HDMovies

Kevin Davies' hour-long documentary from 1993. Packed with unbroadcast and archive material, behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Simon...

Kevin Davies revisits his footage from "The Making of..." documentary, to bring together a further 20 minutes of interviews and other material that...

A profile of the late Douglas Adams - creator of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'. Features contributions from many of hsi famous...

The first episode was screened to a selected audience at the National Film Theatre and featured a specially recorded introduction by...

As part of a BBC Education programme, cameras were given access to the radio studios of "Hitchhiker's" during the production of the second episode,...

The BBC2 trailer for the first episode of "Hitchhiker's."

The final minutes of studio recording for Episode Two on Saturday, 8th November 1980, were a fraught affair, with time seriously running out. A...

An appearance by animator Rod Lord and producer/director Alan J. W. Bell on the 23rd January 1981 edition of the programme, talking about...

A short sequence cut from Episode Two prior to transmission.

Whoopsies and bloopers of 16mm film clips rescued from the editors trim bins

At the time, Zaphod Beeblebrox's second head was at the cutting edge of robot animatronics. The 12th February 1981 edition of the BBC's long-running...

The first composited version of the title sequence borrowed obvious elements from the 1970s Doctor Who slit-scan tunnel effect. Alan J.W. Bell...

All the Hitchhiker's series award-winning graphics have been re-mastered from original film into one mesmerizing sequence. Rod Lord's complex...

Live-action excerpts, newly re-mastered from surviving archive reels. Most of the original film from the series no longer exists, purged as usual in...

Flashes of life on the studio floor at BBC Television Centre. The Inventive cast and crew furch between the mindless tedium and bursts of action....

From archive video, three people who knew Douglas Adams very well, remember his battles to write the earliest episodes. His younger half-brother...

Douglas Adams explains to Minnette Marrin his ideas for interactive CD-Rom audio drama, whilst in Birmingham the fans gathered for a...

The show made a triumphant return to its original medium on BBC Radio 4 in September 2004, with surviving cast members and some terrific guests,...

A quaint book programme where Robert Kee discussed Douglas Adams' second novel with the author.

Interviewed about his fiendish new Nitthiker's Gundo compoter game. The energetic presenter Freff recalled in 2018 how Douglas had had a headache,...

Recently made available again on newly packaged CDs, (and also for the first time, on shiny red vinyl!) the various Phases of the radio...

A look at how Stephen Moore recorded Marvin for The Tertiary Phase, with an annoyingly cheerful swap mattress called Zem. This was one of the video...

A March 1980 edition of the public access programme. Young, unemployed Anthony Hodgins conducted the earliest known filmed interview with Douglas...

Never heard of International Towel Day? Simon Jones explains, whilst also plugging the 2012 Hitchhiker's Guide Radio Show Live UK tour.

The first broadcast glimpse of the new Hitchhiker's TV series was during this Nationwide clip, when presenter Sue Cook interviewed "Richard, er,...

The Paranoid Android made his first bid for chart success with this whimsical appearance on the legendary BBC's flagship children's magazine show.

Made by Perfectly Normal Productions for BBC Radio 4, adapted by Dirk Maggs from the Eoin Colfer book And Another Thing.. plus some material newly...

The only time the BBC's listings magazine ever granted Hitchhiker's the honour of a front cover, they also made this promo, with unique narration....

The world of proto-digital audio production was examined here in this highly technical explanation of the BBC's newest dubbing suite, featuring the...

Made in 2009 for Penguin Books' launch evert and website for the Eoin Colfer (6th Official) Hitchhiker's novel And Another Thing. These films about...

35mm widescreen animation sequences used for back-projection on the set

The unexpurgated explosion, filmed at high speed, by looking up at a pyrotechnic

When unidentified parasites violently take over human hosts and gain power, humanity must rise to combat the growing threat.

Daishi Morimiya is a high school student whose dream is to become a wheelchair, track-and-field athlete. In addition to that, Miyako Fukai, a former...

After taking a one-way trip to the Red Planet, graphic designer Jeff Cooper finds himself adrift when his bosses unceremoniously eliminate his role.

The whacky adventures of Ned Bigby and his best pals Moze and Cookie at James K. Polk Middle School, as "every-kid" Ned shatters the fourth wall to...

The long-awaited rebirth of the greatest superhero team of all time: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Hawkgirl, Green Lantern, and Martian...

A topical comedy show, mixing stand-up with sketches and impressions, starring David Baddiel, Robert Newman, Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt.