The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981)
Don't Panic! The story of Arthur Dent, an average Englishman whose life was spared by his friend, who turned out to be an alien, while the planet Earth is destroyed. His friend tells him about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a guide with anything you ever needed, and wanted to know. They travel across the galaxy, meeting friendly, and not so friendly characters in order to find the great question (the answer being 42).
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Episodes
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1. The Making of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy1993-01-01 · 58mKevin Davies' hour-long documentary from 1993. Packed with unbroadcast and archive material, behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Simon Jones, David Dixon, Mark Wing Dave
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2. Don't Panic!2002-04-30 · 26mKevin Davies revisits his footage from "The Making of..." documentary, to bring together a further 20 minutes of interviews and other material that didn't make it into the final pr
- 3 3. Douglas Adams Omnibus2001-08-04 · 35mA profile of the late Douglas Adams - creator of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'. Features contributions from many of hsi famous collaborators and friends, such as Stephen
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4. Introduction by Peter Jones1981-01-05 · 8mThe first episode was screened to a selected audience at the National Film Theatre and featured a specially recorded introduction by voice-of-the-book Peter Jones -- his only on-sc
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5. Communicate!1981-01-05 · 10mAs part of a BBC Education programme, cameras were given access to the radio studios of "Hitchhiker's" during the production of the second episode, just in time to record things go
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6. Original Trailer1981-01-01 · 2mThe BBC2 trailer for the first episode of "Hitchhiker's."
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7. Behind the Scenes1981-01-05 · 7mThe final minutes of studio recording for Episode Two on Saturday, 8th November 1980, were a fraught affair, with time seriously running out. A 15-minute overrun was formally agree
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8. Pebble Mill at One1981-01-23 · 6mAn appearance by animator Rod Lord and producer/director Alan J. W. Bell on the 23rd January 1981 edition of the programme, talking about "Hitchhiker's" with Donny McLoud. This foo
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9. Deleted Scene from Episode 21981-01-12 · 2mA short sequence cut from Episode Two prior to transmission.
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10. Out-Takes2002-04-30 · 9mWhoopsies and bloopers of 16mm film clips rescued from the editors trim bins
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11. Tomorrow's World Sequence1981-02-12 · 2mAt the time, Zaphod Beeblebrox's second head was at the cutting edge of robot animatronics. The 12th February 1981 edition of the BBC's long-running science programme Tomorrow's Wo
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16. Original Opening Titles1981-01-01 · 1mThe first composited version of the title sequence borrowed obvious elements from the 1970s Doctor Who slit-scan tunnel effect. Alan J.W. Bell ordered a new tunnel for broadcast
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17. Mostly Hand Drawn2018-01-01 · 31mAll the Hitchhiker's series award-winning graphics have been re-mastered from original film into one mesmerizing sequence. Rod Lord's complex animation, enhanced by Paddy Kingsland
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18. Life, The Universe & Clapperboards2018-01-02 · 24mLive-action excerpts, newly re-mastered from surviving archive reels. Most of the original film from the series no longer exists, purged as usual in the way of big broadcasters, wh
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19. Recorded at the End of The Universe2018-01-04 · 25mFlashes of life on the studio floor at BBC Television Centre. The Inventive cast and crew furch between the mindless tedium and bursts of action. These were the usual dynamics of p
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20. Writing Hitchhiker's2018-01-05 · 15mFrom archive video, three people who knew Douglas Adams very well, remember his battles to write the earliest episodes. His younger half-brother James recalls the old typewriter th
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21. Saturday Review1985-06-01 · 9mDouglas Adams explains to Minnette Marrin his ideas for interactive CD-Rom audio drama, whilst in Birmingham the fans gathered for a Hitchhiker-themed games convention. Features a
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22. Tertiary Phase Trailer2004-01-02 · 6mThe show made a triumphant return to its original medium on BBC Radio 4 in September 2004, with surviving cast members and some
terrific guests, including Richard Griffiths as Sla
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23. Douglas Adams on Paperbacks1981-04-15 · 6mA quaint book programme where Robert Kee discussed Douglas Adams' second novel with the author.
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24. Douglas Adams on BBC Micro Live1985-03-08 · 6mInterviewed about his fiendish new Nitthiker's Gundo compoter game. The energetic presenter Freff recalled in 2018 how Douglas had had a headache, yet after two good rehersals, the
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25. The Radio Series Trailers2005-05-02 · 6mRecently made available again on newly packaged CDs, (and also for the first time, on shiny red vinyl!) the various Phases of the
radio series-adapted from the books in style by p
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26. Marvin and Zem2004-05-03 · 6mA look at how Stephen Moore recorded Marvin for The Tertiary Phase, with an annoyingly cheerful swap mattress called Zem. This
was one of the video extras on the little-known 2006
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27. Open Door: The Sound of Love1980-03-02 · 5mA March 1980 edition of the public access programme. Young, unemployed Anthony Hodgins conducted the earliest known filmed interview with Douglas Adams, on the subject of his unhap
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28. Simon Jones on BBC Breakfast2012-05-25 · 5mNever heard of International Towel Day? Simon Jones explains, whilst also plugging the 2012 Hitchhiker's Guide Radio Show Live UK tour.
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29. Douglas Adams on Nationwide1980-12-05 · 3mThe first broadcast glimpse of the new Hitchhiker's TV series was during this Nationwide clip, when presenter Sue Cook interviewed "Richard, er, Douglas Adams."
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30. Marvin on Blue Peter1981-06-25 · 3mThe Paranoid Android made his first bid for chart success with this whimsical appearance on the legendary BBC's flagship children's magazine show.
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31. Hexagonal Phase Trailer2018-02-02 · 2mMade by Perfectly Normal Productions for BBC Radio 4, adapted by Dirk Maggs from the Eoin Colfer book And Another Thing.. plus
some material newly discovered among Douglas Adams'
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32. Radio Times Trailer1980-01-01 · 1mThe only time the BBC's listings magazine ever granted Hitchhiker's the honour of a front cover, they also made this promo, with unique narration. Luckily, the producer kept this c
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33. The Sound of Sypher1980-01-03 · 14mThe world of proto-digital audio production was examined here in this highly technical explanation of the BBC's newest dubbing suite, featuring the BAFTA-winning sound supervisor M
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34. Ten Short Films2009-01-04 · 29mMade in 2009 for Penguin Books' launch evert and website for the Eoin Colfer (6th Official) Hitchhiker's novel And Another Thing. These films about various aspects of Hitchhiker's
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35. Heart of Gold · 3m35mm widescreen animation sequences used for back-projection on the set
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36. Explosion of Earth · 1mThe unexpurgated explosion, filmed at high speed, by looking up at a pyrotechnic
Cast
Simon JonesArthur Dent
David DixonFord Prefect
Peter JonesThe BookImages
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