The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: Episode 2

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Air Date

Monday January 12, 1981

Production Code

102

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Arthur and Ford have been discovered. Vogon Captain Jeltz tortures them by reading his poetry. He then has Arthur and Ford thrown off his ship, to what must be certain death - except for one improbable miracle. At the last second, an infinite-improbability prototype ship (which can pass through every point in the Universe) rescues them. What is rather surprising is that Zaphod Beeblebrox, the hip cat who stole the spaceship, is vaguely familiar to Arthur. And so is Zaphod's companion, Trillian.

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Episode Cast and Crew

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Guest Cast
- Jennifer Goble Woman in Bikini with Marvin (uncredited)
- Rayner Bourton Newscaster
- Gil Morris Braincare Specialist Gag Halfrunt
- Michael Cule Vogon Guard
- Martin Benson Vogon Captain Jeltz
- David Tate Eddie
- Douglas Adams Man in Ocean
Editors
- Glenn Hyde Editor
- Mike Robotham Editor
Musics
- Paddy Kingsland Music
Stars
- Tony Clark (IX) Marvin [location scenes]
- Sandra Dickinson Trillian (eps 2-6)
- Stephen Moore Voices of Marvin/The Whale; Frankie Mouse (eps 2,3,5,6)
- Peter Jones Voice of the Book
- Simon Jones Arthur Dent

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The Vogon Constructor Fleet makes a six light-year jump from the rubble of the Earth to a point somewhere near Barnard's Star. In the book, Arthur Dent complains about being "thrown out of an alien space ship six light years from the smoking remains of the Earth", but in this episode, Arthur says "five light years", thus showing his inexperience as a galactic hitch-hiker. [edit]

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The Book

The Worst Poem in the Universe:

The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool.
They lay. They rotted. They turned around occasionally.
Bits of flesh dropped off them from time to time
And sank into the pool's mire.
They also smelt a great deal.

By Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings, Greenbridge, Essex, England. [edit]
Vogon Captain:

O Frettled Gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Lest I rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurgle-cruncheon.
See if I don't. [edit]
Arthur Dent: What the hell's that?
Ford Prefect: Well, if we're lucky, it's the Vogon Guard come to throw us into space.
Arthur Dent: And if we're unlucky?
Ford Prefect: The Vogon Captain might want to read us some of his poetry first.
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