Daily Telegraph advert (Hitchhiker's Guide)

This 1989 advert was done in the style of Rod Lord's animation for the Hitchhiker's Guide TV series. I don't know who made it, but they got a pretty good Peter Jones impersonator to provide the voice.

[@HarryNicNicholas]

i used to work for CFX, one of the first computer animation companies based in soho, london, around 1985, i don't recal this but we did do a newspaper ad around that time, so this could well be my collegues work. i think i've met rod lord, i certainly know the name.

[@WorldNews92]

I like how at 00:24, after writing "News, Business, Politics, Sports, Arts, Comment...", etc., they randomly wrote "Peterborough".

[@billamu]

Nice to see this set of computer graphics actually uses computer graphics in combination with stylised traditional animation.

[@Loganberrybunny]

In fact, not random: "Peterborough" was the name of a long-running diary column in the paper.

[@hotelmario510]

404: Douglas Adams-style cynicism not found.

[@aunk05]

Sounds like Stephen Moore to me.

[@BeJi74]

No it isn't THE Peter Jones, but the actor makes a quite good impression of him.

[@ma356289]

i adore british comedy