★The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy★(1981)★Episode 1★ part 3 of 4★

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is a BBC television adaptation of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy broadcast in January and February 1981 on BBC Two. The adaptation follows the original radio series in 1978 and 1980, the first novel and double LP, in 1979, and the stage shows, in 1979 and 1980, making it the fifth version of the guide.

The series stars Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, David Dixon as Ford Prefect, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox and Sandra Dickinson as Trillian. The voice of the guide is by Peter Jones. Simon Jones, Peter Jones and Mark Wing-Davey had already provided the voices for their characters in the original radio series in 1978/80. In addition, the series features a number of notable cameo roles, including Adams himself on several occasions.

Although initially thought by BBC executives to be unfilmable, the series was successfully produced and directed by Alan J W Bell and went on to win an Royal Television Society award as Most Original Program of 1981, as well as several BAFTA awards for its graphics and editing.

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[CrescentMoon96]

I don't think anyone has, at least not on this episode, so allow me to be the first to thank you for uploading these. You must have spent much time to get these on YouTube so people like me could watch them. Thank you.

[thekorksta]

I remember watching this on TV when I was a young and being quite disturbed by the planet being blowing up because of construction. I actually thought it could happen, I spose it could really.

[dewfall56]

Blow up the Earth you say?! That'll teach those damnable humans to wake up and pay attention to galactic concerns. 

[maximotheone]

i love the randomness of these