Don't Panic! | The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy | BBC Studios

[@theannoyedmrfloyd3998]

What's really funny is the Hhgttg TV series won an award for Best Computer Graphics and the upstart of that is those aren't computer graphics at all! They had some artists do them in a computery style and it looks like that. It's all hand drawn.

[@DVincentW]

Thats funny, thanks for that morsel of film- making history. Im waiting for a Vogon fleet to arrive presently.

[@rosemariebredahl9519]

BBC original/ older series or newer feature-length movie?

[@themadplotter]

@@rosemariebredahl9519 the tv show, there was a brilliant documentary on KZbin about the animations from the 80s but it’s been taken down. They were pretty painstaking to make. It’s actually just a black negative image with clear space to put coloured gels which they exposed in order to make it look like the lines were growing etc. the reason it wasn’t computer graphics is only the university of London computer ‘farm’ could have done it and it would have taken several weeks to render each little book entry.

[@jabberw0k812]

Arthur sounds exactly like I always imagined him to sound.

[@dlee645]

Someone needs to create a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy app for iPad complete with all the necessary information needed to travel the galaxy.

[@hunglikeahamster3248]

Dlee645 It's been done, as you know... What really needs to be done is to let stuff like this out of The Vault, and GIVE IT AWAY WHILE IT CAN STILL DO SOME GOOD.

[@ProtoKun7]

Hothead Games was going to work on one in 2011 but they never finished.

[@tizcoloko]

nah a Huawei tablet , your fancy ipad is a fail

[@Geonorth1]

Google?

[@SatyrBarbarossa_Eleusis]

Whatever the platform, let's go! Thumbs out & off we hitch 😝

[@billyranger2627]

This series has been the greatest thing I have watched. With bbc losing its muscle now it will remain the best thing you will see.

[@shawnattwells5355]

"Da da da da. (smirk) No."

[@Vesnicie]

I loved it when the BBC was all about men wearing large, ludicrously coloured bin bags.

[@SamuelBlack84]

Just like early Doctor Who. Sponsored by Blue Peter

[@dalekinthewater4708]

I thought they were dungarees

[@siler7]

@@dalekinthewater4708 No, those are definitely men.

[@silvercat18]

Space > Distance to Chemist.

[@Percyripped]

Wow wrf i never knew this exsisted...the 2005 hitchhikers guide the the galaxy is literally one of my favorite movies of all time. The book is one of my favorite books of all time.

[@kerryedavis]

The mini-series is superior in several ways, not least being that it's much longer than the movie and thus can tell more story in more detail.

[@nightwingjosh8491]

Man, the Vogons on this show used to scare me as a kid.

[@anonymoususer208]

Pretty much if fat bastard was an Alien species (Not including the one from that one doctor who episode where one Absorbed people)

[@user-nh1og5hy1u]

Yes i can see how a child could be scared of them. Once you are an adult you can better ignore listening to poetry.

[@ArgonTheAware]

I bet it really encouraged you to listen to your mother so you wouldn't regret it like Arthur did

[@scottmantooth8785]

@@user-nh1og5hy1u *unless forcibly restrained and then you wouldn't really have much of a choice*

[@carminemurray6624]

If I saw a Vogon now, I would likely soil meself.

[@blaidencortel]

“Space is big. Really big.”

[@scottmantooth8785]

*the area just outside where space occupies is much, much bigger*

[@DVincentW]

Yes thank you for this... something sane.

[@KOTYAR0]

Indeed

[@robadams5799]

See 0:15 for Arthur Dent's impression of C-3PO.

[@amberdolphin1210]

Wow. He's still being quite happy. "What did she say?" "I don't know, I didn't listen!" Me: Bahahahahahahahahaha! Ho, that's funny!

[@MrJJBhizzle]

Yeah, but there's a logical point to that joke. Everybody claims they never listened to their mother, yet recite endless harangues their mothers used to chastise them with. I am sure that these kinds of verbal incongruities used to keep Douglas Adams up nights...

[@scottmantooth8785]

*this is how a proper Vogon is supposed to look and act...with or without the paperwork authorizing such behavior...not that a Vogon would even care if you approved of their natural inclinations to be reprehensible towards other lifeforms...it's just who they are*

[@Scyllax]

In the Justice League cartoon show twenty years ago, the “re-imagined” Thanagarians attempted to destroy the earth for a new hyperspace bypass. That can’t be a coincidence. Hawkgirl’s people were winged Vogons.

[@SuperWolsey]

Wish Adam's lived long enough to see it to give his 2 cents about that

[@McDADDyK]

So much more faithful to the books. But the movie is still amazing.

[@theannoyedmrfloyd3998]

You mean the radio show.

[@djackmanson]

I wonder if the party, and the Islington flat, were ever commemorated in some small way.

[@peterjones3557]

Jeremy Corbin's blue plaque?

[@Agropio]

I guess we'll never know. Sounds highly improbable though.

[@mrorangepeel659]

This is where Star Trek stole the saying “Resistance is futile’ for the Borg. The “useless” is funnier of course.

[@UnchainedEruption]

Oh I'm sure the cliche has been around a lot longer than that.

[@geomicer]

Perfect movie, completely realistic and plausible, probably true, story. Love it.

[@kerryedavis]

This is the TV mini-series, not the movie.

[@keithpovall9996]

Ford, what's this fish doing in my ear?

[@tweakiepop]

Cheers Spacex!

[@BovineDesigns]

This is very applicable to today

[@moreorless87]

"Counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor? deaths too good for em"

[@Elitist20]

Instead of Martin Freeman playing Arthur Dent in the film, they should have got David Mitchell.

[@bimmjim]

Douglas Adams was the greatest Philosopher who ever lived.

[@only257]

Love this version better than the 2005 remake 🦖

[@DVincentW]

Oh yes. Agreed..

[@maryyoung4046]

same here. This was the original. My father got it for me as a record set xmas 1984. I had these big ear covering headphones also which had great bass on them so I had a great time listening to it all.

[@only257]

@@maryyoung4046 cool

[@Aristocles22]

It's basically Candide in space. Same madcap rushing from place to place and making a mockery of existing philosophical thought.

[@Slashkamr]

Being thrown into the airlock by a Hitchhikers fan

[@tnaoro]

2:03 animation!

[@kerryedavis]

Presumably the Guide wasn't produced/published/whatever in England, so why would it refer to "the chemist?"

[@felipeschmitz630]

Could you tell me what year this movie is from?

[@DJ_Sonic09]

This is a clip from the TV series from 1981, there was also a movie adaptation in 2005

[@felipeschmitz630]

@@DJ_Sonic09 thanks

[@mulgerbill]

So, if I show a negative poo balance when I leave Bethselamin will the locals give me a big hand?

[@ZlothZloth]

Ford might have convinced him if he had gotten that last note right. (The Vogon figured it out later.)

[@proscriptus]

Or, you know, do.

[@keithpovall9996]

Truly brilliant comedy, I listened tot he radio series int he 70s, read the books, loved the TV show but hated the movie.

[@Albert_Herring]

DA DA DA DA

[@countOfHenneberg]

V for Victory, in case you wanted to know. I'm sure you already did...

[@RockSleeper]

Is every scene in the movie from the show?

[@McDADDyK]

What? No... have you seen the movie?

[@RockSleeper]

@@McDADDyK I've seen the movie, but not the show. I've only recently seen clips like these from the show

[@FigmentSALabel]

@@RockSleeper Initially it was a radio series. That was made into a television series.

[@Cheesemonk3h]

yes, and every scene in the show is from the book

[@DrewSavo]

The movie covers most of the first few episodes of the tv series, and around 10% to 20% of the first book.

[@davidwhite2141]

Poetry in motion

[@ZlothZloth]

Well, some particularly bad poetry ultimately caused their motion out an airlock, yes.

[@krathoon2338]

I kind of felt the movie did a good job of adding some emotional weight to the story.

[@alastairlowrie40]

The 'film' was an aberration, I'm almost glad that Douglas died before it came out so that he couldnt be fully associated with it. It failed in the basic premise of the 'movie' about the by-pass, the mice & the fjords. Hollywood at its worst. Worse, it was just unfunny. Bares no resemblance to the books, whereas in the tv series you can visualise the written word. Krathoon, you need to re-watch the series, the movie, & re-evaluate the meaning of life, the universe & everything!

[@OfLanceTheLonginus]

It posed the ultimate answer and never brought up the ultimate question, so no, fuck the movie

[@galaxys3783]

Resistance is usles NO BRO !!!!!!!!

[@Hufffy]

two to the power of two hundred and sixty thousand. one hundred amd sixty thousand, one hundred and ninety nine to one against

[@davidwhite2141]

No Intel. . . Scanning.

[@emmanuelhalabaso4062]

hockey guy

[@zachflynn65]

Yes yes it is you can do alot 😂

[@davidwhite2141]

What?

[@mikesilva3868]

🦖fun tv show

[@sirkurtisjeffreyjayluethkl797]

SECURE AND CONTAIN PRECAPTURED

[@davidwhite2141]

🤣

[@LulaJake]

Asphyxiation? I think you mean dessication.

[@ThomasG-og4yb]

I am watching these old clips and grieving for my poor misbegotten British friends, who have succumbed to the Covidia hysteria with the ensuing totalitarianism...

[@TheExperimentalFreak]

The movie's better imo. Mos Def was a much better Ford and the jokes were delivered better. Here it feels like the actors are just going through the motions

[@teknerds]

Can't believe I'm here coz I googled 'vogon', I was wondering if my extensive vocabulary database at the helm of my mind was failing me or something, only to discover it's a 'fake' word invented by some other mind's imagination... oh Vogoshpere Vogons LOL actually saw this while completing a 'captcha'

[@FigmentSALabel]

So much better than the movie.

[@robadams5799]

Oh yeah. The 2005 movie was awful.

[@theannoyedmrfloyd3998]

@@robadams5799 You do realize Douglas Adams wrote the screenplay for the movie which he worked very hard to get it made? That movie was excellent. Each incarnation of the story in different media is completely different owing to British copyright laws and also partly due to Adams himself. Appreciate it because it was the last thing he worked on before his untimely end. At least he knew where his towel was.

[@robadams5799]

@@theannoyedmrfloyd3998 I didn't realize that. Thank for for the helpful information. But, as the Second Doctor said: "you've redecorated. I don't like it."

[@LulaJake]

Writing the screenplay means fuck all. It was still ruined by Hollywood.

[@DVincentW]

@@theannoyedmrfloyd3998 I prefer the BBC series. When I saw it I was younger, and the original made an impression on me, as I was very much into Python, and that kind of authentic English sarcasm tone is lacking in the movie.

[@carminemurray6624]

BORG: Resistance is Futile, Vogon Captain: Resistance is Useless 🪴🪴🪴