BBC Hitchhiker's Guide - ON BLURAY

Extras

• Mostly Hand-Drawn: Animation sequences from the TV series presented in HD fof the first time.



• Life, the Universe and Clapperboards: Other elements from the series in HD.



• Recorded at the End of the Universe: Unique behind-the-scenes footage from the rehearsal rooms and the studio floor, showing the cast and crew grappling with the scenery, the props and the text of the Hitchhiker TV series.



• Writing Hitchhiker’s: The story of Hitchhiker’s difficult birth, taken from exclusive interviews conducted in 2007 and 2012 with Douglas Adams’ brother James and friend Nick Webb.



• Trailer for Radio Times: When the magazine announced their only Hitchhikers’ cover article.



• Open Door - The Sound of Love (1980): The earliest known filmed interview with Douglas Adams, in which he talks about his awkward childhood.



• Douglas Adams on Nationwide (1980): The first public glimpse of the new TV series was during this Nationwide clip when presenter Sue Cook interviewed Douglas.



• Marvin on Blue Peter (1981): The Paranoid Android launched his 1981 bid for pop stardom on the Children’s TV favourite Blue Peter and then told the presenters how he didn’t even want to talk about it.



• Douglas Adams on Paperbacks (1981): A quaint book programme where host Robert Kee makes plain directly to Douglas Adams’ face, his obvious disregard for the author’s second novel.



• The Sound of Sypher (1980): A BBC Engineering film about the sound design on Hitchhiker.



• Saturday Review: Douglas Adams explains to Minnette Marin his ideas for interactive CD-Rom audio drama, while in Birmingham, the fans gather for a Hitchhiker-themed games convention.



• Douglas Adams on Micro Live: Douglas Adams talks about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Game on BBC 2's Micro Live. Originally broadcast on March 8, 1985.



• Simon Jones on BBC Breakfast (2012): The Arthur Dent star appears on Towel Day 2012 to plug the theatrical summer tour of The Hitchhiker’s Guide Radio Show Live.



• Ten Short Films: From the personal archives of producer, Kevin Davies, featuring Douglas Adams and imagery from the TV series and elsewhere. Includes two exclusive reports on the movie from the world premiere in Leicester Square.



• Tertiary Phase Trailer: The surviving members of the radio cast re-assembled in 2003 for the long overdue radio adaptation of the third Hitchhiker book, Life, The Universe And Everything.



• The Hexagonal Phase: Online trailer for Radio 4 - the latest (and possibly final series ever) of Hitchhiker in its original medium, is based on the 2009 novel by Eoin Colfer with snippets of unpublished material from Douglas Adams’ archives. The surviving members of the original cast plus guests such as Lenny Henry and Ed Byrne, gathered in October 2017 to record the series which premiered in March 2018 on Radio 4.



• Marvin and Zem: Marvin was brought back to life by Stephen Moore for the Tertiary Phase in 2003, when he shared swamp duties with a mattress called Zem.



• Q-Phases: A trailer for the Quandary and Quintessential Phases radio series based on the fourth and fifth Hitchhiker novels.



• Original DVD extras: The Making of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Don’t Panic, Communicate!, Behind the Scenes, Peter Jones Introduction, Pebble Mill at One interview with director Alan Bell and animator Rod Lord; Tomorrow’s World sequence; deleted scene from episode 2, out-takes, trailer, Easter eggs.

And only 22 days from being announced - and 3 days prior to the release date - it's here. REALLY excited.

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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one of those shows I enjoyed first time around, at about 10/11 years of age. Having bought it on VHS and DVD, it has had some curiosity value to revisit, but no more. To me it is of it's time and indeed I quite liked the interpretation of the film. It wasn't bad, was it? 

I agree with you here. What I possess on DVD satisfies my tick box mentality of having it on hand for the occasional retrospective, but to me it lacks the timelessness of Doctor Who of the same period. 

I am not sure what a Blu Ray would provide in terms of enhancement, bar a few location scenes (first episode primarily) as I have said earlier in this thread, the Video of the time is not the sharpest quality. 

They repeated it on BBC2 about the time that the film came out which, even 15 years ago, for BBC1 or 2 to show any retro, cult shows was as rare as hen's teeth.



Anniversaries or tributes when someone has died aside, it's about 25 years since the Beeb showed classic Who as ongoing repeats. Thank God for cable - UK Gold is how I got to see all of Who in the 90s.