This is the TV adaptation of the cult radio series. It is the story of Arthur Dent, an Earthling who manages to escape Earth just before it is destroyed to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. So begins his hitchhike through space armed only with the guidebook "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy", with the words 'Don't Panic' helpfully emblazoned across its cover... find out more...

"Stingray Sam is not a hero / But he does do the things that folks don't do that need to be done / He's got a bravery inside / That will not let him run away..." So goes the theme song to McAbee's bewitching second feature. The film plays like a homage to a 1950's that didn't exist, a riff on all the genres made famous by that decade. Consisting of six 'episodes' (each one narrated by a jubilant David Hyde Pierce) the film follows the eponymous Stingray Sam and his sidekick The Quasar Kid as the find out more...