As a series of TV episodes, Hitchhikers Guide is close to unwatchable. The laughably elementary special effects take away from the book--in which everything is left to your imagination--and from the original radio programs (if you're lucky enough to have heard them) which left ALMOST everything to your imagination. Three of us watched this DVD together. One fell asleep. One quit after a bit. The third stayed awake but didn't like it much either. Among the problems with watching it on a TV screen is the fact that the sections dealing with the content of the Hitchhikers Guide itself are spelled out in text that is extremely difficult to read, detracting from one of the funniest parts of the book. Only the opening episode leading up to the eradication of the earth for an interstellar bypass is at all funny. The remainder of the episodes on the DVD are progressively boring and repetitious. If the original radio series is available anywhere at all, find that instead of watching this.