1993, an article plugging my pro directing gig for BBC Video - the VHS release of The Making of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

When Gerry Anderson Met Ray Harryhausen YouTube video by Kevin Jon Davies

In the 1990s there was a little studio down that Mews called (I think) "Aerodrome", where I shot a lot of interviews for Sci-Fi Channel and the BBC's "The Making of Blake's 7". Lots of sci-fi celebs took turns in that place... inc Nigel Kneale, Gerry Anderson, Ray Harryhausen...
youtu.be/1RqTS6aRxrI

#DoctorWho
Event, this Saturday 18 April in Dunfermline, Scotland!

That was one of Graham Chapman's favourite tricks down the pub, when he wasn't dipping it in someone's pint.

Not yet, but still hoping. Down but not out!

Sorry, I don't know what this is about. Please explain.

Buy tickets – Talk: 42, The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams – Royston Museum Talk: 42, The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams – Royston Museum, Wed 20 May 2026 - Kevin Jon Davies was an animator on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (BBC TV, 1981), Blake’s 7 (1981), Ge...

Please come and see me talk about DOUGLAS ADAMS
at Royston Museum, Royston, Hertfordshire, UK
on Wed 20 May 2026
7:15 PM - 8:30 PM

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I remember seeing the nuclear war film "Threads" when it first aired in 1984. Harrowing. But I've been to Sheffield in more recent times. Why did they never rebuild? 😎

Elsie and Anita (Elisabeth Sladen) have a heart to heart conversation.

Two of my favourite films. Mary S is part of the reason.

Lovely. Reminds me of the end of the film "Midsommar". 🔥🔥

Needs a laughter track. I laughed my socks off on first broadcast.

“He’s never cruel, he’s never unkind,” said Terrance in "More Than 30 Years in the Tardis". Amusingly, that bit wasn't actually in vision. It was over a clip of Colin Baker looking angry from "Trial of a Time Lord".

Very good. Yes, this book fed my obsession too, but not until I was given it by a school chum in about 1975. It was the Television Club film covering the making of the Sea Devils broadcast twice the week before the serial began (I was off school, luckily and saw it twice) which really got me stoked.

Sea Devil gets the chop from Jon Pertwee.

#DoctorWho / #SeaDevilsRedux (BBC tonight). Shame BBC destroyed a great "Television Club" film about the making of that story, which I saw *twice* the week before the first episode aired in Feb 1972. Ironically, I was off sick from school, so I got lucky. Made me (aged 10) want to work in telly.

(Guess what I can't stand listening to?)

Thanks Roy. I can talk til the cows come home. Luckily Kenny kept me from going off course.

Got mine in a vintage shop in Camden Market about ten years ago. Closest to the TV one I have been able to find, but not accurate. They are very heavy!

Big Audio Dynamite / Hitch Hikers Reunited A 2004 report (for TV Zone) on the recording of "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - The Tertiary Phase" (based upon the third Hitchhiker novel, “Life, the Universe & Everything.”)

My latest (fourth) Substack post is from 2004, about the Hitchhiker's Guide "Tertiary Phase" radio show...

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My wife Elaine once RAN UP the Post Office Tower (as it was known) way back, in 1979. Took her about 11 and a half minutes!
Hard to imagine.

Does any of it make any sense? Even they aren't sure...

Had fun remembering my so-called “student film” with Kenny in this podcast. SHAKEDOWN (1994)
#DoctorWho

Drawing on the Past Creating "The Illustrated Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (1994)

Another Substack archive article…

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I'd never heard (or read) Terrance Dicks' 2013 foreward to the re-published "Shakedown" novel. An affectionate, plausible impersonation of his voice by Nev Fountain. One cannot quote Terrance without doing the voice! (This also applies to Gary Leigh and Ken Campbell.) ...Thanks, guys.

Don't Panic - for at least 12 years! An article about 'The Making of Hitchhiker's Guide', a retrospective documentary I wrote and directed for BBC Video in 1992.

My second substack post is another archive article, written in 1992 about the retrospective "Making of Hitchhiker's Guide" documentary, then in production.

#DouglasAdams #thehitchhikersguidetothegalaxy
#BBCTV #television #behindthescenes

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Under the table with Peter Jones A behind the scenes story from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" TV series

My first post on Substack is a behind-the-scenes story from the making of the TV pilot of #HitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy.

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I imagine this was one of the smaller class of Frogstar Scouts, not the bigger, heavy-duty battle machine which Marvin faced off against. That would be more like a tank. (There's a fan animation of that scene online somewhere.)

#OTD 45 years ago... (31 Oct 1980) BBC graphics designer Doug Burd visited Pearce Studios and asked me to do some of his work for him - drawing a line of robots for the Encyclopedia Galactica. I sneaked in a few in-jokes to the animation for ep 2 of Hitchhiker's Guide (TV series).

Marvin the Paranoid Android, in a scene from "The Making of The Hitchhiker's Guide...", a retrospective BBC Video documentary filmed in 1992.

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers".

Thanks, I wondered if that was it. (Don’t want to be that guy correcting people online all the time, but a I have my own chronology of archive telly which I try to update with new info - like yours about the Q story.) As I remember it, ITV had just come back after the long strike.