Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The

This programme represents one of the defining moments of my childhood - the first thing I remember sitting down with my dad to watch. Childhood memories have a habit of being deceptive... when you revisit them, you realise nostalgia has given them a golden glow they don't deserve. That's certainly not the case with Hitchhiker's, which is still funny today. There's no doubt that in its day, Hitchhiker's was a hugely innovative programme. Up until that point, most science fiction was decidedly po-faced, trying to baffle the viewer with pseudo-scientific jargon in order to cover up the holes in the plot and involving lots of dully choreographed fights with men in ...  Read the complete review

For me the TV series just doesn't work very well. It is still very funny and the way they brought the book to life was absolutely brilliant with some fantastic diagrams. This is really the best bit of the TV series though. The effects aren't to great, but hey tried their best I suppose and it is on old TV series now. The changed plot details on the whole I don't think were for the best though. I'm not to keen on "Disaster Area" and much preferred the Hagunenons. I have to say though that I found "Dish of the Day" very entertaining. My biggest gripe however is the changed cast, Sandra Dickenson and David Dixon give it their ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review