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 Primary and Secondary Phases The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases The terms Primary Phase and Secondary Phase describe the first two radio series of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", first broadcast in 1978. These were the first incarnations of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" franchise. Both were written by Douglas Adams and consist of six episodes each. The series followed the aimless wanderings of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect and his book, the eponymous "Guide". It introduced unfamiliar music, mind stretching concepts and the newest science mixed together with out of context parodies, unfeasibly rude names, "semantic and philosophical