The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

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1993
1h

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The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (1993)

A documentary looking at the making of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981), including interviews with leading members of the cast and production team, behind-the-scenes footage and ... Read allA documentary looking at the making of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981), including interviews with leading members of the cast and production team, behind-the-scenes footage and out-takes.A documentary looking at the making of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981), including interviews with leading members of the cast and production team, behind-the-scenes footage and out-takes.

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Peter Jones

Self and narrator as The Book

Alan J.W. Bell

Self

Stella Elliott

Self - owner of Arthur Dent's house

Douglas Adams

Self

Leueen Willoughby

Self
(archive footage)

Simon Jones

Self

Geoffrey Perkins

Self - radio producer
(archive footage)

Paddy Kingsland

Self

David Dixon

Self

Andrew Howe-Davies

Self

Jean Peyre

Self
(archive footage)

Jim Francis

Self

Rod Lord

Self

Sandra Dickinson

Self

Mark Wing-Davey

Self

Martin Benson

Self

David Learner

Self

Michael Cule

Vogon
(voice)
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Director
- Kevin Davies
Writer
- Kevin Davies
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This documentary takes place within a loose tongue-in-cheek framework of Arthur Dent coming home to Earth. Several of the items in this framework (mail piled up behind the door, putting his babelfish into a fishbowl, etc) are borrowed from similar events in the fourth book, "So Long, and Thanks for All The Fish".

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Featured in Inside 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (2005)

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7/10

absorbing companion to the classic TV series

This documentary aims to show us something of the 'behind the scenes' activity that went on around the making of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' in 1980/1. Arthur Dent returns to Earth and to the same house that he'd left in episode one of the TV series to take us through some interactive stuff (the Babel Fish - as an animation - presents a film on the graphics that were done for the Guide's pages by Rod Lord; Dent watches an interview hologram of his alter ego Simon Jones), finally being rescued by Ford Prefect (and taken on another journey, maybe?).

Interviews with the key personnel involved - Alan Bell, Paddy Kirkland, Rod Lord, Douglas Adams,as well as cast members Simon Jones, David Dixon, Sandra Dickinson and Mark Wing-Davey, alongside Martin Benson (the Vogon captain) and David Learner (Marvin, but not his voice) - and a narration by Peter Jones help to flesh out the archive video we see of recordings and rehearsals, outtakes, and half-finished shots.

This documentary is now on the DVD alongside the full series and TV clips, trailers and more.