Simply one of best and funniest things ever… mostly
Because it's interesting to compare different versions. The original radio series, plural, were pure genius. The sound design and music complemented the script beautifully, and I guess achieved just what DA intended. The books were just as good.
But the TV series was terrible, imho. Never understood why so many people actually liked it. The comic timing, spot-on in the radio series, was weirdly off in the TV adaptation, which ruined it for me. It was made worse by the fact that the script was so close to the radio series, so you *really* noticed the difference.
The film, on the other hand, was a decent stab at a screen adaptation, in part because it didn't try to stick so close to the radio series.
And the recent new radio series, adapted from collected bits of DA's unpublished writings (as I recall), was really quite bad. Very disappointing riffs on a hitchhiker theme
Biting the hand that feeds IT
