- On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar! That's the display department. With a torch!
- The lights had probably gone. So had the stairs!

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9 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 1 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:03:56.210 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

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- I thought he'd come to clean the windows. He told me he'd come to demolish the house. Well, he didn't sell me straight away, of course. No. First, he wiped a couple of windows and charged me a fiver! Then he told me.

- But the plans have been available in the planning office, for the last nine months.

- Oh, yes. Well, of course. As soon as I heard, I went round to see them.

- You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call much attention to them, had you? Like, telling anybody or anything?

- But the plans were on display.

- On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar! That's the display department. With a torch!

- The lights had probably gone. So had the stairs!

- But you did see the notice, didn't you?

- Oh, yes. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign outside the door saying, 'Beware of the leopard!'

- Ever thought of going into advertising?

(BULLDOZER ENGINE STARTS)

- You won't get me like that, either.

- Mr Dent... Hello? Yes?

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Top rated lines from this movie

And lots of the people were mean and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Drink up. The world's about to end.

Ancient computers, ranged in the long caves, deep in the bowels of the planet, tick away the dark millennia, and the ages hang heavy on their dusty data banks.

What we demand is solid facts. -No, we don't. That is precisely what we don't demand. -We don't demand solid facts. What we demand is a total absence of solid facts.

By law, the quest for ultimate truth is the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. And if the machine actually goes and finds it, we're straight out of a job, aren't we?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sound Clip

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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