The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

TV series

Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)

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The popularity of the radio series gave rise to a six-episode television series, directed and produced by Alan Bell, which first aired on BBC Two in January and February of 1981. It employed many of the actors from the radio series and was based mainly on the radio versions of Fits the First through Sixth. A second series was at one point planned, with a storyline, according to Alan Bell and Mark Wing-Davey, that would have come from Adams's abandoned Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen project (instead of simply making a TV version of the second radio series). However, Adams got into disputes with the BBC (accounts differ: problems with budget, scripts, and having Alan Bell and/or Geoffrey Perkins involved are all offered as causes), and the second series was never made. The elements of the Doctor Who and the Krikketmen project instead became the third novel, Life, the Universe and Everything

Related Topics:
Alan Bell - BBC Two - Geoffrey Perkins - Life, the Universe and Everything

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The main cast was same as the original radio series, except for David Dixon as Ford Prefect instead of McGivern, and Sandra Dickinson as Trillian instead of Sheridan.

Related Topics:
Original radio series - David Dixon - Ford Prefect - Sandra Dickinson - Trillian

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