The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Comedy
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Don't Panic! The story of Arthur Dent, an average Englishman who life was spared by his friend, who turned out to be an alien, while the planet Earth is destroyed. His friend tells him about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a guide with anything you ever needed, and wanted to know. They travel across the galaxy, meeting friendly, and not so friendly characters in order to find the great question (the answer being 42).

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Created By

Douglas Adams

Status

Ended

Original Name

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

First Air Date

January 5, 1981

Last Air Date

February 9, 1981

Seasons

1

Episodes

6

Language

English

Production Companies

Networks

BBC Two

Episode 6
S01E06

Episode 6

Fortune is on the crews' side - the transporter on the ship is still working, but needs someone to manually operate it. Marvin is therefore pressed into volunteering to sacrifice himself so the rest of the group can escape. Arthur and Ford get separated from Zaphod and Trillian and find themselves on board a space ship about to crashland into the prehistoric past of a planet that the two of them find strangely familiar. If this is indeed Earth, then history as they know it is about to be changed - and so is the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe and Everything....

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