HHGTTG question

Being too lazy to go back and read all the books again to find out the
answer - this just came up at work.

There's a chap here who says that the scene where the gang leave the
Restaurant at the End of the Universe in HotBlack Desiato's spaceship was
only in the TV series, and not in the original radio series, or the books.
(Actually, he's only half convinced about the books.)

Where does this scene appear - in which format of the series (Radio, TV,
Book)?

Can this avid fan collective answer?

Dominic (Definitely a fan of HHGTTG, but obviously not a TRUE fan.)

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, "Dominic Thomas" wrote:
If you're talking about the bit with the black ship and the sundive,
then yes, it's in the books.

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, "Dominic Thomas" wrote:
If you're talking about the bit with the black ship and the sundive,
then yes, it's in the books.

The Disaster Area Sun Dive tour and Hotblack Desiato stuff appears in nearly every version of HHGttG bar the radio series, when it's replaced by something relateing to a Hagumenmon death fleet IIRC.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dominic Thomas" <dominic@>
To: <chat@>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 2:46 PM
Subject: HHGTTG question
When the Radio series was written, another writer, (John Lloyd IIRC),
helped DNA write a sequence concerning some creatures (Hagunnenons) which
evolved every few seconds. eg If their arms were too short to reach their
cup of
coffee, they would evolve into something with longer arms, which was
probably
not capable of drinking the coffee.
Anyhoo, when it came to writing the TV series and books, DNA wanted
it to be all his own work, so Ford, Arthur et al stole the Disaster Area
stunt
ship which did the sundive bit instead of the alien warship whose crew tried
to eat them.

So Hotbalck Desiato and disaster area appear in the books, TV series,
computer game and towels, but not in the original Radio series.

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Chris Lyth (CLyth@)
What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it? --
The Doctor

Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for.
The rich knowledge base that is IFIS wins again.

Dominic

Marvin's in the car park - "what do you think I'm doing in a car park - =
parking cars, stupid!", head washing jokes, they convince marvin to open =
the spaceship so they can steal it. I distingly remember the ship being =
extremely black. "Hey, when you press this black button which is =
labelled in black on a black background, a black light lights up black =
to let you know you've done it! Freeeeow!" And "now I really am going to =
be sick"... "Go ahead, we could do with a little colour around here". =
Plummets back through time, marvin reads the question from arthur's mind =
but just before telling them, they get distracted by returning to real =
space. There's a fleet of black battle cruisers following them, they =
stole the ship of the admiral (marvin parked it for him, but they didn't =
ask him that). The rest of the fleet start asking for orders, and are =
not distracted by different hitch-hikers answering the screen each time, =
because they're clearly the admiral evolving.

Their genetic structure is so chronically unstable that they'll quite =
often evolve 4 times over lunch, to something with far longer arms, =
which is probably quite incapable of drinking coffee. This gives them a =
great resentment of "filthy rotton stinking samelings" as they call us, =
and are clearly in a position to recognise everyone's bad points as =
they've already been them. This "appreciation" is usually military in =
nature.


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