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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Here is a collection of clips related to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or HHGTTG if you prefer, or H2G2 if you like brevity, or tHGttG for completionists, or even The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, if hyphens are your thing.

Whatever you call it, don't panic, and carry a towel.

TV Review - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1981
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TV Review - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1981

"I think that was a one-off, totally. I can't see anything ever being better than that was"

Zaphod Beeblebrox's head, 1981
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Zaphod Beeblebrox's head, 1981

"If we look inside his head - I'm sorry about this..."

Ask Aspel: Mark Wing-Davey, 1981
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Ask Aspel: Mark Wing-Davey, 1981

"It's like carrying eight bags of sugar on your shoulder"

Marvin sings, 1981
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Marvin sings, 1981

"He's like a cross between Max Wall and John Travolta, isn't he?"

Douglas Adams on life, the universe and everything, 1982
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Douglas Adams on life, the universe and everything, 1982

"The ultimate answer of life, the universe and everything is 42. I think we've known this for some time and it's quite obvious"

'It's user mendacious', 1985
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'It's user mendacious', 1985

"It's full of extraordinary ways of dying"

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game, 1985
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game, 1985

"It's rather like life in that respect, it doesn't actually offer you options"

Douglas Adams on Wogan, 1986
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Douglas Adams on Wogan, 1986

"I thought myself primarily a comedy writer; I became a science fiction writer simply because I exaggerated so much"

More archive things

BBC Radio 4: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

BBC Radio 4: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

More H2G2 material than you can flick a towel at, from BBC Radio 4 - the place where it all began

iPlayer archive

iPlayer archive

Classic drama boxsets, music memories, brilliant documentaries and much more

Computer Literacy Project
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Computer Literacy Project

Hundreds of full BBC programmes from the 1980s, along with working software