Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Although one of the greatest computers in the Universe and able to count all the atoms in a star in a millisecond, it is just an abacus in comparison to Deep Thought, the second greatest computer in the Universe. Milliways, also known as The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, can only be visited practically by time travel, as it exists at the end of time and matter. Marvin the Paranoid Android is one character who manages to reach Milliways without the use of time travel, merely by being very patient. One of the restaurant's major attractions is that
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy scripts, and having Alan Bell involved are all offered as causes), and the second series was never made. Elements of "Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen" were instead used in the third novel, "Life, the Universe and Everything". The main cast was the same as the original radio series, except for David Dixon as Ford Prefect instead of McGivern, and Sandra Dickinson as Trillian instead of Sheridan. Interview with Sandra Dickinson on 1st June 2018, where she talks about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Segments of several of the books were adapted as part of the BBC's "The Big Read"