Ah - the HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy, that takes me back. I read the books and watched the TV series on the ABC, brilliant casting in that too, everyone just as they were in print.
Ford Prefect
Zaphodd Beeblebrox
Trillion
Dent Arthur Dent
Slarty-Bartfast
The eternally sad and pathetic voice of the spaceship's computer.
The sunglasses that sense impending doom and darken the len's so
the wearer cannot see their dire fate approaching....