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Jan 5, 1981 Season 1 Episode 1 TV-PG

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Season 1 Episode 1 — Aired on Jan 5, 1981.

Notable cast/guest names in this episode include Simon Jones, David Dixon, Peter Jones.

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Synopsis

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.