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42: The Answer to Almost Everything

2021 to present Documentary 1 season

TMDB rating 9.6/10 Currently airing

What would we be without mucus? Can we live on water? How much does life weigh? Finding out the answers is the aim of ARTE's new science show. In a nod to Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", where the figure 42 is the ultimate answer to all questions, 42 tries to provide the answers.

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    222 of 223 episodes released. Episode 223 arrives Nov 7. The release schedule is unconfirmed

    TMDB rating 8.1/10

Cast and details

  • Jens JungeHimself
Network
ARTE
First aired
Sep 4, 2021
Latest episode
Oct 25, 2026

NOVA

1974

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