The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 1981
- 6 episodes (1 series)
Television adaptation of the highly successful sci-fi radio sitcom and comic novel, created by Douglas Adams. Also features Simon Jones, David Dixon, Sandra Dickinson, Mark Wing-Davey, David Learner and more.
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
"What's wrong with being drunk? Ask a glass of water."
The classic 1981 TV adaptation of Douglas Adams's sci-fi comedy masterpiece, in which Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect, the only survivors after Earth is destroyed to make way for a bypass, meet a two-headed alien, a paranoid android and the beautiful Trillian, before finding the answer to life, the universe and everything.
Contains the complete series of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
First released: Monday 18th April 2005
Extra features
- The making of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, directed by Kevin Davies
- Updated feature with cast interviews, stills, out-takes & convention footage
- Exclusive behind the scenes footage from the Hitchhiker's radio series
- Deleted scenes
- Introduction by Peter Jones filmed live at the NFT
- Full length Douglas Adams audio interview
- Tomorrow's World 1981 report on Zaphod Beeblebrox's animatronic head
- Pebble Mill at One 1982 footage featuring animator Rod Lord and director Alan J. W. Bell
- Easter Egg: Full version of opening titles (45 seconds)
DVD DVD 
- Distributor: 2 Entertain
- Region: 2
- Discs: 2
- Catalogue: BBCDVD1092
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- Released: Tuesday 4th October 2005
- Distributor: BBC Worldwide
- Region: 1
- Discs: 2
- Minutes: 190
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- Released: Wednesday 14th December 2016
- Distributor: BBC Worldwide
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