>Was it? I haven't seen the TV or heard the radio versions, but as I >remember, Arthur Dent returned to Earth, which wasn't destroyed until the >follow-on novel _So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish_. Do I misremember? You misremember. _So Long_ features the rescue of the Earth by the dolphins' Save the Humans movement. They alter the time/space stream and more or less pull a duplicate Earth out of an alternate possible reality. (Technically this means that it isn't Earth at all but some nearly identical mirror of it, but who's quibbling?) While much of the series got rather flaky at the end, I did enjoy the idea of the psychiatrist who built his house inside out so that he could metaphorically put the world into a "hospital" to be treated for its delusions that everything was normal.