Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The

Douglas Adams' Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an absolute classic! It started life as a radio series, although my first introduction to it was via the books - which are fantastically well-written. I feel the books are actually the best of all the different versions because I love the way Douglas Adams writes, and a lot of the descriptions and commentary are so much more detailed in the books. I feel some really funny material was left out of both the radio and the television series' - although both are infinitely superior to the 2005 film version - which, quite frankly, was so bad it was painful to watch. The story in the television series is pretty ...

If the title seems to imply that I find the script the greatest thing, by far, about this 1980 sci-fi comedy show, that's probably because I do. Douglas Adams' Hitch-Hikers series began as a BBC radio show, then progressed onto book format (the books continued to come out and expand the stories well into the 1990s), and the TV adaptation. Personally, I find the books the superior incarnation of the stories, mainly because Adams' real humour comes through in his descriptions. This can be seen by the number of times the guidebook is brought in to narrate something irrelevant but hilarious in the show. Prior to seeing the series, I had read on the ...

The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy sprang up from nowhere to become an overnight success story as a radio show. Written by the late Douglas Adams, the story soon became so popular that it spawned a trilogy of five novels (!) and an award winning TV series. This DVD presents the complete series, together with tons of extra footage and a making of documentary. Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy is a strange and humorous story about one man and his attempt to come to terms with the fact that Earth has just been destroyed and he is about to travel to far off planets, dressed only in his dressing gown. Arthur Dent is a normal, if slightly troubled, Earthman who ...