Improbability Drive - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - BBC
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- The crew come under attack from The Planet Magrathea and its missile defense system. Evasive action is needed if they are to survive - could the hapless Arthur Dent save the day? - Improbable
Taken From The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Adapted From The Classic Radio Series, Written by Douglas Adams
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I love how the TV series used most of the voice actors from the original radio show. There was a sense of reinforcing synergy, hearing them on the show and having the same voices for the screen. RIP Mr Adams.
and they're all canon.
SpegYurPrdence!
And a big ol' Ford
And arguably canon visuals to match ❤
"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now."
which proved true
Dlee645 42
The bowl of petunias was one of the reincarnations of a being who exists only to be murdered by his personal devil, Arthur Dent.
because things only make sense once we want them to be true
Because it was Agrajag reborn of course! That should be obvious to anyone.
This was my childhood. I recorded the entire series on VHS and must have watched it 100 times if not more.
🤗cool
Precisely my story! My dad recorded it on VHS and me and my sister demanded
we watch the whole series over and over for years. 🙂
Have you read the book? Priceless
@@doodlegassum6959 I must have read the entire series more than a dozen times in my youth.
@@umachan9286 the tragedy is Douglas Adams leaving us too soon.
RIP
Fun fact: at 1:37, there are only five people, but if you look closely, you can spot six pairs of feet. The extra feet belong to the stunt person who was operating Zaphod's third arm.
Four people and five pairs of feet
HiFive?
Don't be ridiculous, they're obviously the extra pair of feet Zaphod grew along with his second head. They only come out in emergencies, is the thing
No TV or movie adaptation can outshine Douglas Adam's audiobook reading - it is sheer genius.
AudersFroomVerD.A?..
I was his second choice for fhe voice of the guide, but instead I became Deep Thought's user interface.
🤐
I was quite enjoying Stephen Fry’s reading of the audiobook right up to the point where it became clear he’d never heard You’ll Never Walk Alone and composed something ghastly and toneless apparently on the spot.
What always got me was just HOW Eddie, the Shipboard Computer, which was built at least 600-odd Light Years away from Earth, knew the tune & lyrics to "Walk On" . . .
The book makes clear what's clogging the memory is trying to comprahend what Authur wanted from the drinks machine. The concept of boiled leaves in hot water too difficult a concept. It imported the main computer to help.
Probably related to the Jynnan Tonnix / Ouishkian Zodahs thing where stuff crops up all over the Cosmos in various guises.
Oh I actually happen to know the precise answer to this!
It's "blah blah QUANTUM blablah blaaaaaaah". Promise ☺️
WAY better than that movie (such a waste of Sam Rockwell, Zoey Deschanel, and Alan Rickman... Mos Def? Really?).
Are you the schmidlapp that was rescued by Batman?
I've been to Hyde Park corner. The best way to describe is a roundabout in which several lanes of traffic try to physically pass _through_ each other. If a chaos mathematician tried to study it she would find herself, some days later, sitting in a pub with a large array of very stiff drinks, wondering where she went wrong in her life.
Yes, I believe you.
You have to strongly imagine which exit you would like to leave by, and you’ll probably manage it if you keep your eyes closed long enough
I used to do it on a bike - day in day out. My attitude was 'I'm just one guy, stand yer ground'. Never got knocked down, always got there.
Again thank you Douglas Adams your series has helped alot of people.Helped me when I needed it the most.
So what's the question?
@@NateSean What do you get when you multiply 6 by 9? Answer: 42. Arthur Dent always knew there was something fundamentally (and mathematically) wrong with the universe. It was hardwired into his programming.
@@whimsicalwordwizard6495 6 X 9 = 42 is correct if you are working in base 13, although Douglas Adams, the author stated "Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do' I typed it out. End of story."
MauTeaMowTikAZnumpyteas!jaz!
The thing that made me love this series....
There's a button with a sign: Do not press this button. Ofc Arthur press it. And all it does is print a message: Do not press this button again!
Made me laugh out loud. That's human interface for you... in a nutshell.
What I find astonishing is that the "computer graphics" were entirely hand animated: they're basically line cartoons.
This series has an amazing charm that really elevates it and makes it so enjoyable to watch even today.
PygjawAFloWarz!!
Well said j.t. forty-two
It sure beats the Turkey they made in 2005.
"... the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys!"
The varying levels of shake from every person on the ship at 1:25 is hilarious
The old standard " tilt & lurch" practical effect...
I like how Zaphod's second head is relegated to smelling his main heads hair throughout the series yet, this was much better than the movie.
😊agreed
it was considered pretty advanced tech all those years ago. Everything is relative I suppose.
as a teen boy when this aired....Trillian .....gosh
Sandra Dickerson was a very popular actress on british television back in the day. She was married at the time to former Doctor Who Peter Davison, who appeared in an episode of Hitchhikers as the cow that tried to convince Arthur to eat him when they visited the restaurant at the end of the universe. They filmed that episode just around the time he found out he'd been cast as the Fifth Doctor.
And their daughter married David tennant
Eddie singing "You'll never walk alone"
GoloBolosssss!!encubateestaz!miengudtastargaz!
I remember I read the book feeling sad for the whale. I just remembered I found this show on Hulu the other day. Off to watch it, bye.
The TV show is crap. Thank you for your time.
SiliAisleRekalWalaRssazGermoz!..
I love this documentary!
NoJurno!
The production values with the normal office chairs... Still awesome writing.
Itemo!
Just started watching the old series now... still holds up.
LikaWNtedSam!
Arthur bumped his arm
Geez! Next time, maybe a spoiler alert?
;-)
I only disliked to make it 42
ObABelzenz
The crucial part of this scene was what the bowl of petunias thought. Yet the video stopped just before this was revealed. Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhhh. Well it was bad editing for those who knew the books.
so people have a problem with the movie because it's not like the TV series and people have a problem with the TV series because it's not like the books....it's just a neverending chain; I personally hate the books because they portray the Vogons in a negative light
There's the whole whale scene to come before the bowl of petunias gets mentioned again.
_Not_ an editing blooper.
Oh no, not again...
No it wasn't that.
"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was 'Oh no, not again.' Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that, we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now."
If they cut it after the petunia's final moments, then we'd be disappointed they cut before we hear the ship's computer's alternate personality, then Marvin and Arthur being left alone to guard the entrance to the facility, etc..
How does Ford know what is going to pop up on the screen...before it actually DOES?
He's been secretly psychic this whole time!
MOVIE MISTAKE ALERT
improbable isn't it ?
It looks to me that he knows enough about the controls to turn on the proximity sensor display. He is looking at the appropriate display before we are.
Cause he read the script. Secretly, the whole universe runs on Mel Brooks level of movie physics.
As an American, I’ve only seen the movie version until recently. Both are hilarious. Our Brit friends know humor😂🤣 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
yeah, get or borrow the dvds, wont regret
@WhoDarestheMAN gamer
How dare you correct me?! You should apologiZe!! You’re wrong here and you have caused offenSe!! Don’t try to justify your actions, you have no defenSe!!
😂🤣
@TheRenaissanceman65
70s 'Dr Who' did not just rely on 'a sand pit' .... There were also industrial metal stairs for vertical escapes and a long-ish hallway for horizontal escapes. It was wonderful! ⌛💗🤗
PizAwfPythonENaHolBillyButlinRetired!
I had this both as the Radio play and TV movie on VHS thanks to a family friend named Steve. Wore my copies out. So rewatchable.
I think about this scene every time I go ‘round Hyde Park Corner on my moped. Nice to assure myself that I am now prepared to avoid any such disaster.
In one of the most brilliant pieces of fictional comedy writing ever created Douglas Adams explains in book 3 why the bowl of petunias says “not again” before smashing into the planet. Being a multiply reincarnated being whose fate it is to always be killed by Arthur Dent!
'Please call me Eddie if it will help you relax'! - I say this to random people all the time.
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation: "We make you wish you bought Microsoft Windows 8"
VanHalENs!
I hear Eddie's in the space-time continuum
I remember my dad being blown away by the special effects when this first come out, its aged but still great british sci fi 👍
Never saw this series, but since I love the books, would love to do so now!
I have to say though, I find it absolutely mind-boggling how they turned Trillion from a smart, calm, strategical scientist curious about the universe into sth entirely different (despite her saying the same lines as in the book!) just by costume and how they actress decided to talk. Can't say I'm very happy with that. :/
Buuut still would love to see the whole show. 😅
The actress in the TV version is Sandra Dickinson, an American actress who won the part. Apparently they liked her so much they asked her to keep her normal accent even though the character (as played on the radio by Susan Sheriden) was indeed *very* English and Sandra offered to do an English accent.
Still. She was perfect for the TV series I’d say. 😎
@@richardmattocks Well I wasn't so much bothered by the accent as by the tone of the lines, if you know what I mean. Instead of speaking confidently and calmly, from these clips it sounds sort of childish and questioning. Which of course can be a character choice, but seeing as how old this is and how it used to be very in style to have the 'blond bimbo stereotype', aka incredibly sexualized body (like the outfit in this) paired with a very naive, childlike voice and behaviour (look up 'born sexy yesterday' for more history on this trope).
So I just find it sad that this seems what they seem to have turned such a strong and unique female charcter such as Douglas Adams wrote into.
But, again, I haven't had the pleasure of seeing the whole show yet so will hold my judgment a little bit, but from this it does irk me quite a bit.
@@singenstattatmen5096 I totally get where you are coming from. Hope you enjoy the rest of the series. Sadly 6 episodes is all we got. All I can say is that Douglas was part of the production and must have ok’d any casting / character changes, but yes, TV Trillion is massively different to Radio Trillion in characterisation but her dialog is almost identical (I grew up with the show so love all the versions in different ways). Anyway... Share and Enjoy! 😎👍
ItsYuhLloydLoomFirnHitchez!
I liked how it emphasised that Zaphod and Arthur to varying degrees objectified Her despite her actually being much more intelligent than either. The later adaptations have Sandra as alternate universe Trillians.
1:10 here's the moment for all the radiohead fans out there
I am sorry to inform you, all the Radiohead fans that ever were; have as of late, left earth entirely. Gone on to another realm of teenage angst where Billy Corgan reigns.
Eddie is better than Google home or Alexa any day!
Unless you want to know why you want tea.
After reading a book, this is like ongoing trip haha
UgrazAyRollKOparNicOzBallJa!
This series by far outshined the movie.
Having seen both the series and the movie, how do people even stand the movie?!
I REALLY need to read the books
@@alericjohansen6775
The books are great.
I would say that this TV series made a _perfect_ adaptation of the characters there.
I'm surprised this video didnt get '' 42 '' likes.
ThaweTeas22?
i like how ford is shaking but no one else is
MowDelteas!
I’m a big fan of the books (I’m on the restaurant at the en of the universe chapter 16) so I just started watching the series and I love it so far (I’m on episode 4)
OfukBigQooootcyesza,o,o,queen...
Happy towel day everyone!
My favourite series of books
So many good quotes from these books.
Life! Don’t talk to me about life.
Eddie looks like "IBM Deep Blue" LOL
O.a repeatAZ
What's also not entirely improbable the 1981 TV series was 24 years before the 2005, 24/42... the reverse of meaning of life, the universe and everything else... is 24...
Okay not part of the clip shown but interesting to know that in another 10/14 years we may have another hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy film/TV show. If the universe let's us.
💐-'oh no not again'
Ahh this takes me back. The Young Ones, this and The Kenny Everett Video Show lol.
I'm guessing you're in Australia? Add Dr Who and The Goodies and you've spelled out my childhood.
@@raksh9 George Smilovici?
@@onewhowaits7674 Uhh no?
@@raksh9 you have no idea what I'm talking about do you?, guesser of Australians.
@@onewhowaits7674 Just because I'm Australian, doesn't mean I know other Australians 😂
"Hey! This is terrific! They're trying to kill us! Do you know what that means?"
"Yes, we're going to die."
"Yeah! No, no. Maybe..."
Zaphod's the best 😂
I saw the most recent movie and it hit a cord. I knew I'd seen it before. It was this movie, I'd stumbled upon after it had started and only saw a small clip. Never knew it until now, over 30 years later.
1981 on BBC 1.
@@Boa_Omega First episode transmitted on Monday 5th January 1981 at 9pm on BBC2. Listened to the radio show previously, read the paperback and watched avidly the television version, still love it as much today as when first viewed. Hated the film version bigger budget slicker effects but charmless.
The Rodgers & Hammerstein bit really makes this scene perfect
RadialzANKaWandaTooozaz!
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong at the end of the radio series was pretty good as well?
Does anyone else think that eight million to one odds is a bit low for what just happened?
Kri0zetaz!
That very point does indeed get addressed as Ford Prefect and Zaphod are mates. And Arthur once tried to pickup Trillion at a party on Earth.
I don’t know who they got to voice Eddie the Shipboard Computer in either this or the film, but just struck me that they sound remarkably alike.
AFAIK it was Adams who did both... get the special edition on bluray, lots of good extras!!
ItzaWabbit,likaYooz
Movie version is Thomas Lennon, I think...
@@noob94884 Adams was dead already when they made the film.
This is briliant
I love how they used office chairs in a Fking top of the range flying saucer 😂😂😂😂
The Improbably Drive must have affected Sandra Dickinson who was married to 5th Doctor Peter Davison at the time. Three years later their daughter Georgia Moffet was born who would eventually portray the Doctor’s Daughter in the episode by the same name. Eventually she and 10th Doctor David Tennant would marry and have a daughter! There’s actually more to the coincidences than just that!
An electric monk would believe you......
I seem to remember that the revolving desk floor was "borrowed" from Blankety Blank 😂
i know this is the original but i just love sam rockwells version of Zaphod
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The casting on the film was top quality.
I would've liked to have seen Brian Blessed with two heads doing a particularly loud and pompous Zaphod
@@PGHEngineer interesting! Imagine "LISTEN YOU SEMI EVOLVED SIMIAN, GO CLIMB A TREE WOULD YOU!" or "HAND ME THE RAP-ROPE PLATE CAPTAIN!" in that Earth shattering voice.
Bizarrely, I also remember that those walls were actually made from early 1980s cladding for industrial buildings, but turned 90 degrees. Think corrugated roof panels that drop down and wrap around the top few feet of the building above the top floor windows. You can see it in use on the early 1980s industrial estates 😂
The actress playing trillian is Peter (5th doctors) Davidson real wife at the time.
I just made a comment about, then scrolled down and found your comment!😃
for some reason I always imagine Del Tarrant flying that ship and saying 'fly you scruffy bag of bolts!'
The references are getting obscure!
I'd rather put up with Eddie's voice than Slave's voice though.
@@kevinjokipii4260 "I most humbly beg your pardon for the irritating obsequiousness of my intonation, master."
The regular office chairs. Perfect set design. 😘👌
2:58 Everyone needs to have their very own Manual Improbability Control Button for Life, the Universe, and Everything...
Space is . . . Big!
My favorite radio drama!
Love this show 😊
madness
And don't panic.
3:30 you can see the distinct shape of a whale, though I can't seem to make out a bowl of petunias. Maybe it was lost in the graphic translation?
Also, the only improbable thing about this scene is the ship behaves like a plane on Earth :D
Far, far funnier than the film. Why? I have no idea, it just is.
The jokes were cut for time. And the movie was a 3rd re write of a bare bones partial script Douglas had rewritten a couple times.
@@Boa_Omega I understand. It was originally for radio. But it still doesn't answer why the series was so much funnier than the film.
@@CathyKitson I was being factual. The jokes were cut for time. Douglas would go on these long seeming tangents that entually lead back to the point but mostly seve to set up a silly one liner. Those were cut. Douglas was a genius. It was left to others to create a script from all his ideas. Douglas was infamous for missing deadlines unless forced into it. True story from his time as script editor at Doctor Who. A script fell through on Friday and was set to film on Monday. The producer locked Douglas in his hotel room with a type writer (1970's), paper, wet towels, black coffee and whiskey until he finished the script rewrites. This story told to us by the producer and we can know it's true as he brewed the coffee. The movie was made back in England a few years after Douglas died in California. It was not his script but fragments of 3 seperate drafts put together. The difference is why we know he was a genius. And the quality is less. But yes the long complex stories for a joke were part of his style. And were cut for time.
@@Boa_Omega Oh, right, interesting. Well, he certainly went off on a tangent, like you said. As in talking about one thing then suddenly changing tack and starting on digital watches. Truly eccentric but brilliant. And very, very funny.
Oh no, not again
is no-one going to mention what a fox Trillian is? Honestly. ;)
With that annoying baby voice?
The original zaphrod beeblebrox
I know people didn't like the movie for a variety of reasons, but damn did the movie nail the visual gags and special effects.
YOU JUST KNOW THAT ANYTHING WITH STEPHEN FRY IN IT IS GOING TO BE CRAP ! ! !
Poor Agrijag...
0:18 "yess, we're going to diee! 🧐☕️"
Arthur bruise his upper arm.
The ship was being chased and the room didn’t move at all. So unrealistic. I like the movie version better.
star wars: they jump into hyper space to travel between stars
star trek: they create a warp bubble that allow them to fold the space around the spaceship.
Dune: they use a drug to put the spaceship into a vision of utter weirdness so bizarre that the universe, dumbfounded, agrees with the ship
warhammer: they travels thorought the hell itself to cross the galaxy
hitchhinker's guide to the galaxy:
Replaced hyperspace ships ( they hoped) with Infinite Improbabilities. But was replaced by the BistroMath drive. See Slartibartfast's ship.
In Dune the drug only allows the Guild Navigators to perform the complex calculations to navigate across space time, because computers are banned, to stop AI in its tracks.
Oh no, not again.
I had no idea.
' Oh No, not again... '
space ship looks like a shower head
Could there be a prequel?
We can talk about what's normal till the cows come home.
I thought this was a skit from a community college improv group. That was bad
what did they do to trillian?
could have wrapped the office chairs in foil or something....
Nostradamus couldn't think of that one.
Was Trillion married to Doctor Who when this was shown on television?
Hey, what the photon happened?
Space cookies!
The improbability drive could work but not very reliable,
The ship computer is the opposite of Marvin: Always cheerful and happy. Even in the face of instinction. It turns to sing a cheerful song before certain death.
And all the pot thought on the way down was oh no not again
VolEvonz!
The smart woman saves the day!
Cos...for once someone listens to her.
Whoever would have thunk it?
Far out! FAR OUT!! Ha ha!!
Oh dear not again.......
唔會好好人
Hey we've got those chairs in my school
What the FOTON happened?...LOL
Still a better adaptation than the 2005 movie.
Yes!!!!....and no. Quantum dissapation.
Anything done by Hollywood based on a past classic tv series is guaranteed to be rubbish.
@@onewhowaits7674agreed 😊
Trillian married Dr. Who
The heart of gold ship-yards perhaps?
I like the American one better but I like the British one cause it followed the book better