Earth is Demolished

Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass in this clip from episode 1 of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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[@gemstonegynoid7475]

I like the movie interpretation of the vogon ships. Representing adam's description of "they hung in the sky in much the same way bricks dont"

[@TheCoolEevee]

One of the few things that the movie did well. The only minor nitpick I have with the design is that it’s not yellow.

[@gemstonegynoid7475]

@@TheCoolEevee reread the books recently. Indeed they should've been yellow.

[@rosskerr1439]

They went unnoticed at Goonhilly, they passed over Cape Canaveral without a blip, and Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them… which was a pity, because it was the sort of thing they’d been looking for all these years.

[@exploitativity]

I like how the fact that all screens on the planet broadcasted the Vogon message is implied in our screen switching to the broadcast as well.

[@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882]

The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy or How I learned to stop worrying and love the Vogon Constructor Fleet.

[@imlate-official3714]

Beautiful, everything in this just perfect. Even the yellow ship that look exactly like the book describes!

[@Shadowkey392]

Actually the book never described the Vogon Constructor ships as saucers, that was the radio and TV series.

[@SpikeInfinity]

The book describes them as huge, yellow, chunky and slab like. The TV show has them looking exactly like this, which makes the line Ford says about them being a fleet of flying *saucers* all the more odd. He was probably just describing them in generic Earth terms for Arthur's benefit.

[@Silverwind87]

@@SpikeInfinity The ships hung in the air in much the same way that bricks don't.

[@larrote6467]

those are the little details that DON'T matter

[@elsabisa5919]

I just read the description of the ships again in “Restaurant “ and agree, this is perfect.

[@Orgruk]

(No dolphins were harmed in the making of this video)

[@LoesserOf2Evils]

No mice, either.

[@boneheadclonea.p5020]

I love how in auto English subtitle when earth got destroyed it says [applause] And at the end of it: You [applause] Don't make me celebrate that XD

[@rosskerr1439]

2:30 I love that humanity invented smartphones before Earth was demolished.

[@thatcookiecat]

These are amazing animations and they fit perfectly with the original radio broadcasts. If Hitchhiker’s ever has an animated series you should definitely be an animator for it. Keep up the great work!

[@bradpotts1747]

man i miss these. cheers mr page. you did good work.

[@TarotVylan]

Your animations are beautiful and so pleasing to the eye. They fit the humor of Hitchhiker's guide perfectly

[@Kingohel]

Damn dude you're pumping these out it's amazing

[@Backonos]

he already made these. He had one episode but got taken down so now he is uploading them as clips

[@akufromthefuture7159]

i JUST discovered your channel today.. i subscribed bc you have made the best visual version of this series I have EVER seen.. I'm Midwest American, so aside from the novels and bad film, i have never seen the British series or heard the radio version.. you have made it almost exactly how i imagined as i read the whole series. thank you!!! and thank you for the fish! i pray i get to see the ENTIRE series done by you. you should be paid, you've done so well. thank you once again! -Joey

[@theoneandonlyNick2]

I'm glad you liked it. It's nice to know that people are still finding them

[@ace942]

This must have happened on a Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursday.

[@GRasputin91]

Ill give the Vogons this, I wont miss having to come in to work.

[@clevergadget]

You really did a pile of great under appreciated work here, people put a bazillion dollars onto hitchhiker projects that turn out much worse.

[@Qdaman17]

1:22, man that line is perfect!

[@rmbassett58]

The explosion was over dramatized. Part of the comedic factor in the movie was just how sad and uneventful looking the destruction of earth was. Other than that beautiful animation

[@roguishpaladin]

Bear in mind that the animation is set to the previously-existing radio show. An uneventful destruction of Earth would come off as silence, which would leave the listener scratching their head as to what just happened. Different media require different approaches, something that Douglas Adams recognized very well when he adapted the radio show as a book and as a TV show.

[@rmbassett58]

@@roguishpaladin fair point

[@dantes4539]

Trillian: The Hero Arthur: The Warrior Ford: The Professor Zaphod: The Jester

[@magicamadeye]

whats marvin?

[@dantes4539]

@@magicamadeye The Cece of New Girl. The MC of Doki Doki Literature Club. The Zenigata of the Lupin Gang.

[@Zappline]

Please please please please make more of these. Many many many more. I know it was like 4 years since you made this one. But we need more!!!

[@plopgoot5458]

keep up the good work. I just found your channel here two days ago I really like your animation style for the book. : )

[@28russ]

Wow!! They were absolutely awesome!!! I'd love to see the whole radio series done as an animation. I've never actually heard the radio show but if they include the whole plot of the books with the part of Zaphod's brain sealed off, the man in the shack, the cricket wars and so many other things I'm forgetting that would be amazing.😁

[@ArcturanMegadonkey]

All of these are brilliant Nick, you really should do the whole radio series!

[@theoneandonlyNick2]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked them. I did try doing the whole series. I got one and a half episodes through before the BBC took them down. Most of it is still available as clips though

[@95rav]

@@theoneandonlyNick2 sell the entire series through patreon. I pay for it.

[@UncensoredScion]

The understated jokes that just go on in the background of the series are hilarious to me, like that Zaford signing the destruction order for Earth to create the express lane while the heart of gold is being made that makes hyperspace entirely obsolete so the destruction really wasn't needed. But the planning had been done, the papers filed, the permissions granted, what were they supposed to do, just ignore all that because a better way of doing things just came along?

[@shaun7583]

In terms of animation this is one of your best

[@ninjawhippetproductions7411]

Hey mate, I can't help but notice the sound quality is a little low - do you not have access to higher-quality recordings of the episodes? As I have the complete CD box set and would be very *very* happy to help out if you want better audio quality :D

[@Argom42]

i miss this guy i hope youre doing alright man

[@KneelB4SodsLaw]

"WHAT THE HELL'S THAT?", lol still gets me

[@AdventureMaster18]

Btw, I have higher quality rips of the first 5 audio dramas in Flac, meaning no quality is lost. I plan to get the hexagonal phase and rip it in high quality too, would you be interested in these higher quality rips?

[@ReiverBlue1971]

THE man would have been proud - lovely work :D

[@kelmanl4]

Going to assume you are not interested in returning but I'd love to some Animated moments of Rob Mckenna or the man in the shack.

[@tristanmccann6838]

I wonder what Nick Page is doing right now and I wonder if he’s enjoying whatever he’s doing. I certainly hope so.

[@theoneandonlyNick2]

I'm eating a hotdog...its okay I guess

[@tristanmccann6838]

@@theoneandonlyNick2 That makes me very happy 😊.

[@satyr1349]

Sound a tad difficult to hear (track a bit low in the mix I'm guessing) yet I know the scene from the radio series by heart. Ty for the new upload!

[@RBEO22]

I remember when my computer did the exact same thing--flying saucers and everything.

[@ZX81v2]

Only argument I have is you forgot the clock on the wall of the pub, "Last orders please.." Basically the Pub would have been open for less than an hour... Other than that, I am looking forward to watching your rendition of HHGTTG scenes Great work

[@TheDunnDusted]

Brilliant as usual. But one of the things I have to give the movie version, bad as it was, is the destruction earth being understated and blinked out of existence. Very in keeping with the existentialist themes of the radio drama and books. All the same, great realisation of the radio drama.

[@Shadowkey392]

We need more from you!

[@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882]

Beware The Leopard.

[@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882]

😁😂🤣😃😄😅😆😉😆😅😃😃🤣😂😀 Was that only said in the Miniseries?

[@eoin7290]

Hey nick u are the best thank you for continuing to make these videos and make the world a little better before the vogons blow up earth Thank you so much

[@jhonnymark7581]

Hey. In case you do come back, I think you should do an animation segment on the chapter where Beeblebrox is in a broken down Heart of Gold in the dark and hears an intruder and turns out to be a broken Marvin. I forgot which book it was and I'm hoping there won't be a copyright strike against it. It would be pretty cool though. I've also made this playlist called "Adult Swim Material". It's not really what it seems, but it's a bit of my vision of a collection of videos that have the Adult Swim vibe. I included your HHGTTG animations just to get this feel. They're awesome and worthy of the playlist. Hope you come back one day

[@Blartyboy]

I hope. One day, he'll make another video.

[@andyleclerc3600]

The animation is great...very much in the spirit of Cosgrove-Hall and DANGER MOUSE (my favorite) 😎

[@28russ]

Loved DM and Penfold haha. I was just watching some of the Cosgrove-Hall Discworld "Soul Music" just before I found these. It's a shame they didn't make a few more of them. They did such great work back in the day. 😁

[@peNdantry]

Where have you gone to, Nick Page? Your contributions are sorely missed!

[@tinnedpianos]

Please bring these animations back.

[@Hydroculator]

These are fantastic!

[@masterskrain2630]

"Thursday Meeting at 4:20..." HUMMM...

[@dogofmordor7716]

this is word for word correct, exactly like the book

[@28russ]

That's because the radio play script essentially are the books. He wrote it before the books.

[@bdpickett]

Any chance you'll reload these elsewhere as full episodes again?

[@Future_Phoenix]

2:29 so it doesn't take place in the 80's in this version? Anyway, great job on animating this! Wish I could hear a little better though...

[@mymyrrah]

Wait, YOU made these? I thought these were random clips from newgrounds or something. Well done!

[@jojones4685]

Happy towel day, man

[@theoneandonlyNick2]

And to you you hoopy frood!

[@nevada_tomato]

The only thing that is missing is the laughing drunk

[@ThunderstruckElectronix]

This is awesome, well done. I'd love to know about what made you take on this project and so on

[@blrun129]

Brilliant !!!!!

[@duketheLEGEND651]

These are great will there be more?

[@theoneandonlyNick2]

There is more to come but I've been taking the Douglas Adams approach with regards to deadlines

[@duketheLEGEND651]

@@theoneandonlyNick2 I don't know what that means

[@oscyllarus8335]

@@duketheLEGEND651 They once had to lock adams in a room and force him to actually finish a book. Notorious for it. The guy had lots going on at once, mostly in his head

[@Spoomis]

Dude, if i win the lottery, after taxes, charity and a sandwich, i am giving you a sizable amount to make this for TV.

[@gordonoreilly8006]

I love the show

[@Rugops42]

Hey Nick any chance you can animate the guide entry for "The Universe being infinite therefore there are no imports/exports) if you haven't already? only recently discovered your work and it's all just brilliant.

[@tea-sus8722]

you should look into the Hexagonal Phase, plenty of good content there

[@domundtgregor6683]

a funny spelling mistake at 1:13 it should read planEtary , because Earth is (was) a planEt

[@firstnamelastname3468]

@Nick Page Thank You for sharing these wonderful animations, well done, kudos. As a youth I was sure I had incarnated on the wrong planet, so many things seemed wrong/backwards to my idea of right/normal growing up(vietnam war, Richard Nixon, Cold war, Thatcher/Reagan + . . .), when I discovered HHGG in college in the 1980's it confirmed for me that I was mentally sane and the world was nuts, I miss Douglas Adams so much, love your animations. I hope your 3 year "hiatus" from making content is because you are happily hitchhiking the galaxy and that you have still more current content someday... either way, I like it, subbscribed✔️ MAY YOU ALWAYS KNOW WHERE YOUR TOWEL IS, and may it always be SO FLUFFY! (

[@Barron198]

Well ....bugger

[@ComicbookSam]

Brian Butterfield!!

[@theoneandonlyNick2]

At last someone noticed!

[@ComicbookSam]

@@theoneandonlyNick2 Ha I am a huge Peter Serafinowicz fan. My fave Butterfield moment..."Christmas Man!"

[@theoneandonlyNick2]

@@ComicbookSam im planning to make Christmas Man cards this year

[@ComicbookSam]

@@theoneandonlyNick2 Amazing!!

[@Jowsh__33]

Where did you go, I understand if your busy but I'm a bit confused

[@BENTHER]

These were briliant! May i ask why you deleted the full episodes? or if there is another way to see them now?

[@sethbar-zak7110]

is they're going to be more videos? 🦒

[@ComicbookSam]

Nick, Why did you stop making these?!?

[@theoneandonlyNick2]

I lost heart in the project when all of episode 1 and half of 2 were taken down. There are a couple more that just need to be finished off

[@ComicbookSam]

@@theoneandonlyNick2 Damn shame. Some people have no vision!

[@charmingcobra]

@@theoneandonlyNick2 Damn sorry that happened, I loved them while they were up though. I wonder if you could upload them through Patreon or some website, could be harder to take those down. If the BBC even could find them.

[@Ronin777z]

@@theoneandonlyNick2 That sucks, good to see you’re still alive though

[@LuficariusRatspeed]

These latest uploads are terrific, but I'm just wondering why the sound quality is downgraded from your previous ones? Copyright?

[@theoneandonlyNick2]

Luficarius Ratspeed I'm using a new computer with a new version of flash and windows 10 new basic video editor. Still looking for how to improve it

[@Stopsignal]

Nick Page have you tried messing with the properties of the sound in the object library? or in the Importing options (I remember something like that, but I don't think that's the name)

[@atnaardvark381]

Love this caant wait for more

[@HK-cq6yf]

Are you planning on animating any of the Hexagonal Phase?

[@perturbo4253]

Is there any way you could upload the full episodes? Like anywhere else?

[@Dim4323]

Why cant you make the entire animated series

[@Doppelfrog]

How are these not a copyright infringement against the BBC?

[@acerbicatheist2893]

When did they DO this?! Jesus Christ almighty I've got to see this thing! 📺😲❗😆👍❗

[@theoneandonlyNick2]

I did it about 7 or 8 years ago. Everything on my channel is all that remains of it

[@albertogregory9678]

@@theoneandonlyNick2 that remains? What happened to the rest? Is it up anywhere else? You did an incredible job, I’ve always wanted more. Happy you’re still active!

[@thecinemagician]

Oooh that audio was soooooo bad, but it's funny. 😅

[@Big_Not_Good]

Neat. Why'd ya stop? Legal stuff?

[@theoneandonlyNick2]

That's why I stopped doing the full episodes. The BBC took them down. I'm still working on separate clips

[@ginnentonix]

KidnyDingo. lol!

[@jasonpaulbaker1]

7p a bag!!! Bargain!!!!

[@BadTemperedBadger]

"The end is here!!!!!" 3 likes ^-^

[@domundtgregor6683]

2:30 "The END is Here" *6,657,828,957 views and only 3 likes* hilarious!

[@titanspeakerman633]

😱

[@duketheLEGEND651]

I thought one of them was black?

[@theoneandonlyNick2]

In the movie Ford is black. In the original book he's described as a redhead

[@ParasaurolophusEwan]

You missed 5 towel days :( stupid pandemic

[@thegneech]

"First!" XD

[@LovroPlaninšek]

First! Lol

[@squidfartz]

I've just discovered your work and it's delightful. I would watch a playlist of the entire 'Guide told in this manner. I'm not sure if you update anymore or have moved onto other projects, but either way -keep up the good work. Douglas Adams would have loved this.

[@middleagedwhitebloke]

Damnit! I panicked, couldn't help myself.