The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy poster

Basic Info

First Air: January 05, 1981

Rating: ⭐ 8.1/10 (37 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Last Episode

Name: Episode 6

Season: 1, Episode: 6

Air Date: 1981-02-09

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....

Videos

Improbability Drive - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - BBC (YouTube)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1981 1 seasons 6 episodes ⭐ 8.1/10 37 votes

Overview

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).