I
personally know someone who has the brain the size of planet and talks like him, know of a person
who is as annoying as eddie the computer, someone who has the coolness of zaphod, and i can work the
personalities of most of my friends and family in to the cast of hitch-hikers.

if you buy anything
this year spend [it] on the primary & secondary phase of hitch-hikers.

so if u have the brain the
size of a planet and know the phone number of Gag halfrunt, i would recommend you buy it, because
gag will say "hey kev" he is just this guy !!

BUY IT !!

The series was broadcast as six half-hour episodes on Radio 4 in the spring of 1978.
I missed them entirely, not being a Radio 4 listener at the time. I discovered them during one of
my visits to friends at Cambridge that summer, where I was played a tape of a tape of a recording of
the episodes from end to end. (There was no audio or video merchandising to speak of then; if you
missed the original broadcast, you simply had to wait until the BBC deigned to repeat the
transmission.)

The humour was outstanding -- here were hundreds of lines which we could recite
back to one another, to replace the Pythonisms that were beginning to pall. Here were some
wonderful characters -- the cool but callous Zaphod Beeblebrox, the embarrassed Slarti Blartfast,
the unionised philosophers, and the psychologically unbalanced space cops, for example. Besides the
affectionate view of science fiction, perhaps what endeared Adams most to the student population was
the limitless possibilities presented by Hitchhiker. Ther density of ideas was often amazing.
Christianity, for example, gets summed up simply as a man getting nailed to a tree about 2000 years
ago for suggesting the wouldn't it be great if everyone were nice to each other for a change. A
fearsome battlefleet attacks Earth only to be swallowed by a small dog, due to a terrible mistake
over scale.

Geoffrey Perkins, producer of most of the episodes, has said elsewhere that it was
only with episodes three and four when he realised quite how magical a thing the Hitchhiker was to
be. Suddenly a space romp turns into a philosophical search for the ultimate question with a planet
used as an organic computer.

The whole thing is unreservedly brilliant, and deserves at least
seven stars. For me, the Hitchhiker is best enjoyed as the radio series -- not as the book, and
certainly not as the TV series.

This is Adams' masterpiece. That is the saddest aspect of his
life -- that he never regained the pinnacle that he achieved with his first significant creation.
The second series, by comparison, is mostly drivel, reflecting an obsession with shoe shops that few
had noticed or subsequently cared about.

After many false starts, it seems that Adams had
completed the film script for Disney days before he died. We can only hope that it does justice to
the Hitchhiker concept. But for me, these radio programmes, and nothing else, are true Hitchhiker.

Far and away the best Science Fiction Comedy Radio Serial of contemorary times,
beating out hot competition from, um, well there must have been something somewhere.

Quite simply
it makes me laugh a lot so I consider it a must have. If you've read and enjoyed the books, you may
not be aware that this is how it all started. If you're in that category, don't hesitate, buy The
Primary Phase.

An absolute classic, and I can't recommend it highly enough. Make sure you buy
"The Secondary Phase" as well. It covers episodes 7 - 12, and is just as good.