The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series) Starship "Heart of Gold", which has been stolen by Ford's semi-cousin Zaphod Beeblebrox, accompanied by Trillian, a young woman who Arthur once met at a party. Ford and Arthur are escorted to the bridge by Marvin the Paranoid Android and meet Zaphod and Trillian. The episode ends after they are introduced, with no cliffhanger. First Broadcast on BBC Two, 19 January 1981 The episode opens with a guide entry explaining the legendary planet of Magrathea, which manufactured planets millions of years ago, until the galactic economy collapsed. Zaphod has been explaining to Ford that he has found the legendary planet
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts was broadcast in 1982. In the first edition a page of dialogue was omitted from Fit the Twelfth. The 25th-anniversary edition reprint corrects this. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts is a book, published in 1985, containing the scripts for the original radio series version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams. Text present in the original scripts but cut to meet time constraints are printed in italics. This book also includes explanatory footnotes, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and forewords by Adams and by series