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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

198133m / epComedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

First aired

January 5, 1981

8.1

TMDB Score

81% match · 48 votes

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Episode 4

Season 1 · Jan 26, 1981

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Jan 5, 1981

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Episode 2

Jan 12, 1981

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Jan 19, 1981

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Episode 4

Jan 26, 1981

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Episode 5

Feb 2, 1981

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Episode 6

Feb 9, 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 Everything. The computer comes back online much later on to give its final answer - 42. The scientists are understandably hacked off, even more so when Deep Thought cannot tell them what the Ultimate Question is, and a new computer, called the Earth, has to be built for that purpose. The current owners of the Great Project, Trillian's pet mice, want to cut open Arthur's head to find the Question, but when the crew are all trapped behind a bank of exploding computers, all appears lost.

About the Series

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ComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

Synopsis

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).

CreatorDouglas Adams