
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Don't Panic! The story of Arthur Dent, an average Englishman who life was spared by his friend, who turned out to be an alien, while the planet Earth is destroyed. His friend tells him about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a guide with anything...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Don't Panic! The story of Arthur Dent, an average Englishman who life was spared by his friend, who turned out to be an alien, while the planet Earth is destroyed. His friend tells him about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a guide with anything you ever needed, and wanted to know. They travel across the galaxy, meeting friendly, and not so friendly characters in order to find the great question (the answer being 42).
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Don't Panic! The story of Arthur Dent, an average Englishman who life was spared by his friend, who turned out to be an alien, while the planet Earth is destroyed. His friend tells him about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a guide with anything...

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Episode 1: The Making of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Kevin Davies' hour-long documentary from 1993. Packed with unbroadcast and archive material, behind...

Episode 2: Don't Panic!
Kevin Davies revisits his footage from "The Making of..." documentary, to bring together a further 2...
Episode 3: Douglas Adams Omnibus
A profile of the late Douglas Adams - creator of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'. Features c...

Episode 4: Introduction by Peter Jones
The first episode was screened to a selected audience at the National Film Theatre and featured a sp...

Episode 5: Communicate!
As part of a BBC Education programme, cameras were given access to the radio studios of "Hitchhiker'...

Episode 6: Original Trailer
The BBC2 trailer for the first episode of "Hitchhiker's."

Episode 7: Behind the Scenes
The final minutes of studio recording for Episode Two on Saturday, 8th November 1980, were a fraught...

Episode 8: Pebble Mill at One
An appearance by animator Rod Lord and producer/director Alan J. W. Bell on the 23rd January 1981 ed...

Episode 9: Deleted Scene from Episode 2
A short sequence cut from Episode Two prior to transmission.

Episode 10: Out-Takes
Whoopsies and bloopers of 16mm film clips rescued from the editors trim bins

Episode 11: Tomorrow's World Sequence
At the time, Zaphod Beeblebrox's second head was at the cutting edge of robot animatronics. The 12th...

Episode 16: Original Opening Titles
The first composited version of the title sequence borrowed obvious elements from the 1970s Doctor W...

Episode 17: Mostly Hand Drawn
All the Hitchhiker's series award-winning graphics have been re-mastered from original film into one...

Episode 18: Life, The Universe & Clapperboards
Live-action excerpts, newly re-mastered from surviving archive reels. Most of the original film from...

Episode 19: Recorded at the End of The Universe
Flashes of life on the studio floor at BBC Television Centre. The Inventive cast and crew furch betw...

Episode 20: Writing Hitchhiker's
From archive video, three people who knew Douglas Adams very well, remember his battles to write the...

Episode 21: Saturday Review
Douglas Adams explains to Minnette Marrin his ideas for interactive CD-Rom audio drama, whilst in Bi...

Episode 22: Tertiary Phase Trailer
The show made a triumphant return to its original medium on BBC Radio 4 in September 2004, with surv...

Episode 23: Douglas Adams on Paperbacks
A quaint book programme where Robert Kee discussed Douglas Adams' second novel with the author.

Episode 24: Douglas Adams on BBC Micro Live
Interviewed about his fiendish new Nitthiker's Gundo compoter game. The energetic presenter Freff re...

Episode 25: The Radio Series Trailers
Recently made available again on newly packaged CDs, (and also for the first time, on shiny red viny...

Episode 26: Marvin and Zem
A look at how Stephen Moore recorded Marvin for The Tertiary Phase, with an annoyingly cheerful swap...

Episode 27: Open Door: The Sound of Love
A March 1980 edition of the public access programme. Young, unemployed Anthony Hodgins conducted the...

Episode 28: Simon Jones on BBC Breakfast
Never heard of International Towel Day? Simon Jones explains, whilst also plugging the 2012 Hitchhik...

Episode 29: Douglas Adams on Nationwide
The first broadcast glimpse of the new Hitchhiker's TV series was during this Nationwide clip, when...

Episode 30: Marvin on Blue Peter
The Paranoid Android made his first bid for chart success with this whimsical appearance on the lege...

Episode 31: Hexagonal Phase Trailer
Made by Perfectly Normal Productions for BBC Radio 4, adapted by Dirk Maggs from the Eoin Colfer boo...

Episode 32: Radio Times Trailer
The only time the BBC's listings magazine ever granted Hitchhiker's the honour of a front cover, the...

Episode 33: The Sound of Sypher
The world of proto-digital audio production was examined here in this highly technical explanation o...

Episode 34: Ten Short Films
Made in 2009 for Penguin Books' launch evert and website for the Eoin Colfer (6th Official) Hitchhik...

Episode 35: Heart of Gold
35mm widescreen animation sequences used for back-projection on the set

Episode 36: Explosion of Earth
The unexpurgated explosion, filmed at high speed, by looking up at a pyrotechnic

Episode 1: Episode 1
Arthur Dent, a perfectly ordinary Earthman, is surprised to wake up one day to find bulldozers outsi...

Episode 2: Episode 2
Arthur and Ford have been discovered. Vogon Captain Jeltz tortures them by reading his poetry. He th...

Episode 3: Episode 3
The starship Heart of Gold is headed for the planet Magrathea, a planet which it is generally agreed...

Episode 4: Episode 4
Arthur learns about the Great Project - the second most powerful computer in existence, called Deep...

Episode 5: Episode 5
Arthur, Ford and the gang arrive at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe on Magrathea, built on...

Episode 6: Episode 6
Fortune is on the crews' side - the transporter on the ship is still working, but needs someone to m...
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