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Perhaps the most remarkable, certainly the most successful book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor.

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

You can hear this line at 00:00:26.240 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

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(COMPUTER BEEPING)

- This is the story of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

- Perhaps the most remarkable, certainly the most successful book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor.

- More popular than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than 53 More Things to do in Zero Gravity...

- And more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters, Where God Went Wrong, Some More Of God's Greatest Mistakes, and Who is this God Person, Anyway?

- And in many of the more relaxed civilisations on the outer eastern rim of the galaxy,

- For though it has many omissions, and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two respects.

- First, it is slightly cheaper, and secondly, it has the words 'Don't Panic!' inscribed in large, friendly letters on the cover.

[...]

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It's the people you meet in this job who really get you down. The best conversation I had was over 34 million years ago. -Oh, dear! -And that was with a coffee machine.
Ten million years of planning and work gone, just like that. Well, that's bureaucracy for you.
The history of every major galactic civilization passes through three distinct and recognizable phases: survival, inquiry and sophistication.
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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