Marvin the Paranoid Android these diodes." Marvin the Paranoid Android Marvin the Paranoid Android is a fictional character in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series by Douglas Adams. Marvin is the ship's robot aboard the starship "Heart of Gold". Originally built as one of many failed prototypes of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's "GPP" (Genuine People Personalities) technology, Marvin is afflicted with severe depression and boredom, in part because he has a "brain the size of a planet" which he is seldom, if ever, given the chance to use. Indeed, the true horror of Marvin's existence is that no task he could be given would
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy adaptation in front of a live audience, featuring many members of the original cast including Stephen Moore, Susan Sheridan, Mark Wing-Davey, Simon Jones and Geoff McGivern, with John Lloyd as the book. The adaptation was adapted by Dirk Maggs primarily from Fit the First, including material from the books and later radio Fits as well as some new jokes. It formed part of Radio 4's "Character Invasion" series. The first four radio episodes were adapted for a new double LP, also entitled "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (appended with "Part One" for the subsequent Canadian release), first by mail-order