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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

hitchhicker's guide to the galaxy

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 BENNPseudopodic 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