I watched all six parts of the 1981 (BBC television) version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy this week, and have to admit to a degree of disappointment; the program became a bit tedious, and the acting seemed wooden (in the actors' defense, they were not movie/TV actors - they were chosen for their radio voices and simply reprised the roles for the television version). The humor, which I remembered years ago as cutting edge and brilliant, seemed now to be a bit stale, but that may have been because of my overfamiliarity with the material.
But there are a quite a few iconic moments worth saving and savoring. I took low-res photos of the television screen, intending to store these images for future use for blogposts. But I already have so much stuff stored and saved up and bookmarked that I know the images will sit there gathering cyberdust.
So I'll post them now. I can still retrieve them for specific future posts, and in the meantime any of you with blogs who can find an appropriate indication for using one of these images is welcome to use them. Original credit goes, of course, to the BBC (there are other, crisper, studio-type images at the link).
