Doctor Who vs Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Andrew Orton's "Doctor Who: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Daleks (The Peter Jones-y Edit)" mashes up the BBC Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy classic TV series with a Tom "the best Doctor Who" Baker encounter with the Daleks.

Mike Richards adds, "An utterly magnificent addition to the only reference book anyone needs. Animated in the same style as the 1980s BBC TV adaptation with a spookily accurate VoiceOver in the style of the late Peter Jones."

The Hitchhiker's Guide Reminds You Not to Panic if You Meet a Dalek (Thanks, Mike!)

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I want an App that converts all media to guide entries.
The more Hitchhiker’s related media out there, better odds (infinity-42 to 1 and falling)
that the BBC might consider tackling the series again. (It’s still recovering from the last tackle)

Planning does not involve messy and complicated space-time calculations,
but merely popping off to the bookstore, then a proper pub.
Felton

So, who’d win in a fight between a dalek and the ravenous bugblatter beast of Traal?
Andrew Orton

Hi,
Andrew Orton here – I made the video. Very pleased you have liked it! We did work very hard to make it as good as possible.

Not so much the idea to ‘recycle’ Adams’ lines either – just do somthing as reminiscent of his style as possible.

Cheers everyone!

Andrew
- Felton
  
  Great work, Andrew!
License Farm

Is it too late to have Orton write the HITCHHIKERS sequels, rather than Artemis Fowle?
billso

“Am utterly magnificent addition”?! You know, the Guide had editors…
Anonymous

This is made of awesome and..Daleks! This made my day!
gnp

This is great! Also floating around on the Web recently, The 11 Doctors, if they were owls, by Pu-sama.
salparadise23

Douglas also wrote another favorite episode for many, “Pirate Planet” in the Key To Time series.

Was the TV at the end from the Meaning Of Life?
VICTOR JIMENEZ

“Incidentally, DavrosÂ´earliest experiments were in the burgeoning field of disco physics”

I laughed so hard I fell from my chair.

Good work! Comedy Gold!
Ben Morris

Video will take forever to load on my connection. Did it mention that Douglas Adams wrote some of the Fourth Doctor’s episodes?
- Felton
  
  Heh! I’d forgotten that. He wrote the fourth-doctor episodes City of Death and Shada, and he used plot points from both of those later in his book Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (actually my favorite Douglas Adams book).
- jere7my
  
  Did it mention that Douglas Adams wrote some of the Fourth Doctor’s episodes?
  
  Not explicitly, but it included an image of the Jagaroth (the noodle-head alien from City of Death).
Anonymous

man, that made me happy, if only because of the accurate match between the voice here and that used in the old BBC *radio* productions (probably the same guy who did the TV later). wondrous!

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kingzilch

I found the voiceover closer to Stephen Fry’s performance from the movie – which is equally delightful.

How is it that the movie was so perfectly cast, and still managed to be such a disappointment?
- johnlancia
  
  Because Douglas Adams died before it went into production. That paved the way for a bunch of talentless producers ‘leave their mark’ as it were. Much like a dog does when it lifts its leg.
Anonymous

@Ben Morris: wasn’t Adams story editor on Who for a while?
Anonymous

The recent fabulous Doctors Who notwithstanding (Eccles, Tennant, Smith), Tom Baker will forever and always be Dr. Who to me…. ;)

This was Hitchhiker’s Guide entry was absolute genius. Thanks for all the fun!

- Cosmic Oz
dculberson

“Karo was .. a gray, stairless wasteland.” HA! Awesome. Way funnier than I expected.
harrisonicus

Tom Baker was the best DOCTOR, not the best Doctor Who.
nemofazer

The animation was wonderful but the recycled DNA lines once again reminded me how irreplaceable he is.

I don’t think I’ll ever stop missing DNA. His remains the only death that brought tears to my eyes when I didn’t know the person personally.

As a writer and editor of Dr. Who I think he’d approve.
timetraveler

It’s also noteworthy that The Guide has recently updated the description for Earth2. Having gone from Harmless to Mostly Harmless we have now advanced to 3 whole words in the official entry; Boring. For Oil.