Connections

A brief clip is shown at the start of the programme as Ludovic Kennedy announces that the show has begun airing.

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many clips from the series are shown

Much archive footage of the older show is featured.

Clips are shown

Mike says that he is the greatest Hitch-hiker in the Galaxy.

The January 1985 issue of "Personal Computer" with Zaphod Beeblebrox on the cover can seen on a newsagents' shelf behind Rodney.

The poster for the series hangs on the door in Dale's room.

Mentioned in Dialogue.

The Dopefish's in game help text is a direct reference to Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which describes the dumbest creature in the universe to be the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.

The depressed weapons droid aboard the Deltaur is a parody on Marvin, the paranoid android. The Sariens resemble the Vogons.

When Tim starts talking about Daisy's fear that mice may crossbreed with spiders to create a hybrid, an animated sequence comes on screen to demonstrate the creature which spoofs the animated sequences from the guidebook in this mini series. The style of animation is the same (green lines on a green grid with a black background).

When Arthur, Zaphod and Ford are working their way through the line on the planet Vogsphere, Arthur passes Marvin from the miniseries and does a double take as he walks by.