Quintessential Phase

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Quintessential Phase
Production information
Music by	Paul Wix Wickens

Story Summary

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Episodes/"Fits"

• Fit the Twenty-Third
• Fit the Twenty-Fourth
• Fit the Twenty-Fifth
• Fit the Twenty-Sixth

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

Production

• Announcer - John Marsh

Notes

• Tricia McMillan appears, she is played by Sandra Dickinson, who played Trillian in the TV series.

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.
• Trillian 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 Mueller 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.

Notable variations between Radio/audio and book

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External Links

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