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Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'EmThe Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy 


Episode 4


First Aired: 26-01-1981

“Mice?” Arthur is still incredulous. The mice were running the earth! Apparently so.  Slarty explains to Arthur that the mice were a superior species and the planet Earth and its people formed part of the matrix of an organic computer that was running a ten million year research programme into the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.

But…

Five minutes before the programme was complete, the Vogons destroyed the Earth. Ten million years of planning and work ruined. Now the Magratheans have to make a new Earth.

There might be an alternative though…

SlartybartfastThe mice have realized that because Arthur was part of the great programme and remained on Earth until its last few moments, the answer to life, the universe and everything may very well contained in his brain. So they want to buy his brain, chop it and slice it up, etc and then read it electronically. Zaphod is okay with the idea, but Arthur is less than keen for some reason. To their credit, though, his other companions can quite understand Arthur’s reluctance.

Then more trouble arrives in the form of the intergalactic police, who are after Zaphod and although they are quick to say that they do not want to shoot Zaphod, they seem more than a little trigger-happy and very gay.

The episode ends with a bang and as the smoke rises it really does look like the gang have faced the final curtain. Don’t worry though, with two episodes of the series left to go things may not be what they seem.



 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

Voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android  ~~~    Stephen Moore

Slartibartfast                                        ~~~    Richard Vernon

Lunkwill                                             ~~~     Antony Carrick

Fook                                                   ~~~     Timothy Davies

Majikthise                                           ~~~     David Leland

Vroomfondel                                       ~~~      Charles McKeown

Shooty                                                ~~~      Mark Zimmerman

Bang Bang                                          ~~~       Marc Smith

The Voice of Deep Thought                 ~~~       Valentine Dyall