Comedy | Adventure | Science-Fiction
Station:
BBC Two (UK)
Status:
Ended
Start:
1981-01-05
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a BBC television adaptation of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy broadcast in January and February 1981 on UK television station BBC Two. The adaptation follows the original radio series in 1978 and 1980, the first novel and double LP, in 1979, and the stage shows, in 1979 and 1980, making it the fifth iteration of the guide.
TV Show Ended.
S1E4 - Episode 4
Arthur learns about Deep Thought, a computer built millions of years ago to discover the "Ultimate Answer", after 7 and a half million years, it had the answer: 42. So to decipher this answer, the builders of the computer commissioned a new, even larger computer to find the "Ultimate Question"; the Earth. It is discovered that Trillian's mice (the smartest creatures on Earth) were searching for the Ultimate Question, and they believe they can find the answer by first extracting Arthur's brain...
Air Date: 26 Jan 1981 06:00 (CDT)
S1E5 - Episode 5
Arthur, Ford, Trillian and Zaphod are saved by the Galactic Police, and then knocked unconscious, when they wake up they find themselves at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. They steal a totally black ship from the car park and go in to hyperspace, however, with the interior being completely black as well, the controls are illegible, and the ship is out of control and veering into a nearby sun!
Air Date: 02 Feb 1981 06:00 (CDT)
S1E6 - Episode 6
Ford and Arthur dash to the escape pods, where they end up being teleported to a mysterious ship, "Ark B". Which they discover is a ship filled with middle-men trying to find a world to colonise, and the world they have chosen is Earth, 2 million years in the past. Arthur and Ford are now stuck on prehistoric Earth.
Air Date: 09 Feb 1981 06:00 (CDT)