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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Talking book with a video screen
(to display its stored content) featured on the
British science fiction fantasy THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE
GALAXY/BBC/1981.
Just as Earth is destroyed to make way for an
interstellar hyperspace bypass, earthling Arthur Dent (Simon
Jones), still dressed in his bathrobe and slippers, is saved
from the Earth's untimely demise through the intervention of an
alien named Ford Prefect (David Dixon). Now homeless Arthur
hitchhikes through the universe and observes its complexities.
To help fully understand his journey, Arthur consults a talking
book named "The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy" (voice of Peter
Jones). The book was described thus:
"This is the story of The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, perhaps the most remarkable,
certainly the most successful book ever to come out of the great
publishing corporation of Ursa Minor. More popular than the
Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than 53 More Things
to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon
Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters: Where God
Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes, and Who Is
This God Person, Anyway?"
When Arthur Dent looked up "Earth" in this
galactic encyclopedia, he found only one word...."Harmless."
The British TV mini series series is based on a
radio program started on British radio in March 1978 conceived
by author Douglas Adams. A theatrical version of the book was
released in 2005 with Stephen Fry as the voice of "The
Guide."
Illustration from "The Guide" (drawn by Rod Lord)
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