Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy This is a list of places featured in Douglas Adams's science fiction series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The series is set in a fictionalised version of the Milky Way galaxy and thus, while most locations are pure invention, many are based on "real world" settings such as Alpha Centauri, Barnard's Star and various versions of the Earth. "The Galaxy" is our home galaxy, the Milky Way, though it is referred to exclusively as "the Galaxy" in the series. Apart from a very brief moment during the first radio series, when
Birdman and the Galaxy Trio was revived three decades later in the parody Cartoon Network/Adult Swim TV series "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law," and several characters from "Birdman and the Galaxy Trio" appeared in this revival. The Galaxy Trio is a group of three extraterrestrial superheroes, Vapor Man, Meteor Man, and Gravity Girl, who patrol space in their cruiser "Condor One" maintaining order and fighting evildoers in the name of the Galactic Patrol law enforcement agency. The ship was equipped with a "displacer", that is, a teleportation device. Each episode featured two "Birdman" segments with one "Galaxy Trio" segment between them. Birdman appeared in issues