1 Season
6 Episode
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Season 1 Episode 1
Arthur Dent, a perfectly ordinary Earthman, is surprised to wake up one day to find bulldozers outside his house with orders to knock it down to build a by-pass. He is even more surprised later on in the pub when his best friend Ford Prefect reveals himself to be from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse. The two are forced to hitch a lift on one of the advancing Vogon spacecraft which proceed to blow up the Earth to make way for an interspace bypass. Our two heroes find themselves trapped in a storage room in hyperspace, with only a menacing Vogon guard for company.
- Year: 1981
- Country:
- Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Studio: BBC Two
- Keyword: galaxy, friendship, satire, ufo, space, alien, end of the world, universe, nostalgic, meaning of life, alien friendship, deep space, satirical, playful, lighthearted
- Director: Douglas Adams
- Cast: Simon Jones, David Dixon, Sandra Dickinson, Mark Wing-Davey, Stephen Moore, Peter Jones