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Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy
Episode 2
First Aired: 12-01-1981
In the second episode of The Hitch Hikers Guide to the
Galaxy the Vogon Captain captures Arthur and Ford, carries out his
threat, and reads them some of his poetry. Shakespeare he
ain’t.
He doesn’t sound like Shakespeare and he doesn’t
look like
Shakespeare. He actually (if you are interested, that is) looks kind of
like a huge, green blob of snot with bushy pink eyebrows.
According to the Guide, Vogon poetry is the third worst in the universe
and it is bad enough to have the two hitchhikers screaming with
tortured voices. It is not long after this that Arthur and
Ford
are thrown out of the airlock and if it wasn’t for their
impending death in the vacuums of space I am sure that it would have
been quite a relief.
 Ford tries his best to talk the Vogon
guard out of throwing them out of the airlock, but he is having none of
it and out they go. According to the Guide’s entry about
dying of asphyxiation thirty seconds after being thrown out of a
spaceship the chances of being picked up by another ship are 2, 260 199
to 1 against. It is improbable to say the least, yet rescued they are
by a passing ship that uses the new infinite improbability drive. So
thank god for that.
The captain of the ship is a two-headed dude with three arms and he is
called Zaphod Beeblebrox, who, it turns out, is a relative of Ford.
They share three of the same mothers. How improbable is that? Very I
would say, but that what happens when you use an improbability drive, I
suppose.
Even more improbable is the fact that Arthur and Zaphod are also
acquainted and Arthur has a rather big grudge against him. Arthur and
he met at a party in Islington six months ago, where Arthur was talking
to a very nice girl. Then Zaphod, who was calling himself Phil and only
had one head and two arms at the time, waltzed on over and said to her,
“Hey doll, is this guy boring you? Why don’t you
come and talk to me, I’m from another planet.” Talk
a bout a silver tongue!
Mere seconds after Arthur tackles Zaphod on the subject, the young lady
in question walks into the room with some drinks. She is no longer
calling herself Tricia Macmillan, but Trillian, instead. She is still
sexy as hell, though, and it seems unlikely that Arthur is going to wow
her with his red dressing gown.
The other member of Zaphod’s crew is Marvin the Paranoid
android, who has a brain the size of a planet and is always terribly
depressed, but if he saw what just happened to the Earth I am not
surprised.
CAST
Voice of the Hitch Hikers Guide ~~~
Peter Jones
Arthur Dent
~~~
Simon Jones
Ford Prefect
~~~
David
Dixon
Zaphod Beelebrox ~~~ Mark Wing-Davey
Trillian
~~~ Sandra Dickinson
Marvin the Paranoid Android ~~~ David Learner
Voice of Marvin
~~~ Stephen Moore
Voice of Eddie (the computer) ~~~ David Tate
The Vogon Captain
~~~ Martin Benson
Vogon Guard
~~~ Michael Cule
Newscaster
~~~
Rayner Bourton
Gag Halfrunt
~~~ Gil
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