Marvin's TV Series

Politics: The state, however big, cannot make people equal or better human beings. All it can do is to treat its citizens equally, and strive to ensure that their free activities are directed towards the general good. After a century dominated by the twin totalitarianisms of Communism and Fascism, one can only hope that this lesson has been learned. As we enter the twenty-first century we must try to strengthen our democracy, both as a source of freedom and of social justice, lest the disadvantaged and the disillusioned reject it again.
[From A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes, 1996]

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The TV series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was broadcast in January and February 1981 on BBC Two in the United Kingdom. Marvin was played by David Learner and voiced by the late Stephen Moore. The costume (0.2 MBytes) was built by designer Jim Francis of the BBC Visual Effects Department.

In June 1981 Marvin appeared on the children's TV programme Blue Peter.

The top half of Marvin was refurbished for a cameo appearence (41 kBytes) in the 2005 film. He currently resides at the Gunnersbury Park Museum (78 kBytes), England.


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