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 (fictional) Stephen Fry as the voice of the "Guide", also employed animations, but in a more minimalist, abstract style. They were animated by Shynola. Adams conceived of the "Guide" while hitchhiking from London to Istanbul in 1971. Drunk and penniless in a field in Innsbruck, Austria, Adams looked up at the stars and then at his stolen copy of "Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe" and thought that someone should write "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." "The Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe" claimed in its introduction that it was possible to survive in Europe on less than US$25 a week, a claim echoed