Kevin Jon Davies
@kjd42.bsky.social
Filmmaker & Author Interview: https://youtu.be/XjGXDE1MPtE
@mamajanetti.bsky.social - - stand by for announcement - - -- incoming message for Janette -- -- -- -- dateline: Thursday ("I can't get the hang of...") 02 July 2026 AD -- London UK. Weather: Bloomin' hot (for a change!) [includes Philipp Horatschek of "Towel Day Austria" ... philipp.liest ]
A little blast from the past. An edit I made from three generations of #movie-makers, telling similar tales of their big break in the #film industry, through meeting their heroes... #RayHarryhausen, #RickBaker and #SteveNorrington. #movies #specialeffects youtu.be/hbjESNudk2Q
My Hero Got Me Started (1995)
YouTube video by Kevin Jon Davies
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Stalbridge, Dorset. See you there, this Towel Day, 25th May (Bank Holiday Monday) for a grand village festival. Marvin the paranoid android will be there too, for the unveiling of a plaque on the former home of Douglas Adams, where he wrote the pilot of Hitchhiker's Guide. www.dontpanicfestival.org
Don't Panic Festival
Welcome to the Don't Panic Festival at Stalbridge come and join us
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Please come and see me talk about DOUGLAS ADAMS at Royston Museum, Royston, Hertfordshire, UK on Wed 20 May 2026 7:15 PM - 8:30 PM www.tickettailor.com/events/royst...
Buy tickets – Talk: 42, The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams – Royston Museum
Talk: 42, The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams – Royston Museum, Wed 20 May 2026 - Kevin Jon Davies was an animator on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (BBC TV, 1981), Blake’s 7 (1981), Ge...
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85% of tickets sold! Her Name Was Moviola, with a Q&A with the great Walter Murch (I’m there too!) is at the @princecharlescinema.com on May 14! If you’re in London, you don’t want to miss this 🎟️ 🎞️
1993, an article plugging my pro directing gig for BBC Video - the VHS release of The Making of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
HG2G Scrapbook@hg2g-scrapbook.bsky.social · 4mo agoApril 1993 Dreamwatch Bulletin, Issue 112 'Having a picnic at BBC Video’ by @kjd42.bsky.social
Please come and see me talk about DOUGLAS ADAMS at Royston Museum, Royston, Hertfordshire, UK on Wed 20 May 2026 7:15 PM - 8:30 PM www.tickettailor.com/events/royst...
Buy tickets – Talk: 42, The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams – Royston Museum
Talk: 42, The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams – Royston Museum, Wed 20 May 2026 - Kevin Jon Davies was an animator on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (BBC TV, 1981), Blake’s 7 (1981), Ge...
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Elsie and Anita (Elisabeth Sladen) have a heart to heart conversation.
#DoctorWho / #SeaDevilsRedux (BBC tonight). Shame BBC destroyed a great "Television Club" film about the making of that story, which I saw *twice* the week before the first episode aired in Feb 1972. Ironically, I was off sick from school, so I got lucky. Made me (aged 10) want to work in telly.
My latest (fourth) Substack post is from 2004, about the Hitchhiker's Guide "Tertiary Phase" radio show... open.substack.com/pub/kevinjon...
Big Audio Dynamite / Hitch Hikers Reunited
A 2004 report (for TV Zone) on the recording of "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - The Tertiary Phase" (based upon the third Hitchhiker novel, “Life, the Universe & Everything.”)
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Had fun remembering my so-called “student film” with Kenny in this podcast. SHAKEDOWN (1994) #DoctorWho
Kenny Smith@finishedzine.bsky.social · 9mo ago🥔NEW EPISODE!🥔 Having discussed the outer space potato people in the Shakedown novel last week, today we turn our eyes to the #DoctorWho spin-off video from 1994, with director @kjd42.bsky.social. soundcloud.com/powerof3pod/...
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...
Don't Panic - for at least 12 years!
An article about 'The Making of Hitchhiker's Guide', a retrospective documentary I wrote and directed for BBC Video in 1992.
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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...
Under the table with Peter Jones
A behind the scenes story from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" TV series
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#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
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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.
Worth a listen if you like a bit of archive telly. Nice to hear knowledgeable pros (who've done the homework) talking so enthusiastically.
Samira Ahmed@samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 12mo ago
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?...
A tour of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station - Part 1
YouTube video by Joe Spins the Globe
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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...
Death of a publishing dream: how the Unbound revolution b...
The literary disrupters enjoyed great success with their crowdfunding model, signing authors that other publishers overlooked. And then the money ran out…
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@dirkmaggs.bsky.social - I'd forgotten all about writing this report, but not the actual recording/mixing sessions. #thehitchhikersguidetothegalaxy
HG2G Scrapbook@hg2g-scrapbook.bsky.social · last yr.September 2004 TV Zone, Issue 180: ‘Hitch Hikers Reunited' (Can’t remember where I got this from, but credit to whoever it was)
🎬 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...
Alan Yentob: BBC arts broadcaster dies aged 78
He interviewed a raft of important cultural and creative figures over a lengthy career at the BBC.
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