What is now known as the Primary Phase was the first part to be recorded in and broadcast in March and April Five further episodes were broadcast in January , and, along with Fit the Seventh, which had previously been a Christmas special broadcast in , these six episodes form the second part of the original series; the Secondary Phase. These first two "phases" were later adapted into the books The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe , though there are notable story differences between the books and radio series.
Three more radio series, the Tertiary Phase, Quandary Phase and Quintessential Phase, were broadcast in and These radio series were commissioned and produced 23 years after the original series had ended, and so contained several cast and crew changes. It gives a few visual pointers to the superior radio series of the late s, which had many of the same cast specifically Peter 'voice of the book' Jones, Simon 'Arthur Dent' Jones, and the totally wonderful Mark 'Zaphod Beeblebrox' Wing-Davey - the sexiest two-headed guy you'll see in deep space.
Added to this version is Sandra Dickinson as Trillian, excellent in her bubble bimbo blonde astrophysicist way; and David Dixon as a charming Ford Prefect. Can this BBC class act be topped by the upcoming movie? I doubt it. The good news is that many of the cast from this version will be back on the radio continuing the story very soon.
That's something to look forward to. In the meantime, those of you who are waiting for the film and haven't seen this, please seek the original out. So many highlights and so hilarious, not to mention 'What a Wonderful World'.
FAQ 3. How were the computer graphics created? What is a telephone sanitiser? Who was also in the radio series? Details Edit. Release date October 30, United States. United Kingdom. Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 2 hours 32 minutes. Related news. The Frost Report 10 March World Service Television News 11 March Launch of the Latin American Service 14 March This Life 18 March First televised Budget speech 20 March Up Pompeii 23 March Letter From America 24 March Zaphod Beeblebrox, Ford's semi-cousin and part-time Galactic President, unknowingly saves the pair from certain death.
He brings them aboard his stolen spaceship, the Heart of Gold , whose crew rounds out the main cast of characters: Marvin the Paranoid Android: a manically depressed robot, and Trillian, formerly known as Tricia McMillan, a woman Arthur once met at a party who he soon realises is the only other survivor of Earth's destruction.
After this, the characters embark on a quest to find the legendary planet of Magrathea and the Question to the Ultimate Answer. Origin of The Guide The first radio series comes from a proposal called 'The Ends of the Earth': six self-contained episodes, all ending with the Earth being destroyed in a different way. While writing the first episode, Adams realised that he needed someone on the planet who was an alien to provide some context, and that this alien needed a reason to be there.
Adams finally settled on making the alien a roving researcher for a "wholly remarkable book" named The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. As the first radio episode's writing progressed, the Guide became the centre of his story, and he decided to focus the series on it, with the destruction of Earth being the only hold-over.
Adams claimed that the title came from a incident while he was hitch-hiking around Europe as a young man with a copy of the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe book, and while lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck with a copy of the book and looking up at the stars, thought it would be a good idea for someone to write a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy as well.
However, he later claimed that he had told this story so many times that he had forgotten the incident itself, and only remembered himself telling the story. His friends are quoted as saying that Adams mentioned the idea of "hitch-hiking around the galaxy" to them while on holiday in Greece, in Adams's fictional Guide is meant to be an electronic guidebook to the Milky Way galaxy, originally published by Megadodo Publications, one of the great publishing houses of Ursa Minor Beta.
The narrative of the various versions of the story are frequently punctuated with excerpts from the Guide. The voice of the Guide Peter Jones in the first two radio series and TV versions, later William Franklyn in the third, fourth and fifth radio series, and Stephen Fry in the movie version , also provides general narration.
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