Daniel65 wrote:

The Doctor wrote on 5/2/24 12:32 am:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

OWWWWW!! Who's a cleaver boy then, actually finding something on
the Internet all by himself!!

The thing is, that movie from 2005 has fuck all do do with anything
Disney are doing - or not doing - with "Doctor Who" in 2024...

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The Doctor wrote:

In article <xn0ohpkrc3a8z00001@reader.xsnews.nl>,
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

Daniel65 wrote:

The Doctor wrote on 5/2/24 12:32 am:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371724/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

OWWWWW!! Who's a cleaver boy then, actually finding something on
the Internet all by himself!!

The thing is, that movie from 2005 has fuck all do do with
anything Disney are doing - or not doing - with "Doctor Who" in
2024...

Try again!

No Dave, you try again!

Please explain the link between the 2005 HHGTTG movie and the recent
episodes of Doctor Who...

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The Doctor wrote:

In article <xn0ohpud83nai6s000@reader.xsnews.nl>,
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

The Doctor wrote:

In article <xn0ohpkrc3a8z00001@reader.xsnews.nl>,
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

The thing is, that movie from 2005 has fuck all do do with
anything Disney are doing - or not doing - with "Doctor Who"
in 2024...

Try again!

No Dave, you try again!

Please explain the link between the 2005 HHGTTG movie and the
recent episodes of Doctor Who...

The plot and the feel!

Well I suppose as HHGTTG was written by a man who wrote and script-
edited episodes of Doctor Who in the 1970's, I could accept
"the feel" as a link. As I'm sure there have been a few
similarities, especially back in the day. (Which we could discuss if
you wanted to dust off your old Tom Baker narrated Shada VHS tape.)
But I certainly don't get that "feel" between the 2005 movie version
of HHGTTG and RTD's four 2023 Doctor Who 'specials'!


(But it has

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The Doctor wrote:

In article <xn0ohpv823odz7g005@reader.xsnews.nl>,
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

The Doctor wrote:

In article <xn0ohpud83nai6s000@reader.xsnews.nl>,
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

Please explain the link between the 2005 HHGTTG movie and the
recent episodes of Doctor Who...

The plot and the feel!

Well I suppose as HHGTTG was written by a man who wrote and
script- edited episodes of Doctor Who in the 1970's, I could
accept "the feel" as a link. As I'm sure there have been a few similarities, especially back in the day. (Which we could
discuss if you wanted to dust off your old Tom Baker narrated
Shada VHS tape.) But I certainly don't get that "feel" between
the 2005 movie version of HHGTTG and RTD's four 2023 Doctor Who
'specials'!

So what about the whale flowing in space humour?

The Goofy scene with the [imaginary] Whale coming to terms with it's
identity before THUD! ... like the plant pot hitting the window,
doesn't really say Doctor Who to me. (And it wasn't even that funny.)

Star Trek did a Whale in space too...

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On 2024-02-07 12:52:23 +0000, Daniel65 said:

The Doctor wrote on 7/2/24 1:46 am:

In article <upt78t$sbdt$1@dont-email.me>, Daniel65
<daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

The Doctor wrote on 6/2/24 2:52 am:

In article <xn0ohpv823odz7g005@reader.xsnews.nl>, Blueshirt
<blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

The Doctor wrote:

In article <xn0ohpud83nai6s000@reader.xsnews.nl>, Blueshirt
<blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

The Doctor wrote:

In article <xn0ohpkrc3a8z00001@reader.xsnews.nl>, Blueshirt
<blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

The thing is, that movie from 2005 has fuck all do do
with anything Disney are doing - or not doing - with
"Doctor Who" in 2024...

Try again!

No Dave, you try again!

Please explain the link between the 2005 HHGTTG movie and
the recent episodes of Doctor Who...

The plot and the feel!

Well I suppose as HHGTTG was written by a man who wrote and
script- edited episodes of Doctor Who in the 1970's, I could
accept "the feel" as a link. As I'm sure there have been a few
similarities, especially back in the day. (Which we could
discuss if you wanted to dust off your old Tom Baker narrated
Shada VHS tape.) But I certainly don't get that "feel" between
the 2005 movie version of HHGTTG and RTD's four 2023 Doctor Who
'specials'!

So what about the whale flowing in space humour?

Just happened to be reading a thread "Dr Who has read the
Hitchhikers Guide?" in the Doctor Who archives and they mentioned
THE ORIGINAL HHGTTG .....

Quote Something said in passing towards the end of Ghost Light by
the Doctor went something like:

'Who said "They never invite their ancestors around for dinner"?'

I don't have a tape of the episode to go back and check. It is
obviously a reference to an entry in the Hitchhikers' Guide. These
remarks go past so fast its hard to spot them. Can anyone verify
it, and perhaps know of more like it?

P.S. The other nice bit I remember was in the 25th anniversary
daleks story, where the Doctor and Ace leave a room with a
television going, on the BBC, with an announcer just starting to
introduce a new science-fiction series... End Quote

Anybody know if the line *IS* actually a reference to HHGTTG??

might have to check the radio scripts.

Well, that was of great assistance, "Yellow Beard Yadallee".

Please report the result after you check!!

Many places attribute the quote, or slightly differently worded
versions, to Douglas Adams and according to IMDB.com, the quote is by
the Guide ("The Book").
<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1113227/quotes/>

It does appear in the original BBC TV series transcription: <https://subslikescript.com/series/The_Hitchhikers_Guide_to_the_Galaxy-81874/season-1/episode-1-Episode_11>


BUT ...
It isn't in the draft movie script: <https://imsdb.com/scripts/Hitchhiker%27s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy,-The.html> <https://assets.scriptslug.com/live/pdf/scripts/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-2005.pdf>


nor in the original radio script: <https://archive.org/details/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-by-douglas-adams-and-abbie-bernstein-february-9-1987>


and it doesn't appear in the book either: <https://www.deyeshigh.co.uk/downloads/literacy/world_book_day/the_hitchhiker_s_guide_to_the_galaxy.pdf>




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