The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Seconds before Earth is destroyed to make way for a new hyperspace express route, Arthur Dent is whisked into space by his best friend Ford Prefect. And so the misadventures begin as he and his fellow travellers - including the cool but dim-witted President of the Galaxy, the Earth girl Trillian, and Marvin the paranoid android - search for answers to the mystery of Life and the Universe.