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Arthur Philip Dent is a fictional character and the hapless protagonist [1] of the comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.. In the radio, LP and television versions of the story, Arthur is played by Simon Jones (not to be confused with Peter Jones, the voice of the guide).
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [a] [b] is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams.Originally a 1978 radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, it was later adapted to other formats, including novels, stage shows, comic books, a 1981 TV series, a 1984 text adventure game, and 2005 feature film.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: January 21–25, 1980: Radio series: Secondary Phase: "Fit the Eighth" to "Fit the Twelfth" January 15 – February 23, 1980: Stage show The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Theatr Clwyd) 1980 Record The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Part Two: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: October, 1980: Novel
The series followed the aimless wanderings of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect and his book, the eponymous Guide. It introduced unfamiliar music, [ 1 ] mind-stretching concepts and the newest science mixed together with-out of-context parodies, unfeasibly rude names, "semantic and philosophical jokes", [ 1 ] compressed prose, and "groundbreaking ...
Cast lists for different versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A blank cell in the table indicates that the information is unknown. "N/A" indicates that the role in question does not exist for that version of the story. Columns are in chronological order from 1978–2005, except for the two German radio series (1981 and 1990–1991).
Ford Prefect is Arthur Dent's friend. He rescued Dent when the Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass at the start of the story. Although his heart is in the right place and he is shown to be highly intelligent, resourceful, and even brave, Ford is essentially a dilettante when it comes to causes such as the search for the question to the ultimate answer of "life ...
The original novel was based on a treatment that Adams wrote for an unmade Doctor Who movie, Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen. [2] The idea was re-proposed during Tom Baker's tenure in the title role, and again for a potential (but unmade) second television series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. [3]
The deliberately misnamed Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "Trilogy" consists of six books (a hexalogy). Although the series was called a trilogy by readers, the word "trilogy" does not appear on the cover of the first three books and was not used until the publication of the fourth one. The first five books of the series were written by Adams: