The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Season 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.
Episode Title: Episode 1
Air Date: 1981-01-05
