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Hitchhiker's Guide BBC Radio Series #5

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Quintessential Phase

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Panic! It's the last installment of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with a brand new full-cast dramatization of Mostly Harmless, the final book in Douglas Adams' famous "trilogy in five parts." 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. A stolen ship, a dramatic stampede, and a new and sinister Guide lead to a race to save the earth. . .again.

3 pages, Library Binding

First published June 20,2005
Series
Hitchhiker/s Guide BBC Radio Series

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Format
3 pages, Library Binding
Published
May 28, 2006 by BBC Audiobooks
ISBN
9780792738589
ASIN
0792738586
Language
English

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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Douglas Noel Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTTG). Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. It was further developed into a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.
Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990) and Last Chance to See (1990). He wrote two stories for the television series Doctor Who, co-wrote City of Death (1979), and served as script editor for its seventeenth season. He co-wrote the sketch "Patient Abuse" for the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. A posthumous collection of his selected works, including the first publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.
Adams was a self-proclaimed "radical atheist", an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, and a lover of fast cars, technological innovation, and the Apple Macintosh.

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EATER101
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March 17,2025
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The final series of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy radio series ties up the lack of loose ends from the fifth H2G2 novel, Mostly Harmless, to allow any future series to follow on without disrupting the continuity in a way that Douglas Adams never even bothered about in the first place!
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PhosByte
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March 17,2025
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Another fabulous production and performance with a satisfying conclusion. An improvement over my memory of the final novel.
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Jatovi
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March 17,2025
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Likes: Great stuff, lots of quotable quotes, very humorously written.

Dislikes: This is, apparently, the last one.
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Dompa112
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March 17,2025
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Enjoyed it and wanted to love it, but listening while I was driving back and forth to work it just got a little too confusing.
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gabii
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March 17,2025
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If you've gotten this far in the radio series, there's no reason to stop! This installment was not only just as humorous and mind-bending as all the previous ones, it even ended in such a way as to patch up the heart that the Quandary Phase broke
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HalAnime
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March 17,2025
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This threatened to be really good. Insanity has been restored to the Hitchhikers Universe with the multidimensional parallel universe strands coming into full force, two Trillians, Arthur Dent - Sandwich maker - has a daughter and Ford Prefect befriends an amusing new robot and uncovers a hostile takeover of the Hitchiker's Guide...

...but again at 4 episodes this is just too short to work those ideas through and they're no sooner introduced than they're abandoned again. Maggs and the BBC decide to impose thier own forced happy ending on the material for no reason I can make out and I just feel sorely disappointed that it's all over. Still, this is heaps funnier than the Quandary phase and a joy to listen to. I've loved hearing the old cast reprise their roles 25 years on and they really get into it. (It's a big shame there's not so much Zaphod and Marvin in these later novels, though) and casting choices for other roles have been generally great, with the production of the shows being fine. Just a bit of a shame about the scripting that can't force the material into the holes it wants to put it and worse, tries to update Adams humour for a modern audience and stumbles horrible from time to time.
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