- 18th February: Stephen Hawking to guest star in new Hitchhiker's Guide
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- Genre
- Sitcom
- Broadcast
- 1978 - 2018
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 32 (6 series)
- Starring
- Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Peter Jones, William Franklyn, John Lloyd, Mark Wing-Davey, Stephen Moore, Susan Sheridan and others
- Writers
- Douglas Adams and Eoin Colfer
- Director
- Dirk Maggs
- Producers
- Dirk Maggs, David Morley and Helen Chattwell
Arthur Dent discovers his house is to be bulldozed to make way for a bypass. Later he finds that Earth is to be destroyed as well. He escapes on a Vogon spaceship with his friend Ford Prefect.
Unable to return to Earth, Arthur becomes a reluctant space tourist. He is soon traversing the universe with his friend Ford Prefect, who is employed by Megadodo Publications to write entries for The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
Also along for the ride is an alien with two heads called Zaphod Beeblebrox, a paranoid robot android called Marvin and Tricia McMillan (aka Trillian), the only other survivor of Earth's destruction.
The show is to return in 2018 for a sixth series... The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Hexagonal Phase.
Happy Towel Day from Breakfast!
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