I've been to Norway, my compliments on Slateribartfast's work! :)

"The dolphins believed that they were more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons." That's amazing, Douglas Adams was an absolute genius.

Clearly the best of all possible television series in any possible universe.

0:09 - 1:53 I really love the synth score here! I wish the BBC would release the musical score for this series on CD. It’s that good!

At the very beginning when they were in the pod, it was filmed in a tunnel, called Pinnock tunnel, that connects Par and Fowey docks in South Cornwall. I drove through there many times when I worked for the company that owned it. It's over a km in length. Just a little trivia for you!

destroyed five minutes before the purpose for which it was commissioned was complete Eek... said the mice.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. . they animated the 'computer' sequences on glass.

1:03 You know this is an old TV show when the USSR is shown as still existing.

"Listen. Would it save you all this trouble if I just gave up and went mad now?"

It still scares the willies out of me!

Just realised 0:56 is a picture of the animator animating one of the guide entries and 0:59 is Douglas Adams.

But Slartibartfast’s name is actually VERY important. After Arthur and Ford crash on an unknown planet after ending up on a Golgafrinchian colony ship, they explore the planet only to discover Slartibartfast’s signature on a Norwegian fjord, thereby confirming that they were not only on Earth, but had travelled back in time as well ...all exactly as planned by the supercomputer known as the Earth.

first saw this miniseries on its first broadcast way back in 1981 when i was 10, broken down into 5 or 6 weekly episodes during the summer, each week i looked forward to every episode until the end. It took forever but i finally found a copy of it on DVD a few years ago by accident in a secondhand pawn shop and I've held onto it ever since.

Pure genius, simple as that.

The animated sequences from The Guide remind me of the old BBC school programmes we were made to watch in class. 😃

so thankful a documentarian captured this footage. thank you.

so long... and thanks for all the fish 💙

I so love that the illustrator and Douglas Adams himself are part of the presentation.

The best series to have ever been on the telly box , shame his other books weren't turned into a dramatisation also. Still never mind we have this timeless cult classic.

I do miss fun comedic scifi. Thanks for sharing.

I must reread the books. It has been years.

I always thought the effects shot at 03:06 was unusually good for a BBC production of the early 1980s.

So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish.

Willing to believe that all of humanity is descended from the people shot onto the void on the Golgafrinchan B Ark...

Fascinating.

Brilliant

Love this show 📼

Love this mini series it's so funny👻

Is that meant to be Douglas himself at 1:00?

interesting perspective

This version is alot more trippy

I have a funny idea for a joke. Character 1: gets arm ripped off Character 2: oh god! Character 1: screams in agony Character 3: what’s wrong? Character 2: wdym what’s wrong? His arms come off! Character 1: you guys are concerned about my arm?! Character 2: well yea what else should I be concerned about? Character 1: well.. my bloody foot itches! Character 2: well that’s not as bad as getting your arm ripped off Character 1: well I have another arm so It’s not a big deal. It’s my foot we need to worry about. Character 2: bloody hell, your arms been ripped off aren’t you in terrible pain? Character 1: yes but my foot itches. Character 2: your foot should be the least of your concerns! we need to stop you from bleeding out! someone get me medical supplies Character 1: forget my arm! I don’t need you to treat my wound! I need you to scratch my foot! Character 2: if I don’t stop the bleeding you’ll die. Character 1: Ill die of annoyance if you dont listen to me an itch my foot. Character 2: if it’s such a big deal why don’t you itch your foot with your other arm? Character 1: well I’m to lazy to do that.

So long and thanks for all the fish

“Crinkly edges”

I love the part

Man as funny as this is it also really has some interesting ways of thinking outside the box about the universe. I doubt that things actually work like they do in this series but there really could be so much in the universe weve never considered. I mean theres no way of knowing that earth isnt an experiment or something run by beings that can see and think in more dimensions than a human

the subtitles are bonkers!

"I told you it wasn't important."

At 50 seconds there is an animation of Arnold Schwazenegger, in the middle of the 3 bodybuilders. On the right, I think, is Bill Pearl and on the left it could be Franco Columbo. And if you have ever watched the documentary 'Pumping Iron', you will know that Mike Katz definitely didn't know where his towel was!

0:56 is that Rod Lord?

Not sure if the Dolphins whistled the Star Spangled Banner or an old Betelgeusian death anthem 😜

Douglas Adams was the greatest Philosopher who ever lived.

I had a Blaster once, but it was an enema.

I don't remembering seeing this on the news.

They must have filmed the animation. I wonder whether the original film is still archived somewhere and could be scanned in HD today.

"We do the expierment and get the cheese and Pavlov the expierments we need done as the test studies." - the mice

So long.... Thanks for all the fish!

i like this scene more on the TV show rather than the 2005 movie, and i (kinda?) like the 2005 movie.

what is this? I want more!

It's like being drunk you just gotta look lol

HGTTG is possibly a documentary

I dont recall ordering a planet o.o

Huh, only ever having seen the movie I'm actually surprised and impressed that they kept some of the kept tidbits from what I assume was in the original book. Such as explaining the gateway and scaring the willies out of the guide.

This explains the mice in the SPACEX rocket.

great idea, but douglas adams got it wrong. it's not the dolphins, or the mice. it's the cats.

HAPPY 42ND ANNIVERSARY! :)

This is like the tutorials for lbp

That's it! Stop everything! This is getting too silly! 😜

🕊

Seek out the original Radio Series...

Would the original blue prints be pangae!

Slartibartfast: I must warn you, we're going to pass through, well, a sort of gateway thing. Arthur Dent: What? Slartibartfast: It may disturb you. It scares the willies out of me.

Deep Thought said that the Earth project would take 10 million years. Then why does the manual indicate 4.5 billion years in the TV series?

And have you noticed the word man

Damn

Dolphins have equal intelligence. And quite frankly I think that they had more sense than we did.

My English friend sent this in a gc at 4 am... Katie you alright, fam?

thats code for wes from canaDA i say like=ish 2:20 for cool pause loud sounds but im 'going with to the point kinda kinda h i payed for it the end

Now?...To meet with Mice?

This scene is done way better in the movie.

It might be an important fact, but it's not always very popular.

A comic strip, Polandball

Pause at 1:00 . The true fans would laugh at that one.

Mice…?!! 😂😂😂❤

I just got here what is this🤣 im so confused

Only two things are infinite. Space and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about space: Albert Einstein.

Such a brilliantly ridiculous idea.

u dissected the booksz o;/

Hmmm... 2020 was the 42nd anniversary of the Guide and also the year of the rat in the zodiac.

Ironic omicron might save us because of...mice.

The special effects aren't quite as good as the movie, are they

O:53 Putin playing soccer

why is everybody doing this again

Ohh dear God, those poor bloated pixels!

I mean humans are the only species that has to pay to live so…..

The books are great. The bbc series is great. Didn't much care for the radio adaptation. The movie? 🤮 Thanks for all the fish, Doug.

Thanks for KILLING all the fish.

If Dolphins were more intelligent than humans, how is it that they never figured out an effective means of communication with them? Lots of animals can figure that out with enough training.

The movie version is horrible and not witty at all.

Mice extraterrestrial command /Christ/Church intelligent mankind codename the smallest to the very largest like everything else in the universe.

Not sure if the British realize that New York City and the nuke, were made by the USA. The brits are not the dolphins in this case....

meh...

I heard the part of the dolphin like 3 to 4 times but I still don't understand this, so the fish knew about the progress of human civilization? Meaning sports? And about an alien invasion? Was that the ship? Dolphins tried to warn human from the ship that will demolish them? And no dolphin is left? From where? And how did the narrator know if this if people stopped interpreting the dolphins singing? That's complitely science fiction, how can you take that as facts, vogans is from a very old comic book

Ah, the days of quality TV from the BBC, before they became a radical left wing political lunatic asylum lol

Hi BBC. Can we PLEASE have this entire series back on ABC? (Australia) This little blurb is just a tease... M 🦘🏏😎