"I deliver perfection..." "and don't brag about it!" ":" "D" "Douglas Adams thought up the title as a travelling student, whilst looking up at the stars, lying drunk in a field in Innsbruck, Austria." "It would be another six years before he found a use for it-whilst writing the original radio scripts." "John Lloyd helped Douglas with the original radio script for episode six." "This following "Survival, Inquiry, Sophistication" sequence was cut from all transmitted versions, but "was" included in the 1992 video release." "Douglas Adams loved The Good Food Guide, and would take the cast to top restaurants whilst away on location." "This re-cap sequence from the transmitted version was cut from the video release." "This model shot was only ever used in this re-cap sequence." "The Black Ship did in fact belong to the Hagunenons in the earliest versions of "The Hitchhiker's Guide"." "Douglas Adams re-wrote the story to remove the majority of the material co-written with John Lloyd for the radio series." "The script directed Marvin to answer fractionally later than the others, and then turn away..." "Marvin's head was for some years separated from the rest of the costume, but it now resides in harmony at the BBC Visual Effects Department." "It is not available for parties." "Simon Jones has kept the dressing gown." "BBC costume auctions have allowed fans to buy the complete Vogon Guard," "Zaphod's jacket and boots, and Trillian's red outfit." "Sandra Dickinson (Trillian) studied in Boston and then London, where she landed an Alan Parker burger advert and a St. Bruno tobacco commercial." "She played Marilyn in "Legend" and the aunt in sitcom "2.4 Children"." "She was married to an English biologist and then Peter Davison, with whom she had daughter Georgia." "Her trademark voice didn't prevent her from playing an English accent in "Cover" (ITV)." "Sandra Dickinson is in the movies:" ""Superman III", "Supergirl", "Space Truckers" and "Balto"." "Mark Wing-Davey plays guitar and violin, he acts, teaches drama and directs." "The Cambridge Footlights and Jonathan Miller took him to the US." "He was later in "The Glittering Prizes"." "Other TV work: "Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill" by Jack Rosenthal," ""An Englishman Abroad" and several BBC Shakespeare plays." "Mark was the accountant who had to tell Edina she was poor in "Absolutely Fabulous"." "Mark Wing-Davey has daughters with actress Anita Carey." "Since winning an Obie in 1991 for directing "Mad Forest", he now mainly directs theatre." "Sandra was in "A Streetcar Named Desire" with Jessica Lange in London, and voiced "Teletubbies" in the USA." "It's Rayner Bourton again, who played the Newscaster in episode 2." "The shoot for this sequence was at the BBC's Ealing Film Studios, once the home of the classic Ealing Films of the 40s/50s." "The cutaways to the speaker stacks and the sun were missing from the 1992 VHS release, and have been reinstated here, as per the transmitted version." "Douglas Adams was a committed environmentalist ever since a trip to Madagascar in 1985 to spot an endangered species of lemur." "The hilarious factual account "Last Chance To See", co-written with Mark Carwardine, was, he believed, his most important book of all." "Mark Wing-Davey's left hand was clasped with the "fake" right one;" "his "real" right hand was tucked in the jacket." "The other head was dubbed later." "Obviously." "In the script, as well as being shot at," "Arthur is about to be hit by a falling safe and a circular saw." "The animators were still working on this sequence when the first episode was broadcast, and received an inquiry from "Datalink", a computer magazine inquiring about the type of computer system employed for the graphics..." "The reporter was rather shocked to learn it was all hand-drawn as he had hoped to win an argument between himself and other "experts"." "The magazine's phone number wound up as a date in the circular stamp mark..." "Incidentally, the word "Belgium" (pardon the language) was an in-joke for fans of the radio series, where it had been revealed as the rudest word in the galaxy." "Only a race that didn't know its true meaning could tolerate its use..." "The giant speaker stacks were models, about four feet tall." "Zaphod is holding a prop of Ford's leg, which is dangling from a pole held by an assistant." "Episode 2, remember, required a dummy of "Arthur's" leg Douglas Adams obviously had a "thing" about isolated legs..." "He was very keen to realise an idea about a sentient robot leg, which would hop along with our heroes in the movie, were it ever made." ""Manually?" "You mean once a year?" - an ad-lib by Simon Jones in rehearsals that never quite made it into the episode in those trade union-sensitive days." "The cast convened to prepare this final episode on Thursday 1st January 1981 in BBC Rehearsal Room No. 302 at Acton, West London, where most of the series was rehearsed." "The end of Marvin's final speech was cut short." "After the words "Far too intelligent..."" "...the recording of Stephen Moore, which still exists, continued..." ""..." "In fact I'm so intelligent I've probably got time to go through the five million things I hate most about organic lifeforms."" "The rehearsal script continued:" ""One." "They're so stupid."" "These scenes were taped earlier than the Black Ship interiors with Zaphod and co., but on the same recording day." "The swapping of clothing was an idea that developed in rehearsals, and was not originally part of the script." "This set was cobbled together largely out of existing pieces from other episodes." "The long beam was from the Vogon hold, and the curved sections of wall were from the Heart of Gold." "There are five extras in studio listed for this episode in BBC paperwork " "Laurie Goode, Enid Blackman, Doug Blather, Reg Lloyd, and Marilyn Gothard..." "There go four of them." "They know who they are..." "The vault door was a hired piece of scenery previously used in a James Bond film, apparently." "The top part of the shot is a matte painting." "The script describes "...rows and rows of what appear to be glass-topped sarcophagi."" "This is a "military nut" called "Number One"." "Actually he was named "Number Two" in the rehearsal script." "Very confusing." "He is played by Matthew Scurfield." "The B-Ark model was about 5 ft in diameter, and built by Perry Brahan at the Visual Effects workshop." "The two largest raised circular objects are actually 35mm slide trays from a carousel projector." ""Number Three" is Geoffrey Beevers." ""The Captain" is Aubrey Morris." "The ceiling is from the Heart of Gold." "The recycling now extends to forklift pallets from the Vogon ship and panels from episode 4." "The bath looks okay, despite having been dragged up to the Peak District on location 14 weeks earlier." "Number One is holding a bizarre weapon made from two toy guns glued together;" "a concept (possibly the actual prop!" ") re-used from the model of Hotblack's spaceship in episode 5." "This shot was tightly framed, so it was critical that all the actors hit their positions if they were to be seen." "It took a few goes to get it right." "Matthew Scurfield (Number One) has appeared in "Minder", "Sweeney 2"," ""Wycliffe", "A Dance to the Music of Time" and Dennis Potter's "Karaoke"." "Geoffrey Beevers (Number Three) has been in "A Very British Coup", "Prime Suspect 2" and "Poirot"." "His wife is actress Caroline John." "Aubrey Morris appeared in many British series, like: "Danger Man";" ""Reilly, Ace of Spies"; "Hot Metal" and he played Mr. Z in "Jamie"." "His films include "A Clockwork Orange", "The Wicker Man", "Lisztomania"" "and "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother"." "Aubrey Morris moved to California in the late 80s, to appear on "Columbo", "Murder She Wrote", "War and Remembrance" and "Babylon 5"." "Aubrey Morris had lots of trouble with his lines in this scene which, to put it kindly, helped with the vagueness of the character." "Number One has started on Arthur now, and what will he find in that dressing gown pocket?" "What souvenir does Arthur have to comfort him, now the Earth is destroyed...?" "...Toothpaste." "The Captain in the bath was played on the radio by David Jason, who later became a household name as Del Boy in "Only Fools and Horses" and as "Frost"." "At the time, David Jason was regularly playing the Foreign Secretary in the bath in the satirical radio show "Week Ending"." "The whole concept of the B-Ark was something Douglas created in a script for Ringo Starr, an aborted project he co-wrote with Monty Python's Graham Chapman in the mid-70s." "In the rehearsal script, Number Three" "("a pleasant, genial and well-spoken chap, but none too bright") was called Number One." "Number Two appears later, but only on location film." "The script asked for the imagery here to look as much as possible like the famous historical Bayeaux Tapestry." "A huge chunk was cut from this part of the narration, as it would have been impossible to complete the animation in time for the edit." "The missing story can be heard in the radio version, and concerns the rather irritating "Circling Poets of Arium" and their rather unlikely tales, whose descendants invented the tales of impending doom." "This shot was filmed near The Carlyon Bay Hotel, where the crew were based on location in St. Austell, Cornwall." "This whole section of Ford  Arthur looking around the new home planet and finding it familiar was cut from the transmitted programme, and only included in the video release." "The raft was shot the same morning on the same beach near the hotel, where Marvin cavorted with the bikini girl and Douglas went skinny-dipping." "After the beach scenes, and a quick visit to the monkey sanctuary, the crew headed home to prepare for the following week's location whilst Douglas Adams flew to Glasgow..." "Over the weekend between the two location shoots," "Douglas attended "Hitchercon 1", the first ever "Hitchhiker's Guide" fan convention, on 27th and 28th September 1980." "The scenes around the bath, stranded on Prehistoric Earth, were filmed in the Peak District National Park near to Mossley, from Monday 29th September to Friday 3rd October 1980." "Douglas joined them again after his jaunt to Scotland, and the work progressed with the cavemen, the ending of the series, and then this..." "The Marketing Girl is Beth Porter, who played the same rôle on radio..." "The pushy Management Consultant is Jon Glover..." "The bath was filled with some rather toxic-looking water from a paper mill, brought to the location by a tanker truck." "The Hairdresser is David Rowlands." "He appeared in "Allo Allo", "Blott on the Landscape", "Doctor Who - The Sunmakers" and "Rising Damp"." "He has also been a teacher and a reporter at Radio Sussex." "Beth Porter comes from Connecticut, USA, and studied drama in London." "She appeared in "The Great Gatsby", "Rock Follies of '77", "Eskimo Nell", and "What's Up Superdoc?"" "Beth Porter also appeared with Tim Curry in "Blue Money" and in "Alan Bleasdale Presents" " Pleasure"." "She later went into writing and producing as well as acting." "Talking of difficulty, Aubrey Morris had as much trouble with his lines here in the Peak District as he would have nearly 14 weeks later in the studio." "Here, though, he was too cold, rather than too hot." "Number Two is played by David Neville, who was in "Love For Lydia", "Executive Stress", Jilly Cooper's "Riders" and "To Play The King"." "The light was going when filming Beth Porter for this scene, and things were getting a bit fraught, as can be seen on the blooper reel." "A solitary yellow rubber duck on a red background was the main image on the sleeve of the second "Hitchhiker's" LP, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"..." "Jon Glover is a prolific voice man, with 1980s satirical puppet show "Spitting Image", "The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos"" "and the cartoon "The Animals of Farthing Wood" to his credit." "Jon Glover is probably most famous for playing the rather stiff and starchy Mr. Chomondley-Warner in the spoof of old black-and-white government information films in "Harry Enfield's Television Programme"." "Douglas Adams appeared with Peter Cook in the topical quiz show "Have I Got News For You" on 11 Dec 1992." "The week on location in The Peak District was followed by a week shooting in and around the London area, followed by another week at Ealing Studios shooting Deep Thought." "The shoot of Deep Thought just happened to be on Week 42 of the BBC calendar that year." ""Mostly Harmless" was the title of the 5th in the "Hitchhiker's Guide" canon and was the final book written by Douglas Adams..." "Douglas Adams died on 11th May 2001, aged just 49." "The Earth scanning to the book image was an idea concocted at a final meeting between the Producer and Animators." "The film footage was traced for the animation, which was back-projected in the usual way, but with the book against a blue screen." "Alan (James William) Bell was both Producer and Director, but the BBC allowed only one credit."