Reposted by Kevin Jon DaviesDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"this edible ain't shit" two hours later: 185182614359
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 02/07/2026@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 ] 161
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 19/06/2026A 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/hbjESNudk2Qyoutu.beMy Hero Got Me Started (1995)YouTube video by Kevin Jon Davies 010
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Stalbridge, 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.orgdontpanicfestival.orgDon't Panic FestivalWelcome to the Don't Panic Festival at Stalbridge come and join us 063
Reposted by Kevin Jon DaviesKevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Please 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...tickettailor.comBuy tickets – Talk: 42, The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams – Royston MuseumTalk: 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... 2188
Reposted by Kevin Jon DaviesHowie Berry @howardberry.bsky.social · 04/05/202685% 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 🎟️ 🎞️ 153
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 21/04/20261993, an article plugging my pro directing gig for BBC Video - the VHS release of The Making of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. 193
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 13/04/2026#DoctorWho Event, this Saturday 18 April in Dunfermline, Scotland! 030
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Please 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...tickettailor.comBuy tickets – Talk: 42, The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams – Royston MuseumTalk: 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... 2188
Reposted by Kevin Jon Daviesarchivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Elsie and Anita (Elisabeth Sladen) have a heart to heart conversation. 0294
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 07/12/2025#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. 070
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 01/12/2025My latest (fourth) Substack post is from 2004, about the Hitchhiker's Guide "Tertiary Phase" radio show... open.substack.com/pub/kevinjon...open.substack.comBig Audio Dynamite / Hitch Hikers ReunitedA 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.”) 0123
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Had fun remembering my so-called “student film” with Kenny in this podcast. SHAKEDOWN (1994) #DoctorWho 0112
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Another Substack archive article… open.substack.com/pub/kevinjon...open.substack.comDrawing on the PastCreating "The Illustrated Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (1994) 061
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 16/11/2025My 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...substack.comDon'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. 095
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 08/11/2025My first post on Substack is a behind-the-scenes story from the making of the TV pilot of #HitchhikersGuidetotheGalaxy. open.substack.com/pub/kevinjon...open.substack.comUnder the table with Peter JonesA behind the scenes story from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" TV series 1213
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 31/10/2025#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). 1202
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Reminder 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 8NZticketsource.co.uk 053
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Just 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. 020
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 07/10/2025#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. 1224379
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Worth a listen if you like a bit of archive telly. Nice to hear knowledgeable pros (who've done the homework) talking so enthusiastically. 030
Reposted by Kevin Jon DaviesSomebody wake up Hicks @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Do 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?...youtu.beA tour of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station - Part 1YouTube video by Joe Spins the Globe 2238
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 02/09/2025I'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... 093
Reposted by Kevin Jon DaviesEffin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 09/08/2025Strong 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...observer.co.ukDeath 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… 10375117
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 28/07/2025@dirkmaggs.bsky.social - I'd forgotten all about writing this report, but not the actual recording/mixing sessions. #thehitchhikersguidetothegalaxy 161
Reposted by Kevin Jon DaviesThe Elstree Project @elstreeproject.bsky.social · 31/05/2025🎬 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 022
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 25/05/2025#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...bbc.co.ukAlan Yentob: BBC arts broadcaster dies aged 78He interviewed a raft of important cultural and creative figures over a lengthy career at the BBC. 091
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 03/05/2025See: 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...? 172
Reposted by Kevin Jon DaviesHowie Berry @howardberry.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Tomorrow 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-...pordenonedocsfest.itHER NAME WAS MOVIOLAA cinematic love letter to the Moviola editing machine, featuring three-time Oscar-winning editor Walter Murch. The Moviola is an analog editing machine the size of a refrigerator with two pedals, one... 031
Reposted by Kevin Jon DaviesSteve Beresford & Pumpkin Pete @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 27/03/2025This is wonderful! "So, Colin, which film did you base it on?" "All of them, boss." 3348
Reposted by Kevin Jon DaviesJames Thrift @jamesthrift.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Lovely piece by the indubitably lovelier Jon Canter.thetimes.comDouglas Adams was a genius — and my bathroom-hogging flatmateA new documentary shows how the author foresaw the future in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (and based Marvin the Paranoid Android on me) 151
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Dunfermline, 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... 383
Reposted by Kevin Jon DaviesSteve Beresford & Pumpkin Pete @lostinmilbury.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Saw 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 12511
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 15/03/2025I can personalise and sign on request. The bookshop is local to me. #42DouglasAdams 143
Reposted by Kevin Jon Davies𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 13/03/2025We live in the dumbest of times. 59078182212
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Check out this new video, an interview where I talk about "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and Douglas Adams. youtu.be/XjGXDE1MPtE?... 181
Reposted by Kevin Jon DaviesAll Good Bookshop @allgoodbookshop.co.uk · 10/03/2025'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 0106
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Book tickets for screening (with Q&A) of new documentary about DOUGLAS ADAMS. 20 March in London UK. Tickets: www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/95343 153
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Screening 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: 1196
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Thursday. 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. 1153
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Was 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... 060
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Quote post with a picture of yourself and show these newbies who they’re dealing with. 030
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Saw this today... two types of rule-breaking in Palmers Green, North London. (Don't know what #Pudsey had been up to in Morrisons.) #ChildrenInNeed 110
Kevin Jon Davies @kjd42.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Hello, 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. 030
