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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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).
1981 8.1/10 community score 1 season · 6 episodes Ended
- Comedy
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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8 platforms currently listed across all viewing options
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- First aired
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 6
- Status
- Ended
Latest aired episode
S1 E6
Episode 6
Aired
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....
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Season 1
6 episodes
First episode aired
Specials
32 episodes
First episode aired
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