Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1980)

Based on Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy  by Douglas Adams

Zaphod Beeblebrox and his mysterious friend Roosta are being taken in a flying building to the evil Frogstar, whilst Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent are stranded on prehistoric earth. Some of them are getting hungry.

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In which all is resolved, everyone lives happily ever after and pigs fly.
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