Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the
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| Episodes: | 6 |
| Year: | 1981 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Seasons: | 1 |
| Seasons Breakdown: | (1) 6 |
| Category: | Comedy |
| Colour: | Yes |
| Format: | Serial |
| Company: | A BBC Production |
| Creator: | Douglas Adams (based on radio plays) |
| Run Time (mins): | 30 |
| Language: | English |
| Type of Show: | Live Action |
| Status: | Ended |
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Summary
The Hitch‑Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a hybrid of satire and speculative fantasy in which Arthur Dent , an unassuming, perpetually bewildered Englishman still clad in his dressing gown , is swept into a series of galactic misadventures. Monumental cosmic events are presented in a deliberately mundane, matter‑of‑fact style, transforming the universe itself into an elaborate joke.
The narrative begins with Ford Prefect, a roving researcher for the eponymous Guide, who has been stranded on Earth while updating its notoriously brief entry. With Arthur in tow, he narrowly escapes the planet’s destruction, which has been ordered to clear space for a hyperspace bypass.
Their flight through the cosmos brings them aboard a stolen starship piloted by the two‑headed con‑artist Zaphod Beeblebrox, his companion Trillian, and Marvin the Paranoid Android , a robot whose intellectual capacity is limitless, but whose capacity for happiness, as the Guide notes, “could be fitted into a matchbox, without even taking the matches out first.”
The wider cast includes the Vogons, corpulent green bureaucrats infamous for composing the worst poetry in existence; Slartibartfast, a planetary designer with a fondness for fjords; the Dish of the Day, a sentient entrée that cheerfully recommends itself for consumption; and a pair of pan‑dimensional beings masquerading as white mice who seek the Ultimate Question. The answer, of course, is already known: 42.
Cast
Arthur Dent SIMON JONES, Ford Prefect DAVID DIXON, Voice of the Book PETER JONES, Zaphod Bebbleborx MARK WING-DAVEY (from eps. 2), Trillian SANDRA DICKINSON (from ep. 2), Marvin DAVID LEARNER (eps 2-3, 5-6), Voice of Marven STEPHEN MOORE (eps 2-3, 5-6).
Comedy, United Kingdom, 1981, English
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