Minor characters from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

There are many minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. In fact, defining a major character is rather difficult. If the major characters are those the plot focuses on, they are Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Marvin and Trillian, with the possible inclusion of Slartibartfast, Prostentic Vogon Jeltz, Random Dent and Fenchurch. If they are defined as characters appearing in all the books, they are only Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent. In this case, the definition of major characters will be those in the series with major plot significance not appearing on this list.

Golgafrinchans

The Golgafrinchams all appear in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. On radio they appear in

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Fit the Sixth, and in the television series, in Episode Six.

Related Topics:
Fit the Sixth - Episode Six

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Agda and Mella

Agda and Mella are Golgafrinchan girls that Arthur and Ford hit on. On Golgafrincham, Agda used to be a junior personnel officer and Mella an art director. Agda is taller and slimmer and Mella shorter and round-faced. Mella and Arthur became a couple, as did Agda and Ford.

Related Topics:
Golgafrinchan - Personnel officer - Art director

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Captain

The Captain is the captain of the Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B. He likes to bathe with his rubber duck (he spent practically the entire time he was captain of the B Ark and as much of his time on Earth as has been documented in the bath) and has got a very relaxed attitude towards everything. The Captain also has a fondness for jynnan tonnyx. His personality was based on Douglas Adams' habit of taking extraordinarily long baths as a method of procrastination to avoid writing.

Related Topics:
Baths - Procrastination

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On radio, he was voiced by David Jason. On television, it was Aubrey Morris.

Related Topics:
David Jason - Aubrey Morris

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Hairdresser

One of the Golgafrinchans on the prehistoric Earth, the hairdresser was put in charge of the fire development sub-committee. They gave him a couple of sticks to rub together, but he made them into a pair of curling tongs instead.

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He was played by Aubrey Woods on radio and David Rowlands on television.

Related Topics:
Aubrey Woods - David Rowlands

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Management consultant

The Golgafrinchans' management consultant tried to arrange the meetings of the colonization committee along the lines of a traditional committee structure, complete with a chair and an agenda. He was also in charge of fiscal policy, and decided to adopt the leaf as legal tender, making everyone immensely rich. In order to solve the inflation problem this caused, he planned a major deforestation campaign to effectively revalue the leaf by burning down all the forests.

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He was played on radio by Jonathan Cecil and on television by Jon Glover.

Related Topics:
Jonathan Cecil - Jon Glover

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Marketing girl

Another Golgagfrinchan on prehistoric Earth, the marketing girl assisted the hairdresser's fire development sub-committee in researching what consumers want from fire and how they relate to it. She also tried to invent the wheel, but had a little difficulty deciding what colour it should be.

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She was played by Beth Porter on both radio and television.

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Number One

Number One is an officer in the Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B. Not the brightest person around, but all in all nice and good officer material.

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On radio, he was voiced by by Jonathan Cecil. On television, he was played by Matthew Scurfield.

Related Topics:
Jonathan Cecil - Matthew Scurfield

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Number Two

Number Two is a militaristic officer in the Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B. He captures Arthur and Ford and interrogates them. When they land to Earth, Number Two declares a war on another, uninhabited continent (which though unnamed in the book is most likely France given the details given about the travels of Ford and Arthur). Likes shouting a lot and thinks the Captain is an idiot.

Related Topics:
Militaristic - Officer

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On radio, he is played by Aubrey Woods. On television, he is David Neville, although some of his lines were given to a new character: Number Three played by Geoffrey Beevers.

Related Topics:
Aubrey Woods - David Neville - Geoffrey Beevers

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Telephone Sanitizer

The telephone sanitizer is a profession involved in the Golgafrincham plot thread in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

Related Topics:
Profession - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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The Golgafrinchams sent their Telephone Sanitizer population away, along with the rest of the useless third of their population to form a colony on another planet (Earth as it happens). Interestingly, the remaining Golgafrinchan population was then wiped out by a disease contracted via dirty telephones.

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