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 (radio series) discussed the new series, directed and co-produced the radio adaptation as well as adaptations of the remaining "Hitchhiker's Guide" novels "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" and "Mostly Harmless". These became the third, fourth and fifth radio series, transmitted in 2004 and 2005. A sixth series, adapting Eoin Colfer's sixth part in the "trilogy", "And Another Thing..." was broadcast in March 2018. Douglas Adams had contributed comedy sketches for BBC radio programmes produced by Simon Brett (including "The Burkiss Way" and "Week Ending"), and was asked to pitch a radio sitcom in February 1977. Adams initially pitched a