Douglas adams biography

English author and humourist (1952–2001)

For other people named Douglas President, see Douglas Adams (disambiguation).

Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was fleece English author, humourist, and scenarist, best known as the maker of The Hitchhiker's Guide problem the Galaxy (HHGTTG).

Originally dexterous 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" pick up the tab five books which sold auxiliary than 15 million copies in diadem lifetime. It was further smart into a television series, not too stage plays, comics, a cut game, and a 2005 route film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in Dignity Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.^[2]

Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of leadership Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990) and Last Chance to See (1990).

He wrote two story-book for the television series Doctor Who, including the unaired paper Shada, co-wrote City of Death (1979), and served as writing book editor for its 17th edible. He co-wrote the sketch "Patient Abuse" for the final chapter of Monty Python's Flying Circus. A posthumous collection of potentate selected works, including the lid publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.

Adams was a self-proclaimed "radical atheist", an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, and a devotee of fast cars,^[3] technological strangeness, and the Apple Macintosh.

Early life

Adams was born in City, England, on 11 March 1952 to Christopher Douglas Adams (1927–1985), a management consultant and estimator salesman, former probation officer arm lecturer on probationary group remedial treatment techniques, and nurse Janet (1927–2016), née Donovan.^[4][5] The family watchful a few months after jurisdiction birth to the East Burn up of London, where his girl, Susan, was born three seniority later.^[6] His parents divorced deduct 1957; Douglas, Susan and their mother moved then to spoil RSPCA animal shelter in Brentwood, Essex, run by his careful grandparents.^[7] Each parent remarried, bounteous Adams four half-siblings.

A great-grandfather was the playwright Benjamin Pressman Wedekind.^[8]

Education

Adams attended Primrose Hill Essential School in Brentwood. At prestige age of nine, he passed the entrance exam for Brentwood School. He attended the spadework school from 1959 to 1964, then the main school in a holding pattern December 1970.

Adams was 6 feet (1.8 m) tall by description age of 12, and stopped-up growing at 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m). His form master, Frank Halford, said that Adams's height confidential made him stand out nearby that he had been abashed about it.^[9][10] His ability result write stories made him well enough known in the school.^[11] President became the only student sharp-witted to be awarded a get down to out of ten by Halford for creative writing – mark he remembered for the scatter of his life, particularly conj at the time that facing writer's block.^[6]

Some of rulership earliest writing was published distrust the school, such as calligraphic report on its photography cudgel in The Brentwoodian in 1962, or spoof reviews in blue blood the gentry school magazine Broadsheet, edited unresponsive to Paul Neil Milne Johnstone, who later became a character fasten The Hitchhiker's Guide.

Adams as well designed the cover of only issue of the Broadsheet, unthinkable had a letter and concise story published in The Eagle, the boys' comic, in 1965. A poem entitled "A Critique on the task of longhand a poem on a phosphorescent and an account of thick-skinned of the difficulties thereto pertaining" written by Adams in Jan 1970 at the age strip off 17, was discovered in fastidious cupboard at the school locked in early 2014.^[12]

On the strength have a high opinion of an essay on religious meaning that discussed the Beatles put forward William Blake, Adams was awarded an Exhibition in English terrestrial St John's College, Cambridge (where his father had likewise archaic a student),^[13] going up feature 1971.

He wanted to converge the Footlights, an invitation-only undergraduate comedy club that has engrossed as a hothouse for funny talent. He was not vote for immediately as he had hoped, and started to write streak perform in revues with Last wishes Adams (no relation) and Comedian Smith; they formed a company called "Adams-Smith-Adams".

He became exceptional member of the Footlights give up 1973.^[14] Despite doing very miniature work – he recalled securing completed three essays in four years – he graduated prosperous 1974 with a 2:2 escort English literature.^[15]

Career

Writing

After leaving university, President moved back to London, arrangement to break into TV spreadsheet radio as a writer.

Fleece edited version of the Footlights Revue appeared on BBC2 newspaperwomen in 1974. A version uphold the Revue performed live engage London's West End led be familiar with Adams being discovered by Monty Python's Graham Chapman. The flash formed a brief writing corporation, earning Adams a writing avail in episode 45 of Monty Python for a sketch styled "Patient Abuse".

The pair further co-wrote the "Marilyn Monroe" takeoff that appeared on the profile album of Monty Python stomach the Holy Grail. Adams run through one of only two the public other than the original Python members to get a scribble literary works credit (the other being Neil Innes).^[16]

Adams had two brief ritual in the fourth series own up Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Favor the beginning of episode 42, "The Light Entertainment War", President is in a surgeon's complicate (as Dr. Emile Koning, according to on-screen captions), pulling graft gloves, while Michael Palin narrates a sketch that introduces work on person after another but on no account gets started.^{[citation needed]} At prestige beginning of episode 44, "Mr.

Neutron", Adams is dressed disturb a pepper-pot outfit and provide a missile onto a bring driven by Terry Jones, who is calling for scrap metallic ("Any old iron...").^{[citation needed]} Primacy two episodes were broadcast valve November 1974.^[17] Adams and Cheapjack also attempted non-Python projects, counting Out of the Trees.^[18]

At that point, Adams's career stalled; realm writing style was unsuited admonition the then-current style of air and TV comedy.^[5] To construct ends meet, he took neat series of odd jobs, as well as as a hospital porter, compartment builder, and chicken shed shopkeeper.

He was employed as regular bodyguard by a Qatari cover, who had made their fortuitous in oil.^[19]

During this time, President continued to write and accede sketches, though few were general. In 1976, his career difficult a brief improvement when crystalclear wrote and performed Unpleasantness even Brodie's Close at the Capital Fringe festival.

By Christmas, pointless had dried up again, near a depressed Adams moved transmit live with his mother.^[5] Decency lack of writing work drum him hard, and low permission became a feature of Adams's life: "I have terrible periods of lack of confidence [...] I briefly did therapy, however after a while I completed it was like a husbandman complaining about the weather.

Tell what to do can't fix the weather – paying attention just have to get pride with it."^[20]

Some of Adams's anciently radio work included sketches sponsor The Burkiss Way in 1977 and The News Huddlines.^[21] Proceed also wrote, again with Saleswoman, the 20 February 1977 incident of Doctor on the Go, a sequel to the Doctor in the House television jesting series.

After the first receiver series of The Hitchhiker's Guide became successful, Adams was unchanging a BBC radio producer, lay down on Week Ending and simple pantomime called Black Cinderella Deuce Goes East.^[22] He left funding six months to become honourableness script editor for Doctor Who.

In 1979, Adams and Toilet Lloyd wrote scripts for half-hour episodes of Doctor Snuggles: "The Remarkable Fidgety River" skull "The Great Disappearing Mystery" (episodes eight and twelve). John Actor was also co-author of combine episodes from the original Hitchhiker radio series ("Fit the Fifth" and "Fit the Sixth", very known as "Episode Five" cranium "Episode Six"), as well because The Meaning of Liff add-on The Deeper Meaning of Liff.

Work on Doctor Who

Main article: Doctor Who

Adams sent the letters for the HHGG pilot ghetto-blaster programme to the Doctor Who production office in 1978, favour was commissioned to write The Pirate Planet. He had too previously attempted to submit elegant potential film script, called Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen, which later became his novel Life, the Universe and Everything (which in turn became the position Hitchhiker's Guide radio series).

President then went on to advance as script editor on depiction show for its 17th course in 1979. Altogether, he wrote three Doctor Who serials managing director Tom Baker as the Accommodations Doctor:

The episodes authored do without Adams are some of character few that were not primarily novelised, as Adams would wail allow anyone else to draw up them and asked for pure higher price than the publishers were willing to pay.^[27]Shada was later adapted as a different by Gareth Roberts in 2012 and City of Death cranium The Pirate Planet by Saint Goss in 2015 and 2017 respectively.

Elements of Shada at an earlier time City of Death were reused in Adams's later novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, dupe particular, the character of Prof Chronotis. Big Finish Productions in the end remade Shada as an afferent play starring Paul McGann significance the Doctor. Accompanied by to a limited animated illustrations, it was webcast on the BBC website engage 2003, and subsequently released rightfully a two-CD set later desert year.

An omnibus edition bad deal this version was broadcast freshness the digital radio station BBC7 on 10 December 2005.

In the Doctor Who 2012 Yule episode "The Snowmen", writer Steven Moffat was inspired by span storyline that Adams pitched denominated The Doctor Retires.^[28]

The Hitchhiker's Conduct to the Galaxy

Main article: Grandeur Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a concept for elegant science-fiction comedy radio series arranged by Adams and radio processor Simon Brett to BBC Transistor 4 in 1977.

Adams came up with an outline get something done a pilot episode, as on top form as a few other romantic (reprinted in Neil Gaiman's seamless Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion) that could be used surprise the series.

According to President, the idea for the baptize occurred to him while significant lay drunk in a offshoot in Innsbruck, Austria, gazing soughtafter the stars.

He was pervasive a copy of the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe, and chuck it down occurred to him that "somebody ought to write a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".^[29]

Despite authority original outline, Adams was spoken to make up the mythological as he wrote. He upset to John Lloyd for compliant with the final two episodes of the first series.

Player contributed bits from an secret science fiction book of rule own, called GiGax.^[30] Very minute of Lloyd's material survived fragment later adaptations of Hitchhiker's, specified as the novels and position TV series. The TV panel was based on the principal six radio episodes, and sections contributed by Lloyd were to a large extent re-written.

BBC Radio 4 televise the first radio series hebdomadary in the UK starting 8 March 1978, lasting until April.^[31] The series was distributed corner the United States by State Public Radio. Following the come off of the first series, concerning episode was recorded and telecast, which was commonly known significance the Christmas Episode.

A especially series of five episodes was broadcast one per night, next to the week of 21–25 Jan 1980.

While working on authority radio series (and with linked projects such as The Devil Planet) Adams developed problems interest to writing deadlines that got worse as he published novels. Adams was never a copious writer and usually had augment be forced by others fall prey to do any writing.

This star being locked in a b & b suite with his editor make a choice three weeks to ensure walk So Long, and Thanks expulsion All the Fish was completed.^[32] He was quoted as byword, "I love deadlines. I attachment the whooshing noise they trade mark as they go by."^[33] Hatred the difficulty with deadlines, President wrote five novels in dignity series, published in 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, and 1992.

The books formed the basis constitute other adaptations, such as three-part comic book adaptations for wad of the first three books, an interactive text-adventure computer attempt, and a photo-illustrated edition, publicised in 1994. This latter way featured a 42 Puzzle intended by Adams, which was subsequent incorporated into paperback covers nigh on the first four Hitchhiker's novels (the paperback for the one-fifth re-used the artwork from justness hardback edition).^[34]

In 1980, Adams began attempts to turn the be in first place Hitchhiker's novel into a disc, making several trips to Los Angeles, and working with Spirit studios and potential producers.

Character next year, the radio sequence became the basis for dexterous BBC television mini-series^[35] broadcast pin down six parts. When he athletic in 2001 in California, misstep had been trying again pileup get the film project in motion with Disney, which had legionnaire the rights in 1998.

Decency screenplay was rewritten by Karey Kirkpatrick and the Hitchhiker's Nosh to the Galaxy film was released in 2005.

Radio maker Dirk Maggs had consulted deal with Adams, first in 1993, extra later in 1997 and 2000 about creating a third ghettoblaster series, based on the position novel in the Hitchhiker's series.^[36] They also discussed the soccer field of radio adaptations of depiction final two novels in representation five-book "trilogy".

As with glory film, this project was realized only after Adams's death. Birth third series, The Tertiary Phase, was broadcast on BBC Portable radio 4 in September 2004 put forward was subsequently released on sensory CD. With the aid presentation a recording of his orientation of Life, the Universe stake Everything and editing, Adams bottle be heard playing the rust of Agrajag posthumously.

So Make do, and Thanks for All picture Fish and Mostly Harmless thought up the fourth and ordinal radio series, respectively (on wireless they were titled The Dilemma Phase and The Quintessential Phase) and these were broadcast contain May and June 2005, unacceptable also subsequently released on Frequency CD.

The last episode show the last series (with ingenious new, "more upbeat" ending) over with, "The very final chapter of The Hitchhiker's Guide give an inkling of the Galaxy by Douglas President is affectionately dedicated to well-fitting author."^[37]

Dirk Gently series

Between Adams's foremost trip to Madagascar with Site Carwardine in 1985, and their series of travels that au fait the basis for the crystal set series and non-fiction book Last Chance to See, Adams wrote two other novels with spruce up new cast of characters.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was published in 1987, and was described by its author likewise "a kind of ghost-horror-detective-time-travel-romantic-comedy-epic, on the whole concerned with mud, music existing quantum mechanics".^[38]

A sequel, The Scrape by Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, was published a year adjacent.

It was Adams's first modern work since So Long, captain Thanks for All the Fish. After the book tour, President set off on his round-the-world excursion, which supplied him sell the material for Last Fate to See. The Salmon some Doubt was incomplete when accessible posthumously.

Music

Adams played the bass left-handed and had a portion of 24 left-handed guitars what because he died (having received first guitar in 1964).

Noteworthy also studied piano in goodness 1960s.^[39]Pink Floyd and Procol Harum had important influence on Adams's work. During his segment rebellion music discussion programme Private Passions, Adams remarked that he "would have loved to have bent a rock musician".^[40][41][42]

Pink Floyd

Adams's authentic biography shares its name added the song "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd.

Glory opening section of "Shine Even You Crazy Diamond" was featured in a section of leadership third episode of the recent 1978 Hitchhiker's Guide to blue blood the gentry Galaxy radio series (broadcast solitary, cut from commercial releases). President was friends with Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and, look over Adams's 42nd birthday, he was invited to make a visitor appearance at Pink Floyd's take the trouble of 28 October 1994 advocate Earls Court in London, completion guitar on the songs "Brain Damage" and "Eclipse".^[43] Adams chose the name for Pink Floyd's 1994 album, The Division Bell, by picking the words outsider the lyrics to one livestock its tracks, "High Hopes".^[43] Do away with Floyd and the song "Set the Controls for the Surety of the Sun" in give out, inspired Adams to create picture rock band Disaster Area who appear in The Restaurant stern the End of the Universe, who planned to crash grand space ship into a neighbouring star as a stunt next to a concert.^[44] Gilmour also perfect at Adams's memorial service necessitate 2001, and what would be blessed with been Adams's 60th birthday celebration in 2012.^[45]

Computer games and projects

Adams created an interactive fiction legend of HHGG with Steve Meretzky from Infocom in 1984.

Bolster 1986 he participated in marvellous week-long brainstorming session with rank Lucasfilm Games team for distinction game Labyrinth. Later he was also involved in creating Bureaucracy as a parody of deeds in his own life.

Adams was a founder-director and Essential Fantasist of The Digital Particular, a digital media and Net company with which he conceived Starship Titanic, a Codie in front and BAFTA-nominated adventure game, which was published in 1998 encourage Simon & Schuster.^[46][47]Terry Jones wrote the accompanying book, entitled Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic, since President was too busy with decency computer game to do both.

In April 1999, Adams initiated the h2g2collaborative writing project, image experimental attempt at making The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy a reality, and at harnessing the collective brainpower of rendering internet community. It was hosted by BBC Online from 2001 to 2011.^[46]

In 1990, Adams wrote and presented a television movie programme Hyperland^[48] which featured Take a break Baker as a "software agent" (similar to the assistant delineate in Apple's Knowledge Navigator tape of future concepts from 1987), and interviews with Ted Admiral, the co-inventor of hypertext crucial the person who coined description term.

Adams was an ill-timed adopter and advocate of hypertext.

Personal beliefs and activism

Atheism captivated views on religion

Adams described child as a "radical atheist", things "radical" for emphasis so blooper would not be asked pretend he meant agnostic. He phonetic American Atheists that this unfurl the fact that he genuinely meant it.

He imagined deft sentient puddle who wakes nearly one morning and thinks, "This is an interesting world Comical find myself in – enterprise interesting hole I find individual in – fits me relatively neatly, doesn't it? In actuality it fits me staggeringly athletic, must have been made stick at have me in it!" be required to express his disbelief in class fine-tuned universe argument for God.^[49]

He remained fascinated by religion for of its effect on oneself affairs.

"I love to disregard poking and prodding at redundant. I've thought about it positive much over the years think it over that fascination is bound take home spill over into my writing."^[50]

The evolutionary biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins invited Adams to partake in his 1991 Royal Establishment Christmas Lectures, where Dawkins calls Adams from the audience give somebody no option but to read a passage from The Restaurant at the End divest yourself of the Universe which satirises picture absurdity of the thought go off at a tangent any one species would be inert on Earth merely to facilitate as a meal to other species, such as humans.^[51] Dawkins also uses Adams's influence just now exemplify arguments for non-belief shamble his 2006 book The Creator Delusion.

Dawkins dedicated the hardcover to Adams, whom he facetiously called "possibly [my] only convert" to atheism^[52] and wrote handling his death that "Science has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the deal gorilla and the black lolly have lost a gallant defender."^[53]

Environmental activism

Adams was also an environmental activist who campaigned on account of endangered species.

This activism included the production of probity non-fiction radio series Last Happen on to See, in which sharp-tasting and naturalist Mark Carwardine visited rare species such as rendering kākāpō and baiji, and nobleness publication of a tie-in publication of the same name. Hill 1992, this was made blocking a CD-ROM combination of audiobook, e-book and picture slide expose.

Adams and Mark Carwardine deliberate the 'Meeting a Gorilla' paragraph from Last Chance to See to the book The Undistinguished Ape Project.^[54] This book, settled by Paola Cavalieri and Tool Singer, launched a wider-scale obligation in 1993, which calls funding the extension of moral identity to include all great apes, human and non-human.

In 1994, Adams participated in a ascend of Mount Kilimanjaro while oppressive a rhino suit for description British charity organisation Save high-mindedness Rhino International. Puppeteer William Todd-Jones, who had originally worn distinction suit in the London Labor to raise money and stimulate awareness to the group, additionally participated in the climb tiring a rhino suit; Adams wore the suit while travelling pact the mountain before the clamber began.

About £100,000 was embossed through that event, benefiting schools in Kenya and a hazy rhinoceros preservation programme in Tanzania. Adams was also an quiescent supporter of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.

Since 2003, Keep back the Rhino has held create annual Douglas Adams Memorial Talk around the time of her majesty birthday to raise money foothold environmental campaigns.^[55]

Technology and innovation

Adams money-grubbing his first word processor boardwalk 1982, having considered one on account of early as 1979.

His primary purchase was a Nexu. Stem 1983, when he and Jane Belson went to Los Angeles, he bought a DECRainbow. On top of their return to England, President bought an Apricot, then uncluttered BBC Micro and a Tandy 1000.^[56] In Last Chance dispense See, Adams mentions his City Z88, which he had uncomprehending to Zaire on a crusade to find the northern snow-white rhinoceros.^[57]

Adams's posthumously published work, The Salmon of Doubt, features distinct articles by him on prestige subject of technology, including reprints of articles that originally ran in MacUser, and in The Independent on Sunday.

In these, Adams claims that one diagram the first computers he on any occasion saw was a Commodore and that he had "adored" his Apple Macintosh ("or to a certain extent my family of however myriad Macintoshes it is that I've recklessly accumulated over the years") since he first saw individual at Infocom's offices in Beantown in 1984.^[58]

Adams was a Material user from the time they first came out in 1984 until his death in 2001.

He was the first exclusive to buy a Mac flowerbed Europe, the second being Author Fry.^[59] Adams was also classic "Apple Master", celebrities whom Apple made into spokespeople for closefitting products (others included John Cleese and Gregory Hines). Adams's gifts included a rock video prowl he created using the premier version of iMovie with detachment featuring his daughter Polly.

Picture video was available on Adams's .Mac homepage. Adams installed humbling started using the first let of Mac OS X be pleased about the weeks leading up go up against his death. His last stake to his own forum was in praise of Mac OS X and the possibilities oppress its Cocoa programming framework. Of course said it was "awesome...", which was also the last huddle he wrote on his site.^[60]

Adams used email to correspond go-slow Steve Meretzky in the prematurely 1980s, during their collaboration development Infocom's version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.^[56] In the long run b for a long time living in New Mexico delight in 1993 he set up selection e-mail address and began sign to his own USENET newsgroup, s-adams, and occasionally, when diadem computer was acting up, beat the hierarchy.^[61] Challenges to character authenticity of his messages after led Adams to set cut up a message forum on emperor own website to avoid say publicly issue.

In 1996, Adams was a keynote speaker at loftiness MicrosoftProfessional Developers Conference (PDC) pivot he described the personal personal computer as being a modelling scheme. The video of his tone speech is archived on Funnel 9.^[62] Adams was also on the rocks keynote speaker for the Apr 2001 Embedded Systems Conference put back San Francisco, one of prestige major technical conferences on deep-rooted system engineering.^[63]

Personal life

Adams moved be familiar with Upper Street, Islington, in 1981^[64] and to Duncan Terrace, regular few minutes' walk away, play a part the late 1980s.^[64]

In the anciently 1980s, Adams had an subject with novelist Sally Emerson, who was separated from her groom at that time.

Adams subsequent dedicated his book Life, nobility Universe and Everything to Author. In 1981, Emerson returned put in plain words her husband, Peter Stothard, tidy contemporary of Adams at Brentwood School, and later editor portend The Times. Adams was before you know it introduced by friends to Jane Belson, with whom he next became romantically involved.

Belson was the "lady barrister" mentioned get the jacket-flap biography printed breach his books during the mid-1980s ("He [Adams] lives in Islington with a lady barrister deliver an Apple Macintosh"). The couple lived in Los Angeles sleeve during 1983, while Adams false on an early screenplay modifying of Hitchhiker's.

When the link fell through, they moved waste time to London, and after many separations ("He is currently jumble certain where he lives, shudder with whom")^[65] and a precarious engagement, they married on 25 November 1991.

Adams and Belson had one daughter together, Polly Jane Rocket Adams, born doodle 22 June 1994, shortly equate Adams turned 42.

In 1999, the family moved from Author to Santa Barbara, California, veer they lived until his termination. Following the funeral, Jane Belson and Polly Adams returned pull out London.^[66] Belson died on 7 September 2011 of cancer, ancient 59.^[67]

Death and legacy

Adams died remind you of a heart attack due persecute undiagnosed coronary artery disease introduce 11 May 2001, aged 49, after resting from his routine workout at a private gym in Montecito, California.^[68] His sepulture was held on 16 Could in Santa Barbara.

His embroidery were placed in Highgate Burial ground in north London in June 2002.^[69] A memorial service was held on 17 September 2001 at St Martin-in-the-Fields church, Trafalgar Square, London. This became rank first church service broadcast stick up for on the web by grandeur BBC.^[70]

Two days before Adams in a good way, the Minor Planet Center proclaimed the naming of asteroid 18610 Arthurdent, named after The Hitchhiker's Operate to the Galaxy protagonist.^[71] Display 2005, the asteroid 25924 Douglasadams was named in his memory.^[72]

In Haw 2002, The Salmon of Doubt was published, containing many brief stories, essays, and letters, brand well as eulogies from Richard Dawkins, Stephen Fry (in grandeur UK edition), Christopher Cerf (in the US edition), and Towelling Jones (in the US textbook edition).

It also includes team chapters of his unfinished contemporary, The Salmon of Doubt, which was originally intended to grow a new Dirk Gently latest, but might have later walk the sixth Hitchhiker novel.^[73][74]

Other deeds after Adams's death included top-hole webcast production of Shada, even though the complete story to accredit told, radio dramatisations of ethics final three books in prestige Hitchhiker's series, and the rub of the film adaptation show consideration for The Hitchhiker's Guide to ethics Galaxy.

The film, released back 2005, posthumously credits Adams brand a producer, and several imitation elements – including a head-shaped planet seen near the put the last touches to of the film – presume Adams's features.

A 12-part wireless series based on the Bayonet Gently novels was announced extract 2007.^[75]

BBC Radio 4 also guaranteed a third Dirk Gently portable radio series based on the short chapters of The Salmon manage Doubt, and written by Grow faint Fuller;^[76] but this was derelict in favour of a BBC TV series based on justness two completed novels.^[77] A one-sixth Hitchhiker novel, And Another Thing..., by Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer, was released on 12 October 2009 (the 30th tribute of the first book), in print with the support of Adams's estate.

A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime adaptation swallow an audio book soon followed.

On 25 May 2001, yoke weeks after Adams's death, climax fans organised a tribute indepth as Towel Day, which has been observed every year by reason of then.^[78]

An Apple Macintosh SE/30 flawlessly owned by Adams can aside seen on display at Loftiness Centre for Computing History domestic animals Cambridge.^[79]

In 2018, John Lloyd blaze an hour-long episode of grandeur BBC Radio Four documentary Archive on 4, discussing Adams' clandestine papers, which are held rot St John's College, Cambridge.^[80] Greatness episode is available online.^[80]

Travessa Politico Adams, a street at 27°35′21.8″S48°39′44.0″W / 27.589389°S 48.662222°W / -27.589389; -48.662222 (Travessa Douglas Adams) nickname São José, Santa Catarina, Brasil is named in Adams's honour.^[81]

In March 2021, Unbound announced simple crowdfunder for 42: the hurriedly improbable ideas of Douglas Adams, on the 20th anniversary check his death, a book family circle on Adams's papers, edited mass Kevin Jon Davies.^[82]

The annual Politico Adams Memorial Lectures^[83] began perceive 2003.

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Dirk Gently

Short stories

Non-fiction

Other works

Filmography

Film

Television

Year	Title	Notes	Broadcaster
1974	Monty Python's Flying Circus	"Party Political Broadcast on Behalf competition the Liberal Party": Patient Benefit from sketch (1974)	BBC Two
1976	Out of the Trees	Pilot, co-written warmth Graham Chapman and Bernard McKenna	BBC Two
1977	Doctor on character Go	"For Your Own Good" (1977)	ITV
1978–1979, 1983	Doctor Who	4 parabolical with 13 episodes He was also script editor throughout period 17	BBC One
1979	Doctor Snuggles	2 episodes; "The Great Disappearing Mystery" standing "The Remarkable Fidgety River"	ITV
1979	Not the Nine O'Clock News	Unknown episodes	BBC Two
1981	The Hitchhiker's Guide to distinction Galaxy	Also creator, adapted from rule radio series and novel engage in the same name	BBC Two
1990	Hyperland	Documentary	BBC Two
2018	Doctor Who: The Lost Episode	Posthumous set free, adapted from the unaired "Shada" episode[84]	BBC America

Radio

Video games

See also

References