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Season guide

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Season 1

6 episodes Premiered Jan 5, 1981
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Season 1 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 1: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (3): Character development & subplots
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S1·E1 Mytharc

Episode 1

Jan 5, 1981

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 su

S1·E2 Core

Episode 2

Jan 12, 1981

Arthur and Ford have been discovered. Vogon Captain Jeltz tortures them by reading his poetry. He then has Arthur and Ford thrown off his ship, to what must be certain death - exce

S1·E3 Core

Episode 3

Jan 19, 1981

The starship Heart of Gold is headed for the planet Magrathea, a planet which it is generally agreed does not exist. In trying to land on Magrathea's surface, the crew faces an anc

S1·E4 Core

Episode 4

Jan 26, 1981

Arthur learns about the Great Project - the second most powerful computer in existence, called Deep Thought, created to answer the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Every

S1·E5 Mytharc

Episode 5

Feb 2, 1981

Arthur, Ford and the gang arrive at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe on Magrathea, built on the ruins of a planet-building complex, transported there by the exploding comp

S1·E6 Mytharc

Episode 6

Feb 9, 1981

Fortune is on the crews' side - the transporter on the ship is still working, but needs someone to manually operate it. Marvin is therefore pressed into volunteering to sacrifice h

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