The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)
- Peter Jones: Narrator
- Simon Jones: Arthur Dent
- David Dixon: Ford Prefect
- Sandra Dickinson: Trillian
- Mark Wing- Davey: Zaphod Beeblebrox
- Richard Vernon: Slartibartfast
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a British science fiction series based on the eponymous radio play. The plot comprises roughly the contents of the first two novels The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. The series was translated in 1984 by Südfunk Stuttgart in German and shortened to about 28 minutes per episode.
Action
Arthur Dent is saved by his friend Ford Prefect, who turns out to be an alien, before the destruction of the planet Earth. As a fleet of Vogon blasts the Earth to make way for the construction of a galactic hyperdrive ring road, Ford brings and Arthur as stowaways aboard one of the Vogonenraumschiffe.
When they are discovered on board the spacecraft, they can throw the captain through an airlock into space, where the two are rescued from gold at the last second from the spaceship Heart. Arthur and Ford meet there Zaphod Beeblebrox, a half- cousin of Ford and President of the Galaxy, Trillian, Arthur had recently met at a party in Islington, as well as the depressed robot Marvin.
Together they travel to Magrathea, where it turns out that the Earth was actually a giant computer -guided mice, which should calculate the answer to the question of Life, the Universe and Everything (42). After a visit to the restaurant at the end of the universe Arthur and Ford are landed on prehistoric Earth.
Background
After Douglas Adams had initially written the radio play and then the novels The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, produced the BBC in 1981, this six -part television series. Most speakers of the radio play also appeared in the television series, exceptions were David Dixon as Ford Prefect and Sandra Dickinson as Trillian.
For the production of a planned second series, originally written on one of Douglas Adams for the Doctor Who series based script, it did not. Instead, this formed the basis for the third book in the series, The Life, the Universe and all the rest
Douglas Adams had several cameo appearances:
- Episode 1: As one of the guests at the pub ( at the end of the bar)
- Episode 2: A man who strides naked in the ocean and previously raised money from a bank has
- Episode 2: member of the marketing department of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation