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Ford discovers that the publishers of the Hitchhiker’s Guide have not only changed their name, but they’ve been bought out - and a chance encounter with Zaphod reveals that anyone who’s working for Guide is now, whether they realize it or not, working for the Vogons. Frustrated by the reappearance of the alternate Earth, the Vogons are now setting out to destroy that planet in every probability and every dimension, and using the Guide’s knowledge - and a portable version of the deadly Total Perspective Vortex - to achieve that goal. Arthur, resigned to his existence in this dimension, is feeling fatalistic enough to work at trying to consciously avoid Stavromula Beta, a place where he has been told he will meet his own death. And a television reporter named Tricia McMillan has the story of a lifetime land in her lap as aliens visit her home.

written by Douglas Adams
adapted by Dirk Maggs from the novel “Mostly Harmless”
directed by Dirk Maggs
music by Paul “Wix” Wickens

Cast: William Franklyn (The Voice of the Book), Rula Lenska (The Voice of the Bird), Simon Jones (Arthur Dent), Geoffrey McGivern (Ford Prefect), Mark Wing-Davey (Zaphod Beeblebrox), Jonathan Pryce (Zarniwoop), Saeed Jaffrey (Old Man on the Pole), Miriam Margolyes (Smelly Photocopier Woman), Sandra Dickinson (Tricia McMillan), Lorelei King (Stewardess), Andrew Secombe (Colin the Robot), Roger Gregg (Doctor), Philip Pope (Grebulon Underling), Michael Fenton-Stevens (Grebulon Lieutenant)

Originally broadcast: June 7, 2005

On the planet Nowwhat, despair once again becomes the order of the day for Arthur Dent. Attempting to hitch a ride back to Earth, Arthur has found that apparently Nowwhat occupies Earth’s coordinates in space-time - and he still hasn’t found Fenchurch, who vanished without a trace when their ship jumped into hyperspace. What Arthur doesn’t realize is that it is he who has vanished - he’s jumped into a slightly parallel dimension where Trillian is a blonde, American news reporter, Zaphod Beeblebrox is delivering pizza, and Ford Prefect is having to break into the corporate offices of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. But the corporate culture at the Guide has changed - and for anyone trying to break in, it’s changed fatally.

written by Douglas Adams
adapted by Dirk Maggs from the novel “Mostly Harmless”
directed by Dirk Maggs
music by Paul “Wix” Wickens

Cast: William Franklyn (The Voice of the Book), Rula Lenska (The Voice of the Bird), Simon Jones (Arthur Dent), Geoffrey McGivern (Ford Prefect), Mark Wing-Davey (Zaphod Beeblebrox), Susan Sheridan (Trillian), Sandra Dickinson (Tricia McMillan), Jonathan Pryce (Zarniwoop), Roger Gregg (Eddie), Andy Taylor (Grebulon), Mike Fenton-Stevens (Grebulon), John Challis (The Prophet), Mitch Benn (Information Creature), Lorelei King (Gail Andrews), Andrew Secombe (Colin the Robot)

Note: SF fans may also know Andrew Secombe as the voice of Watto, the trader who owned young Anakin Skywalker and his mother as slaves, in Episode I and II of the Star Wars prequel trilogy.

Originally broadcast: May 31, 2005

Upon returning from a bizarre meeting with a man named Wonko the Sane in California, Arthur and Fenchurch find that they have company when they get home - Ford Prefect has returned to Earth. As reluctant as Arthur is to give up the Earth again, he and Fenchurch both realize that they no longer fit in, and set off to see God’s Final Message to His Creations. Ford, in his purloined alien spacecraft (which created quite a stir in London), drops them off, and a chance encounter not only reveals the message, but the final words of Marvin the paranoid android. But it may turn out to be both the first and last time that Arthur and Fenchurch hitch a ride across the galaxy together.

written by Douglas Adams
adapted by Dirk Maggs from the novel “So Long And Thanks For All The Fish”
directed by Dirk Maggs
music by Paul “Wix” Wickens

Cast: William Franklyn (The Voice of the Book), Simon Jones (Arthur Dent), Geoffrey McGivern (Ford Prefect), Bill Paterson (Rob McKenna), Jane Horrocks (Fenchurch), Sandra Dickinson (Tricia McMillian), Stephen Moore (Marvin), Bob Golding (The Majestic Vantrashell), Alison Pettitt (Stewardess), Brian Cobby (Speaking Clock), Nick Clarke (himself), Charlotte Green (herself), Peter Donaldson (himself), Sir Patrick Moore (himself)

Originally broadcast: 23 May 2005

As Arthur and Fenchurch grow closer, each also realizes that the other is somehow the only person who can understand what really happened to the Earth. Still puzzled by the disappearance of the dolphins, and the appearance of a glass fishbowl bearing the legend “So long and thanks for all the fish” - of which Fenchurch has an identical copy - Arthur decides to consult the only person who even claims to know where the dolphins went. This person, too, has such a fishbowl - and a unique outlook on the world.

written by Douglas Adams
adapted by Dirk Maggs from the novel “So Long And Thanks For All The Fish”
directed by Dirk Maggs
music by Paul “Wix” Wickens

Cast: William Franklyn (The Voice of the Book), Simon Jones (Arthur Dent), Geoffrey McGivern (Ford Prefect), Jane Horrocks (Fenchurch), Stephen Fry (Murray Bost Hanson), Jackie Mason (East River Creature), Dominic Hawksley (Vogon Councillor), Simon Greenall (Steward), Margaret Robertson (Mrs. Kapelson), Michael Cule (Vogon Clerk), Toby Longworth (Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz), Christian Slater (Wonko the Sane)

Originally broadcast: May 17, 2005