The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (TV series)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy [1]  is a British science fiction-comedy series based on Douglas Adams' radio and books The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyseries.The series has six episodes, which were originally broadcast in January and February 1981.

Actors Simon Jones, Peter Jones and Mark Wing-Davey all reprised their roles from the radio their series.



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[hide] *1 development and production  ==Development and production[ Edit] == After the success of the first seven episodes of the radio series, all broadcast in 1978, Douglas Adams got the assignment to write a scenario for a possible television series.[2]  an animated television series based on the radio series came in August 1978 just for talk, but eventually it was decided there is a live-action series of it and only animation to use for the pages of the Guide. [3]  John Lloyd, who along with Adams had worked to the first radio series, also the screenplay for the television series. [4]  in december 1979 Adams his scenario for a pilot episode in Alan J W Bell . was commissioned to produce the series and directing.
 * 2 Possibilities for a second series
 * 3 Cast
 * 4 Documentary
 * 5 Prizes
 * 6 external links

In early 1980 began the production of the pilot episode on several fronts. Rod Lord, of Pearce Animation Studios, directed a 50 second pilot episode about how the descriptions in the Guide could see out. Douglas Adams and Alan J.W. Bell were both satisfied, and Lord was allowed to do all the animations for the first episode.Eventually he took the animations for the entire television series for his account. [5]  the film was shot in May and June 1980. The final version of the pilot episode was completed on 2 July 1980, and was three days later will be shown to a test audience. The episode was well received by the test audience, and so was started recording of the remaining five episodes. Recordings for this continued until January 1981.

A problem in the production was the character Zaphod Beeblebrox, that has two heads and three arms. For the television series was therefore an animatronic-head mounted on the costume. Control of this proved tricky, making it in most scenes did nothing. The third arm was usually out of view held by pretending that Zaphod had put it in his coat pocket. For the scenes where Mike took the arm needed was Celt place behind Mark Wing-Davey.

The gap in production between the pilot episode and the other episodes took care of a few continuity problems. Given that the basic material for the series sometimes very complex was for a tv operation, some episodes were 35 minutes long. the series underwent in the following years a couple of rework, among other things to the episodes to shorten it to 30 minutes. Some episodes were also edited to television films.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For the television series were two important changes to the cast. So David Dixon replaced Geoffrey McGivern as Bank, and Sandra Dickinson Susan Sheridan as Trillian. This because McGivern did not appear visually on his character, and Sheridan was not available.

<p lang="en" len="255" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Some locations where the series was recorded are a clay pit and the former Par — Fowey railway tunnel in Cornwall, the Edmonds Farm and Red Lion pub in Sussex, the Budgemoor Golf & Country Club near Henley-on-Thames and the Peak District National Park. ==Possibilities for a second series<span class="mw-editsection" len="399" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There was a second season on the schedule. Adams, however, disagreement with the BBC (which exactly varies by source, but under other budget, scripts and involvement of Alan Bell and/or Geoffrey Perkins are seen as possible reasons). It was therefore the second series never made.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-PocketTV_6-0" len="214" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]  <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" len="205" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  elements that actually were intended for the story line of this second season were instead incorporated into the third book from the franchise,Life, the Universe and Everything . ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="376" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="89" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Furthermore, had a few famous actors cameos in the series, including Douglas Adams himself. ==Documentary<span class="mw-editsection" len="376" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1992, Kevin Davies wrote and directed a "making of" documentary about the series entitled The Making of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Davies had previously already participated in some stage productions based on the radio series. For the documentary used Davies many home videos and photographs he had made in the 1980s, during the production of the first season. This he combined with new interviews with actors. ==Prizes<span class="mw-editsection" len="371" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="33" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The series won the following awards:
 * Simon Jones as Arthur Dent (Hugo field)
 * David Dixon as Ford Prefect (Amro Bank)
 * Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox (Zefod Bijsterbuil)
 * Sandra Dickinson as Trillian (diaeresis)
 * Peter Jones as the voice of the Guide


 * Royal Television Society:
 * Best original program
 * BAFTA:
 * Best VTR Editor: Ian Williams
 * Best Sound supervisor: Michael McCarthy
 * Best Graphics: Rod Lord