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Peter Jones Intro to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Peter Jones Intro to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Introduction shown before the initial screening of the first episode of the 1981 BBC TV version of The Hitchhikers Guide to the...

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Peter Jones was cast as the voice of the book, and his calm tones punctuated the action with extracts from the Guide. The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy was adapted for television in 1981, after the second radio series.
six episodes. Based on successful test screenings, the cast was reassembled to complete the six episodes of the series in September 1980.);})();(function(){window.jsl.dh(9rXFZp-mI6vDwPAP45Su2Ag__161,
Representation. In the original radio series, Peter Jones provided the voice for The Book as both the Guide itself and as the overall narrator.
How else to explain the fact that a comedy sci-fi about a man in a dressing gown, a depressed robot and a meandering search for the meaning of life is still as popular as it ever was 40 years later? The very first episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 8 March 1978.
And it was glorious. Here's a tidbit for your next pub quiz: H2G2 was banned at one school in Canada for using the word “whore.” As in Eccentrica Gallumbits, the Triple-Breasted Whore of Eroticon Six. Yep, that's it.