Out of the Trees is a 1975 television sketch show pilot written by Graham Chapman, Bernard McKenna and Douglas Adams that was broadcast on BBC 2 in 1976.
The concept of the show was, according to Chapman, to follow the exploits of two modern-day linguists who would travel around a Britain gripped in rapid decline.
The film segments shot in outdoor locations survived, and consist of a sketch titled "Severance of a Peony", and some inserts intended for an item about Genghis Khan.
The former was included on the DVD for Adams's 1981 TV series adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and also appeared, rewritten as an anecdote, in Chapman's book A Liar's Autobiography.
It was restored, a process which took 2 years[2] and shown at the National Film Theatre on Saturday, 2 December 2006 as part of the Missing Believed Wiped event.