- DVD-ROM
- Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd; New edition edition
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0563504579
- ISBN-13: 978-0563504573
- Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 11.8 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 775,785 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Experience "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in a more intense and involving way than ever before! There's definitely no need to panic as the full-cast radio dramatisation of the Tertiary Phase arrives in stunning 5.1 surround sound, meaning that these six episodes have never sounded so real. Through the powers of DVD home cinema, you can now experience special effects, music and vocals coming towards you from every corner of the room. There's an additional host of features available exclusively on this DVD, including behind-the-scenes video footage, interviews with the cast and crew, a photo gallery, the original Radio 4 series trailers, the full-length Krikkit Song, and much more. Simon Jones stars with Geoffrey McGivern, Susan Sheridan, Mark Wing-Davey, Stephen Moore, William Franklyn, Douglas Adams, Richard Griffiths, Chris Langham, Joanna Lumley and Leslie Phillips. It also features 20 minutes of material not heard on BBC Radio 4. This disc can be played on domestic DVD players. A standard stereo mix of The Tertiary Phase is also available on CD and cassette.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Immersive radio,
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This review is from: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 5.1 Surround Tertiary Phase (BBC Audio) (DVD-ROM)
I love Douglas Adam's books, I got into them before I heard the original radio plays or watched the TV series. The first two books were so successfully "adapted" from the original radio series because they were not strictly adaptations but re-writes with new storylines and alternative events. The film adaptation was written with Douglas and has some major re-writes to make it work for a mainstream film audience but without damaging the integrity of the main story. Adams was developing the stories with each transfer to a new medium.
Which is why the BBC's posthumous adaptations of Adam's novels fail. Dirk Maggs and co have wrestled with scenes that are brilliant in the novels but completely unsuited for radio and turned them into unconvincing narrated monologues, which is all you CAN do with those very visual scenes, and they have been done here as well as anyone possibly could. The problem is that the scenes are indespensable as they all inter-related to other events in the book. You can't subtract one scene without cutting holes in the others as well. Which is why it is so sad that Adam's never finished adapting this himself. He would have taken out all the offending scenes and re-routed all the essential subplots via new alternative radio-friendly events. But of course if anyone other than Adams had dared to tinker with the plot it would have been decried as desecration. And quite rightly. Which is why as frequently as this adaptation disappoints I can't pin any of the blame on anyone involved. They have made the very best of a tragic situation. The 5.1 surround mix on this DVD is absolutely superb and, as the liner notes point out, are not orientated to any one listening position which is exactly how it should be. I relaxed in the centre of a comfy, darkened room with the surround speakers spaced equally around me and the settings adjusted apporopriately on my decoder and the various scenes were acted out around different areas of my room! The only criticism I have is with the DVD authoring. Because there is no "play-all" option in the menu it is necessary to keep switching on the TV screen/PC monitor to navigate the menu at the end of every episode which really spoils the mood for me. Thank the Net for DVD rippers, eh?
5.0 out of 5 stars
great sound for a great series,
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This review is from: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 5.1 Surround Tertiary Phase (BBC Audio) (DVD-ROM)
It is not a DVD audio sadly but the sound in 5.1 surround is impressive. And it's a great radio series! The director Dirk Maggs made an excellent job, and most of the cast from the original Hitchhiker's radio series is back!
4.0 out of 5 stars
It's Cricket but Knot as you know it,
By Music Lover of Essex "Baz" (PR of Essex) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 5.1 Surround Tertiary Phase (BBC Audio) (DVD-ROM)
Douglas' third turn comes to life. This version is the sole example of the canon to include a surround soundtrack (not DVD-A which was originally promised.) It's mostly irrelevant as the humour works in the words but if you find the need to hear Ford from your rear then that's your fetish.
Me? I loved it for the bizzare and increasingly convoluted story which leads you to the largely bizzare and increasingly irrelevant conclusion. Mark was deducted for not providing a play all option for the episodes or video extras - authored by Marvin I would suggest.
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