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what the critics said:
“...sci-fi comedy class..”
Chris Campling,
The Times
“With the original cast back together once more, there’s a real buzz about this production. The series is crammed full of guest stars...there are so many jokes you’ll be desperate to listen again on line.”
Jane Anderson,
Radio Times
“...a true work of the imagination – ironic, affectionate and faintly optimistic beneath its long dark teatime of the soul.”
Gillian Reynolds,
The Telegraph
“Douglas Adams’s brilliantly skewed sci-fi-fantasy world is back for its final instalment.”
Mail on Sunday
“There will be those who listen to...the final series of writer Douglas Adams’s consistently brilliant intergalactic comedy sequence and, with Pavlovian predictability, moan that ‘it’s not as good as the first’. Well let’s put the universe to rights immediately and state, with the full force of a Vogon highway clearance programme, that it is just as good. In fact it’s better.”
Jane Anderson,
Radio Times
“...the original cast can still stroll comfortably into their old roles...the jokes are still funny.”
Pick of the Week,
Lisa Mullen,
Time Out
“eagerly awaited..”
James Rampton,
The Independent
Quintessential Phase – the third series
Mostly Harmless
Broadcast 31st May - 23rd June 2005
In the final 4 instalments, adapted from Mostly Harmless, while frequent flyer Arthur Dent searches the universe for his lost love, Ford Prefect discovers a disturbing blast from the past at The Hitchhiker’s Guide HQ. Meanwhile on one of many versions of Earth, a blonder, more American Trillian gets tangled up with a party of lost aliens having an identity crisis. And just when Arthur thinks he has found his true vocation on the backwater planet of Lamuella, the original Trillian turns up with more than a little spanner in the works. A stolen ship, a dramatic stampede and a new and sinister Guide lead to a race to save the Earth …again. But this time will they succeed?
cast list (alphabeticaL order)
| MITCH BENN | Pseudopodic Creature |
| SAMANTHA BÉART | Random |
| JOHN CHALLIS | Prophet |
| SANDRA DICKINSON | Tricia McMillan |
| MIKE FENTON STEVENS | Grebulon Lieutenant/ Drimple Newsreader 1/ Accountancy Bird |
| DANNY FLINT | Accountancy Bird |
| WILLIAM FRANKLYN | Voice Of The Book/Zarquon |
| ROGER GREGG | Eddie The Computer/ Receptionist/ Accountancy Bird |
| DOMINIC HAWKSLEY | Thor |
| JANE HORROCKS | Fenchurch |
| ROY HUDD | Max Quordlepleen |
| BRUCE HYMAN | Prosser |
| SAEED JAFFREY | Old Man On The Pole |
| SIMON JONES | Arthur Dent |
| LORELEI KING | Gail Andrews/ Stewardess/ Patient/ Female |
| RULA LENSKA | Voice Of The Bird |
| TOBY LONGWORTH | Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz |
| JOHN MARSH | Announcer |
| GEOFFREY MCGIVERN | Ford Prefect |
| MIRIAM MARGOLYES | Smelly Photocopier Woman |
| STEPHEN MOORE | Marvin The Paranoid Android |
| PHILIP POPE | Grebulon Underling/Elvis |
| JONATHAN PRYCE | Zarniwoop Vann Harl |
| ANDREW SECOMBE | Colin The Robot |
| SUSAN SHERIDAN | Trillian |
| NEIL SLEAT | Newsreader |
| ANDY TAYLOR | Grebulon Leader/ Newsreader 2 |
| MARK WING-DAVEY | Zaphod Beeblebrox |
| GRIFF RHYS JONES | Old Thrashbarg |
Writer/Director: Dirk Maggs
Producer: Bruce Hyman & Helen Chattwell
Production Manager: Jo Wheeler
Production Assistant: Ruth Waites
Production Assistant: Susie Matthews
Sound Manager: Paul Deeley
Spot Sound Effects: Ken Humphrey
Script Editor: John Langdon
