Quintessential Phase
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| Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Quintessential Phase | |
| Release Number: | 5 |
| Main Characters: | Arthur Dent Ford Prefect |
| Other Characters: | Trillian Tricia McMillan Zaphod Beeblebrox Colin the Robot |
| Settings: | Earth Lamuella Rupert Milliways |
| Author: | Douglas Adams |
| Script Editor: | John Langdon |
| Director: | Dirk Mags |
| Music: | Paul Wix Wickens |
| Live Effects: | Ken Humphries |
| Surround Mix: | Paul Deeley |
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| ISBN: | ISBN 0-563-20407-2 (CD) |
| Previous Story: | Quandary Phase |
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Contents |
[edit] Story Summary
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[edit] Episodes/"Fits"
[edit] Cast and Characters
- The Book - William Franklyn & Peter Jones
- The Book (Mark II) - Rula Lenska
- Arthur Dent - Simon Jones
- Ford Prefect - Geoffrey McGivern
- Marvin the Paranoid Android - Stephen Moore
- Fenchurch - Jane Horrocks
- Zaphod Beeblebrox - Mark Wing-Davey
- Trillian - Susan Sheridan
- Tricia McMillan - Sandra Dickinson
- Zarniwoop Vann Harl - Jonathan Pryce
- Eddie the Computer - Roger Gregg
- Grebulon Leader - Andy Taylor
- Grebulon Lieutenant, Accountancy Bird - Michael Fenton Stevens
- Prophet - John Challis
- Information Creature - Mitch Benn
- Gail Andrews - Lorelei King
- Colin the Robot - Andrew Secombe
- Old Man on the Pole - Saeed Jaffrey
- Smelly Photocopier Woman - Miriam Margolyes
- Stewardess, The Patient - Lorelei King
- Accountancy Bird and Lift - Roger Gregg
- Grebulon Underling - Philip Pope
- Accountancy Bird - Danny Flint
- Random Dent - Sam Bèart
- Old Thrashbarg - Griff Rhys Jones
- Strinder and Doctor - Roger Gregg
- Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, Wowbagger - Toby Longworth
- Speaking Clock - Brian Cobby
- Bartender - Roger Gregg
- Vogon Helmsman - Michael Cule
- Thor - Dominic Hawksley
- Elvis - Philip Pope
- The Newsreader - Neil Sleat
- Max Quordlepleen - Roy Hudd
- Runner - Tom Maggs
- Agrajag - Douglas Adams
[edit] Production
- Announcer - John Marsh
[edit] Notes
- Tricia McMillan appears, she is played by Sandra Dickinson, who played Trillian in the TV series.
[edit] Devices, Ships, People, Places, Races and Species encountered
- Arthur is still trying to find Fenchurch after she disappeared during a hyperjump.
- Zaphod (again) attempts to reach Zarniwoop as he did in the Secondary Phase.
- Max Quordlepleen, Thor and Zarquon all previously appeared at Milliways in the Primary Phase.
- Ford discovers the Hitchhikers Guide is no longer owned by Megadodo Publications.
- Vann Harl is the editor of the Hitchhikers Guide.
- Arthur crashlands on the planet Lamuella and becomes the 'Sandwich Maker', serving up Perfectly normal beast.
- Tillian presents Arthur with his daughter Random Dent.
- The Guide Mark II uses Reverse Temporal Engineering to arrange circumstances to benefit whoever is using it.
- The planet Rupert is mentioned and visited by Tricia McMillan.
- Ford and Arthur eat some bacon rolls at the Domain of the King Bar and Grill.
- Babel fish are capable of shifting sideways in probabiltiy (taking whoever they are within with them), should circumstances become dire.
- The whole gang end up at a club Stavro Müller Beta, then the Earth is destroyed.
- In one possible ending Arthur and Lintilla (and several of her clones) are happy aboard the Heart of Gold.
- In other possible ending Arthur is lying in front of a bulldozer with Fenchurch backing him up.
- In another possible ending the whole gang end up at Milliways, where Arthur re-meets Fenchurch who is there waitressing, Marvin is also present (again) parking cars.
- Zarquon removes Wowbagger's immortality.
[edit] Notable variations between Radio/audio and book
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[edit] External Links
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