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First of 6 new HHGG episodes, Tonight!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-we-stream-please dept.

Prof.Phreak writes "From HHGG: Twenty-five years after the original radio series of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy exploded into the public consciousness, the further exploits of its bewildered hero, Arthur Dent, are being brought to life in their original medium and with the (mainly) original cast. Episode 1- Tuesday 21 September 2004 6.30pm; In which Arthur wakes up, Trillian opts out, and Marvin is stuck fast..."

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  1. DNA as Agrajag by milkme123 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's so awesome that Douglas Adams already recorded his part.. I'll be listening with a tear in my eye. :)

    1. Re:DNA as Agrajag by milkme123 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Hmm.. Since the guide entries don't need a different acting style the way normal speaking parts in a radio play does, DNA's audiobook work ought to have been used as a replacement for Peter Jones.

  2. Doug Adams by dotslasher_sri · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So long and thanks for all the episodes.

  3. Repeats/Listen Again by m_member · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Each episode will be available for 7 days following the Thursday evening repeats.

    So no need to destroy your mind with a homemade Total Perspective Vortex if you don't catch it first time. Though I'm sure a CD release will follow shortly.

  4. Re:Who listens to radio plays? by philbowman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nonsense. The pictures are much better on Radio. just compare the original radio series (available on CD from the amazon of your choice) with Zaphod's second head on TV (available on DVD etc)!

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    Phil
  5. Where will they stop? by wowbagger · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Where will they stop making episodes?

    Will they stop at Fish, or continue on to Mostly Harmless?

    I, for one, was deeply dissapointed with Mostly Harmless - it felt very mean-spirited, like DNA was saying "Alright, I want to do other work now, and you bastards won't let me, so I'll kill EVERYBODY off - THERE! Now can I write other stuff?"

    Even Sir Conan-Doyle's termination of his main character wasn't so mean-spirited - Holmes died fighting Moriarity - he wasn't simply wiped from existance!

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    www.eFax.com are spammers
  6. Ayeee! Bobby Ewing syndrome! by StefanJ · · Score: 2, Insightful

    From the sounds of it, they turned the entire original second season into a dream sequence!

    That really sucks. I wish they'd pick up at the end of the second season, where Arthur learns from the strange old man that the Earth was destroyed by an alliance of psychiatrists (who were afraid that the revelation of the ultimate answer would cause them to lose business) and Zaphod, and flees in the Heart of Gold.

    Damn.

  7. Re:And available for a listen 7 days after... by Lattitude · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, doesn't appear until after the Thursday evening repeat...

  8. Re:Ah... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Hitch-Hiker's Guide started as a radio play, just as Monty Python started as a TV show, and Lord of the Rings started as a book.

  9. Re:After listening to the first 10 minutes of it.. by Peter+Cooper · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The music was the same. It's by The Eagles, and was used in the '80s HHGTTG.

    Also, the weird flashbacks, and particularly the stuttering on the book, were to bring everything up to speed. It has been twenty years you know! Of course, the first episode was going to be slow going. Although, to be honest, I'm glad I recorded it because I found it as hard as ever to follow :-)

  10. 5 channels better than 100 by Roger+W+Moore · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually, having lived in the UK and the US I think that fewer channels is actually better. My experience is that there is the same amount of good TV to watch but that with 100 channels its a lot harder to find!