Originally it came out as a BBC radio show then was adapted
to TV. I know some people who heard the original radio program
have no use for the TV program at all. I on the other hand saw the
TV program first when it was released on American TV on PBS
and loved it in spite of some of it's cheap effects and costumes because
of the writing. It was so much better than Dr. Who which I thought
took itself to seriously. Interesting fact - Douglas Adams also wrote
for Dr. Who and also a children's cartoon program from the Netherlands
called Dr. Snuggles which used the voices of Peter Uztinov.
The interesting thing about the BBC series is that though most of
the effects were rather cheaply done it was one of the first
to use computer graphics - even before they were being used in
American movies.
Randy Remote wrote:
> I didn't know about this, but an absolutely wonderful multi-part
> version of HGTTG was produced in the UK, by the BBC I think.
> The Sci-fi channel has run it in the past. Maybe available on video.
> I was thinking more about the meaning of life, too. If I remember
> right, the computer Deep Thought was programmed to come
> up with the meaning of 'life, the universe, and everything', and
> after many eons of calculation came up with "42". So they asked,
> well, what does that mean? and the earth was then created as
> an organic computer to come up with the answer, but, unfortunately,
> the earth was destroyed to make way for an intergalactic bypass
> right before the answer was to be revealed.
> ..don't it always seem to go?
> RR, who actually owned a Ford Prefect and still suspects that
> mice are protuberences into our world of multi-dimensional beings.
