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 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The TV series was a mostly enjoyable adaptation of the original radio series (similar to other adaptations into books, stage plays, text adventures, etc.), but the movie just >sucked< so badly.
The first radio series had an *ending* (Beeblebrox, Trillian, and Marvin eaten by the Blugblatter Beast, Ford and Arthur marooned on the prehistoric past of planet Earth) because it wasn't thought that there would be a second series.
To those who say the series didn't match the book is missing the fact that it was originally a radio play and the series stayed very close to the play.
www.jumptheshark.com /h/hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy.htm   (2323 words)

  
 David Gristwood's Blog : The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
I was a big fan of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy when it first came out (I listened to the radio series, bought the records, watched the TV series, and still own a real Marks and Spencer Hitchhikers towel which has part of the script about Knowing Where Your Towel).
The original Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy game was created by Infocom, who produced a number of adventure games, and in their day, lead the field in “interactive fiction”, though there were a few
David Gristwood's Blog : The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
blogs.msdn.com /david_gristwood/archive/2004/10/31/250174.aspx   (497 words)

  
 The Mediadrome - News
Originally conceived as a radio series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a late night show that soon attained cult status (to hear the complete radio version click here).
Perhaps the most memorable aspect of both the radio show and the TV series was the voice of the book: Peter Jones.
That line seems to be the intro for most of the obituaries that have sprouted over the past few days, but fails to do justice to the man who gave science fiction something that had been sadly lacking: humor.
www.themediadrome.com /content/news/may_2001/adams_tribute.htm   (1131 words)

  
 Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy audio samples
Intro of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (134 kb)
Order form to obtain the "Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
"Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
hem.passagen.se /fist/hhgttg   (1223 words)

  
 "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" (1981) (mini)
I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (USA) (video title)
This was produced, because the Radio series was absolutely cult for many baby-boomers who had listened to it during their University years and the BBC recognised the demand and catered for it.
us.imdb.com /Title?0081874   (577 words)

  
 Upoc Mobile Group: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy-Upoc Edition
This is a forum for news, quotes, and chat about the Hitchhiker's Guide movie, books, radio/TV series, and all things Douglas Adams.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Tertiary Phase, a radio adaptation of Life, The Universe and Everything >>
The standard repository for all knowledge and wisdom, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy scores over the great Encyclopaedia Galactica in two important ways: 1st, it is slightly cheaper and 2nd, it has the words DON'T PANIC in large friendly letters on the cover.
www.upoc.com /group.jsp?group=Hitchhikers   (335 words)

  
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979, ISBN 0330258648) is the title of the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams.
Geoffrey Perkins (ed.) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts, Additional Material by M. Simpson, 25th Anniversary Edition, Pan Books.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ('The Guide is definitive; reality is frequently very inaccurate') is the most popular known reference work for two reasons: it is inexpensive, and it has the words 'Don't Panic' written on it in large, friendly letters on its cover.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(book)   (773 words)

  
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikiquote
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy refers to the original radio plays, the first humorous science fiction book, and the expanded series by Douglas Adams about the adventures of ordinary Earthman Arthur Dent, and the colorful intergalactic characters he encounters after his planet is destroyed to make way for an interstellar bypass.
Stop it." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, c.
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels.
en.wikiquote.org /wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy   (4960 words)

  
 BBC NEWS Entertainment Film And now, Hitchhiker the movie
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy originally started out as a BBC Radio 4 series in March 1978.
Cult novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is to be turned into a Hollywood movie.
The tale follows the adventures of Englishman Arthur Dent, who is taken on a tour of the universe by an alien after discovering the Earth is to be flattened for a hyperspace bypass.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/2264265.stm   (317 words)

  
 Stuffo "The 42 Things You Should Know About The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
In its 26-year history, The Hitchhiker's Guide has taken the form of radio show, five book "trilogy," TV series, stage play and video game.
As the new movie sets out to reinvent the series yet again, we present our hot list of 42 Hitchhiker's facts that will amaze your friends, astound your trivia-night adversaries and put you one step closer to Dungeon Master.
A film version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" has been in the works for over twenty years.
www.stuffo.com /hitchhikers-history.htm   (208 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 4 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
BBC - Radio 4 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy famously described the Earth as "Mostly Harmless".
Celebrate the end of the Quintessential Phase by downloading our Hitchhiker's Guide wallpaper, featuring some of the stars who have appeared in the BBC Radio and TV series since 1978.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/hitchhikers   (460 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy [1981]: DVD
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a lucid, satirical, occasionally profound, utterly unique comic invention on radio.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Amazon.co.uk: The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy [1981]: DVD
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005OCTS   (985 words)

  
 The Hitchhiker's Guide Project: A Complete Repository Of Characters, Planets, & Other Hoopy Froods
TV show than the movie (not to say the movie sequences were bad, just not over the top busy as they were in the TV series).
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and all its sequels/forms are the property of Douglas Adams,
Just don't expect a slavish translation from the books (which in turn wasn't a slavish translations of the radio show, and even the TV series parted ways so …).
hhgproject.org   (263 words)

  
 The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - Homeofmusic Forums
The Guide started as a radio series, was translated to the first 2 books, then was produced as a tv series, all these 3 mediums followed eachother faithfully and retained the same humor and detail.
The unfortunate thing with books turning into movies, is that alot of reworking has to be done to skweeze it into 2 hours!
Some video clips from the guide were rather funny (particularly when they subtlely show the male/female signs when refering to 'mistakes'..
www.homeofchat.com /vB/showthread.php?t=36782   (1458 words)

  
 Screen Gems New Releases
Although it started as a radio play on the BBC, it was in fact the original television miniseries that turned this Douglas Adams curiosity into a cultural phenomenum.
One can't appreciate the absolute lunacy of THGTTG without being intimately familiar with that original BBC TV Production.
www.rhythmicpulsar.com /sgcontent.htm   (60 words)

  
 Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
It started as a BBC radio series, and evolved into the books, audio tapes, BBC TV series (with second series coming), some of the greatest quotes and thoughts, and FINALLY soon a movie!
A History of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
RealHHG the Real Hicthhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
www.marmotweb.com /h2g2   (214 words)

  
 Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - All-Forums Discussion forums
TV / Movie Reviews Seen a cool TV prog, or movie, think others might be intrested in it, let folk know.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - All-Forums Discussion forums
I thought it was a must see for both fans and non fans of the books or radio series, game and whatever.
www.all-forums.co.uk /forum/showthread.php?t=244453   (553 words)

  
 The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy at Greater Union Birch Carroll & Coyle Cinemas
It’s been a radio series, a book, a computer game and a TV series.
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy at Greater Union Birch Carroll and Coyle Cinemas
Among those he encounters are the President of the Galaxy, the two-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox (Sam Rockwell); Slartibartfast (Bill Nighy); Trillian (Zooey Deschanel); Marvin the Paranoid Android (Warwick Davis and the voice of Alan Rickman), Questular Rontock (Anna Chancellor) and a religious cult leader named Humma Kavula (John Malkovich) — created especially for the movie.
www.greaterunion.com.au /movies/movie.asp?movie=5538   (335 words)

  
 BBC Online - Cult - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
BBC Online - Cult - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
More information about the Hitchhiker's Guide is available from the BBC Shop
A Pocket Guide to Life, The Universe, and Everything
www.bbc.co.uk /cult/hitchhikers   (89 words)

  
 David Gristwood's Blog : The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
I was a big fan of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy when it first came out (I listened to the radio series, bought the records, watched the TV series, and still own a real Marks and Spencer Hitchhikers towel which has part of the script about Knowing Where Your Towel).
The latest BBC Radio 4 series, which picks up from where the first two radio series ended, has now finished, so I thought I might mention that that Douglas Adams also wrote a text-based adventure game, loosely based on the book, in the early 80s.
The original Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy game was created by Infocom, who produced a number of adventure games, and in their day, lead the field in “interactive fiction”, though there were a few
blogs.msdn.com /david_gristwood/archive/2004/10/31/250174.aspx   (498 words)

  
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams (1952–2001) that debuted as a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978.
Hitchhiker's has also appeared as a stage show, three LP albums with condensed (and slightly contradictory) versions of the first six radio episodes, a text-only adventure computer game, and three series of comic books (with a set of collectors' cards spun off containing art from the comics).
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts, 25th Anniversary Edition, p.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy   (6572 words)

  
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams (1952–2001) that debuted as a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978.
Hitchhiker's has also appeared as a stage show, three LP albums with condensed (and slightly contradictory) versions of the first six radio episodes, a text-only adventure computer game, and three series of comic books (with a set of collectors' cards spun off containing art from the comics).
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts, 25th Anniversary Edition, p.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy   (6502 words)

  
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams (1952–2001) that debuted as a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978.
Hitchhiker's has also appeared as a stage show, three LP albums with condensed (and slightly contradictory) versions of the first six radio episodes, a text-only adventure computer game, and three series of comic books (with a set of collectors' cards spun off containing art from the comics).
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (published in 1979), the characters visit the legendary planet Magrathea, home to the now-collapsed planet building industry, and meet Slartibartfast, a planetary coastline designer who was responsible for the fjords of Norway.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy   (6553 words)

  
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams (1952–2001) that debuted as a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978.
Hitchhiker's has also appeared as a stage show, three LP albums with condensed (and slightly contradictory) versions of the first six radio episodes, a text-only adventure computer game, and three series of comic books (with a set of collectors' cards spun off containing art from the comics).
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (published in 1979), the characters visit the legendary planet Magrathea, home to the now-collapsed planet building industry, and meet Slartibartfast, a planetary coastline designer who was responsible for the fjords of Norway.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy   (6586 words)

  
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams (1952–2001) that debuted as a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978.
Hitchhiker's has also appeared as a stage show, three LP albums with condensed (and slightly contradictory) versions of the first six radio episodes, a text-only adventure computer game, and three series of comic books (with a set of collectors' cards spun off containing art from the comics).
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (published in 1979), the characters visit the legendary planet Magrathea, home to the now-collapsed planet building industry, and meet Slartibartfast, a planetary coastline designer who was responsible for the fjords of Norway.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy   (6640 words)

  
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams (1952–2001) that debuted as a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978.
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (published in 1979), the characters visit the legendary planet Magrathea, home to the now-collapsed planet building industry, and meet Slartibartfast, a planetary coastline designer who was responsible for the fjords of Norway.
The sequel LP was released, singly, as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part Two: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe in the UK, and simply as The Restaurant at the End of the Universe in the USA.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy   (6546 words)

  
 Trio cross 'Galaxy' for Disney film
Hip-hop artist/actor Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel and "The Office" star Martin Freeman have hopped aboard the Spyglass Entertainment/Walt Disney Co. project "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," a big-screen adaptation of the cult hit novel by Douglas Adams.
The cult hit "Hitchhiker's Guide" began as a radio series and launched a book series, television series and video game.
The duo hitch a ride through space with the two-headed president of the galaxy, the beautiful and brilliant scientist Trillion (Deschanel) and a depressed robot while on a quest to discover the meaning of life.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/film/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2079307   (432 words)

  
 BBC NEWS Entertainment TV and Radio A guide to the Hitchhiker's Guide
Extracts are included at regular intervals in the radio series, TV series and the film; the latter two feature graphics from the guide complete with voiceover.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy focuses on Arthur Dent, who is attempting to stop a bypass from being built through the centre of his house at the same time as alien race the Vogons are getting ready to build one right through the centre of Earth, thus destroying it.
Adams was working on the script for the Hitchhiker's film at the time of his death, having spent years trying to persuade Hollywood to turn it into a movie.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4455723.stm   (867 words)

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