#the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy 1981

[mmarggsstuff]

the "gay ppl can't sit straight" compilation

[adaptations-polls]

Which version of this do you prefer?

[penguinfordprefect]

losing my absolute shit over ford wearing arthur’s gown

[atomic-chronoscaph]

David Learner as Marvin the Paranoid Android and Simon Jones as Arthur Dent - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981)

[avaloniaofficial]

me and who

[kajiklikesdoodles]

hello Hitchhiker’s Guide fandom (nil plus the five of us)!!!!!!!! (click for better quality!)

[bornetoblood]

Time is a flat circle and I will always return to the funny space men.

[nerds-yearbook]

The last episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tv version aired on February 9, 1981. The 6th episode recalled the events following the crew's departure from the Resteraunt at the End of the Universe. In divergence from the radio play, the crew found themselves in a stunt ship about to plung into a sun instead of in a battleship at the lead of an attack fleet. The show then realigned with the radio show with Arthur Dent and Ford Predect ending up on Ark B and then stranded on prehistoric Earth. (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, TV Event)

[thelostgirl21]

When you realize that you're among the very first Millennials to now have the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

[yepthatsacowalright]

"There are many problems connected with life, of which some of the most pressing are: 'Why are people born?' 'Why do they die?' and 'Why do they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?'"

[plebeiangoth]

Did anyone else watch The Batman largely because of the wild cast, only to completely lose their shit to see Sandra Dickenson?

[siryl]

They spelled "cord" wrong.

Babel Fish, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy images created by Rod Lord for the BBC television series (1981)

[cave35]

Don't panic. You have your towel.

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World 1967

"What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released in 1967 as a single. In April 1968, it topped the pop chart in the UK where it also became the biggest-selling single of the year, but it performed poorly in the US because Larry Newton, the president of ABC Records, disliked the song and refused to promote it. ABC Records' European distributor EMI forced ABC to issue a What a Wonderful World album in 1968. It did not chart in the US, due to ABC not promoting it, but charted in the UK where it was issued by Stateside Records and peaked at number 37.

The song gradually became something of a pop standard. An episode of The Muppet Show produced in 1977 and broadcast early in 1978 featured Rowlf the Dog singing the song to a puppy. In 1978, it was featured in the closing scenes of BBC radio's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and was repeated for BBC's 1981 TV adaptation of the series, as well as being used for the teaser trailer to the 2005 film version. In 1988, Armstrong's recording was used in the film Good Morning, Vietnam and was re-released as a single, reaching number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1988. It peaked at number 1 in 1988 on the Australian chart.

"What a Wonderful World" received a total of 90,6% yes votes!

[neil-gaiman]

Hi Neil!

I don't want to sound like a killjoy, but I'm concerned about David Tennant's family being involved in the second season of Good Omens (or Michael Sheen's partner Anna Lundberg in a future season three). I absolutely have nothing against them, I loved Staged just like everyone else, but this is exactly the matter for me: casting them in the series would automatically make me think about Staged or something else while I'm watching GO, and it would distract me from the plot and the magic of it. It would feel somehow like a family reunion, no matter how talented they are as actors (not to mention that there would be nepotism accusations, above all against David. I hope this won't affect the popularity rating, since season three is still hypothetical). I'm not the only one who thinks this might be an issue, from what I read on blogs here on Tumblr (and on the Internet in general) but I feel like there's a sort of tension, like people are scared to say it out loud, because some fans get the wrong idea and accuse them of hating Georgia or Anna or Ty (and that's why I'm asking this anonymously, I don't want to start a fight). I hope you get what I'm saying, it only felt fair to me to let you know whatever concerns some fans might have, and maybe even give you a perspective you weren't considering? Of course you have the last word on this, and if you think this is not a big deal, I trust your judgement.

I wish you a fantastic day! (And sorry for my English, I'm not native, I tried my best!)

Yeah. So, I find that a little creepy, not very creepy, but definitely a bit.

I thought we were lucky to get Peter Davison in Good Omens 2. (He didn't audition. We offered him the part, as I've been a fan of his since 1978, and All Creatures Great and Small. He crushes it, and is heartbreaking, funny, and still somehow the moral compass of the episode he's in.) Ty Tennant auditioned, along with a number of other actors, and got the part because he did it best. (I didn't know who his family was when we cast him. I just liked the audition tape.)

If you're hunting down family connections, David's mother-in-law, Ty's grandmother, Sandra Dickinson, is in the Audible Sandman, too, as one of the Three Witches/Fates/Eumenides etc. And she was cast in it two years before David Tennant (although probably around the same time Michael Sheen was asked to be Lucifer). (I've been a fan of Sandra's since she was Trillian in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in 1981.)

Anyway, I'm sorry you're worried about Peter and Ty's performances, although I promise you have nothing to worry about, and I'm sorry that you worry that our possibly casting Georgia and Anna in a hypothetical and not-yet actually a real thing Season 3 might make people think of Staged and make them not able to enjoy Good Omens any longer. (Had I known people were this easily shaken I wouldn't have appeared in Staged either, in case my name at the front of Good Omens shattered the fragile illusion and revealed to people that the David Tennant and Michael Sheen who play Crowley and Aziraphale are actors.)

Starting in 2017 I was the recipient of mind-mangling quantities of Tumblr abuse for casting David Tennant and Michael Sheen as Aziraphale and Crowley, which was, many people made very clear to me, the worst casting in the whole entire utter history of casting, and something that Good Omens would never recover from, because for a start neither of them looked like the versions in people's heads, and I'd also miscast them badly because everyone knew that if you had to cast Sheen and Tennant, Michael had to play Crowley and David had to put on some weight and play Aziraphale. (It wasn't until May 2019 that people stopped grumbling.) So people worrying I'm going to cast Anna and Georgia in a season that hasn't even been commissioned in parts that haven't been written just makes me smile.

I hope this helps.

[fordprefectyaoi]

big fan of those pictures from the 1981 version of the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy where ford looks like a lost child