My favourite of the Radio adaption sequels.

The Hitchhiker’s radio adaptations continue with the fourth installment in the trilogy, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish.

This one is funny and amusing, but the weaknesses inherint in the book are on display here—namely too much focus on Arthur. Part of the fun of Hitchhhiker’s is all the zany characters and you get the feeling Adams was tiring of the series at this point as characters such as Ford, Marvin and Trillian only have glorified cameos at best. This radio adapation does slim things down a bit and it does have some absurdly funny moments that work better in audio than they do in print.

In which Arthur returns to Earth finds love. WAIT wasn't Earth destroyed ???
And yet here Earth is. Even though Arthur has been gone for years only months have passed.
Arthur investigates this confusion and searches for others who experience this.
Not as funny as previous audio products but still better than the book. (Thanks For All the Fish)
Remind me to feed fish to the next dolphin I meet.

Rating between 3.5 and 4

a good adaptation of the 4th hitchhikers book i think.
different to the other stories as this is a smaller more intimate story centred on arthur dent and his new love fenchurch.
the interludes with ford were okay and served to stop the story getting too far away from the world of the guide.
the final episode with the final appearance of marvin (still played by stephen moore) was a touching reunion for arthur as well as a teary good bye to the miserable bugger.

overall definitely recommend, especially if listening to all of the phases in sequence.

Another great entry. The quality of the performances, production and writing are really top-notch. What a brilliant legacy!

The arrival of Fenchurch and the Earth is back. Shorter than the others (4 episodes instead of 6). Still great! Ford's attempts to make it to Earth were the best part, Wonko the Sane (Christian Slater was a fun surprise!)

Spectacular - listening to the whole BBC audio series far outstrips even the pleasure of reading the books

I love the Hitchhiker's audio radio plays still but they feel like they lose a bit of what makes them great around the quandary phase.

This adventure was closer to the spirit of the original book. An odd, improbable journey, without over-complicating the strange, or the illogical.
The story is told in a much more straight-forward way than the Tertiary episode. Easy to follow, and charming.

Have saw the serial and the movies and read the books individually and as omnibus and different sets, hardback, still in my library, says a lot. Date wrong, just saw it to review. also listened to radio ones of course

A continuation of the theme. The gags stay with you. I love the "truck driver as rain god. "So long, and thanks for the fish!"