'Listen you semi-evolved simian, go climb a tree, will you!'

Starting life as two Radio 4 drama's, the Hitch Hikers Guide soon established itself as
a cult phenomenon. Less than three years later it was commissioned for a six part TV
series with most of the original cast returning for a visual trip across the galaxy.

Like all good comedy, it is the subtlety and social comment that really shines out with
many remarks concerning money, race and religion thrown in the mix. 

The show followed Arthur Dent, the only surviving male from the planet Earth who is
thrust from one absurd incident to another with the most bizzare characters as companions,
the two headed Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford Prefect, Marvin the Paraniod android, Trillion (a
human girl he had met at a party in Islington six Months earlier who he totally failed to get
off with!) and the quest to find the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
...which we found out to be 42! 

Arthur Dent is not convinced when his best friend Ford Prefect tells him the world is about
to end in 12 minutes, particulary when Ford reveals himself to be an alien from the planet
Betelguise and not from Guildford after all. 

EPISODE 2 

Rescued from Earth, moments before it's destruction to make way for a hyperspace bypass,
Arthur and Fordare on board the actual demolition spaceship of the Vogons. Should they face
certain death in the cold vacuum of space...or should they tell the Vogon captain how good
his poetry was? 

EPISODE 3 

Zaphod Beeblebrox heads the stolen ship The Heart of Gold for the legendary planet of Magrathea
who build other planets while Arthur continues to search for a good cup of tea. 

EPISODE 4 

Arthur is astonished to learn that the Earth was not what it had seemed and neither were the
mice...and he's quite put out to find out to learn they were after his brain. 

EPISODE 5 

Having been blown to bits when a computer exploded on the planet of Magrathea, the
travellers find themselves in the restaurant at the end of the Universe. 

EPISODE 6

As a spectacular finale to his Disaster Area rock concert, megabig superstar Hotblack
Desiato crashes an unmanned black spacecraft into the sun-unmanned except for Arthur, Ford, Trillion and Zaphod... 

Peter Davison (who had just been cast as Doctor Who) played the uncredited Dish of the
Day at The Restaurant at the end of the Universe. 

Simon Jone's was one of the mad scientists in Terry Gilliam's masterpiece Twelve Monkeys. 

A new Radio 4 continuation with most of the original cast was broadcast at the end of 2004.

The new Hitch Hikers movie hits the cinemas in 2005.