This is the story of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Perhaps the most remarkable - certainly the most successful-book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor... More popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty Three More Things To Do In Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?
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The Earth has been destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Having escaped from the slimy clutches of a poetry reading Vogon, whinging Earthling Arthur Dent has ended up on the ancient world of Magrathea, the planet-manufacturing planet, with some pretty weird companions: Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford Prefect, Trillian the astrophysicist he met at a party in Islington and Marvin the manically depressed android. What nasty surprises await him there? A rendition of the Betelgeuse death anthem, Milliways: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, plus a few pretty mean Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters to mention a few horrors. And there's always the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything..
This special BBC Video, available in two parts, brings to life once more the magic of the cult TV series.
Produced and directed by Alan J.W.Bell Running time: 98 mins approx
