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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy[1] is a BBC television adaptation of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which was broadcast in January and February 1. UK television station BBC Two. The adaptation follows the original radio series in 1. LP, in 1. 97. 9, and the stage shows, in 1. The series stars Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, David Dixon as Ford Prefect, Mark Wing- Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Sandra Dickinson as Trillian and Stephen Moore as the voice of Marvin.

The following is an alphabetical list of the minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams.

• The idea for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy came to Douglas Adams—who was born on this day in 1952—as he was drunkenly stargazing in a field in Innsbruck.
• The weekend is for trying to parcel out a book you’re really enjoying so you don’t finish it too soon and have nothing to read on the subway. Also, video games.

The voice of the guide is by Peter Jones. Simon Jones, Peter Jones, Stephen Moore and Mark Wing- Davey had already provided the voices for their characters in the original radio series in 1. Watch Fei Ying Gai Wak Download. 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 a Royal Television Society Award as Most Original Programme of 1. British Academy Television Awards for its graphics and editing.[2]Development and production[edit]After the success of the first seven episodes of the radio series, all broadcast in 1. Douglas Adams was commissioned to deliver a pilot script for a television adaptation on 2.

May 1. 97. 9, to be delivered by 1 August.[3] A fully animated version was briefly discussed in the autumn of 1. The Guide's entries.[4]John Lloyd, who had worked with Adams on the first radio series, is credited with starting the process of adapting the series for television, after the receipt of the pilot script, with a memo to the head of light entertainment (John Howard Davies) in September 1. Adams was still working on scripts for the second radio series of Hitchhiker's and working as script editor for Doctor Who, and thus the BBC extended the deadline for the pilot script of the television adaptation to the end of November.[6] The script for the pilot was delivered in December 1.

January 1. 98. 0. While there was some resistance to a project considered "unfilmable," Alan J. W. Bell was given the duties to produce and direct the TV adaptation. John Lloyd was signed as associate producer. In early 1. 98. 0, production on the pilot episode began on several fronts.

Rod Lord of Pearce Animation Studios directed a 5. Babel Fish speech of the first episode. Douglas Adams and Alan J.

W. Bell were both pleased with the animation, and Lord was given the go- ahead to do all of the animation for Episode 1, and subsequently the complete TV series.[7] Narration for the first episode was recorded by Peter Jones in March 1. The filming of two green- skinned aliens reacting to Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters was done on 8 May 1. Further filming of crowd reactions to the Vogons, location filming of Arthur's house and a scene in a pub were done between 1. May 1. 98. 0. Scenes aboard the Vogon ship were recorded on 7 June 1. BBC's TC1 studio. The final edit of the pilot episode was completed on 2 July 1. July 1. 98. 0). Further test screenings were held in August 1.

Based on successful test screenings, the cast was reassembled to complete the six episodes of the series in September 1. Production continued through the autumn, with filming and recording occurring out of order. Recording and production of the final episode continued into January 1. The gap in production made for some continuity problems between the pilot episode and the remainder. Notably, Simon Jones's hair was cut short for another role and he wears a noticeable hairpiece in later episodes. Conversely, David Dixon's hair appears longer. One major change first appeared in the stage show and LP adaptations, and made its way into the novels and TV adaptation.

Nearly all of the sequences from Fit the Fifth and Fit the Sixth in the first radio series that were originally co- written with John Lloyd were completely cut. Thus the Hotblack Desiato character and Disaster Area make appearances in TV Episode 5, and Ford, Arthur, Zaphod and Trillian are all randomly teleported off of Disaster Area's stunt ship in TV Episode 6. Lloyd does receive a co- writer's credit on Episode 5, for the material on the statistics about the universe. The complexities of adapting the material for television meant that some episodes became as long as 3.

Zaphod's ancestors) had to be cut. The programme is particularly notable for its mock computer animation sequences, actually produced on film using traditional cel animation techniques. Watch The New York Hat Online Iflix. There have been several different edits of the series: Some, but not all, American PBS stations recut the series into seven 3. December 1. 98. 2. Other PBS stations re- edited the programme into TV movies, broadcasting more than one episode at a time without interruption. The UK videotape release was on two cassettes, each consisting of three episodes edited to run together and also adding some previously unseen material. The soundtrack was remixed into stereo.

The North American VHS tape release by CBS- Fox Home Video included this material on a single video cassette. The DVD edition claims to be the final and definitive version of the six TV episodes. Another production problem was that, being a visual adaptation, a solution had to be found to display Zaphod's three arms and two heads, a joke originally written for radio. In a previous stage adaptation, a version of a pantomime horse was used, where two actors filled one costume, providing three arms and two heads between them. For this TV series, a radio- controlled animatronic head was designed and built, incorporating 1. However, the head was notoriously unreliable and in many scenes merely sits there, inanimate. For the third arm, most of the time it was seen tucked into Zaphod's jacket.

But when called for, Mike Kelt, who had designed the extra head (with Joan Stribling; BBC Make- up, Hair, Prosthetics Designer) would hide behind Mark Wing- Davey and slip his arm into the appropriate sleeve. Other elements to the production were done by a variety of BBC designers. Watch J`Irai Comme Un Cheval Fou Online Facebook. The Heart of Gold and B Ark models were built by Perry Brahan.

The small, furry creature from Alpha Centauri in Episode 3 was a puppet designed and controlled by Jim Francis, who also built the Magrathean bubble car (also seen in Episode 3), and was the stunt double for Richard Vernon in the scene in which the bubble car was seen to fly. Matte paintings throughout the series were created by Jean Peyre. Music and sound effects were by Paddy Kingsland, with the exception of the theme music; the familiar Journey of the Sorcerer theme by Bernie Leadon was used again, in the arrangement by Tim Souster that had previously been used for the Hitchhiker's LP. Video effects using the Quantel system were done by Dave Jervis.

Other puppets, including insects seen in Episode 5, were designed by Susan Moore. Some of the actual puppeteering was done by Stuart Murdoch, including operating parts of the Dish of the Day animal. Two important cast changes were made for the TV version. David Dixon replaced Geoffrey Mc. Givern as Ford, and Sandra Dickinson replaced Susan Sheridan as Trillian.

The changes were made because Mc. Givern did not suit the role visually, and Sheridan was unavailable at the time.

Another new cast member was Michael Cule, who appears as the Vogon Guard in Episode 2. Cule had first appeared in one of the Hitchhiker's stage adaptations, performing no fewer than twelve roles. He reprised the Vogon Guard part in the 1. Making of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV documentary, voiced the Babel fish, appeared in the 1. Prosser), and returned a third time as a Vogon Guard for the BBC Radio 4.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, was a BBC television adaptation of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy broadcast in January and February 1981.

Quandary Phase. Because of the sheer number of models used in episodes 2 to 6, a single day of filming just the model sequences was set aside at the BBC's Television Centre on 2. October 1. 98. 0.