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Its simplistic style is partly explained by the fact that its editor, having to meet a publishing deadline, copied the information off the back of a packet of breakfast cereal.

10 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 5 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:28:24.336 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

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- See where the light of infinity bursts in upon us!

- What's this? What's happening? Who's this? I don't believe it!

- Ladies and gentlemen, big hand, please, for the great prophet Zarquon!

- Hello, everybody. Sorry I'm a bit late. I had a terrible time. All sorts of things cropping up at the last moment. How are we for time?

- One major selling point of that remarkable book, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, apart from its relative cheapness, and the words 'Don't Panic' written in large friendly letters on the cover, is its compendious and occasionally accurate glossary.

- Its simplistic style is partly explained by the fact that its editor, having to meet a publishing deadline, copied the information off the back of a packet of breakfast cereal.

- Hastily embroidering it with a few footnotes in order to avoid prosecution under the incomprehensibly torturous Galactic copyright laws.

- It is interesting to note that a later and wilier editor sent the book backwards in time through a temporal warp, and then successfully sued the breakfast cereal company, for infringement of the same laws.

- Here's a sample, in both headings and footnotes...

- The Universe. Some information to help you live in it. 1. Area: infinite. 2. Population: none.

- It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one of them is inhabited, therefore there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sound Clip

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) poster

The funniest lines and quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1981 TV Series, with sound clips.

Actors: Simon Jones (Arthur Dent), David Dixon (Ford Prefect), David Learner (Marvin the Paranoid Android), Peter Jones (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Book), Sandra Dickinson (Trillian Astra), Mark Wing-Davey (Zaphod Beeblebrox), David Tate (Eddie the Computer), Martin Benson (Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz), Richard Evelyn Vernon (Slartibartfast), Valentine Dyall (Deep Thought)

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