Go ahead, make me feel old: do any jellies remember listening to the BBC radio production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

I’ve never seen the radio show no. But I have seen some of the older tv series. And of course the movie adaptation (which was amazing)

I watched the tv version where the petunia said oh not again.

YES! In fact at one time I had an album. I still have a 45 with Marvin the Paranoid Android on it and Metal Man on the B side (I just have to find it).

I had it on cassette tapes, too. Ok, I’ll come clean – I still have the tapes, even though I’m not sure they even play anymore. I think I enjoyed the radio and TV versions about equally. Never could bear to watch the film version. It just couldn’t be the same.

PS, here is another blast from the same era: a text-based Hitchhiker’s Guide video game.

I heard it when it first aired.
Then I read the books.
Then I saw the TV show.
Then I played the infocom game.
Then I watched the movie.

I definitely know where my towel is.

yes

My response would echo that of @filmfann, with a little variation…

I read the books.
Then I heard it when it first aired.
Then I saw the TV show.
Then I watched the movie.
Then I watched the movie.
Then I watched the movie…again
Then I watched the movie…yet again

My towel is always handy.

I also recorded the original radio program from the radio.

I listened to them constantly until the repurposed cassettes I used wore out.

I was too young to get many of the references the story made but I loved it.

The guide had a lasting influence on my life. It molded my sense of humor, it even influenced my speech. My parents were both from West Virginia. Thanks to the radio play and other British radio and TV programming I have little trace of an American accent.

One of my favorite lines:

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.”

@NerdyKeith – how can you see a radio show?

When I lived in the dorms, one guy had a copy of the radio show and played it all on one Saturday afternoon/evening. Very funny!

@RocketGuy how can you see a radio show?

I think it was Paul Harvey who told this story. I’m relating it from memory, and might have a detail or two incorrect: Sometime during the 1950’s or early 1960’s, when home entertainment in the US was transitioning from radio to television, someone asked a 9-year-old boy which he preferred, radio or television. His reply: Radio, because he liked the pictures better!

^ ...Goooood DAY.

Did anyone else read that in Harvey’s distinctive voice?

@RocketGuy Lol fair enough I have not “listened” to the radio show.

Who took my towel!!!