The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy President; the depressed robot Marvin the Paranoid Android; and Trillian, formerly known as Tricia McMillan, a woman Arthur once met at a party in Islington and the only other human survivor of Earth's destruction thanks to Beeblebrox' intervention. The first radio series comes from a proposal called "The Ends of the Earth": six self-contained episodes, all ending with Earth's being destroyed in a different way. While writing the first episode, Adams realized that he needed someone on the planet who was an alien to provide some context, and that this alien needed a reason to be there. Adams finally settled
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film) Other guides include the "Hitchhiker's Guide to Blogging", the "Hitchhiker's Guide to Deadlines" and the "Hitchhiker's Guide to How to be Cool" which discusses how an individual can truly be cool, instead of by following crowds, but concludes by suggesting the listener attend a showing of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The "Guide to Websites", which only appeared on the official UK movie website, described a website as "a wonderful new invention that allows people you neither know nor care about to inform you what they had for breakfast this morning, without all that tedious mucking about in the