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Hitchhikers started out as a radio show (on the BBC in the UK) and for me that was its funniest format. The Beeb did a pretty good job of bringing it to TV and the "trilogy in five parts" (the books) weren't bad either.
But following HHG in the various formats gets confusing because although the story starts out the same way, the details and timelines vary in each medium and soon even the basic storylines diverge. That's because Adams himself rewrote his own contributions and because he was not the only writer involved in (some of) the scripts.
The movie, which has quite a different plot from the radio and the TV series (although it broadly covers the span of the first few radio programs), lost a lot of the original humor and "feel". Picking up the pace to condense the stories into a single movie didn't really work either.
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