Fit the Sixth

Zaphod's stolen ship is the personal cruiser of the admiral of a Haggunenon battle fleet. The crew are organic and evolve constantly. Soon the ship is hazardous to our hapless travellers as the crew evolve in a hostile manner. Ford and Arthur escape back millions of years and arrive on a Golgafrincham Space Ark, full of froxen middle men. The ship crashes into a primitive planet.  Written by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd Cast:  The Book: Peter Jones Arthur Dent: Simon Jones Ford Prefect: Geoffrey McGivern Zaphod Beeblebrox: Mark Wing-Davey Trillian: Susan Sheridan "B" Ark Captain and Caveman: David Jason Number One and Management Consultant: Jonathan Cecil Haggunenon Underfleet Commander/Number Two/Hairdresser: Aubrey Woods Marketing Girl: Beth Porter Announcer (uncredited): John Marsh  Music: Oxygène by Jean Michel Jarre; Volumina by György Ligeti; Volkstanz from Einsteig by Gruppe Between. The regular ending music is replaced with What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy radio series written by Douglas Adams. It was originally broadcast in the UK by BBC Radio 4 in 1978. The series follows the 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 Zaphod Beeblebrox, depressed robot Marvin, and Trillian, the only other human survivor of Earth's destruction.