The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

8.1 / 10
1981
1 season
6 episodes
ComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

Don't Panic! The story of Arthur Dent, an average Englishman whose 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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Seasons

  • Episode 1

    1.Episode 1

    7.3
    05-01-1981

    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 su...

  • Episode 2

    2.Episode 2

    7.0
    12-01-1981

    Arthur and Ford have been discovered. Vogon Captain Jeltz tortures them by reading his poetry. He then has Arthur and Ford thrown off his ship, to what must be certain death - exce...

  • Episode 3

    3.Episode 3

    7.6
    19-01-1981

    The starship Heart of Gold is headed for the planet Magrathea, a planet which it is generally agreed does not exist. In trying to land on Magrathea's surface, the crew faces an anc...

  • Episode 4

    4.Episode 4

    7.8
    26-01-1981

    Arthur learns about the Great Project - the second most powerful computer in existence, called Deep Thought, created to answer the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Every...

  • Episode 5

    5.Episode 5

    8.0
    02-02-1981

    Arthur, Ford and the gang arrive at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe on Magrathea, built on the ruins of a planet-building complex, transported there by the exploding comp...

  • Episode 6

    6.Episode 6

    6.6
    09-02-1981

    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 h...

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