He did spend several million years as a parking valet at the restaurant at the end of the universe and due to time travel he is actually older than the universe itself which he finds tedious.
DaveDexterMusic wearing Scholl sandals! The Quentulus Quazgar Mountains, Planet Zevorbeuptry in the Zarrs star system, if memory serves me correctly! 😂
@@calebfuller4713 actually the computer graphics were some of the most advanced at the time, only one computer in the uk was powerful enough and it would have taken several weeks to render one scene. So they just got Rod Lord and his animators to draw them by hand and make it look digital!
I'm right yeah? "You can blame the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation for making androids with GPP... Genuine People Personalities. I'm a personality prototype. You can tell, can't you...? "
Would be really cool if they made a Hitchiker’s guide app with the same aesthetic style shown here and all the entries from the books. Love the 70s aesthetic of what futuristic technology would look like.
It's pretty much Dr Who circa 1980. Peter Davison, who was the Doctor for a few years from about 1980-84 (?) was in the TV HHG series, as was his wife, who played Trillian on TV (not on radio). Adams had written alongside Graham Chapman and then in 1977 or so, wrote some Dr Who episodes for Tom Baker, the Fourth Doctor and a world-renowned scenery chewer, second only to BRIAN BLESSED. A couple of these episodes were made, one with John Cleese in a cameo I think, the rest became the basis of the Magrathea/ Slartibartfast part of the HHG.
If that's your cup of tea, the German scifi TV series Raumschiff Orion (Spaceship Orion) uses items such as papercups or even irons in the spaceship orion. And many more. These days the series has developed a cult following with some of the original followers visiting shows in movie theatres with their grandchildren. Proofs low budget can't be that wrong.
What's so remarkable about this production besides being infinitely better than the movie on a shoestring budget, is that all the "computer graphics" for the series were done by old fashioned cel animation. No CRTs were harmed in the making of these effects.
I've got this feeling that "Your plastic pal who's FUN to be with" may have a seriously non-PG implication that Douglas Adams, influenced by the Pythons, somehow managed to sneak under the radar.
@@winders128 I know he wrote for Doctor Who in the 70s but I hadn't heard about him writing for Monty Python's Flying Circus. I'm not saying that he didn't, I'm just saying I haven't heard about that before. He was pretty young in the 70s, let alone the 60s. I know he was definitely friends with the Oxford comedy group. I'd definitely be interested in more information, if you have it.
Love that in the B.B.C. Series, Marvin was a serious character, but sadly in the movie he was reduced to just a comedy side kick. Original series was such a classic! For me the movie highlight was the ‘Point of view gun’ a brilliant weapon that could peacefully resolve many conflicts large or domestic. ❤️
I agree the written part and voice acting delivery was better in the 70s, but the costume was better in the movie. After all the happy white computers and personal funtime plastic gadgets of Apple vs the serious gray of PC and business computers.... That is the droid SCC would build, and the comedy is better that a clinically depressed personality is stuck forever in that cute and relatively useless machine body. I thought the Zaphod visual concept was better too with the alternate head popping out, instead of hanging limp and asleep most of the time. He did impress Trish at a party, and he had to yell her he was an alien.
My father showed me this series when I was just a wee lad. Many many years ago he had the DVD set, was hooked for life. Went down the rabbit hole involving the radio series, the books, the 2005 film...much love for the series.
An absolutely brilliant series and novel! I believe that the BBC version was superior to the movie version,lower budget,less-spectacular…but truer to the spirit of the novel.
Poor Marvin, he has a brain “The size of a planet!” Then Arthur and his friends are given the problem of trying to find a brain “The size of a planet,” the most powerful computer in all of time and space! Where, oh where, could it be hiding?
* The jingle at 3:00 approx incorporates part of the theme from the radio show's "Share and Enjoy" jingle. * Robot RB-211 is named after a Rolls-Royce jet engine whose troubled devlopment almost bankrupted the company. * Douglas Adams is depicted as one of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's marketing executives (and therefore one of the mindless jerks who etc).
I've never watched the movie, but I watch the BBC TV show constantly (I bought the DVD), and Marvin is my favorite character. I've never understood why Ford always refers to him as "that paranoid android," since obviously he is neither, but he always cheers me up and makes me laugh.
Still the best version of the book. You cannot cram 3 hours of story into 90 minutes of movie. It does not work. Those who decided to try doing that will be the first up against the wall ...
The books are an adaptation of the original radio show, which does had the advantage of not having to use visual effects to convey what was happening (relying upon sound design and narrations) and is also less truncated than the television version.
@@casanovafunkenstein5090 The radio show also continued after the point where the tv series ended, and had its own take on what events follow. For the later books, (third onward) Douglas Adams went in a different direction.
Even in this short clip, we see several reasons this BBC production was light years ahead of the 2005 film! My favorite is the later edition's entry for the Robotics Marketing Division! The film never even got close to that satiric bite!
@@jackkraken3888 *the effects might have been better in the film, but the original television series had a charm that was a lot more fun...also the Vogon's looked exactly the way Vogon's were intended to look and not silly parodies pretending to be serious*
There's more to that statement than it first appears if you think about which planet he's comparing his computer brain to. Marvin knew, he always knew...
"Just that?!" :) Love it! 2:07 Marvin from the BBC series made me giggle so hard, when I was a kid all those years ago. Wish there were more clips of him on youtube. Sadly his hilarious delivery of “Here I am, brain the size of a planet” is not included here.
In the book it says how Marvin was able to so perfectly adjust his tone and delivery that, while there was nothing you could actually take offense at, he nevertheless managed to convey his complete contempt for you.
I have to disagree. Yes, some aspects are more interesting, but overall the movie has a more polished and focused feel to it. Plus it doesn't hurt that the acting's better in the movie too.
I enjoyed it just as much as the movie. Never knew the movies background until recently and decided to watch the 1981 show.....actually loved it. And I honestly usually hate them old shows. Lol
OMG!!! They used this same robot costume in the movie!!! In the movie, it is one of the aliens in line at some Vogon DMV-type place. Watch the movie and you'll see Zaphod stands right next to him at the 1:03:18 mark! Very cool tribute to the TV series. Nicely done :-)
Yeah they tossed in details like that. The aerosol spray cans another reference to creatures with more then 50 arms each and who therefore were unique in developing aerosol deodorants before the wheel. Priority you see. 😂
@Paul Hitchens you may be quite shocked to see who wrote the screenplay. Unless you are making a joke? I think it's its own official thing, as intended.
@Paul Hitchens I guess you aren't actually saying it's bad, though. So I agree that it would have been cooler to have a few more things in it. I think it was going to be the first in a trilogy but not necessarily in 3 parts. I wish there had been more time for Douglas Adams to make the next parts, movies and otherwise. I find it quite poetic that the main message in the movie is that we should stop all this bickering and finally be nice to each other, through the most efficient and quickest way possible, an empathy gun. I was thinking about that and I actually cried a little bit. It was quite an appropriate final message, ironic and meaningful. Rest in peace.
If I ever make a game, I’m so going to make an NPC introduce itself when you first talk to it say, “I think you ought to know I’m feeling very depressed.”
In the beach sequence, the suit was very hard and clunky to take off, so when it rained, the suit was abandoned in the clay pit and protected by an umbrella.
Except that the beach scene was shot on the beach at Carlyon Bay just outside St Austell, with a local lady as Marvin’s beach buddy. I think the raft and Douglas walking into the sea were also shot here. The clay pit scenes were shot a few miles away, and the air car ride in the old railway tunnel between Par and Fowey. The final scenes with the caveman were hundreds of miles away in the Peak District
I'm sure the BBC's Marvin appeared in the movie too: he was just standing in a queue with a lot of other strange characters, which Zaphod and Arthur Dent then jumped. Anyone else see this?
1:33 i imagined a alt ending scene between marvin Trillian and zavod where as mavin walks away commenting that hes in pain due to some malefaction courseing all the circuitry on the left side of him not working trillian turns to zavod and says how meny times have i told u not to say the L word in front of marvin u know how much it upsets him
The series really worked best as a radio show and book. The gaps in the dialogue were much too obvious on screen whereas they added tension on air. Plus listening made you much more aware of the sound effects which were an integral part of the experience. I’m still gutted that after 45 years we were left hanging at the end of the second series. Never to be resolved. 😢
I'm American. This clip, when I first saw the miniseries years ago, was the first time I had ever encountered the word "Zed" and wondered how whatever such a thing as it was could be a part of space coordinates. I assumed it was a proper noun, like Pluto or Andromeda, but then was confused on why a proper noun would be stated 3 times like that.
Think how confused everyone else is, when confronted with the US dialect alphabet which goes X, Ecks, Y, Why, C Cee. Why is 'c' at the end of the alphabet? Why is there no letter Z, Zed? Wierd. In English, it goes after B, as in Ay, Bee, Cee. Simple.
@@ohgosh5892 try zepplin as in the greatness rock band ever. But compare to Zaphod Beeblebrox " don't you try to out weird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.” When faced with regret: “If I ever meet myself, I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.” But even Zad Is out shadowed by zebedee the coolness dud that dudded the duds. as he one said ""I try to please, It's nice to have satisfied customers."
@@jimsim3 The Hitchhiker's Guide was an excellent story. It survived the transfer from radio to television rather well. I'm surprised it was ever shown in the US, but obviously it was.
I worked in a call centre and we had a bloke who was exactly like Marvin!. Soo much so we nicknamed him 'Marvin'.... He really was a miserable b*stard! And when we all went to the pub and had a 'whip' going he would pretend to add cash to the jar, but never would. Got caught and kicked out of group and moaned ever after!. 🤣 🤣
Wouldn't Triilian recognise those co-ordinates as being near Earth? She's a maths/astrophyics wizzkid and comfortable with the technology of the Heart of Gold.
The 2004 movie was actually produced in England, the director is british and the script was approved by Douglas Adams. (Production started in 2001 so he was still alive). I prefer Marvin's design here though, it looks heavily outdated even by 1981 (this was aired in 81, propably started production 78-79), which I think is intentional
@@eightcoins4401 yeah the Marvin design from the film was a bit weird… as was the spherical ship and its spherical shuttle, tbh. I get the feeling they were meant to look matching. Magrathea was pretty overdone too, vs the cluttered drawing room which has such a good atmosphere in the show.
2:44 (alternative dialog) as marvin is walking away while moning at the fact that he is feeling very depressed Trillian looks around at Zafod and says- Trillian "Zafod how meny times do i have to tell you DON'T use the "L" word in frount of Marvin you know how much it upsets him"
hey, BBCW, it appears you stuttered a bit at the end of that description! "he is is not". unless this is some bizarre meaning of what "is is" is~ I mean!
Yup, Crinnis Beach at Carlyon Bay. You can see the eastern edge of the beach in shot, and the east side of the bay in the distance. Polkerris is in shot as well although you can't tell from the quality of the footage. The scene must have been shot while the tide was out as the actors are standing to the south of the rock with the camera facing due East.
Thanks for your reply. Apparently they used a clay pit for Magrathea, and in the scene where Arthur and Slartibardfast are travelling in the pod, that was filmed in the tunnel that connects Par and Fowey docks.
Marvin, I love you. Marvin, I love you! Remember, I'm programed for you. I know we're worlds apart. Still, you could break my heart. Loving you is all I can do. I tried to contact Marvin, I don't know why, but he never replied. Perhaps one day he'll answer. Till then I guess I'll keep on trying.
Marvin is a badass! He defeated a fully armed battle tank with the power of clinical depression!
I have a pain in all the diodes down my left side
He did spend several million years as a parking valet at the restaurant at the end of the universe and due to time travel he is actually older than the universe itself which he finds tedious.
stupid robot.
@@edgewayround Me: "Which do you find tedious, the universe or being older than it?"
Marvin: "Both."
I wish I could put depression to some sort of use
"The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever."
RIP Stephen Moore
Luckily, there was a stall nearby where you could rent scooters from guys with green wings.
DaveDexterMusic wearing Scholl sandals! The Quentulus Quazgar Mountains, Planet Zevorbeuptry in the Zarrs star system, if memory serves me correctly! 😂
He's in that giant junkyard in the sky.
Once upon a time Zaphod's second head was the most technologically advanced animatronic in film making history.
I'm not sure anything in this series was actually "the most technologically advanced" for it's time. It was the BBC in the 80s, after all...
@@calebfuller4713 The effects are pretty good for the budget they were on.
@@cygil1 A budget of 20 quid and some pocket lint!
@@calebfuller4713 actually the computer graphics were some of the most advanced at the time, only one computer in the uk was powerful enough and it would have taken several weeks to render one scene. So they just got Rod Lord and his animators to draw them by hand and make it look digital!
How far we have come ?
Amazon's Alexa should sound like Marvin, then I'd get one.
Morien Jones - I'm in. Let's start a petition on gov.uk and get it debated in parliament. Sod Brexit this is the big one!
I'm right yeah? "You can blame the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation for making androids with GPP...
Genuine People Personalities. I'm a personality prototype. You can tell, can't you...? "
Or HAL from 2001
Or my SatNav
Morien Jones “Weather! Don’t talk to me about weather.”
I like how the robot in the ad looks so much happier solely because it's just bouncing around.
It's? Surely you mean 'they are'. 😉
@@Cervandooh look a robot!
Would be really cool if they made a Hitchiker’s guide app with the same aesthetic style shown here and all the entries from the books.
Love the 70s aesthetic of what futuristic technology would look like.
It's pretty much Dr Who circa 1980. Peter Davison, who was the Doctor for a few years from about 1980-84 (?) was in the TV HHG series, as was his wife, who played Trillian on TV (not on radio). Adams had written alongside Graham Chapman and then in 1977 or so, wrote some Dr Who episodes for Tom Baker, the Fourth Doctor and a world-renowned scenery chewer, second only to BRIAN BLESSED. A couple of these episodes were made, one with John Cleese in a cameo I think, the rest became the basis of the Magrathea/ Slartibartfast part of the HHG.
@@anonUK wikipedia
"Pardon me for breathing which I don't do anyway so I don't know why I bother OH GOD I'M DEPRESSED."
can confirm
I love that the budget was so low they used OFFICE CHAIRS on a spaceship
It's not about the budget also, it's about how everything is random, like how are you gonna imagine a depressed robot on a spaceship 😂
If that's your cup of tea, the German scifi TV series Raumschiff Orion (Spaceship Orion) uses items such as papercups or even irons in the spaceship orion. And many more. These days the series has developed a cult following with some of the original followers visiting shows in movie theatres with their grandchildren. Proofs low budget can't be that wrong.
Hate to break it to you - office chairs did not look like that at the time this was produced.
@@davefandango1303 Be certain the BBC was looking for the most futuristic looking chairs they could find within the budget.
What's so remarkable about this production besides being infinitely better than the movie on a shoestring budget, is that all the "computer graphics" for the series were done by old fashioned cel animation. No CRTs were harmed in the making of these effects.
That’s why they look so crisp. Especially on the Blu-ray, which features new scans of the cels.
RIP Stephen Moore, guess the pain in the diodes down his left side caught up with him in the end...
😢
'Life, don't talk to me about life' I still quote... & nobody yet has gotten the reference 😔
I've got this feeling that "Your plastic pal who's FUN to be with" may have a seriously non-PG implication that Douglas Adams, influenced by the Pythons, somehow managed to sneak under the radar.
No no, you're thinking of the Sybian Cybernetics corporation...
He concealed it with an SEP field. (Somebody Else's Problem.)
Douglas Adams actually wrote quite a bit of MPFC.
An implication about Marvin?
Honestly, I would...
@@winders128 I know he wrote for Doctor Who in the 70s but I hadn't heard about him writing for Monty Python's Flying Circus. I'm not saying that he didn't, I'm just saying I haven't heard about that before. He was pretty young in the 70s, let alone the 60s. I know he was definitely friends with the Oxford comedy group. I'd definitely be interested in more information, if you have it.
Love that in the B.B.C. Series, Marvin was a serious character, but sadly in the movie he was reduced to just a comedy side kick. Original series was such a classic! For me the movie highlight was the ‘Point of view gun’ a brilliant weapon that could peacefully resolve many conflicts large or domestic. ❤️
I agree the written part and voice acting delivery was better in the 70s, but the costume was better in the movie. After all the happy white computers and personal funtime plastic gadgets of Apple vs the serious gray of PC and business computers....
That is the droid SCC would build, and the comedy is better that a clinically depressed personality is stuck forever in that cute and relatively useless machine body.
I thought the Zaphod visual concept was better too with the alternate head popping out, instead of hanging limp and asleep most of the time. He did impress Trish at a party, and he had to yell her he was an alien.
@@STho205 take a close look at his trousers. Those are not tubes and.are not apart of his trousers. 😯😳
The 2min 5sec video: 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Theme ( Kung Fu Lemon Remix )' - by Etha
3:22
"When I am king
You will be first against the wall"
I was missing Radiohead references around here
With your opinion, which is of no consequence at all
What's thaaaat?, what's thaaaat?
Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
shiet
My father showed me this series when I was just a wee lad. Many many years ago he had the DVD set, was hooked for life. Went down the rabbit hole involving the radio series, the books, the 2005 film...much love for the series.
An absolutely brilliant series and novel! I believe that the BBC version was superior to the movie version,lower budget,less-spectacular…but truer to the spirit of the novel.
The radio series is better still IMHO. That was it's original medium and aside from some sound effects, was much lower budget still! 😜
The novel was written after the radio series.
The movie was RUBBISH.
The TV show is exactly the same, just a few different actors.@@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars
The movie was TOO SHORT, anyway. Douglas Adam's writing can't be rushed!
Still so funny! Stands the test of time. Peter Jones was the perfect choice for the Hitchhiker's Guide narration.
"I've got this terrible pain down all the diodes on my left side..."
I believe it‘s a reference to Thomas Mann: Buddenbrooks
We're sorry for the inconvenience.
I have too !
"No, really?"
Poor Marvin, he has a brain “The size of a planet!” Then Arthur and his friends are given the problem of trying to find a brain “The size of a planet,” the most powerful computer in all of time and space! Where, oh where, could it be hiding?
I don’t think using the planet size brain with chronic depression would be helpful.
* The jingle at 3:00 approx incorporates part of the theme from the radio show's "Share and Enjoy" jingle.
* Robot RB-211 is named after a Rolls-Royce jet engine whose troubled devlopment almost bankrupted the company.
* Douglas Adams is depicted as one of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's marketing executives (and therefore one of the mindless jerks who etc).
Among the best of the best of the BBC. Monty, Sherlock, Hercule, The Boosh and all things Douglas Adams.
What company would think a chronically depressed robot would be a good thing to build?
zoppie A company full of mindless jerks.
As they said, "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came"
TeatherFilmLtd Productions that would be just anakin...
Wow, you mean there are things in Adams' books that are a little implausible and absurd? I don't believe it.
zoppie he wasn't meant to be deppressed
The jobs they gave him made him deppresd
Marvin is a unsung hero
Can always depend on Marvin to say something uplifting 😆 Such a great series!
I've never watched the movie, but I watch the BBC TV show constantly (I bought the DVD), and Marvin is my favorite character. I've never understood why Ford always refers to him as "that paranoid android," since obviously he is neither, but he always cheers me up and makes me laugh.
The movie is bloody awful. The TV and radio shows are fantastic.
@@tentringer4065 no its not
Still the best version of the book. You cannot cram 3 hours of story into 90 minutes of movie. It does not work. Those who decided to try doing that will be the first up against the wall ...
The books are an adaptation of the original radio show, which does had the advantage of not having to use visual effects to convey what was happening (relying upon sound design and narrations) and is also less truncated than the television version.
@@casanovafunkenstein5090 The radio show also continued after the point where the tv series ended, and had its own take on what events follow. For the later books, (third onward) Douglas Adams went in a different direction.
Even in this short clip, we see several reasons this BBC production was light years ahead of the 2005 film! My favorite is the later edition's entry for the Robotics Marketing Division! The film never even got close to that satiric bite!
Uh, ok.
You know who was in the Marketing Division... Only Douglas Adams himself lol
The original joke is from the original BBC radio series.
Yeah, but I still think the movie is still good enough to stand on its own.
@@jackkraken3888 *the effects might have been better in the film, but the original television series had a charm that was a lot more fun...also the Vogon's looked exactly the way Vogon's were intended to look and not silly parodies pretending to be serious*
The original radio series and following television series had us all totally hooked .
hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy is my star wars ever since i saw the movie! Now i'm gonna complete everything about it! i'm obsessed!
"Life. . . don't talk to me about life!"
Far better design than the movie one. So iconic he made a cameo in said movie!
hear I am brain the size of a planet and they ask me to fetch you...... life, don't talk to me about life.
There's more to that statement than it first appears if you think about which planet he's comparing his computer brain to.
Marvin knew, he always knew...
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
RIP Stephen Moore. Brain the size of the Universe. Helped us through some dark times.
"Just that?!" :) Love it! 2:07 Marvin from the BBC series made me giggle so hard, when I was a kid all those years ago. Wish there were more clips of him on youtube. Sadly his hilarious delivery of “Here I am, brain the size of a planet” is not included here.
In the book it says how Marvin was able to so perfectly adjust his tone and delivery that, while there was nothing you could actually take offense at, he nevertheless managed to convey his complete contempt for you.
He even sounds like Pink Floyd!
Why does this look better than the movie? Even after all these years.
Because it was
I have to disagree. Yes, some aspects are more interesting, but overall the movie has a more polished and focused feel to it.
Plus it doesn't hurt that the acting's better in the movie too.
I enjoyed it just as much as the movie. Never knew the movies background until recently and decided to watch the 1981 show.....actually loved it. And I honestly usually hate them old shows. Lol
@@GeorgeCowsert we can all agree Zooey Deschanel was a better Trillian than the lady here, right?
@@GeorgeCowsert Ha Haaa you got laugh, try reading the book. But then again it may not help.
OMG!!! They used this same robot costume in the movie!!! In the movie, it is one of the aliens in line at some Vogon DMV-type place. Watch the movie and you'll see Zaphod stands right next to him at the 1:03:18 mark! Very cool tribute to the TV series. Nicely done :-)
I loved that detail!
Also, Simon Jones is the hologram.
Yeah they tossed in details like that. The aerosol spray cans another reference to creatures with more then 50 arms each and who therefore were unique in developing aerosol deodorants before the wheel. Priority you see. 😂
@Paul Hitchens you may be quite shocked to see who wrote the screenplay. Unless you are making a joke?
I think it's its own official thing, as intended.
@Paul Hitchens I guess you aren't actually saying it's bad, though. So I agree that it would have been cooler to have a few more things in it. I think it was going to be the first in a trilogy but not necessarily in 3 parts. I wish there had been more time for Douglas Adams to make the next parts, movies and otherwise. I find it quite poetic that the main message in the movie is that we should stop all this bickering and finally be nice to each other, through the most efficient and quickest way possible, an empathy gun. I was thinking about that and I actually cried a little bit. It was quite an appropriate final message, ironic and meaningful. Rest in peace.
I actually thought this version was far more hilarious than the movie remake. The shoddy production and costumes only make it funnier.
Why am I replaying the "your plastic pal fun to be with" over and over?
It's for the bikini girl :)
If I ever make a game, I’m so going to make an NPC introduce itself when you first talk to it say, “I think you ought to know I’m feeling very depressed.”
In the beach sequence, the suit was very hard and clunky to take off, so when it rained, the suit was abandoned in the clay pit and protected by an umbrella.
tehcookiecat truly getting into the depressed spirit of Marvin
Except that the beach scene was shot on the beach at Carlyon Bay just outside St Austell, with a local lady as Marvin’s beach buddy. I think the raft and Douglas walking into the sea were also shot here. The clay pit scenes were shot a few miles away, and the air car ride in the old railway tunnel between Par and Fowey. The final scenes with the caveman were hundreds of miles away in the Peak District
was there....an ocean?.........cant bare oceans
I've seen it. It's rubbish.
I'm definitely ready for a re-read on the entire series. Such a wonderful compendium of creatively crafted characters!
We always knew Marvin as the 'depressed robot'.....not the 'paranoid android' but I think Zaphod called him that. This TV series was brilliant!
I love how the second head looks like he's sniffing the first ones hair xD
Bringing Mrvin along would be a hilarious way to kill a party;).
I'm sure the BBC's Marvin appeared in the movie too: he was just standing in a queue with a lot of other strange characters, which Zaphod and Arthur Dent then jumped. Anyone else see this?
Rip Stephen Moore. At least his diodes no longer hurt.
Don't know why but I've always thought Zaphod Beeblebrox's 2nd head sounds like Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarell from the sitcom Happy Days 1:15
1:33 i imagined a alt ending scene between marvin Trillian and zavod where as mavin walks away commenting that hes in pain due to some malefaction courseing all the circuitry on the left side of him not working trillian turns to zavod and says how meny times have i told u not to say the L word in front of marvin u know how much it upsets him
The series really worked best as a radio show and book. The gaps in the dialogue were much too obvious on screen whereas they added tension on air. Plus listening made you much more aware of the sound effects which were an integral part of the experience. I’m still gutted that after 45 years we were left hanging at the end of the second series. Never to be resolved. 😢
Marvin needs a large amount of robotic Prozac asap.
Anyone who gives this vid/series a thumbs down just do not get it. Superb.
Marvin is so British lol
This is the best BBC short series ever - from each episode’s opening to the ending credits.
3:49 - Nice little cameo by Douglas Adams there. Only now am I noticing it!
zaphod's just this guy, you know.
yes
God brilliant acting by thom yorke
Highly underrated comment
"just very very improbable" sound like something the doctor would say 😉
"Brain the size of a planet and what am I doing? Parking cars"
Loved the TV show! Loved the radio show! Would the radio show ever be animated and released in full?
I feel like I would have a much easier time watching this show if the just had an actual person in a suit play Zaphod's second head
For 1981 these are great costumes and characters
Much better than the movie
Make a parody advert with the standard scantily clad woman, and then unironically dress Trillian in about the same thing for basically no reason.
Sandra Dickinson was such a gorgeous dream.
I'm American. This clip, when I first saw the miniseries years ago, was the first time I had ever encountered the word "Zed" and wondered how whatever such a thing as it was could be a part of space coordinates. I assumed it was a proper noun, like Pluto or Andromeda, but then was confused on why a proper noun would be stated 3 times like that.
Think how confused everyone else is, when confronted with the US dialect alphabet which goes X, Ecks, Y, Why, C Cee. Why is 'c' at the end of the alphabet? Why is there no letter Z, Zed?
Wierd. In English, it goes after B, as in Ay, Bee, Cee. Simple.
@@ohgosh5892 try zepplin as in the greatness rock band ever. But compare to Zaphod Beeblebrox " don't you try to out weird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.” When faced with regret: “If I ever meet myself, I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.” But even Zad Is out shadowed by zebedee the coolness dud that dudded the duds. as he one said ""I try to please, It's nice to have satisfied customers."
@@jimsim3 The Hitchhiker's Guide was an excellent story. It survived the transfer from radio to television rather well. I'm surprised it was ever shown in the US, but obviously it was.
The best Trillian ever!
I just love Marvin.
The breadth of thought Douglas had supersedes probability.
The book was great! Top of my life, along with Heinlein's Stranger in a strange land.
DING, DING, DING, DING , DING!!!!!!!
2021 Could use a Heart of Gold ship right now ...
🇬🇧🙋🏾♀️Still as brilliant as I remember, heyyy 😃👌🏾
It's ghastly.
Notice that the upper right person in the Marketing Division mugshots at the end is Douglas Adams.
Poor Marv
I worked in a call centre and we had a bloke who was exactly like Marvin!. Soo much so we nicknamed him 'Marvin'.... He really was a miserable b*stard! And when we all went to the pub and had a 'whip' going he would pretend to add cash to the jar, but never would. Got caught and kicked out of group and moaned ever after!. 🤣 🤣
And legend says that he's still moaning about that to this day 😂
I'm split as to who I think was better - Stephen Moore or Alan Rickman. Both were great as Marvin, in my opinion.
ALAN RICKMAN, FOR THE WIN
So that's what "first against the wall means". I'm researching what Radio's Paranoid Android song is about.
News of Stephen Moore who played Marvin the paranoid android died October/2019.
Wouldn't Triilian recognise those co-ordinates as being near Earth? She's a maths/astrophyics wizzkid and comfortable with the technology of the Heart of Gold.
It's been a while since I read the book, but I believe she did.
3:23 Douglas Adams is Advertising Executive of Sirius Cybernetics!
I swear sometimes I think Android OS was made by Sirius Cybernetics when it refuses to work right on my tablet.
the fact that Marvin in the movie and Marvin here say the exact same thing really weirds me out for some reason
I really enjoyed this version
Thats how I start conversations too.
I just noticed that one of the Sirius marketers has a Disaster Area T-Shirt! hahaha wow!
Much funnier than the american movie
The 2004 movie was actually produced in England, the director is british and the script was approved by Douglas Adams. (Production started in 2001 so he was still alive). I prefer Marvin's design here though, it looks heavily outdated even by 1981 (this was aired in 81, propably started production 78-79), which I think is intentional
@@eightcoins4401 yeah the Marvin design from the film was a bit weird… as was the spherical ship and its spherical shuttle, tbh. I get the feeling they were meant to look matching.
Magrathea was pretty overdone too, vs the cluttered drawing room which has such a good atmosphere in the show.
The BBC Radio 4 / Radiophonic Workshop production was still better, if you ask me. Even if you don't ask me.
2:44 (alternative dialog) as marvin is walking away while moning at the fact that he is feeling very depressed Trillian looks around at Zafod and says- Trillian "Zafod how meny times do i have to tell you DON'T use the "L" word in frount of Marvin you know how much it upsets him"
hey, BBCW, it appears you stuttered a bit at the end of that description! "he is is not".
unless this is some bizarre meaning of what "is is" is~ I mean!
I am just watching right now this video by it’s Full Length and to it’s very end ‘cause this was saying :
“ the Paranoid Android 🤖❕”
I prefer this design of marvin.
Thats because its genius. The movie was dreadful. This BBC version is definitive excellence.
Marvin reminds me of an Android version of Squidward Tentacles
He's just an eletronic sulking machine - like me, except I'm not electronic
I have swam many many times on the beach. It's near St Austell in Cornwall.
Yup, Crinnis Beach at Carlyon Bay. You can see the eastern edge of the beach in shot, and the east side of the bay in the distance. Polkerris is in shot as well although you can't tell from the quality of the footage.
The scene must have been shot while the tide was out as the actors are standing to the south of the rock with the camera facing due East.
Thanks for your reply. Apparently they used a clay pit for Magrathea, and in the scene where Arthur and Slartibardfast are travelling in the pod, that was filmed in the tunnel that connects Par and Fowey docks.
I never knew they had a show I only saw the movie as a kid now I see where all the stuff from the movie can from
Did anyone else notice when Zaphod drops his straw from his drink
Marvin, I love you. Marvin, I love you! Remember, I'm programed for you. I know we're worlds apart. Still, you could break my heart. Loving you is all I can do. I tried to contact Marvin, I don't know why, but he never replied. Perhaps one day he'll answer. Till then I guess I'll keep on trying.
your turning into a penguin, stop it.
my legs are drifting off into the sunset
3:26 rightmost figure is Marvin after being converted into a Cyberman
I love ❤❤❤ the novels and this series!! Didn't care much for the movie!! RIP DOUGLAS ADAMS❤❤❤❤. Emily from Missouri US ❤❤❤
They preserved Peter Hitchen's brain and Robocop'ed it into Marvin.
Marvin, I love you. 🤖
And episode 1???