Starring: Simon Jones, David Dixon, Mark Wing-Davey, Sandra Dickinson, Peter Jones (Voice)

Directed by: Alan Bell

It is the most remarkable, certainly the most successful, book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. More popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty Three Things to Do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters - Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway? So that whingeing Earthling Arthur Dent should be very grateful he had a copy!

For after Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent is let loose in the furthest recesses of the Galaxy armed only with the aforementioned mysterious but indispensable Guide. Follow Dent's cosmic adventures as he is joined by his pretty weird companions: Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford Prefect, Trillian-the-Astrophysicist-he-met-at-a-party-in-Islington and Marvin the manically depressed Android. You never know, they may even find the answer to Life, The Universe and Everything!

DVD Extras: Documentary - The Making of The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy; Documentary - Don't Panic!; Introduction to Episode One by Peter Jones, filmed live at the NFT; Original trailer for Episode One; Deleted scene; Behind the scenes footage; Communicate! - behind the scenes footage of the recording of the radio series; Douglas Adams interview; Tomorrow's World sequence (report on Zaphod Beeblebrox head); BAFTA award for Graphic Design, Pebble Mill at One 09-02-1982 featuring the director, Alan J W Bell; Full version of opening title sequence; Out-takes; Photo Gallery; On Screen Production Subtitles; Choice to watch in either the original mono soundtrack or in a digitally remastered stereo version.

It is the most remarkable, certainly the most successful, book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations

sci-fi, science fiction, drama