Today, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is ... 42

[muriel_volestrangler]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/z79jjhv

BBC Radio is rebroadcasting the 6 first episodes tonight from 8pm UK time (4pm EDT, if I've got that right), with various commentary in between them: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000g55m/broadcasts/upcoming

Trending on Twitter in the UK: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy&src=trend_click

While I didn't catch the first series when it was first broadcast, I did hear the 'Christmas special' at the end of 1978, and was hooked from then on.

[ret5hd]

1. Surely this is a sign.

[underpants]

2. My 14 year old daughter is re-reading that

It didn’t take with her the first time she tried to read it a few years ago.

[krispos42]

3. It's time to celebrate with some Vogon poetry

Everybody put in their earplugs!

[drmeow]

4. I almost got myself and my husband killed

listening to the recordings of the original radio broadcasts! We were in Australia on a road trip and I was enjoying the show so much that I forgot I was driving on the other side of the road than I'm used to and pulling out into the oncoming traffic lane to try to pass someone without checking. Luckily there wasn't any traffic close but we stopped listening to the show while I was driving for the rest of the trip.