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?
To Arthur Dent, ape descendant, lying in front of a large yellow bulldozer which is about to demolish his house, this is a slightly less than ordinary Thursday. A Thursday which becomes steadily more less than ordinary when his buddy Ford Prefect imparts the terrible, hideous news: He's not from Earth and anyway Earth's going to be demolished in 12 minutes to make way for a new hyper- space bypass. Now Arthur, armed with his dressing gown and towel, carrying the mysterious and indispensable Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy must venture forth for the first time in his miserable humanoid life...
This special BBC Video, available in two parts, brings to life once more the magic of the cult TV series.
