The even-more original radio series was slightly better still. (I still had the cassettes my uni-friend recorded for me back in 1980 or whenever it was.)
A wise old man once told me in the mirror, " Some believe what they want to believe, others believe what they have been told to believe. But the wise believe what they see before them". I argued with him that not everything we see may be reality, it could be just our own perception. Then I realised I had smoked way to much weed, and was talking with my own reflection... The universe is a blank canvas of atoms, until a conscious mind starts painting a picture on it. R.I.P Douglas Adams, you helped paint a better universe for so many, as you remain in the thoughts of so many...
Never stop the weed, it must have really helped you think. Everything's a lie, there is no space, it's all a show for the adults that want science fiction to be real.
I Sooooo wish i could go back in time, when Douglas Adams was still alive. The world suddenly became that little less pleasant and meaningful when he died. A great loss to humanity. A great loss to the universe.
Such a loss. He once came to speak to us at a corporate event. Easily the most engaging, amusing and thought provoking speaker we ever had. And he massively overran - he wouldn’t stop speaking and we were delighted.
Very cleverly edited, The electric monk from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective agency was written 10 years after HHGTTG. I don't know how you did it, but well done it brought back fun memories. Pretty deep too. There does not seem to be any humour like this anymore. Thank you.
British humor was always intellectually stimulating. American humor is reduced to toilet humor and slapstick. It is this low brow form which has come to dominate as human intelligence has cratered historically and a fart joke is as sophisticated as most audiences get. There are still very clever and funny comedians out there but the level of their humor has suffered for want of a wide enough audience. How can satire find a resting place in a world where even gender has become a serious topic of debate?
I’ve never seen either of these, and I just finished watching the original BBC series. I loved this. Thank you! I’ve always wanted more with the tv cast. I appreciate the editing to put this together. ❤
@@wispa1a I have all 6 on Cassette and CD, both broadcast versions and US version, also have versions of the books by Douglas, Stephen Moor, Stephen Fry and a few others, Been a fan since the First broadcast on radio 4
Accidently stumbled on the first radio broadcast of the Hitchhiker's guide one evening - Prostetnic Vogan Jeltz was reading his poetry. I've been a huge fan ever since. I even bought a limited first edition of the H2H2 towel - and I know exactly where it is right now! RIP Douglas, you are missed.
Superb! The original radio series (still got the BBC Boxed set of cassettes) was amazing but the TV adaptation captured it superbly. The animations of the Guide Book stand up, as pure brilliance even today, the whole was produce by hand using a studio Grant Machine to expose each individual frame, the good old fashioned way, nary a computer in sight in those days.
British TV may be less sophisticated, but the special effects of Hollywood are a small price to pay for really great storytelling. It didn't surprise me when Hollywood got hold of it and reduced it to a few one liners and a fart joke. It was the most perfect example of all that's wrong with Hollywood and what remains right about British broadcast. 1985 was when I discovered Hitchhikers. I managed to record every episode but the first which I was later able to add. However reading the book afterwards, it was undeniably richer. Movies at their best remain a poor facsimile of storytelling. I don't know if it played on Oz TV before 1985 but that was my first contact,
@@MargaretUK From Chapter IV of Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne translated by G. M. Towle: Just as the train was whirling through Sydenham, Passepartout suddenly uttered a cry of despair. “What’s the matter?” asked Mr. Fogg. “Alas! In my hurry-I-I forgot-” “What?” “To turn off the gas in my room!” “Very well, young man,” returned Mr. Fogg, coolly; “it will burn-at your expense.”
I thought Arthur had left the electric cooker on, and when he put the papers down on the electric cooker and went upstairs, I was expecting a fire to break out. I was sure I saw a heat haze above the electric cooker!
I was just a kid when the series first popped up on Radio4. Listened to it with my dad - it blew my mind. I loved Marvin most of all. I remember one quote... "Marvin! Are we glad to see you!?" "I doubt it." Fond memories. The series set me up perfectly for the sci-fi quirkiness within the pages of 2000AD. Thank you DA.
Remember how Medca City One used a time gate to transport processed meat from farming Dinosaurs to 2000 AD, I think Sylvester Stallone did a great JD too.
@@Terrestrial..1 I've never managed to make myself watch Stallone as Judge Dredd... I've been too scared in case he'd ruin it for me. I should watch it.
@cnrspiller3549 I know what you mean, actually he's not too bad in it, don't like his Lawgiver bike though, too fake, I also liked the original JD, he executed people on the spot, I read 2000 AD from almost the first comic though stopped getting them year's later when the artist was replaced, it just wasn't the same and it all went silly after that, Strontium Dog was a good caricature.
@@cnrspiller3549 There was a mile high wall around Medca City 1 to protect it from all sorts that lived outside in the 'Cursed Earth' (destroyed after ww3), when a 'Judge' became too old they were given the bare essentials (no gun) and were kicked out of the city for their final days.
A truly lovely tribute to the late great DA. I went to see the live show in London in the 70's and fell asleep riding my motorbike with my wife on the back on the home on the M1 (she was already asleep), very nearly the end of us there! Worth it though 😆
Brilliant peace of editing!!! GOOD SHOW!!! I suppose I'm the only one of 7 people who have enjoyed the ENTIRE series (well, except for the movie). THIS WAS A GREAT "LOST" EPISODE! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
There was supposed to be a trio of "The Making Of..." series. This and the other two Blake's 7 and Red Dwarf. They never got made or if they were not released probably due to poor sales of this one.
I thought I was up on the whole hitchhiking saga....but this is absolutely amazing and thanks to everyone who made this... Disaster area is the greatest Rock band ever 😎🤘💖
I first came across hitchhikers guide to the galaxy as the radio show and loved it, so when it came out in TV I couldn't wait and as we didn't have a video recorder, I recorded all the audio on to reel to reel tape and then listened to it over and over again.
Oh my goodness 😂 what sweet sweet relief 😮 I'd been wondering how to look for something that I didn't know or comprehend and thought I felt like I should ask for the universe to unshackle myself so as to better see what I was and now am, ah. I needed this. And apparently this needed me too 😅
Brilliant thank you! From hiding under the covers pretending to be asleep listening to the first broadcast by chance through every recording, broadcast, and book, this fantastic story keeps on giving!
Now that I've learned that this was lifted from the South Bank show, I have both the South Bank show theme song and hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy running in my head at the same time. It's actually pretty sweet.
I discovered the original radio show in 1978 while messing about with an ancient cat's whisker crystal set I found in my parents' attic. Heard it coming through the headphones and wondered what on earth I was listening to. Been a fan ever since.
The first bit reminds me of Arthur's return in the fourth book (So Long and Thanks For All The Fish) -- the pile of letters behind the door, pulling out the babelfish and putting it in a fish bowl, little things like that.
The South Bank Show clips are from the Autumn of 1991, not 1992; as Melvyn Bragg was saying to Douglas Adams in the interview, he's a difficult author to get to finish a book, and it took Adams about another ten months after this TSBS (supposedly about the novel) was broadcast to finish writing 'Mostly Harmless' - and it took another six weeks for it to be published. Interestingly, the tiny segments of text from 'Mostly Harmless' that appeared in the docudrama were all gone from the published novel. (Real geeky blooper; the same bit Arthur dictates to Adams on the screen was already in the typed text, but written backwards, when he was talking to Ford a minute earlier.) Without the scene from the first Dirk Gently novel, this has no clear explanation for who the guy playing the piano at the end is supposed to be. Still, I've always been rather fond of that moment just for seeing Marvin dancing and singing along. Nice to see him having a good time at last! The 'Making of...' video was produced while the VHS release of the series was hitting the shops. Some of the scenes in it are based on bits of the novel 'So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.' But with both the Liberator and the TARDIS appearing, you may need to add copyright tags for Dr Who and Blake's 7 in the disclaimer, just to keep you right. The guy in the vogon costume is Michael Cule. Fans of the gameshow 'Knightmare' will know him as Brother Mace.
Heard it on the radio, whe it first aired then got series one on lps, then saw the play (live on stage), at The Rainbow Theatre then there was the tv adaptation. Bits of it are still funny after all these years.
I had thought for years I was the only one with a copy of that South Bank show! It isn't even on the 2018 'Guide DVD extras - and there are a LOT of extras with that, stuff I'd not seen before!
Cat's having an awareness of another dimension is a very common theme in occultic discussions. It is the explanation for the way they can sometimes chase invisible things and only when they are unable to eat it after do, they realise it wasn't a proper thing. Usually, a bit of confusion follows, and they never seem to get used to it. With some crossover of my own vision into another dimension, I have caught glimpses of the very thing the cat has been chasing so it makes a lot of sense to me. Dogs do not have very much ability to see anything more than we do. They are often fooled y illusions just like we are. Cats see everything but aren't able to fully separate the dimensions. I guess this anomalous paradigm of cats is what makes them so popular in multidimensional activities.
A friend at the time worked for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, they broadcast the original BBC radio play. My friend would make a cassette copy of the original tapes which we would listen to before they were broadcast, couldn't get enough of them.
Cries .. rolls over ,,cries some more ,, oh ,, thank you,, ah,, i used to blog about these scenes ,, due to the emotional responce ,, each time i wanted a good cry ,,, i would remember these scenes ,, happy sadnesss,,
Trillian would be black and disabled, and the show would mainly be about her exploits alongside her wife, Ford Fiesta. Meanwhile Arthur Dent would be relegated to a minor comedic interlude in episode 3, as the butt of their jokes.
This was or is so cool I was so lucky to get to watch back in 1981, 82 I would have to hitchhike home every day from work to my small town about 50 km away and every day I get a lift by someone different and the same in the morning anyway I'd just walk in the front door sit down turn on the TV and I just be in time every day to watch it my house mates use to all joke that I'd miss one show but never did ( and i still can't get the hang of Thursdays) anyhow cheers guys
@8:55 - The 'fictional charactor who believes things' is an Electric Monk, a domestic applience that will assure you whatever you want to be true is indeed true. Not the right entity to consult over serious issules like 'Are the nuclear shields OK?'.... From the Adams book 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency' which I would suggest is the best thing he ever wrote.
I've recently read 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency', one moment they are watching helpless as an engineer resets the human history into oblivion, the next chapter they are talking to a poet and everything's alright again.... Am I missing something or is my paper copy of the book faulty?
I really enjoyed this trip down memory lane. I watched the series as a kid and then read the books whilst in Thunder Bay, Lake Superior, Canada. I was there for a month in 1994, to follow in series the years mentioned. The other book I read was called Subliminal Seduction, about how advertising works, only now it is very different, as if to try to be the opposite of the way it was back then. At least some things still make 42, apparently, like seven times nine.
At a E-recycling center they were processing a old Macintosh, realized the owner was one Douglas Addams. It was set aside and the contents examined. This is increasingly not the question of quantum mechanics, more a question of digital watches.
In the not too distant future, generative AI trained on adams's content mirroring his psychology, will generate unending continuations of THHGTTG in every form conceivable. Then THHGTTG will effectively become it's own parallel multiverse of experiential possibilities where we can all be zaphod lol
Mostly harmless. 🤣🤣🤣 priceless Don't talk to me about life, here am I, brain the size of a planet and you want me to pick up that piece of paper call that job satisfaction?
Wow, that is Douglas’s actual home, and Douglas’s actual Mac (Quadra, no doubt), and his origibal Mac 1984 on the shelf? The first or second one in Europe. Then they went to the actual trouble of putting the Arthur video on the Mac Trinitron screen instead of overlaying it in post.
I think they were inserts to a South Bank Show episode about Douglas Adams. I used to love that show. Spitting Image would finish. Then you’d get the quirky music and animation of SBS theme followed by the nasal tones of Melvyn Brag. One out of ten times it would be about someone or something you were actually interested in. The other 9 times you’d learn something new.
Always loved HH since the radio series. When i started a new job as a mobile engineer, i got the title of engineer 42 !!!. Just need an infinite improbability for the van now ........
Putting them together like that makes a nice little stand-alone episode. I'm going to watch this again with fellow H2G2 fans. But your line about 'please don't sue me' won't work, When I re-do this edit in 2028 I'll send it back to 2022, uploaded to my channel, and sue you for copying my idea!!! LOL
You need to read more of Douglas Adams than Hitchhikers to grasp the eclectic and chaotic collection of ideas which he champions but in time his philosophy and humor filter into one's life.
I met an old man. years ago when I was a teenager... many years ago now... The man was lying in a hospital bed on top of the covers in the same room as another person I was visiting at that time. He was dressed in his pyjamas and a dressing robe. He wasn't looking too well... not that surprising as he was rather old and was likely in that Hospital for a reason... anyway as I wandered by his bed I saw a name that seemed rather familiar as I'd only been reading about him not a few minutes before. I stopped and stared at the old man, gave what I hoped was a disarming, if not reassuring smile and as calmly as I could asked "Excuse me Sir... is this your bed?" He nodded and blinked at me... I then, reading again the name on the wall over the head of his bed, asked "Dent?... Arthur Dent?" He Nodded and smiled again... I met his eyes finally composing myself and said "A pleasure to meet you Mr Dent... I hope you get better soon... so long." We nodded at each other smiled and I then walked away and I never saw that man again.
Having listened to the radio four version and watchwd the television version too,I can see why that episode was lost.Long may it remain so.42 was the last episode and a great one too.....................................
I thought that Adams, alas, has left the building... But will he reappear (at least on the other side of the window(s)), if i get Mac OS? What was the solution to John Cleese, the bomb?
I'm pretty sure this was on TV back around 92/93. I've got a vague recollection of seeing it as part of an arts program. IIRC the scenes with Arthur and Ford were spliced into an interview with Douglas Adams.
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I don't know how many decades it's been, but it's great to see Arthur and Ford again. It's a fantastic series, thankyou!!! 🐴
Reading all those books for the First Time was a truly wonderful experience
The original TV Series and The Records were so brilliantly done.
The even-more original radio series was slightly better still. (I still had the cassettes my uni-friend recorded for me back in 1980 or whenever it was.)
A wise old man once told me in the mirror,
" Some believe what they want to believe, others believe what they have been told to believe. But the wise believe what they see before them".
I argued with him that not everything we see may be reality, it could be just our own perception.
Then I realised I had smoked way to much weed, and was talking with my own reflection...
The universe is a blank canvas of atoms, until a conscious mind starts painting a picture on it.
R.I.P Douglas Adams, you helped paint a better universe for so many, as you remain in the thoughts of so many...
Never stop the weed, it must have really helped you think. Everything's a lie, there is no space, it's all a show for the adults that want science fiction to be real.
I Sooooo wish i could go back in time, when Douglas Adams was still alive. The world suddenly became that little less pleasant and meaningful when he died. A great loss to humanity. A great loss to the universe.
Would have given this comment a like, but it's already got 42 and to change that would be sacrilege.
So true ❤
Adams didn't die - he just pressed the infinite probability drive button at the exact wrong moment to successfully live in a different time.
We got Trump. An incredible horror - like losing your home
Such a loss. He once came to speak to us at a corporate event. Easily the most engaging, amusing and thought provoking speaker we ever had. And he massively overran - he wouldn’t stop speaking and we were delighted.
Very cleverly edited, The electric monk from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective agency was written 10 years after HHGTTG. I don't know how you did it, but well done it brought back fun memories. Pretty deep too. There does not seem to be any humour like this anymore. Thank you.
British humor was always intellectually stimulating. American humor is reduced to toilet humor and slapstick. It is this low brow form which has come to dominate as human intelligence has cratered historically and a fart joke is as sophisticated as most audiences get. There are still very clever and funny comedians out there but the level of their humor has suffered for want of a wide enough audience. How can satire find a resting place in a world where even gender has become a serious topic of debate?
@@GrassPossum I totally agree 👍🏻
this guy's the kind of hoopy frood who knows where his towel's at
I’ve never seen either of these, and I just finished watching the original BBC series. I loved this. Thank you! I’ve always wanted more with the tv cast. I appreciate the editing to put this together. ❤
Check all 6 of the audio.
5/6 adapted with eilon colfer with Adam's notes.
Available on the free library online.
Do listen to the radio series. It was easily the best. Came out in 1979.
The radio series came first!
@@dogwalker666
Yes , the primary phase it's called now.
All available online.
@@wispa1a I have all 6 on Cassette and CD, both broadcast versions and US version, also have versions of the books by Douglas, Stephen Moor, Stephen Fry and a few others, Been a fan since the First broadcast on radio 4
Accidently stumbled on the first radio broadcast of the Hitchhiker's guide one evening - Prostetnic Vogan Jeltz was reading his poetry. I've been a huge fan ever since. I even bought a limited first edition of the H2H2 towel - and I know exactly where it is right now! RIP Douglas, you are missed.
Why do so many use the abbreviation HH for Hitchhikers Guide? There's only one "H" in there.
Superb!
The original radio series (still got the BBC Boxed set of cassettes) was amazing but the TV adaptation captured it superbly. The animations of the Guide Book stand up, as pure brilliance even today, the whole was produce by hand using a studio Grant Machine to expose each individual frame, the good old fashioned way, nary a computer in sight in those days.
British TV may be less sophisticated, but the special effects of Hollywood are a small price to pay for really great storytelling. It didn't surprise me when Hollywood got hold of it and reduced it to a few one liners and a fart joke. It was the most perfect example of all that's wrong with Hollywood and what remains right about British broadcast. 1985 was when I discovered Hitchhikers. I managed to record every episode but the first which I was later able to add. However reading the book afterwards, it was undeniably richer. Movies at their best remain a poor facsimile of storytelling. I don't know if it played on Oz TV before 1985 but that was my first contact,
Arthur: I wonder if I left the gas on
Also Arthur - has an electric cooker
This was great 👍 Thank you 😊
Someone could easily have gas-heating in a dwelling with an electric stove, of course.
@@therealinformalmusic True, but it's usual that if you say that you've left the gas on then that means the cooker.
@@MargaretUK
From Chapter IV of Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
translated by G. M. Towle:
Just as the train was whirling through Sydenham, Passepartout suddenly uttered a cry of despair.
“What’s the matter?” asked Mr. Fogg.
“Alas! In my hurry-I-I forgot-”
“What?”
“To turn off the gas in my room!”
“Very well, young man,” returned Mr. Fogg, coolly; “it will burn-at your expense.”
I thought Arthur had left the electric cooker on, and when he put the papers down on the electric cooker and went upstairs, I was expecting a fire to break out. I was sure I saw a heat haze above the electric cooker!
makes an old man smile
I was just a kid when the series first popped up on Radio4.
Listened to it with my dad - it blew my mind. I loved Marvin most of all. I remember one quote... "Marvin! Are we glad to see you!?"
"I doubt it."
Fond memories. The series set me up perfectly for the sci-fi quirkiness within the pages of 2000AD.
Thank you DA.
Remember how Medca City One used a time gate to transport processed meat from farming Dinosaurs to 2000 AD, I think Sylvester Stallone did a great JD too.
@@Terrestrial..1 I've never managed to make myself watch Stallone as Judge Dredd... I've been too scared in case he'd ruin it for me.
I should watch it.
@cnrspiller3549 I know what you mean, actually he's not too bad in it, don't like his Lawgiver bike though, too fake, I also liked the original JD, he executed people on the spot, I read 2000 AD from almost the first comic though stopped getting them year's later when the artist was replaced, it just wasn't the same and it all went silly after that, Strontium Dog was a good caricature.
@@Terrestrial..1 I loved Strontium Dog too.
My favourite was Sam Slade, Robo Hunter.
@@cnrspiller3549 There was a mile high wall around Medca City 1 to protect it from all sorts that lived outside in the 'Cursed Earth' (destroyed after ww3), when a 'Judge' became too old they were given the bare essentials (no gun) and were kicked out of the city for their final days.
Wha?? This is *fantastic*! THANK YOU FOR POSTING IT!
This was phenomenal! Thank you for putting this together.
A truly lovely tribute to the late great DA. I went to see the live show in London in the 70's and fell asleep riding my motorbike with my wife on the back on the home on the M1 (she was already asleep), very nearly the end of us there! Worth it though 😆
Such a good story :)
Boy were you lucky that night .
Brilliant peace of editing!!! GOOD SHOW!!! I suppose I'm the only one of 7 people who have enjoyed the ENTIRE series (well, except for the movie). THIS WAS A GREAT "LOST" EPISODE! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
Am I one of the 7? I might be the 9th in the sequence of 7...
I recorded the entire series in the eighties and re-watched it every couple of years since.
This is utterly brilliant! I just wish there were more like this.
Bloody brilliant!!!!! Huge fan of THHGTTG since I discovered it in 1985.... Well done (applauds)
Oh how I wish for more!
Is it just my memory playing tricks, or is that The Liberator from Blake's 7 in the opening shot...?
Yep. Maybe Avon & co dropped Arthur off? :D
@@DaddyStoat Nice!
There was supposed to be a trio of "The Making Of..." series. This and the other two Blake's 7 and Red Dwarf. They never got made or if they were not released probably due to poor sales of this one.
and a Tardis too
@@darwinjina Yeah, that one got made and released. More Than 30 Years In The Tardis.
I thought I was up on the whole hitchhiking saga....but this is absolutely amazing and thanks to everyone who made this... Disaster area is the greatest Rock band ever 😎🤘💖
Unless you live on a planet that hosts one of their concerts!
@@tedsmith6137 Hey man....any planet out there would be proud as punch to host a Disaster Area gig....😎🎸🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🤘
I love HH. it’s still a part of my day to day life.
Haven’t seen this before.
Thanks for the content.
Fantastically wonderful.
Weird isn't. I bought my home partly because HH. Then I reread the trilogy of 5 books and maybe I should reconsider?
54 = 42 base13
It was through Douglas Adams that I discovered I had been working for Vogons years ago. Thanks for this!
This was such a mind twisting pleasure to watch. I wish it was longer, like, by a hundred years or so.
& then an actual God passed, RIP Douglas, & thanks for all the reality mate see ya soon x
I first came across hitchhikers guide to the galaxy as the radio show and loved it, so when it came out in TV I couldn't wait and as we didn't have a video recorder, I recorded all the audio on to reel to reel tape and then listened to it over and over again.
Oh my goodness 😂 what sweet sweet relief 😮 I'd been wondering how to look for something that I didn't know or comprehend and thought I felt like I should ask for the universe to unshackle myself so as to better see what I was and now am, ah.
I needed this.
And apparently this needed me too 😅
Brilliant thank you! From hiding under the covers pretending to be asleep listening to the first broadcast by chance through every recording, broadcast, and book, this fantastic story keeps on giving!
Now that I've learned that this was lifted from the South Bank show, I have both the South Bank show theme song and hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy running in my head at the same time. It's actually pretty sweet.
I discovered the original radio show in 1978 while messing about with an ancient cat's whisker crystal set I found in my parents' attic. Heard it coming through the headphones and wondered what on earth I was listening to. Been a fan ever since.
I was just thinking of this show recently and then see this. What are the odds? Makes you think there really is more to this universe than we know.
What are the odds, why infinitely improbable!
Or Google is now tracking and monetizing your thoughts...
You Tube does that to me too.
Creepy, isn't it?
Your phone probably has an infinite improbability generator app or something...😉
@@TooSlowTube Skynet knows all..
This is from the making of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. I was a matt painter for the Babelfish. 1991ish
Strangely when they made the movie, the original graphics looked better.
@TheTimeProphet The original graphics were traditional animation, that's why they still look good now.
@@Benjiesbeenbetter. I agree.
So cool! So long, and thanks for all the art!
Like being whacked over the head with a gold brick rapped in a slice of lemon. A pan galactic garggal blaster.
Brilliant! Thank you for posting.
That was fantastic. thankyou proper piecing the third wall. Good stuff. thanks
That was simply marvelous....
I really envy you having 2112 in your handle
The first bit reminds me of Arthur's return in the fourth book (So Long and Thanks For All The Fish) -- the pile of letters behind the door, pulling out the babelfish and putting it in a fish bowl, little things like that.
Only thing missing was the dead cat
@@rollingpaper9942 And the least hairy things in the refrigerator that Arthur ate, unintentionally saving Earth from a horrible alien disease.
The South Bank Show clips are from the Autumn of 1991, not 1992; as Melvyn Bragg was saying to Douglas Adams in the interview, he's a difficult author to get to finish a book, and it took Adams about another ten months after this TSBS (supposedly about the novel) was broadcast to finish writing 'Mostly Harmless' - and it took another six weeks for it to be published. Interestingly, the tiny segments of text from 'Mostly Harmless' that appeared in the docudrama were all gone from the published novel. (Real geeky blooper; the same bit Arthur dictates to Adams on the screen was already in the typed text, but written backwards, when he was talking to Ford a minute earlier.)
Without the scene from the first Dirk Gently novel, this has no clear explanation for who the guy playing the piano at the end is supposed to be. Still, I've always been rather fond of that moment just for seeing Marvin dancing and singing along. Nice to see him having a good time at last!
The 'Making of...' video was produced while the VHS release of the series was hitting the shops. Some of the scenes in it are based on bits of the novel 'So Long And Thanks For All The Fish.' But with both the Liberator and the TARDIS appearing, you may need to add copyright tags for Dr Who and Blake's 7 in the disclaimer, just to keep you right.
The guy in the vogon costume is Michael Cule. Fans of the gameshow 'Knightmare' will know him as Brother Mace.
Thank you. I believe you. I now even believe I can play the piano....................
Brilliant!
Great books, excellent BBC TV series and brilliant memories. Thank you Douglas 'a brain the size of a planet' Adams! We miss you ❤.
" I suppose this might have seemed like a good idea once. Depressing isn't it" - Marvin (With a brain the size of a planet).
Ford Prefect - Quantum uncertainty
Arthur Dent - Something about cats?
DA was brilliant.
It's like you invented a time machine and I travelled back to 1981 when things were fun.
Was this the South Bank Show? I'd forgotten watching this. Gosh, must've been a teenager. Good eggs to the actors for coming back.
Heard it on the radio, whe it first aired then got series one on lps, then saw the play (live on stage), at The Rainbow Theatre then there was the tv adaptation. Bits of it are still funny after all these years.
I had thought for years I was the only one with a copy of that South Bank show! It isn't even on the 2018 'Guide DVD extras - and there are a LOT of extras with that, stuff I'd not seen before!
Oh thank you for this! Brilliant!
That was just lovely.
Of course the Electric Monk is hanging out at Douglas Adams' house. Of course he is.
Well now, that really does explain cats.
Cat's having an awareness of another dimension is a very common theme in occultic discussions. It is the explanation for the way they can sometimes chase invisible things and only when they are unable to eat it after do, they realise it wasn't a proper thing. Usually, a bit of confusion follows, and they never seem to get used to it. With some crossover of my own vision into another dimension, I have caught glimpses of the very thing the cat has been chasing so it makes a lot of sense to me. Dogs do not have very much ability to see anything more than we do. They are often fooled y illusions just like we are. Cats see everything but aren't able to fully separate the dimensions. I guess this anomalous paradigm of cats is what makes them so popular in multidimensional activities.
Loved the HHGTTG this is very well made , loved it :-)
Now that was hoopy!
spot the mistake in Britain when you turn the key clockwise it usually locks the door
Only on the inside!
Depends on which side the lock is on.
Well done, it very much suits the original tv series very well and integrates newer tech in . Would be good to see a continuation of this .
Perhaps we should have stayed in the tree's.
Do enjoy the digital watches thou.
A friend at the time worked for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, they broadcast the original BBC radio play. My friend would make a cassette copy of the original tapes which we would listen to before they were broadcast, couldn't get enough of them.
Cries .. rolls over ,,cries some more ,, oh ,, thank you,, ah,, i used to blog about these scenes ,, due to the emotional responce ,, each time i wanted a good cry ,,, i would remember these scenes ,, happy sadnesss,,
brings the 'making of' to life with frightening prescience and somehow is appropriately oblique sufficient to join the 'oeuvre' .. good work
Loved the radio series, I wonder how different it would be if made today in 2024.
Trillian would be black and disabled, and the show would mainly be about her exploits alongside her wife, Ford Fiesta.
Meanwhile Arthur Dent would be relegated to a minor comedic interlude in episode 3, as the butt of their jokes.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 I think that would be the way forward in today's world. We have come along way since it was first produced.
This was or is so cool I was so lucky to get to watch back in 1981, 82 I would have to hitchhike home every day from work to my small town about 50 km away and every day I get a lift by someone different and the same in the morning anyway I'd just walk in the front door sit down turn on the TV and I just be in time every day to watch it my house mates use to all joke that I'd miss one show but never did ( and i still can't get the hang of Thursdays) anyhow cheers guys
This is absolute genious.
@8:55 - The 'fictional charactor who believes things' is an Electric Monk, a domestic applience that will assure you whatever you want to be true is indeed true. Not the right entity to consult over serious issules like 'Are the nuclear shields OK?'.... From the Adams book 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency' which I would suggest is the best thing he ever wrote.
"Adams book 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency' which I would suggest is the best thing he ever wrote."
I believe you.
I've recently read 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency', one moment they are watching helpless as an engineer resets the human history into oblivion, the next chapter they are talking to a poet and everything's alright again.... Am I missing something or is my paper copy of the book faulty?
It's a treat to watch this and a double treat to see the monk. I haven't thought about him since I read the paperback, back when it first came out.
I really enjoyed this trip down memory lane. I watched the series as a kid and then read the books whilst in Thunder Bay, Lake Superior, Canada. I was there for a month in 1994, to follow in series the years mentioned.
The other book I read was called Subliminal Seduction, about how advertising works, only now it is very different, as if to try to be the opposite of the way it was back then. At least some things still make 42, apparently, like seven times nine.
Great programme.
At a E-recycling center they were processing a old Macintosh, realized the owner was one Douglas Addams. It was set aside and the contents examined. This is increasingly not the question of quantum mechanics, more a question of digital watches.
In the not too distant future, generative AI trained on adams's content mirroring his psychology, will generate unending continuations of THHGTTG in every form conceivable. Then THHGTTG will effectively become it's own parallel multiverse of experiential possibilities where we can all be zaphod lol
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loved this!!!!!
i'm reading the trilogy currently, am half way through so long and thanks for all the fish
Enjoy all six parts
Mostly harmless. 🤣🤣🤣 priceless
Don't talk to me about life, here am I, brain the size of a planet and you want me to pick up that piece of paper
call that job satisfaction?
I've not seen this in decades!😮
A great series, much loved and missed. Souch humour ar si many levels not to mention "cut through the crap" wisdom.
Wow, that is Douglas’s actual home, and Douglas’s actual Mac (Quadra, no doubt), and his origibal Mac 1984 on the shelf? The first or second one in Europe. Then they went to the actual trouble of putting the Arthur video on the Mac Trinitron screen instead of overlaying it in post.
I think they were inserts to a South Bank Show episode about Douglas Adams.
I used to love that show. Spitting Image would finish. Then you’d get the quirky music and animation of SBS theme followed by the nasal tones of Melvyn Brag. One out of ten times it would be about someone or something you were actually interested in. The other 9 times you’d learn something new.
I've still got this one on DVD It was a documentary about the original series and how modern technology could be used to enhance it ☺️☺️
With modern technology; the Americans f’d it up.
Look out Arthur!!! He's packing a poetry book!😜Ahhhhhhh!
That was what I've waited for for years, lol
mad that it predicted the kindle and the like
Great edit
Brilliant!
Fantastic, well done.
Wert bad space film 4....😂 90s i think 😊 ps ((((....hi Zbe 😊 u watching this with me was brilliant film from 90s
Always loved HH since the radio series. When i started a new job as a mobile engineer, i got the title of engineer 42 !!!. Just need an infinite improbability for the van now ........
This is wonderful.
Putting them together like that makes a nice little stand-alone episode. I'm going to watch this again with fellow H2G2 fans.
But your line about 'please don't sue me' won't work, When I re-do this edit in 2028 I'll send it back to 2022, uploaded to my channel, and sue you for copying my idea!!! LOL
lol
Every time I catch McGivern in a different show I think back to Hitchhiker's.
You need to read more of Douglas Adams than Hitchhikers to grasp the eclectic and chaotic collection of ideas which he champions but in time his philosophy and humor filter into one's life.
I met an old man. years ago when I was a teenager... many years ago now... The man was lying in a hospital bed on top of the covers in the same room as another person I was visiting at that time. He was dressed in his pyjamas and a dressing robe. He wasn't looking too well... not that surprising as he was rather old and was likely in that Hospital for a reason... anyway as I wandered by his bed I saw a name that seemed rather familiar as I'd only been reading about him not a few minutes before. I stopped and stared at the old man, gave what I hoped was a disarming, if not reassuring smile and as calmly as I could asked "Excuse me Sir... is this your bed?" He nodded and blinked at me... I then, reading again the name on the wall over the head of his bed, asked "Dent?... Arthur Dent?" He Nodded and smiled again... I met his eyes finally composing myself and said "A pleasure to meet you Mr Dent... I hope you get better soon... so long." We nodded at each other smiled and I then walked away and I never saw that man again.
Good job!
Nicely done, verry creative
Excellent!
I have those very same paperbacks. :)
Douglas, is sadly missed. Don’t Panic 🛸🛸👽👽🚀
Apparently Psycho Virtual Reality was a difficult concept to figure out for many so they decided not to show this episode.
Brilliant! Thanks
Having listened to the radio four version and watchwd the television version too,I can see why that episode was lost.Long may it remain so.42 was the last episode and a great one too.....................................
This is a very good, very "meta"...well done indeed.
Are you sure you didn't lose your copy? You better check again
Brilliant.❤✨
Loved the first two radio series. Truly wonderful.
What was wrong with the other four?
@@dogwalker666 I felt the subsequent offerings lost the plot and were simply neither very funny nor as clever as the first two series
@@davidwormell6609 I agree about the last one as it was after we lost Douglas, Did you read the Dirk Gently books?
That was quite fun.
Is that Dirk Gently sitting at the piano next to the electric monk? If so, it's the most book-accurate version of him yet.
I love the bbc hitchhikers guide to the galaxy but not the remake
The American version was bad. The original radio series is still brilliant.
I thought that Adams, alas, has left the building... But will he reappear (at least on the other side of the window(s)), if i get Mac OS? What was the solution to John Cleese, the bomb?
I'm pretty sure this was on TV back around 92/93. I've got a vague recollection of seeing it as part of an arts program.
IIRC the scenes with Arthur and Ford were spliced into an interview with Douglas Adams.
Mostly Harmless came out in hardback the summer of 92. South Bank Show did a tie-in episode.
The Making of was a VHS released around 1993 coinsiding with the release of the TV series on VHS.
Whats the titles of the beautiful music in the background?