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For those who had not been lucky enough to get a look at the original BBC series, it is now on youtube (for how long we dont know)

see :
http://tinyurl.com/2qwd55 (tinyurl'ed by markfiend)

more episodes on search

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=T ... o=1&num=10
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Alice!!!!!
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Thanks for the news&the linky! ;D

That was some 25 years ago I saw it on the german telly.
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A classic.

Sooooo much better than the recent film version. My old VHS copies rarely get time to gather dust.
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I had a DVD copy of that and I threw it away a couple of weeks ago :|

If I had known some of you actually like this junk, I'd've sent it over :cry: :oops:

Naught beats the book IMO.

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Deffo the book is the best, but I borrowed mine to some colleaugue (A real Yorkshireman now screwing up helis near Bonn, Krautland) and never saw it again.
Next comes the BBC TV series and with a long distace behind it the 2005 cinema version. It was very nicely filmed and well made and all, but it distorted the story just too much to score better. But I still enjoyed it.
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The BBC radio play is really worth listening to, if ya can find it anywhere.
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Spigel wrote:The BBC radio play is really worth listening to, if ya can find it anywhere.
Pirate Bay? :innocent:
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Big Si wrote:
Spigel wrote:The BBC radio play is really worth listening to, if ya can find it anywhere.
Pirate Bay? :innocent:

Excellent!!
Well spoted Mr Si :lol:
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radio, the best movies...
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Big Si wrote:
Spigel wrote:The BBC radio play is really worth listening to, if ya can find it anywhere.
Pirate Bay? :innocent:
I have all the parts on CD & it is excellent.
The TV show was good too though, although a lot was missed to get it all to fit their allotted time.
(& Marvin was much better in the original).
I have the VHS's but I can't believe the Beeb hasn't put out a dvd yet. :roll:
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Pista wrote:
Big Si wrote:
Spigel wrote:The BBC radio play is really worth listening to, if ya can find it anywhere.
Pirate Bay? :innocent:
I have all the parts on CD & it is excellent.
The TV show was good too though, although a lot was missed to get it all to fit their allotted time.
(& Marvin was much better in the original).
I have the VHS's but I can't believe the Beeb hasn't put out a dvd yet. :roll:
http://www.bbcshop.com/invt/bbcdvd1092
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:eek:

Mister master card's going to be busy today then.

Thanks for the linky.
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OOOOOOOH ! Nice one ! :notworthy:
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The ORIGINAL radio series is infinitely superior! ... :wink:
They (The Establishment) use sex as an addiction for control, just as they use alcohol and drugs ...
- A programme of systematic frustration in order to sell this crock of s**t as immortality, a garden of delights and love. ...
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Play are selling it at £17.99,HMV did have it instore for £7 and Tesco instore was a jaw dropping £3(but this could be store specific)in their Jan sale.
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Of course one wouldn't condone copyright theft... :innocent:
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not here fiendy :innocent:
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Cracking find! :notworthy:

I'm sure the movie's nowhere near as bad as I seem to remember, but despite having been given a copy on DVD some time back I still can't bring myself to watch it again. It completely misses the point - I don't really care what happens to Arthur Dent, but let's have more about the Great Nogzert of Arctoron IV.
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