Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/02

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Subject: [Leica] The Hitchhikers' Guide To the Galaxy: To Be Avoided
From: ahgraves at prodigy.net (Allen Graves)
Date: Mon May 2 04:35:41 2005
References: <3.0.2.32.20050501212150.006db68c@pop.infionline.net>

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.

In reply to: Message from msmall at infionline.net (Marc James Small) ([Leica] The Hitchhikers' Guide To the Galaxy: To Be Avoided)