The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

A British export but a welcome sound. This twelve part series was so well received in Great Britain that it was repeated three times on British radio. It was turned into a best-selling book, a record album and a London stage show. We in the colonies were treated to this highly amusing series in the early 1980s, usually airing over NPR. This is the story that begins on Earth, 'an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.' Our hero is Arthur Dent, the only survivor when Earth was demolished to make way for an inter-galactic bypass, which as it turned out wasn't needed after all. He embarks on a ramble through the universe with an ordinary looking neighbor who turns out to come from another planet and is a 'roving researcher' for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. NOTE: Both the six hour and ninety minute variations of the Hitchhiker's Guide are available and in circulation.