"in the 2004–2005 series, ""The Voice"". For all of the radio series and the 1981 TV series, the role was credited as ""The Book"", though this was changed to ""Narrator/The Guide"" for the 2005 movie. In the first two phases of the radio series, the LP album adaptations of the first radio series and in the television series, the Guide was voiced by British actor Peter Jones. During the 2004–2005 radio series, ""The Guide"" was voiced by William Franklyn. In the film version, it was voiced by Stephen Fry. In the Hexagonal Phase of the radio series, based on the"
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fictional) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a fictional electronic guide book in the multimedia scifi/comedy series of the same name by Douglas Adams. The Guide serves as ""the standard repository for all knowledge and wisdom"" for many members of the series' galaxy-spanning civilization. Entries from the guidebook are used as comic narration to bridge events and provide background information in every version of the story. The guide is published by ""Megadodo Publications"", a publishing company on Ursa Minor Beta. In the original radio scripts, the Guide's voice was called the ""Narrator"" and"
"Douglas Adams Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. Adams was author of ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a ""trilogy"" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime and generated a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame. Adams also wrote ""Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"" (1987)"
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a BBC television adaptation of Douglas Adams's ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" which was broadcast in January and February 1981 on UK television station BBC Two. The adaptation follows the original radio series in 1978 and 1980, the first novel and double LP, in 1979, and the stage shows, in 1979 and 1980, making it the fifth iteration of the guide. The series stars Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, David Dixon as Ford Prefect, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Sandra Dickinson as Trillian and"
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (sometimes referred to as HG2G, HHGTTG or H2G2) is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, including stage shows, novels, comic books, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 video game, and 2005 feature film. A prominent series in British popular culture, ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" has become an international multi-media phenomenon; the novels are the most widely distributed, having been translated into more than 30 languages"
"""Hitchhiker's Guide"" is the spelling Adams preferred. At least two reference works make note of the inconsistency in the titles. Both, however, repeat the statement that Adams decided in 2000 that ""everyone should spell it the same way [one word, no hyphen] from then on."" Notes Bibliography The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (sometimes referred to as HG2G, HHGTTG or H2G2) is a comedy science fiction series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, including stage shows, novels, comic"
"in a far corner of the universe by a wormhole, compares himself to characters from ""Star Trek"", characters from comics, Dorothy from ""The Wizard of Oz"", and finally to Arthur Dent. Arthur Dent Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character and the hapless protagonist of the comic science fiction series ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" by Douglas Adams. In the radio, LP and television versions of the story, Arthur is played by Simon Jones (not to be confused with Peter Jones, the voice of the Guide). In Ken Campbell's stage production from 1979, Chris Langham took the part. In"
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of five books in the ""Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" comedy science fiction ""trilogy"" by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams' radio series of the same name. The novel was first published in London on 12 October 1979. It sold 250,000 copies in the first three months. The namesake of the novel is ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", a fictional guide book for hitchhikers (inspired by the ""Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe"") written in the form"
"Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" is a comic science fiction series created by Douglas Adams that has become popular among fans of the genre(s) and members of the scientific community. In the radio series and the first novel, a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings demand to learn the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything from the supercomputer, Deep Thought, specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42. Deep Thought points"
"he applied to trademark his name. Broadcast in March 2018 just a week or two before his death, Hawking was the voice of The Book Mark II on ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" radio series, and he was the guest of Neil deGrasse Tyson on ""StarTalk"". Hawking received numerous awards and honours. Already early in the list, in 1974 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). At that time, his nomination read: The citation continues, ""Other important work by Hawking relates to the interpretation of cosmological observations and to the design of gravitational wave detectors."" Hawking"
"fiction. Some of the authors contributing included: Alfred Bester, Harry Harrison, C.M. Kornbluth, Frederik Pohl, and Robert Sheckley. ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" is a comic science-fiction series written by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it later morphed into other formats, including stage shows, novels, comic books, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 computer game, and 2005 feature film. A prominent series in British popular culture, ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" has become an international multi-media phenomenon; the novels are the most widely distributed, having been translated into more than"
"PANIC on the dashboard display and carried amongst other items a copy of the novel and a towel. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of five books in the ""Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" comedy science fiction ""trilogy"" by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams' radio series of the same name. The novel was first published in London on 12 October 1979. It sold 250,000 copies in the first three months. The namesake of the novel is ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the"
"was broadcast in 1982. In the first edition a page of dialogue was omitted from Fit the Twelfth. The 25th-anniversary edition reprint corrects this. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts is a book, published in 1985, containing the scripts for the original radio series version of ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" by Douglas Adams. Text present in the original scripts but cut to meet time constraints are printed in italics. This book also includes explanatory footnotes, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and forewords by Adams and by series"
"Adams's 61st birthday was celebrated with an interactive Google Doodle. In 2018, John Lloyd presented an hour-long episode of the BBC Radio Four documentary ""Archive on 4"", discussing Adams' private papers, which are held at St John's College, Cambridge. The episode is available online. A street in São José, Santa Catarina, Brazil is named in Adams' honour. Douglas Adams Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, scriptwriter, essayist, humorist, satirist and dramatist. Adams was author of ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing"
"played Dirk, while Paul Shearer played both Richard and the Monk. Several characters from ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" were also featured, played by the original television series actors. The book has been adapted for stage performance as ""Dirk"" and in 2005, some fans of Douglas Adams produced an amateur radio series based on the first book. Their efforts began and were coordinated on the Douglas Adams Continuum website. Three episodes were completed. Apart from the radio broadcasts, Douglas Adams recorded both unabridged and abridged readings of the first novel for the audiobook market. Announced on 26 January 2007,"
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases The terms Primary Phase and Secondary Phase describe the first two radio series of ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", first broadcast in 1978. These were the first incarnations of the ""Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" franchise. Both were written by Douglas Adams and consist of six episodes each. The series followed the aimless wanderings of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect and his book, the eponymous ""Guide"". It introduced unfamiliar music, mind stretching concepts and the newest science mixed together with out of context parodies, unfeasibly rude names, ""semantic and philosophical"
"William Dufris William Dufris is an American voice actor. It was in London where Dufris began his audio career (radio plays, audio books, film/animation dubbing, language tapes). During this time, he had the privilege of sharing the microphone in a number of BBC Radio plays with Kathleen Turner, Sharon Gless, Stockard Channing, and Helena Bonham-Carter. Moreover, he worked with legendary director Dirk Maggs (of ""Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy"" fame) on his audio drama productions of ""Spider-Man"" (where he voiced the title role of Peter Parker), Judge Dredd, ""Voyage"" and ""An American Werewolf in London"". He is best known as"
"be taken more seriously because of the work of writers such as Arthur C. Clarke's (""""), Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Heinlein, Michael Moorcock and Kim Stanley Robinson. Another prominent writer in this genre, Douglas Adams, is particularly associated with the comic science fiction work, ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", which began life as a radio series in 1978. Mainstream novelists such Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood also wrote works in this genre, while Scottish novelist Ian M. Banks has also achieved a reputation as both a writer of traditional and science fiction novels. Twentieth-century English literature"
"played Arthur Dent in the 2005 movie, recorded a new unabridged edition of the audiobook. Stephen Moore and Douglas Adams used the uncensored UK edition of the text, while both the censored and uncensored versions of the book are available read by Freeman, depending on where they are purchased. Life, the Universe and Everything Life, the Universe and Everything (1982, ) is the third book in the five-volume ""Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" science fiction trilogy by British writer Douglas Adams. The title refers to the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. The story was originally outlined by Adams"
"recordings of the new series in the United States. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy radio series written by Douglas Adams (with some material in the first series provided by John Lloyd). It was originally broadcast in the United Kingdom by BBC Radio 4 in 1978, and afterwards the BBC World Service, National Public Radio in the US and CBC Radio in Canada. The series was the first radio comedy programme to be produced in stereo, and was innovative in its use of music and sound effects,"
"shown classified intelligence material. The drama was produced by Richard Clemmow and directed by Dirk Maggs. In March 2014, Morley was co-producer with Dirk Maggs of the radio comedy ""The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Live"", by Douglas Adams. It was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and starred many of the original cast of the show, including Simon Jones, Geoff McGivern, Sue Sheridan and Mark Wing-Davey. It was directed by Dirk Maggs and featured John Lloyd as the Voice of the Book. Morley's documentary about the creation of ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" was broadcast on BBC Radio 4"
"in comparison, but each part has its own short title. A full cast radio adaptation under the title ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Hexagonal Phase"" and adapted from ""And Another Thing... "", with unpublished Hitchhiker material by Douglas Adams, was announced in October 2017 by the BBC as the sixth series of ""Hitchhiker's Guide"". The first episode of the series was broadcast on March 8, 2018, and the complete series was released commercially both on CD and via audio download by Audible.com on April 19, 2018. The audio book version is read by Simon Jones, who played Arthur"
"adventures of hapless Englishman Arthur Dent and his friend Ford Prefect, an alien who writes for ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", a pan-galactic encyclopaedia and travel guide. After Earth is destroyed in the first episode, Arthur and Ford find themselves aboard a stolen spaceship piloted by a motley crew including Zaphod Beeblebrox (Ford's semi-cousin and Galactic President), depressed robot Marvin, and Trillian, the only other human survivor of Earth's destruction. A pilot programme was commissioned in March 1977, and was recorded by the end of the following June. A second series was commissioned in 1979, transmitted in 1980. Episodes"
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy radio series written by Douglas Adams (with some material in the first series provided by John Lloyd). It was originally broadcast in the United Kingdom by BBC Radio 4 in 1978, and afterwards the BBC World Service, National Public Radio in the US and CBC Radio in Canada. The series was the first radio comedy programme to be produced in stereo, and was innovative in its use of music and sound effects, winning a number of awards. The series follows the"
"Jon Glover Jonathan Philip Glover (born 26 December 1952) is an English actor. He has appeared in various television programmes including ""Play School"", ""Survivors"", the Management consultant in ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", ""Casualty"", ""Bodger & Badger"" and ""Peak Practice"". He provided the voices of several characters in the ""Animals of Farthing Wood"" animated series, and is also known for voice-acting for ""Noah's Island"", ""Spitting Image"" and the character King Trode in the English language version of the PlayStation 2 game ""Dragon Quest VIII"". He often appears in radio plays for Radio 4. He was a regular on the"
"complete episodes heard in the UK—they were edited down from their original 29+ minute running time to 25–26 minutes. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases The terms Primary Phase and Secondary Phase describe the first two radio series of ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", first broadcast in 1978. These were the first incarnations of the ""Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" franchise. Both were written by Douglas Adams and consist of six episodes each. The series followed the aimless wanderings of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect and his book, the eponymous ""Guide"". It introduced unfamiliar music, mind"
"was the same as the original radio series, except for David Dixon as Ford Prefect instead of McGivern, and Sandra Dickinson as Trillian instead of Sheridan. ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" was adapted into a science fiction comedy film directed by Garth Jennings and released on 28 April 2005 in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, and on the following day in the United States and Canada. It was rolled out to cinemas worldwide during May, June, July, August and September. The deliberately misnamed ""Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" """"Trilogy"""" consists of six books, five written by Adams: ""The"
"was also the original voice of Zippy on ""Rainbow"" during the first year of its run (1972). Coincidentally his replacement on ""Rainbow"", Roy Skelton, also voiced the Daleks. Hawkins and Skelton also voiced the Cybermen in ""The Tenth Planet"". Hawkins was the original voice for the character of Frankie Mouse in the fourth radio episode of ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", originally broadcast in March 1978. He also provided the voice of Money, a walking, talking pound sign on the UK adverts for the Access credit card, during the 1980s and 1990s. Hawkins was the owner of a fine"
"Arthur Dent Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character and the hapless protagonist of the comic science fiction series ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" by Douglas Adams. In the radio, LP and television versions of the story, Arthur is played by Simon Jones (not to be confused with Peter Jones, the voice of the Guide). In Ken Campbell's stage production from 1979, Chris Langham took the part. In the film he is played by Martin Freeman. In ""The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", he is portrayed by Jonathan Lermit. Along with Ford Prefect, Arthur Dent barely escapes the"
"Donald J. Sobol featuring the adventures of boy detective Leroy Brown, nicknamed ""Encyclopedia"" for his intelligence and range of knowledge that was first published in 1963. One of the most celebrated is the fictional ""Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" by the late Douglas Adams which began its evolution through numerous mediums as a British radio program in 1978. In 2004, NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs published ""The Know-It-All"", about his experience reading the entire ""Encyclopædia Britannica"" from start to finish. While deep encyclopedic knowledge across numerous fields of inquiry by a single person is no longer feasible, encyclopedic knowledge within a"
"BBC. He came closer to achieving this goal in the following episode, with the double-act Lunkwill and Fook. He adds to this statement in """", an analysis by Neil Gaiman: Slartibartfast was first portrayed in the 1978 radio serial, in which he was voiced by Richard Vernon, who also portrayed him in the 1981 live-action miniseries. Richard Griffiths voiced him in the 2004 radio series. He was portrayed by Bill Nighy in the 2005 film adaptation of the first novel. Slartibartfast Slartibartfast is a character in ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"", a comedy/science fiction series created by Douglas Adams."
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a 2005 British-American science fiction comedy film directed by Garth Jennings, based upon previous works in the media franchise of the same name, created by Douglas Adams. It stars Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel and the voices of Stephen Fry and Alan Rickman. Adams co-wrote the screenplay with Karey Kirkpatrick but died in 2001, before production began; the film is dedicated to him. The film grossed over $100 million worldwide. The film begins with a Broadway-style number, ""So Long, and Thanks for All"
"Dent in the radio and television series as well as a short made by BBC Radio 4 to celebrate the original announcement of the book. The recording is ten hours and twenty one minutes in length and is the first ""Hitchhikers"" audio book starring Jones. The others were read by Stephen Moore (known for playing Marvin in the radio series and television series, and did recordings for all books except ""Mostly Harmless""), Douglas Adams, Martin Freeman (who had played Arthur in the 2005 film) and Stephen Fry (known for being the voice of ""The Guide"" in the 2005 film, the"