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The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: Season 1: Episode 1

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BBC-2 | BBC Two | Air Date: January 5, 1981
Starring: Simon Jones, Peter Jones, Stephen Moore, Mark Wing-Davey, David Dixon, Sandra Dickinson, Tony Clark (IX)
Summary: Arthur Dent, a perfectly ordinary Englishman, is surprised to wake up one day to find bulldozers outside his house with orders to knock it down to build a bypass. Still in his pyjamas, he takes himself off to the pub, where he is even more surprised when his best friend, Ford Prefect, reveals that he is from a small planet in the vicinityArthur Dent, a perfectly ordinary Englishman, is surprised to wake up one day to find bulldozers outside his house with orders to knock it down to build a bypass. Still in his pyjamas, he takes himself off to the pub, where he is even more surprised when his best friend, Ford Prefect, reveals that he is from a small planet in the vicinity of the star 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 heroes soon find themselves trapped in a storage room in hyperspace, with only a menacing Vogon guard for company.… Expand
Genre(s): Comedy, Science Fiction
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