# Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy; I think I've been "whooshed" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-i-think-ive-been-whooshed/160394 "2003-03-10T20:30:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-i-think-ive-been-whooshed/160394/61 "2003-03-22T23:35:20Z")
Hey, I LIKED the video! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-i-think-ive-been-whooshed/160394/62 "2003-03-23T00:17:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chronos \* > \*\*Y’know, in my readings and re-readings of the Hitchhiker books, I never picked up that it was the “mice” who were the ones playing ultra-cricket. Interesting… \*\* Especially when you consider that the play of Brockian Ultra-Cricket mainly consists of hitting people, then running away. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-i-think-ive-been-whooshed/160394/63 "2003-03-23T00:20:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Yllaria \* > \*\*As a side question, was there ever a decent comic version of HHGG? \*\* There is _a_ comic version of the original three books. Whether or not you think it’s _decent_, I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-i-think-ive-been-whooshed/160394/64 "2003-03-23T00:23:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Achernar \* > \*\*The radio show corresponds almost totally to the first two books. By that I mean that there are plenty of things from the radio show in books 1 and 2, and almost none in 3, 4, and 5. \*\* Check the copyright pages for the first two books, and you should find that they are in fact novelisations of the radio plays. The radio plays came first. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-i-think-ive-been-whooshed/160394/65 "2003-03-23T02:34:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Evil Death \* > The radio plays came first. Yes, I knew this. Sorry if I made it seem like I thought it was the other way around. I didn’t realize the bit about the copyright, though. That’s neat, although my version (Pocket Books paperback) doesn’t have it. ---
**Author:** ![legion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@legion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legion)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-i-think-ive-been-whooshed/160394/66 "2003-03-23T11:57:14Z")
Fiction or not, Adams got it right about the number 42. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-i-think-ive-been-whooshed/160394/67 "2003-03-23T12:01:59Z")
I hated the guy they cast as Ford Prefect, in the video. Well, not him personally, but the way he looked and came off. I always pictured FP, the field journalist or whatever he was, as looking and acting like Hunter Thompson. Not cute and curly-headed, but tall, skinny, tan, balding and homely. Not chipper, but cynical. And definitely not wearing an Argyle sweater! What was he supposed to be, bloody Martin Smith from Croydon? ---
**Author:** ![TheRealJohnPeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TheRealJohnPeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheRealJohnPeat)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-i-think-ive-been-whooshed/160394/68 "2003-03-23T14:47:33Z")
On the Dr Who connection - Douglas did write quite-a-bit for Dr Who - mostly notably a double-episode called ‘Shada’. Due to industrial action at the BBC, filming of the programme was never completed and it never aired on TV - but it was released (with voiceovers to fill-in the gaps) on video a few years ago… The plot will be familiar to anyone who’s read the Dirk Gently books too - in that there’s a Tardis which has dematerialised inside a university and appears to be the office of a professor… 🙂 TTFN JP [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitchikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-i-think-ive-been-whooshed/160394.md?page=3)