Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect suffer Vogan poetry, and they are ejected into space only to be improbably rescued by Zaphod and Trillian on board the Heart of Gold.
Parts of the set of the Vogon spaceship were reused in Aliens (1986).
The Book:
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 92 million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet ...
When Marvin mentions that the ship has been stolen, and walks toward the camera to enter a doorway, David Learner's nose can be seen through the mesh of his mouth.