Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The "videotape" version is a BBC series that first aired in the early 80's and captured the spirit of the original radio play quite well. It is also out on DVD <grin>. Allen Graves >At 01:03 AM 5/2/05 +0000, mcyclwritr@comcast.net wrote: >>This is pretty much off topic. Or "OT" to the time-crunched, Internet-hip >linguists in the audience. >> >>"Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy." See it. The cinenamatography is far >better than the 1970's videotape production that once aired on PBS. So much >for the photographic content. > > >Good God. > >First, the "Hitchhiker's Gude" was orignally a magnificent BBC radio >production, and then a series of books by Douglas Adams. I never >encountered any sort of videotape version of it and I would have avoided >that one like the plague had I known of it, as I shall avoid this Mother of >All Turkeys.