(07-07-2024, 10:03 PM)DISRAELI Wrote: Being aware that this was a BBC radio series before it was anything else, I thought I would share with you one of the episodes \i found on Youtube;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjMqoLBI...4C&index=1
An account called scifigroup has the full series.
Should you decide to go for a movie version, choose the older one, where Zaphod Beeblebrox is given the required two heads (but only one of them shows any signs of life).
P.S. Here is a clip from the above-mentioned, with a bonus Marvin the Paranoid Android.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0yBf1JKTw8
As I was diligently searching YouTube for the last 3 or so audiobooks in the series, I ran across the first episode in the BBC TV series and watched it.
I was immediately as depressed as Marvin the Robot when I realized that I could not find the rest of the series on YouTube. As it turned out, I liked the BBC version better than the 2005 movie version, with the ewxception of Trillian - I thought the latter Trillian conformed to the book much better than the BBC Trillian.
Much of that attitude is down to my being a big Zoey Deschanel fan. I've been a big fan of her since I first saw her in "The Wizard of Oz" and realized that she beat Judy Garland all hollow as Dorothy. So my assessment is as much a function of mere casting as it is a critique of the BBC series.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake