Episode 14 (Fit The Fourteenth)
Inexplicably, the sofa spotted by Ford and Arthur on prehistoric Earth has deposited them on Lord’s Cricket Ground…one day before the destruction of the planet. Arthur immediately fixates on the idea of warning himself, or the rest of the Earth, of the impending disaster, but Ford spots a much more immediate problem - someone appears to have landed a spaceship on the field, and yet no one seems to have noticed. The pilot of that ship has noticed Ford and Arthur, however - it’s Slartibartfast, the planet engineer who befriended Arthur on Magrathea. He’s come to retrieve the ceremonial ashes at the end of the game, but is powerless to prevent another ship from invading the cricket ground, brimming with robots who steal the ashes themselves. Slartibartfast, declaring this inexplicable event to be disastrous for the entire universe, whisks the two hitchhikers away from the doomed Earth. The robots, in the meantime, have gone to liberate a fellow mechanical from isolation on Squornshellous Zeta…but Marvin the Paranoid Android has no idea what the white robots want with him.
written by Douglas Adams
adapted by Dirk Maggs from the novel “Life, The Universe And Everything”
directed by Dirk Maggs
music by Paul “Wix” WickensCast: William Franklyn (The Voice of the Book), Simon Jones (Arthur Dent), Geoffrey McGivern (Ford Prefect), Stephen Moore (Marvin), Dominic Hawksley (Krikkit Robots), Richard Griffiths (Slartibartfast), Andy Taylor (Zem), Fiona Carruth (Walkie-Talkie), Toby Longworth (Wowbagger), Bruce Hyman (Deodat), Henry Blofeld (himself), Henry Trueman (himself)
Notes: Actor Richard Griffiths took over the role of Slartibartfast from the late Richard Vernon.
Originally broadcast: September 28, 2004
Notes: Original late 70s recordings of the voice of the late Peter Jones - the original voice of the Book - is interspersed with that of William Franklyn, the new voice of the Book, in the introduction of this episode. It’s explained that the Hitchhiker’s Guide is now being published in a new edition, and updates are being downloaded into older copies such as Ford’s - with mixed results. 
A diversion in the time vortex throws the TARDIS off course, toward a rough landing on a distant backwater world. The Doctor steps out of the doors and almost immediately blacks out. When he comes to, he is stunned to find that he is being tended to by Peri, who he hasn’t seen since the ill-timed intervention of the Time Lords whisked him away for his trial and left her helpless - 19 years ago in her personal history. She escaped her situation and obtained a spacecraft, but it crash-landed here months ago. She also claims that the Doctor was found unconscious after falling off of a mountain ledge. To make matters worse, the TARDIS has been confiscated by the local religious leader, who has placed it in the village temple and claims it is the vessel of the villagers’ goddess. When the Doctor finally gains access to that temple - normally denied to those not instructed in the local faith - he’s horrified to see that the TARDIS’ outer shell has been critically damaged, leaking chronon radiation and causing deadly time distortions. The only way the Doctor may be able to save this society - and Peri - is to give up his travels and set the TARDIS to self-destruct…assuming the villagers will let him.
A planet appears in the path of the TARDIS, moving so fast that a collision is unavoidable. Charley and C’rizz each awaken in a virtual reality of their past lives, but they each quickly figure out that the Kro’Ka is behind the illusions and are freed. When they awaken, they find not only the Kro’Ka, but Rassilon as well, who claims that he has nursed them back to health after the destruction of the TARDIS. But he shows them that the Doctor has survived as well, and he appears to have found company - a woman who has found him wandering through the jungle of the planet’s sole land mass. Charley and C’rizz both demand to be set free, but before he releases them Rassilon tries to put doubts in their minds about the Doctor - and each other. He’s at least partially successful, as the two TARDIS travelers go their own way in the jungle.