightest thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of entering my mind..."😀😀... "They've got a page for people like you", so many timeless classics all in one film!
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This was and still is brilliant. 6 pints for £5 and keep the change!
Google Machine says a pint was 41p in 1980. So he left a big tip.
@@AI_Image_Master We just need a time machine so we can all get 6 pints for a fiver, we'd be well happy to drop a fiver every time, couldn't get two for that much now.
It's a £10 in the book.
Pack of nuts 7p
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so, nostalgia quintessentially so. Douglas was teaching us how to make sense of the here and now, keep your eyes open, just like he did and enjoy your life. Live god damn you live ❤️.
@@will4may175 usually can’t get one guy that these days and in 4 years you won’t get a hair point for a fiver the way inflation is going
A genius masterpiece! I can watch this again and again.
I saw this as a kid back in the day on US public television & was smitten. It had all the cheek & humor of Monty Python with a solid sci fi story. Just perfect for me.
Ditto. It aired rather late on PBS in Texas. I was 11 or 12. So funny.
I was channel surfing late one night and tuned to WTTW Channel 11 in Chicago. There I saw a man in a pub trying to convince his friend that the world was about to end. I was hooked.
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I've never seen this version with the vogon ships shown as flying saucers, the dvd version I have has them as bug yellow boxy looking things, how interesting there were different versions. 100% my favourite TV series. The books and the radio series are genius and should be cherished.
I'm glad you asked this, my DVD of it has them yellow, slab like, when did this change ?
Ford reminds me of the doctor from doctor who. Makes sense considering some seasons of the original show we’re made by Douglas.
Don't forget that Paddy Kingsland did music for Dr Who too.
he was script editor and wrote some stories
I can actually see David Tennant in the role.
He was conceived as “what if the Doctor didn’t care and just wanted to party?”
The doctor was to be slarty bartfast in the later part of the trilogy who flew the bistromatic which used an opp (other person's problem) field which the doctor uses to hide from the master in modern Dr who.. he also mentions meeting a very weird fellow wearing a dressing gown.. and Fords outfir was based on the old series dr 8D
This is the best version. Really follows the novels well.
The novels didn't come first.
@@myautobiographyafanfic1413 They were basically in conjunction with the TV Series. The original TV Series was in 1981 the books were released between 1979-1984.
So yeah, you wrong. Yep your just wrong. Do a little research, I guess.
@@freequest and when did the radio show come out?
Who was wrong?
@@freequest The guy you’re replying to is talking about the radio series coming out before the books. Ironically, the TV series is actually just slightly more accurate to the radio version than the books.
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so, nostalgia quintessentially so. Douglas was teaching us how to make sense of the here and now, keep your eyes open, just like he did and enjoy your life. Live god damn you live ❤️.
So is religion.
Douglas is sorely missed.
Zephod?
@@jarniwoop if you missed his sore take aim and try again
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I don't think I quite noticed before how much the later Doctor Who characters owe to Ford Prefect - I knew Douglas Adams had done some writing for Doctor Who back in the '80s, but never quite noticed how much of Ford Prefect rubbed off on the Doctor starting around the Tom Baker era....
Nahh
Adams wrote Pirate Planet and Destiny of The Daleks
But Ford is definitely rubbing off from 4
Theres a reference to Arthur Dent in an episode of Dr Who.
C'mon man--which one?
@@albaproductions9602 I remember David Tenant in a dressing gown (possibly for the whole episode) alluding to his friend Arthur near the end of the episode.
@@MichaelHayes_s6 yes think it may of been The Christmas invasion
Absolute classic UK humour, outstanding sarcasm tinted with a good smudge of befuddlement resulting in total discombobulation. Oh and bring a towel. RiP Douglas Adams x
Found this on PBS back in the 80s as a teen. I was floored by the brilliant writing and god awful effects...lol. loved every minute of it. Bought the books and read them so often i still quote things from them today.
When Marvin proved to the mattress how much smarter he was: "pick a number between one and ten"
"Err..five"?
"Wrong"
So much better than the film. Loved it, still got the whole series on VHS somewhere
I have the DVD and the extras and documentary on the making of HHGG included, was excellent!
Film was terrible.
The film was a disaster. I almost got laughed out of the theater because I brought my towel.
They Americanized British humour, which never works.
True, I was so disappointed by the movie, especially after having seen the BBC TV series and listened to the "Don't Panic" album.
Just grabbed the original series on blue ray, re mastered and all.
Looks and sounds great !
I loved this series. I started out with the books and then the BBC Radio 4 serialisation. Best SciFi ever.
When I bought my Psion II I put a Don't Panic sticker on it.
Wonderful. I remember watching this when it came out. And the radio version was good
This is my youth
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
Blake 7
Doctor who
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a wonderful bit of nostalgia. watched on PBS when i was a kid. my dad turned me on to Douglas Adams at an early age. years on i am still celebrating towel day.
this is effing EPIC!
have shivers down my spine listening to the theme music, and the narration.
Haven't even seen Sandra yet....sigh...🥹
That girl was DREAMY!
hold that thought, she just appeared!🥹
Brings back memories from my childhood 🤗
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I remember listening every week to the original radio play. This tv adaptation was nearly as good.
When Peter Jones was on Just a Minute, too! :)
IIRC, the radio program is the original... done before the book
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Interesting, I didn't know that.
The original cast got together again to record 3 more series (fits) - a great epitaph to the late Doug and Pete
I remember listening to it on radio Luxembourg at night 😊
I want that narrator as my personal assistant voice. 😻
Good thing about RUclips is that once in a while you stumble up on things you never seen before…but is very familiar
The original and best Marvin ever, sorry Alan your take was awesome but the original was always the best... He was more sardonic and sulking and funny!!!
I've seen it, it's rubbish.. Never uttered with so much depressing contempt..!
Gta love Hitch hikers....
Douglas Adams you will always be with us... Don't Panic!!
Three more upvotes!
Three more upvotes!
The writing is brilliant. Reminds me of PG Wodehouse.
Yes I always felt that too - make you take a fresh look at written English in a fun way.
Douglas was a huge fan of PG Wodehouse and there are many references. In “The Salmon of Doubt”, also available as an audiobook read by Simon Jones, he even wrote an introduction to “Sunset at Blandings”.
Douglas Adams invented the Kindle
No. Was in Star Trek first.
definitely in star trek back in the 1960s
But he predicted Wikipedia on a tablet device.
Star Trek TAS had university students getting their test results on a screen in their room!
Seriously awesome, no more digging out the vcr to watch this gem of a miniseries.
Thanks for posting and especially for the effort of putting this together. Clunky sets NEVER bother me. Give me great dialogue, plot, humour and acting over expensive special effects any day. anyway, I think architects would see this as analogous to "showing the structure".
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@@alanmoss3603 I love this series much more than the movie that was made... Mos Def as Ford Prefect? He was crap, But Alan Rickman made a great voice of Marvin...
This must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursday's.
Who doesnt hate Thursdays ...and Mondays
....and every day for that matter
Fabulous! I only wish i could pull up all the programs without having to pay or go thru a load of palaver.
I remember this being a radio series from beginning to end back in the 80's n we'd race home to catch it. It was so well written that you had no problems imaging the characters n what they were experiencing. Infact when the TV series came out it was amazing how what you'd imagined was pretty true to form. An absolute classic that's still as brilliant today as it was at the time it was written, became a radio series n then a TV series. Cheers alot for being able to pull it up for us all to enjoy. And maybe introduce it to a new audience. 😂🏴
If you can find the DVD somewhere it has some fantastic extras! Documentaries etc!
Just Found the DVD on ebay for £4.99 or you can watch the whole thing on vimeo for free! Quality not good - so buy the DVD!
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Cheers alot for your replies n time taken to check things out on eBay Alan. Much appreciated!
@@kimtodd1202 No worries! Just don't listen to the poetry!
I had a copy of the BBC radio broadcast on 6 cassette tapes first book,gave them to my uncle looking for a CD version
Did you know all the Guide effects where done by hand, no CGI involved? The guy that created them even won a TV award for best computer effects in a TV series! So if you are calling them awful, then some context might be helpful.
I think the description meant the actual special effects, not the Book sequences
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When this series came out, I absolutely loved it. Uniquely British, Monty Pythonesque humor.
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douglas adams worked with simon jones on some graham chapman sketches.
Whenever I read the books I always hear Peter Jones as The Book. Fantastic voice.
Thank you for sharing! This is one of my all-time favourites.
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one of the best documentaries available.
everything computer looking when the "book" speaks (or on the heart of gold) ... is all 100% hand drawn.... not a single computer was used.
Its amazing, even today
Independence Day eat your heart out! I was lucky enough to work with Rob Lord who made the 45 minutes of graphics that were used throughout the TV series. Fascinating man. And i was once lucky enough to meet Douglas Adams when he was working on Last Chance To See with Mark Carwadine. Douglas died far too young at only the age of 49 shortly after using a treadmill in an American Gym whilst trying to get the movie made. He was an atheist and i very much live by his quote: “Just because a garden is beautiful doesn’t mean there are fairies at the end of it.”. Hard working, uncompromisingly creative and an absolute inspiration. Thank you.
I love the quote by a mourner at Adam's funeral re dying in a gym - "When the end came, at least Douglas knew where his towel was!" He will be truly missed.
Met Douglas around the same time. Met him at a book signing for Last Chance To See and then a few years later at the Pret A Manger in Camden High St.
Thanks for this. I was starting to feel crazy, having sworn there was a Hitchhiker's Guide made before the American movie... I couldn't find a trace of this old series online a few years ago and had since forgotten about it. Then, randomly, this video of yours presents itself in my recommendations. So again: thanks, fellow nerd.
I linked to the entire series.
@@alanmoss3603 I may have the torrent 64% downloaded as I type this...
I loved listening to the radio series on US public radio, reading the books, and playing the Infocom game!
An excellent upload thank's for your effort and link.
Thanks for the link, only knew the movie and loved it.
I still like it but this is even better, especially the ending.
So long and thanks for all the fish 🐟
Listened Watched Read and repeated this story so much for 40 years. Thanks
What a blast from the past,, loved it thanks
TV series aired 42 years ago. RIP Douglas and Marvin.
Don't know why the algo chucked this at me today but it was just what i needed. Thanks.
No it was me!
I grew up watching this series on dvd over and over, still have them, and reading the books, I also played the text based game on atari st!! I am autistic and used to write down the lines over and over to memorize them amd use them in conversation when I started college at 16. To this day I sneak in a line on the rare occasion when it presents itself. Everything about this I love ❤
Watched every episode and loved it on tv. Even bought the Eagles album with the theme music "Journey of the Sorcerer " Brilliant more episodes please.
Loving this re edited version, the vogons spacecraft certainly didn’t look like that back in 81 👍
I watched this as a young teenager around 1980 or 81. I loved it then. Cheers from New Zealand 🇳🇿
I heard the second radio episode on the BBC World Service in the late 70s, (now defunct, Thatcher). Astonishing bloke (Douglas
Adams).
Banjaxed that young people understand this nowadays.
Thanks.
The word service isn't defunct?
@@xanderyesilirmak956 I could listen to it on short wave radio, almost anywhere in the world, any time of day. Not anymore.
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Childhood memories 🤗
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The radio play is absolutely fantastic. You won't believe how fantastic it is. I mean, you might think Homer was fantastic, but that's nothing compared....
Now I see where Trump got his style from
The books in the series are wonderfully trippy, but the closed captioning on YT takes it a few steps further! Case in point: at 34:45 "dying of asphyxiation 30 seconds after being thrown out of a spaceship" becomes "dying of a sexy Asian"! 😄 I think I need to make myself a T-shirt with this, to pair it with the "My hovercraft is full of eels" one
LE: This is hilarious! At 36:09 "we have normality" becomes "we have raw manatee"! I hope it tastes ok! 😄
LE2: 46:40 "It would flummox a Vegan Snow Lizard" becomes "It would thrust her vag... snow lizzard"! Who said AI can't be funny? 😄
David Dixon really should have played The Doctor in Doctor Who.
Trillion was married to Dr Who.
@@afitzsimonswho is in fact also in this TV version of HHGTTG, as the Ameglian major cow, who wants to be eaten, in Milliways, the Restaurant at the end of the universe
i forgot how good this is.
It's a shame because just before his death Adams stated that he was revising his latest Dirk Gently book because he's decided it would be another Hitchhikers! Then he went to the gym....
Clearly whoever directed "Independence Day" in the 90's had seen this. Almost identical shots of the ship moving over the city, the shadows over the buildings, even the ships themselves are almost identical. I haven't seen Hitchkiers since it aired, would love to watch the whole series again.
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I wonder why they changed the Vogon spaceships.
@@davidbgreensmithYes, that really annoyed me! So unnecessary.
Go to the lower right corner below picture, in the white area, and above the subscribe button and press. The link will show on the top right.
The Vogon saying: Resistance is futile, now where have I heard that before?
The terrible effects are part of it. Leave well enough alone
Awesome Radio Play to listen to on long road trips (thanks dad)
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
For the fans : the audiobooks are splendid ! Book 1 is read by Stephen Fry, books 2 through 5 by Martin Freeman. Martin has an immaculate timing and a large amount of voices. Even Trillian sounds like Trillian 😊😄👍🇳🇱
But there's nothing like the original radio series.
@@Bondoz007 Yep. I have the original radio series on 6 cassette tapes.
Real fans always start with the original radio series, with Douglas Adams at the helm
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The books are still available read by Douglas. They even lifted his voice from the books so that he could posthumously play the part of Agrajag in the Tertiary and Quintessential series of radio plays.
I love the book(s). And I love the original TV series. Deffo in my top 10 favourite books. I vaguely remember listen to this on the radio as a small schoolboy.
I first heard the BBC radio series. Still my favourite version.
RIP Douglas, we lost you way too soon.
Everything from in this, colour, sound, voices, music, textures, atmosphere…is so rich with the human warmth and creativity nowadays evaporated, annihilated by the machine’s fascism.
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Echoes of my childhood in the 1980s...no wonder i never fit in with the world
Brilliant and creative. Wonderful English.
Simon Jones was just so good as this bewildered, quintessential Englishman caught up in all these events.
I used to record many BBC radio programs and stumbled upon the first transmission of the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I had a very good quality audio system and used to love the sound effects produced by the Radiophonics Workshop which sounded really spectacular. I was hooked!
IMO because it left more to the imagination the radio version was better that the TV version and the TV version better than the film.
Sadly the BBC isn’t funded to produce programs like this any more and the quality of their FM transmission doesn’t seem as good.😊
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Great casting... film was great but different 🎉❤
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS!!! I lift a pan galactic gargle blaster in your honour! 🍸
Thanks but I'm on my second Jynnan Tonnyx already!
@@alanmoss3603 just make sure to be nice to them.
6 pints of beer for a 5'er
A man can dream
Had Don’t Panic as my phone Lock Screen for years
Thank you so much! This warms my heart!
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This is awesome!
Best series ever!
Soooo much better than movie versions - and at only 12yrs old.... i was soooo in love with Trillion
Well done sir, thanks for all the fish.
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Please finish it, pure gold.
Changed my life!
I have read the book, have heard the audiobook and saw the new film.
But none of this could have prepared me for this excellent perfomance! I mean take a look at 17:30 to 17:50 - "its green, yes!"
Those are proper actors!
This was one of my all time favourites!!
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I read the book on the back seat of the bus on the way home from school. I can still recite the words even now.
Thanks for uploading this onto YT, Alan Moss! Enjoyed thoroughly. YT is rather lacking in this regard (Hitchhikers, BBC TV mini series), so watching has been a joy. A rare combo: great writing delivered by a perfect cast, along with the coolest of effects sans CGI!! LL
YT used to have the complete series in good quality - but it was pulled. Also this video was flagged for BBC copyright and removed for 3 years. It's only recently that people can watch it again.
@@alanmoss3603 Thanks for the info. I used to have the entire mini series on DVD, but traded in my disc collection for cash years ago. Not that I need to replace it, but at least I can still watch a sample from time to time on YT. Cheers, LL.
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Miss you Douglas.
Douglas Adams changed my life, at a very high level of Improbablity I might add.... Infinity - 1 !
What? No Vogon poetry???
Groop I implore thee..
Seven more upvotes!
i saw this in the 70s in the German TV, in German...
because i had understood nothing of it, because i started to learn english in 1978!
I also saw it in German😊
“The yellow slab like something’s” or the Vogan ship shown doesn’t look very yellow to me - or slab like either.
Thank you so much, I absolutely loved this back in the day and was so disappointed by the movie. It significantly help that Ford can enunciate.
Charged me a fiver to clean my windows 🤣
It always been one of my favourite lines!
Peter Jones was a genius. No offense to Stephen Fry (in the movie, the voice of the book), but no one could even come close to Jones’ superb air of understatement and blithe indifference.
He does a great job of being slightly serious at the beginning of each narration, introducing a bit of levity as he explains how absurd it all is. Stephen Fry did the narration as if he were reading a children's story.
Six pints for less than five quid. Those were the golden times.
The narrator of this version will _always_ be the _only_ narrator of THHGTTG. AI was created for the sole purpose of making the narrator's voice immortal.