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Who Rememebers, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"??

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I have all six of the TV episodes aired on the BBC in Divx. It is rather funny stuff. I read the book when it came out originally, but I have never heard the radio episodes.
 
Haha two things that stand out for me about the books are:

1) the refrigerator that started to 'seriously lurk'
2) God realized that he couldn't possibly exist so he vanished in a puff of logic 😛
 
Originally posted by: Sunner
Originally posted by: Harvey
Originally posted by: Sunner
Just read the damn book, it's far too good to hear off some tape
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Sounds like you need a clue about the way things happened.

1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was created by Douglas Adams and first aired as a BBC radio play. The first episode went out on BBC Radio 4 at 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 8, 1978.

2. The show took off, and Adams was offered the opportunity to write a book based on the series. This allowed Adams to quit his job writing and script editing at the TV show, "Dr. Who." He eventually wrote five books that comprise the trilogy. 😉

3. There was also a BBC TV adaptation and several record albums of various compilations of radio scripts and new material.

Here's a link to far more detailed info. Of course, given the nature of the Hitchhiker's Guide, all these things could have happened in a different order in some other quadrant of one universe or another.

Somewhere along the way, there was also a really strange and fun text based computer game. I still have a copy. Thanks for all the fish. 😎
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Correct me if Im wrong(Im too lazy to read that longass page you linked to, I'd rather just read the Guide again😉), but isn't the book far longer/more detailed than the radio play?
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Yes, it is far longer and more detailed, but it didn't come first. 🙂

Rob
 

At a certain point the original radio play and the books(audio books/tv series) diverge and go completely seperate ways.

IMO, the books were better.
 
Yes, it is far longer and more detailed, but it didn't come first.

Rob
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I never said so 🙂

But then, I didn't know much of the details, I've heard some time, a long time ago, that it was a radio play, didn't know it came first though, just heard it wasn't as good/popular.
 
I listened to the BBC radio show version on my way to and from WI to OH recently. MP3 format in car stereo is great. It makes an excellent book-on-tape type of amusement (though the different voices helps me when listening to such stories). It's 14 or so 30 minute segments.
 
Originally posted by: amonline
I first heard this story at work about 5 years ago. I remember it be so funny and interesting to follow.
Anyone know where I can download this whole audio clip by chance?
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Never heard the audio clip... but i read the book like 15 years ago. Damn good stuff, i was laughing so hard in the school's library people thought i was on drugs.
 
I've read the books, watched the TV show, and listened to the BBC radio play. TV was good, books very good, and of the three, the radio play was the most fun / most funny to me. Excellent voice acting, perfect comic timing, and great sound effects.
 
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