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Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy fre Continue For other purposes, see Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (disambiguation) and Hitchhiker's (disambiguation). Sci-fi series Hitchhiker's Hitchhiking by GalaxyFirst edition cover hitchhiking by The Galaxy (novel)Created by Douglas AdamsOriginal workThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy of The Beginning and Secondary Phase (1978-1980)Print publishingBook (1 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Original Radio Scripts (1985)Roman (s)Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)Life, The Universe and the Universe (1982)So long, and thanks for all the fish (1984)Basically harmless (1992)And one more thing ... 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The radio comedy was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978 and was later adapted to other formats including stage shows, novels, comics, the 1981 TV series, the 1984 video game and the 2005 feature film. Hitchhiking in the Galaxy has become an international multi-media phenomenon; novels are the most common, having been translated into more than 30 languages by 2005. The first novel, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), came fourth in the BBC's Big Reading poll. The sixth novel, And Another Thing, was written by Eoin Colfer with additional unpublished material by Douglas Adams. In 2017, BBC Radio 4 announced a 40th anniversary celebration with Dirk Maggs, one of the original producers in charge. The first of six new episodes aired on March 8, 2018. The wide story of the hitchhiker follows the misadventures of the last survivor, Arthur Dent, after the destruction of the Earth by a fleet of Vogon designers to find a place to bypass hyperspace. Dent is saved from Earth destruction by the prefect of Ford - a man as an alien writer for an eccentric, electronic hitchhiker hitchhiking on a passing vogon spaceship. After his rescue, Dent explores the galaxy with the prefect and meets Trillian, another man who was taken from Earth (before its destruction) by the two-headed president of the galaxy, Sastnod Bibbrox, and the depressed Marvin, the Paranoid Android. Some details of the narrative have been altered between different adaptations. Spelling Versions of the series spell the title in different ways, thus Hitch-Hiker's Guide, Hitch Hiker's Guide and Hitch Hitch Isptop are used in various editions (US or UK), formats (audio or print) and book compilations, with some omitting apostrophes. Some publications used different spellings on the spine and the front page. The use of h2g2 in approved records states that Hitchhiker's Guide is Adams's preferred spelling. At least two reference papers indicate a mismatch of names. Both, however, repeat the statement that Adams decided in 2000 that everyone should spell just like one word, not a hyphen since then . The summary of the various versions follow the same main story, but they are mutually contradictory in many places, as Adams rewrote the story essentially for each new adaptation. Throughout the versions, the series follows the adventures of Arthur Dent, an unhappy Englishman, after the destruction of the Earth by vogons, a race of unpleasant and bureaucratic aliens to find a place for intergalactic bypass. Dent's adventures intersect with several other characters: The Prefect of Ford, an alien and a researcher of the eponymous guidebook, which saves Dent from the destruction of the Earth; Sashod Bablebrox, Ford's eccentric half-shirt and galactic president who stole the Heart of Gold, a spaceship equipped with Infinite Insexness Drive; depressive robot Marvin Paranoid Android; and Trillian, formerly known as Tricia Macmillan, a woman Arthur once met at a party in Islington and, thanks to the intervention of Bebblebrox, the only person to survive the destruction of the Earth. In his travels Arthur comes to learn that earth was actually a giant supercomputer created by another supercomputer, Deep Thought. A deep thought was built by its creators to give an answer to the final question of life, the universe and everything, which, after eons calculations, was given simply as 42. Deep Thought was then tasked with developing the Earth's supercomputer to determine what the issue really was. The earth was subsequently destroyed by Vogons moments before his calculations were completed, and Arthur becomes the target of descendants of deep thought creators, believing that his mind should hold the question. With the help of his friends, Arthur escapes and they decide to dine at the restaurant at the end of the universe before embarking on further adventures. Background First radio series comes from a proposal called Ends of the Earth: six standalone episodes, all ending with the Earth being destroyed in different ways. When writing the first episode, Adams realized 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 stray explorer a wonderful book called Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. As the writing of the first episode of the radio progressed, the guide became the center of his story, and he decided to focus the series on it, with the destruction of the earth the only hold-over. Adams claimed that the title came from a 1971 incident when he was hitchhiking around Europe in his youth with a copy of Hitchhiker's Book across Europe: lying drunk in a field near Innsbruck with a copy of the book and looking at the stars, he thought it would be a good idea for someone to write a hitchhiker into the galaxy as well. However, he later stated that he had forgotten about the incident and only knew about it because he had told about it so many times. His friends say Adams mentioned the idea of hitchhiking the galaxy to them while vacationing in Greece in 1973. Adams' fictional guidebook is an electronic guide to the entire universe, originally published by Megadodo Publications, one of the great publishers of the Little Beta Ursa. The narrative of different versions of history is often interspersed with excerpts from the Guide. The Voice of Guide (Peter Jones in the first two radio series and television versions, later William Franklin in the third, fourth and fifth radio series, and Stephen Fry in the film version), also provides a general narrative. Radio This section needs additional quotes to check. Please help improve this article by adding quotes to reliable sources. Non-sources of materials can be challenged and removed. (March 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message template) Original series of Radio Main Articles: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series) and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases of the first radio series of six episodes (called Fits after the title sections of Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem The Hunt for Snark) Despite the low-key launch of the series (the first episode aired on Wednesday, March 8, 1978) , it received generally good reviews and a huge audience reaction on the radio. At the end of the year, a one-phase episode (Christmas Special was shown. The BBC had a practice during commissioning Christmas Special Episodes for popular radio series, and while the early draft of this episode of Hitchhiker's was a Christmas storyline, it was decided to be in somewhat bad taste, and the episode as broadcast served as a bridge between the two series. This episode was released as part of the second radio series and later, The Secondary Phase on cassettes and CDs. Primary and secondary stages were shown, in a lightly edited version, in the United States at the NPR Playhouse. The first series was repeated twice only in 1978 and more times in the next few years. This led to a re-borrowed LP, produced independently by the BBC for sale, and further adaptation of the series as a book. The second radio series, which consisted of five more episodes and brought the total number of episodes to 12, was shown in 1980. The radio series (and LP and TV versions) have been narrated by comedian Peter Jones as a book. Jones was cast after a three-month casting search and after at least three actors (including Michael Palin) resigned from the role. The series was also notable for its use of sound, being the first comedy series to be produced in a stereo system. Adams said he wants the production of the program to be comparable to the production of a modern rock album. Much of the program's budget was spent on sound effects, which were mostly the work of Paddy Kingsland (for the pilot episode and the full second series) on BBC Radiophonic Workshop and Dick Mills and Harry Parker (for the remaining episodes (2-6) of the first series). The fact that they were at the forefront of modern radio production in 1978 and 1980 was reflected when three new Hitchhiker's series became one of the first radio shows to be mixed into the four-channel Dolby Surround.