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Arthur and Ford have been discovered. Vogon Captain Jeltz tortures them by reading his poetry. He then has Arthur and Ford thrown off his ship, to what must be certain death - except for one improbable miracle. At the last second, an infinite-improbability prototype ship (which can pass through every point in the Universe) rescues them. What is rather surprising is that Zaphod Beeblebrox, the hip cat who stole the spaceship, is vaguely familiar to Arthur. And so is Zaphod's companion, Trillian.moreless
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Stephen Moore (I)
Voices of Marvin/The Whale; Frankie Mouse (eps 2,3,5,6)
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Peter Jones
Voice of the Book
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Simon Jones
Arthur Dent
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ADD TRIVIA- The Vogon Constructor Fleet makes a six light-year jump from the rubble of the Earth to a point somewhere near Barnard's Star. In the book, Arthur Dent complains about being "thrown out of an alien space ship six light years from the smoking remains of the Earth", but in this episode, Arthur says "five light years", thus showing his inexperience as a galactic hitch-hiker. Edit
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ADD QUOTES- The Book The Worst Poem in the Universe: The dead swans lay in the stagnant pool. They lay. They rotted. They turned around occasionally. Bits of flesh dropped off them from time to time And sank into the pool's mire. They also smelt a great deal. By Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings, Greenbridge, Essex, England. Edit
- Vogon Captain: O Frettled Gruntbuggly, thy micturations are to me As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, Lest I rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurgle-cruncheon. See if I don't. Edit
- Arthur Dent: What the hell's that? Ford Prefect: Well, if we're lucky, it's the Vogon Guard come to throw us into space. Arthur Dent: And if we're unlucky? Ford Prefect: The Vogon Captain might want to read us some of his poetry first. Edit
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