My second substack post is another archive article, written in 1992 about the retrospective "Making of Hitchhiker's Guide" documentary, then in production. #DouglasAdams #thehitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #BBCTV #television #behindthescenes substack.com/@kevinjondav...

My first post on Substack is a behind-the-scenes story from the making of the TV pilot of #HitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy. open.substack.com/pub/kevinjon...

#OTD 45 years ago... (31 Oct 1980) BBC graphics designer Doug Burd visited Pearce Studios and asked me to do some of his work for him - drawing a line of robots for the Encyclopedia Galactica. I sneaked in a few in-jokes to the animation for ep 2 of Hitchhiker's Guide (TV series).

Reminder about Tomorrow evening's illustrated talk about Douglas Adams at the Faversham Fringe. Still a few tickets available... www.ticketsource.co.uk/handofdoompr... Sunday 19/10/2025 17:30-18:30pm 
 The Alexander Centre (in the Mayor's Parlour) 15-17 Preston St, Faversham, Kent, UK ME13 8NZ

Just been reminded of the time my family and I were kindly invited by a friend to look around #Leavesden Studios whilst #HarryPotter and The Prisoner of Azkaban was in production. Here we are with Buckbeak, the Hippogriff. This was long before the official tour was built.

#OTD 45 years ago (7 Oct 1980) according to my diary, I drew these images for the Hitchhiker's Guide BBC TV series. Douglas Adams as both the ad exec and as Paula, the worst poet in the universe. I was 19 years old and having fun.

Timely clip…

Enjoyed recording this!

Worth a listen if you like a bit of archive telly. Nice to hear knowledgeable pros (who've done the homework) talking so enthusiastically.

Do you want some inspiration for your arctic research station, your deep space facility or your remote settlement game? Check out this excellent video of this South Pole Station. youtu.be/gQ3_gZ3ZS_4?...

I'll be speaking about the life and work of #42DouglasAdams at the Faversham Fringe (in Kent, UK), on Sunday 19 Oct 2025, at 5:30pm. Tickets only £6: www.ticketsource.co.uk/handofdoompr...

Strong read this morning in the Observer on the collapse of Unbound, featuring @alexdecampi.bsky.social, @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social and myself. observer.co.uk/news/busines...

@dirkmaggs.bsky.social - I'd forgotten all about writing this report, but not the actual recording/mixing sessions. #thehitchhikersguidetothegalaxy

🎬 Yesterday we filmed Elstree Project interview #78 with Academy Award-winner John Stephenson. He reflected on The Dark Crystal, Greystoke, and Return to Oz — and how Elstree Studios became the birthplace of modern British VFX and animatronics. #ElstreeStudios #Elstree100 #VFX

#AlanYentob (1947-2025). His team @ Late Show Prods gave me my first broadcast gig as director, #DoctorWho: "30 Years in the #Tardis" (1993) & he kindly took part. Did he really crib a witty reply from a Post-It note? "You may well think that, but..."😎 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

See: www.LondonFilmConvention.co.uk …for tickets, guest lists and further details. Nearest tube: Russell Square. I will be signing and selling copies of the #42DouglasAdams book. Hope to see some you there...?

Tomorrow our film has the honour of being a national premiere AND the closing film of the Pordenone Docs Festival in Italy! www.pordenonedocsfest.it/en/film/her-...

Tonight, don't forget - 8pm Sky Arts.

This is wonderful! "So, Colin, which film did you base it on?" "All of them, boss."

Lovely piece by the indubitably lovelier Jon Canter.

Dunfermline, Scotland on Sat 26 April. Plenty of laughs and behind-the-scenes stories of cult #sci-fi. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/42-an-even...

Saw this in the Radio Times... Douglas Adams: the Man Who Imagined Our Future On Sky Arts, Thursday 27 March. Looks very good! @kjd42.bsky.social @hg2g-scrapbook.bsky.social #DouglasAdams

I can personalise and sign on request. The bookshop is local to me. #42DouglasAdams

We live in the dumbest of times.

Check out this new video, an interview where I talk about "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and Douglas Adams. youtu.be/XjGXDE1MPtE?...

'jowling meated liverslime, Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, And hooptiously drangle me, With crinkly bindlewurdles.' Vogon Poetry - third worse known in the universe. Come be the worse at our Vogon Poetry night this Thursday. #poetry #books #comedy #london

Book tickets for screening (with Q&A) of new documentary about DOUGLAS ADAMS. 20 March in London UK. Tickets: www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/95343

Screening of a new film about Douglas Adams, for which I was a consultant. Looking forward to seeing the finished thing on the evening of Thurs, 20th March in East London, at the Genesis Cinema:

Thursday. It had to be a Thursday. I'll try to get the hang of it. All Good Bookshop, 35 Turnpike Lane, London N8 OEP. Nearest tube station: 'Turnpike Lane', of course. Bring bad poems.

🙄

Was reminded today of the first time I went to meet Sci-Fi fans who assembled on the first Thursday of each month at the One Tun pub, on Saffron Hill, near Farringdon station, London. It was March 1978 - my friends and I were looking forward to a new Spielberg movie opening later that month...

Quote post with a picture of yourself and show these newbies who they’re dealing with.

Saw this today... two types of rule-breaking in Palmers Green, North London. (Don't know what #Pudsey had been up to in Morrisons.) #ChildrenInNeed

Hello, Bluesky folk. I went for a walk over the local park here in North London. A chill in the air, but the afternoon sun was warm on my face.

For real 😲