Slartibartfast is a Magrathean, and a designer of planets.

II is being made, Slartibartfast is assigned to the continent of Africa.

Another spaceship, the Starship Bistromath, arrives, helmed by Slartibartfast, who discovers he is too late and requests Arthur and Ford's help.

As they travel to their next destination, Slartibartfast explains that he is trying to stop the robots from collecting all the components of the Wikkit Gate.

There, Arthur, after being separated from the rest of the group, is taken into the interior of the planet by a native, Slartibartfast.

He is remembered for his parts as the unnamed ' city gent ' reluctantly sharing a train compartment with the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night, the planetary designer Slartibartfast ( designer of fjords ) in the BBC radio and TV series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as Sir James Greenley (" C ") in The Sandbaggers, as Lord Salisbury in Edward the Seventh, as Major Toby Smith-Barton in The Duchess of Duke Street, as the Duke of Broughton in Nanny, as the occasional character Sir Desmond Glazebrook in the TV series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, and his role as Mr Becket in Sammy's Super T-Shirt.

Slartibartfast teaches Dent how cricket is based on the history of the worst wars in the galaxy, and the pair travel to Krikkit in order to prevent another war.

Slartibartfast explains that he has arrived because " something terrible is about to happen ".

Slartibartfast shows Ford and Arthur an Informational Illusion about the Krikkit Wars and the Wikkit Gate, and that the game of cricket on Earth is a " racial memory " of the Wars.

The party is flying as well, and Ford and Slartibartfast are on a ledge around the building, not being permitted entry due to the lack of a bottle.

Griffiths has also performed in adaptations of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, providing the voice for Slartibartfast for the radio adaptation of Life, the Universe and Everything and playing the Vogon Jeltz in the film version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

The parts of The Guide, Eddie the Computer and Slartibartfast were recast to replace actors now deceased, with William Franklyn, Roger Gregg and Richard Griffiths taking over these three roles, respectively.

Richard Vernon ( died 1997 ) as Slartibartfast, replaced by Richard Griffiths, Peter Jones ( died 2000 ), replaced by his friend William Franklyn ; some brief excerpts from Jones's original narration were also used in the first episode, disguised as the Book's speech-generation system changing as part of updates to the Guide from the publisher.

Slartibartfast was first portrayed in the 1978 radio serial, in which he was voiced by Richard Vernon, who also portrayed him in the 1981 live-action miniseries.

Slartibartfast explains to Arthur that the Earth was actually a supercomputer commissioned and paid for by a race of " hyper-intelligent ," " pan-dimensional " beings.

His work was featured in an article in the January 1996 Scientific American ( Playing Slartibartfast with Fractals ; January 1996 ; by Gibbs ), about fractal curves.

He experiments with flying for a while, only to be hit in the small of the back by the party which Ford and Slartibartfast are attempting to enter.

In Life, the Universe and Everything Slartibartfast has joined the Campaign for Real Time ( or CamTim as the volunteers casually refer to it, a reference to CAMRA ) which tries to preserve events as they happened before time travelling was invented.

Arthur, Ford, Trillian, and Slartibartfast return to the Bistromath and try to head off the robots activating the Wikkit Gate.

Meanwhile, Richard Vernon, who was noted for his portrayal of " grandfatherly types ", was chosen to be Slartibartfast.

Peter Jones, the original narrator, had died in 2000 ; Richard Vernon, the original Slartibartfast, had died in 1997 ; and David Tate, who had voiced Eddie the Computer ( among many other roles ), had died in 1996.

Eventually, Slartibartfast arrives, and asks Arthur to come with him.

The game finishes, with England winning the Ashes, and Slartibartfast joins Arthur and Ford.

Ford and Arthur catch a lift with Slartibartfast on his ship.

Slartibartfast notes that parts of the key to the Wikkit Gate, sealing the envelope of Slo-Time, have been re-appearing.

After a failed attempt to recover the Wooden Pillar ( the Ashes ), Slartibartfast plans to go to a party, to locate the Silver Bail.

Arthur does not materialise with Ford and Slartibartfast, but elsewhere, in a gloomy room, with signs such as " DO NOT BE ALARMED.

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As a free-lance investigator, the fictional detective is responsible to no one but himself and his client.

Thus the fictional detective is much more than a simple businessman.

In short, the fictional private eye is a specialized version of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur, the man whose private ambitions must always and everywhere promote the public welfare.

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