The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Season 1
1. Episode 1
Arthur Dent, a perfectly ordinary Earthman, is surprised to wake up one day to find bulldozers outside his house with orders to knock it down to build a by-pass. He is even more surprised later on in the pub when his best friend Ford Prefect reveals himself to be from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse. The two are forced to hitch a lift on one of the advancing Vogon spacecraft which proceed to blow up the Earth to make way for an interspace bypass. Our two heroes find themselves trapped in a storage room in hyperspace, with only a menacing Vogon guard for company.
Simon Jones
Arthur Dent
David Dixon
Ford Prefect
Sandra Dickinson
Trillian
Mark Wing-Davey
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Stephen Moore
Marvin
Douglas Adams
Man in Pub (uncredited)
Joe Melia
Mr. Prosser
Steve Conway
Barman
Andrew Mussell
Alien
2. Episode 2
Arthur and Ford have been discovered. Vogon Captain Jeltz tortures them by reading his poetry. He then has Arthur and Ford thrown off his ship, to what must be certain death - except for one improbable miracle. At the last second, an infinite-improbability prototype ship (which can pass through every point in the Universe) rescues them. What is rather surprising is that Zaphod Beeblebrox, the hip cat who stole the spaceship, is vaguely familiar to Arthur. And so is Zaphod's companion, Trillian.
Simon Jones
Arthur Dent
David Dixon
Ford Prefect
Sandra Dickinson
Trillian
Mark Wing-Davey
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Stephen Moore
Marvin
Douglas Adams
Man in Pub (uncredited)
David Tate
Eddie (voice)
Rayner Bourton
Newscaster
Michael Cule
Vogon Guard
Gil Morris
Gag Halfrunt
3. Episode 3
The starship Heart of Gold is headed for the planet Magrathea, a planet which it is generally agreed does not exist. In trying to land on Magrathea's surface, the crew faces an ancient nuclear missile defence system, escaping only when Arthur turns on the Infinite Improbability Drive. This helpfully replaces the missiles with a bowl of petunias and a very surprised sperm whale, who learns about the ground before he hits it. Later on, deep in the core of the planet, an unknown enemy attacks Trillian, Zaphod and Ford while Arthur meets Slartibartfast, an old man who designs planets for a living. Slartibartfast takes Arthur on a tour of the factory floor, showing off his latest project - Planet Earth, Mark Two.
Simon Jones
Arthur Dent
David Dixon
Ford Prefect
Sandra Dickinson
Trillian
Mark Wing-Davey
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Stephen Moore
Marvin
David Tate
Eddie (voice)
4. Episode 4
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.
Simon Jones
Arthur Dent
David Dixon
Ford Prefect
Sandra Dickinson
Trillian
Mark Wing-Davey
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Stephen Moore
Marvin
David Tate
Benjy Mouse (voice)
Timothy Davies
Fook
Charles McKeown
Vroomfondel
Matt Zimmerman
Sooty
Marc Smith
Bang Bang
5. Episode 5
Arthur, Ford and the gang arrive at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe on Magrathea, built on the ruins of a planet-building complex, transported there by the exploding computers. Here, thanks to compound interest, you can enjoy a vast five-course meal and cabaret at no cost whatever while the universe collapses and dies around you. Arthur and Ford are surprised to find Marvin still waiting for them in the restaurant's star-ship park. He has been there rather a long time. They decide to steal a space-ship, but unfortunately it turns out to be the stunt ship of Disaster Area, the loudest rock band of all time, and is programmed to plunge directly into the sun. So what next?
Simon Jones
Arthur Dent
David Dixon
Ford Prefect
Sandra Dickinson
Trillian
Mark Wing-Davey
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Stephen Moore
Marvin
Barry Frank Warren
Hotblack Desiato
Colin Bennett
Zarquon
Alan J. W. Bell
Director
Alan J.W. Bell
Director
6. Episode 6
Fortune is on the crews' side - the transporter on the ship is still working, but needs someone to manually operate it. Marvin is therefore pressed into volunteering to sacrifice himself so the rest of the group can escape. Arthur and Ford get separated from Zaphod and Trillian and find themselves on board a space ship about to crashland into the prehistoric past of a planet that the two of them find strangely familiar. If this is indeed Earth, then history as they know it is about to be changed - and so is the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe and Everything....
Simon Jones
Arthur Dent
David Dixon
Ford Prefect
Sandra Dickinson
Trillian
Mark Wing-Davey
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Stephen Moore
Marvin
Rayner Bourton
Newscaster
Matthew Scurfield
Number One
David Neville
Number Two
David Rowlands
Hairdresser
Douglas Adams
Writer
Alan J. W. Bell
Director
Alan J.W. Bell
Director
Perry Brahan
Special Effects Assistant