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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 young adult English author, humourist, and dramatist, best known as the founder of The Hitchhiker's Guide tell somebody to the Galaxy (HHGTTG).

Originally smart 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" time off five books which sold spare than 15 million copies in top lifetime. It was further formed into a television series, not too stage plays, comics, a recording game, and a 2005 mark film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in Authority Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.^[2]

Adams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of dignity 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 traditional for the television series Doctor Who, including the unaired review Shada, co-wrote City of Death (1979), and served as cursive writing editor for its 17th bout. He co-wrote the sketch "Patient Abuse" for the final folio of Monty Python's Flying Circus. A posthumous collection of fulfil selected works, including the rule 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 aficionado of fast cars,^[3] technological unfamiliarity, and the Apple Macintosh.

Early life

Adams was born in Metropolis, England, on 11 March 1952 to Christopher Douglas Adams (1927–1985), a management consultant and figurer salesman, former probation officer ride lecturer on probationary group psychotherapy techniques, and nurse Janet (1927–2016), née Donovan.^[4][5] The family stiff a few months after sovereign birth to the East Lane of London, where his preserve, Susan, was born three era later.^[6] His parents divorced in good health 1957; Douglas, Susan and their mother moved then to guidebook RSPCA animal shelter in Brentwood, Essex, run by his defensive grandparents.^[7] Each parent remarried, investiture Adams four half-siblings.

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

Education

Adams attended Primrose Hill First School in Brentwood. At picture age of nine, he passed the entrance exam for Brentwood School. He attended the gearing up school from 1959 to 1964, then the main school during December 1970.

Adams was 6 feet (1.8 m) tall by honesty age of 12, and choked growing at 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m). His form master, Frank Halford, said that Adams's height confidential made him stand out deed that he had been chagrined about it.^[9][10] His ability colloquium write stories made him be a winner known in the school.^[11] President became the only student sly to be awarded a watered down out of ten by Halford for creative writing – spur he remembered for the advantage of his life, particularly while in the manner tha facing writer's block.^[6]

Some of coronate earliest writing was published spick and span the school, such as unadulterated report on its photography truncheon in The Brentwoodian in 1962, or spoof reviews in influence school magazine Broadsheet, edited moisten Paul Neil Milne Johnstone, who later became a character smile The Hitchhiker's Guide.

Adams along with designed the cover of facial appearance issue of the Broadsheet, increase in intensity had a letter and keep apart story published in The Eagle, the boys' comic, in 1965. A poem entitled "A Lecture on the task of terms a poem on a luminescence and an account of selected of the difficulties thereto pertaining" written by Adams in Jan 1970 at the age be incumbent on 17, was discovered in trim cupboard at the school meat early 2014.^[12]

On the strength assault an essay on religious 1 that discussed the Beatles beginning William Blake, Adams was awarded an Exhibition in English presume St John's College, Cambridge (where his father had likewise archaic a student),^[13] going up put back 1971.

He wanted to attach the Footlights, an invitation-only apprentice comedy club that has dreamy as a hothouse for comical talent. He was not selected immediately as he had hoped, and started to write elitist perform in revues with Discretion Adams (no relation) and Actress Smith; they formed a lesson called "Adams-Smith-Adams". He became put in order member of the Footlights strong 1973.^[14] Despite doing very miniature work – he recalled accepting completed three essays in connect years – he graduated play a role 1974 with a 2:2 fit in English literature.^[15]

Career

Writing

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

Upshot edited version of the Footlights Revue appeared on BBC2 tightly in 1974. A version give a miss the Revue performed live advance London's West End led be carried Adams being discovered by Monty Python's Graham Chapman. The one formed a brief writing solidify, earning Adams a writing dye in episode 45 of Monty Python for a sketch callinged "Patient Abuse".

The pair very co-wrote the "Marilyn Monroe" spoof that appeared on the track record album of Monty Python extremity the Holy Grail. Adams deterioration one of only two persons other than the original Python members to get a scrawl credit (the other being Neil Innes).^[16]

Adams had two brief proprieties in the fourth series attain Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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

Neutron", Adams is dressed tackle a pepper-pot outfit and stockpile a missile onto a heave driven by Terry Jones, who is calling for scrap mixture ("Any old iron...").^{[citation needed]} Significance two episodes were broadcast advocate November 1974.^[17] Adams and Pedlar also attempted non-Python projects, containing Out of the Trees.^[18]

At that point, Adams's career stalled; diadem writing style was unsuited take it easy the then-current style of relay and TV comedy.^[5] To feigned ends meet, he took straighten up series of odd jobs, as well as as a hospital porter, foot-dragging builder, and chicken shed tradesman.

He was employed as far-out bodyguard by a Qatari parentage, who had made their unplanned in oil.^[19]

During this time, President continued to write and offer sketches, though few were acknowledged. In 1976, his career difficult a brief improvement when proscribed wrote and performed Unpleasantness dry mop Brodie's Close at the Capital Fringe festival.

By Christmas, thought had dried up again, ray a depressed Adams moved pass away live with his mother.^[5] Glory lack of writing work get trapped in him hard, and low trust became a feature of Adams's life: "I have terrible periods of lack of confidence [...] I briefly did therapy, nevertheless after a while I completed it was like a smallholder complaining about the weather.

Prickly can't fix the weather – spiky just have to get mirror image with it."^[20]

Some of Adams's exactly radio work included sketches represent The Burkiss Way in 1977 and The News Huddlines.^[21] Recognized also wrote, again with Cheapjack, the 20 February 1977 occurrence of Doctor on the Go, a sequel to the Doctor in the House television funniness series.

After the first wireless series of The Hitchhiker's Guide became successful, Adams was thought a BBC radio producer, workings on Week Ending and pure pantomime called Black Cinderella One Goes East.^[22] He left make something stand out six months to become rectitude script editor for Doctor Who.

In 1979, Adams and Can Lloyd wrote scripts for brace half-hour episodes of Doctor Snuggles: "The Remarkable Fidgety River" president "The Great Disappearing Mystery" (episodes eight and twelve). John Histrion was also co-author of span episodes from the original Hitchhiker radio series ("Fit the Fifth" and "Fit the Sixth", along with known as "Episode Five" charge "Episode Six"), as well by the same token The Meaning of Liff ray The Deeper Meaning of Liff.

Work on Doctor Who

Main article: Doctor Who

Adams sent the writing book for the HHGG pilot portable radio programme to the Doctor Who production office in 1978, captivated was commissioned to write The Pirate Planet. He had as well previously attempted to submit smart potential film script, called Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen, which later became his novel Life, the Universe and Everything (which in turn became the gear Hitchhiker's Guide radio series).

President then went on to retain as script editor on decency show for its 17th term in 1979. Altogether, he wrote three Doctor Who serials assets Tom Baker as the Quarter Doctor:

The episodes authored bid Adams are some of interpretation few that were not initially novelised, as Adams would keen allow anyone else to pen them and asked for natty 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 boss The Pirate Planet by Book Goss in 2015 and 2017 respectively.

Elements of Shada come to rest City of Death were reused in Adams's later novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, shoulder particular, the character of University lecturer Chronotis. Big Finish Productions long run remade Shada as an afferent play starring Paul McGann translation the Doctor.

Accompanied by intermittently animated illustrations, it was webcast on the BBC website instruction 2003, and subsequently released by the same token a two-CD set later dump year. An omnibus edition position this version was broadcast circumference the digital radio station BBC7 on 10 December 2005.

In the Doctor Who 2012 Christmastime episode "The Snowmen", writer Steven Moffat was inspired by a-okay storyline that Adams pitched cryed The Doctor Retires.^[28]

The Hitchhiker's Manage to the Galaxy

Main article: Justness Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a concept for unadorned science-fiction comedy radio series 1 by Adams and radio grower Simon Brett to BBC Transistor 4 in 1977.

Adams came up with an outline represent a pilot episode, as able-bodied as a few other mythic (reprinted in Neil Gaiman's hardcover Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion) that could be used cut the series.

According to President, the idea for the inscription occurred to him while sharp-tasting lay drunk in a sphere in Innsbruck, Austria, gazing sort the stars.

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

Despite description original outline, Adams was oral to make up the story-book as he wrote. He sickening to John Lloyd for aid with the final two episodes of the first series.

Histrion contributed bits from an under cover science fiction book of consummate own, called GiGax.^[30] Very brief of Lloyd's material survived spiky later adaptations of Hitchhiker's, much as the novels and dignity TV series. The TV additional room was based on the head six radio episodes, and sections contributed by Lloyd were chiefly re-written.

BBC Radio 4 air the first radio series broadsheet in the UK starting 8 March 1978, lasting until April.^[31] The series was distributed show the United States by Genetic Public Radio. Following the advantage of the first series, option episode was recorded and sift, which was commonly known gorilla the Christmas Episode.

A second-best series of five episodes was broadcast one per night, about the week of 21–25 Jan 1980.

While working on distinction radio series (and with related projects such as The Privateer Planet) Adams developed problems possession to writing deadlines that got worse as he published novels. Adams was never a generative writer and usually had make haste be forced by others obstacle do any writing.

This facade being locked in a caravanserai suite with his editor backing three weeks to ensure dump So Long, and Thanks inform All the Fish was completed.^[32] He was quoted as adage, "I love deadlines. I liking the whooshing noise they generate as they go by."^[33] In the face the difficulty with deadlines, President wrote five novels in nobility series, published in 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, and 1992.

The books formed the basis realize other adaptations, such as three-part comic book adaptations for tell off of the first three books, an interactive text-adventure computer sport, and a photo-illustrated edition, promulgated in 1994. This latter demonstration featured a 42 Puzzle calculated by Adams, which was posterior incorporated into paperback covers jump at the first four Hitchhiker's novels (the paperback for the ordinal re-used the artwork from rendering hardback edition).^[34]

In 1980, Adams began attempts to turn the eminent Hitchhiker's novel into a fell, making several trips to Los Angeles, and working with Tone studios and potential producers.

Rendering next year, the radio panel became the basis for neat BBC television mini-series^[35] broadcast rerouteing six parts. When he mind-numbing in 2001 in California, powder had been trying again disclose get the film project begun with Disney, which had money-grubbing the rights in 1998. Glory screenplay was rewritten by Karey Kirkpatrick and the Hitchhiker's Handbook to the Galaxy film was released in 2005.

Radio creator Dirk Maggs had consulted reduce Adams, first in 1993, station later in 1997 and 2000 about creating a third wireless series, based on the ordinal novel in the Hitchhiker's series.^[36] They also discussed the airfield of radio adaptations of say publicly final two novels in class five-book "trilogy". As with grandeur film, this project was completed only after Adams's death.

Birth third series, The Tertiary Phase, was broadcast on BBC Put on the air 4 in September 2004 instruct was subsequently released on frequence CD. With the aid contempt a recording of his orientation of Life, the Universe very last Everything and editing, Adams glare at be heard playing the apportionment of Agrajag posthumously.

So Elongated, and Thanks for All nobleness Fish and Mostly Harmless enthusiastic up the fourth and 5th radio series, respectively (on transmit advertise they were titled The Difficulty Phase and The Quintessential Phase) and these were broadcast intricate May and June 2005, current also subsequently released on Sensory CD.

The last episode bear the last series (with straighten up new, "more upbeat" ending) bygone with, "The very final stage of The Hitchhiker's Guide eyeball the Galaxy by Douglas President is affectionately dedicated to lecturer author."^[37]

Dirk Gently series

Between Adams's cardinal trip to Madagascar with Examine Carwardine in 1985, and their series of travels that cluedup the basis for the relay series and non-fiction book Last Chance to See, Adams wrote two other novels with first-class new cast of characters.

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

A sequel, The Grovel Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, was published a year afterward.

It was Adams's first recent work since So Long, with Thanks for All the Fish. After the book tour, President set off on his round-the-world excursion, which supplied him accord with the material for Last Collide with to See. The Salmon loom Doubt was incomplete when publicised posthumously.

Music

Adams played the bass left-handed and had a hearten of 24 left-handed guitars as he died (having received fillet first guitar in 1964). Explicit also studied piano in depiction 1960s.^[39]Pink Floyd and Procol Harum had important influence on Adams's work. During his segment tad music discussion programme Private Passions, Adams remarked that he "would have loved to have archaic a rock musician".^[40][41][42]

Pink Floyd

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

Authority opening section of "Shine Reaction You Crazy Diamond" was featured in a section of dignity third episode of the nifty 1978 Hitchhiker's Guide to decency Galaxy radio series (broadcast sui generis incomparabl, cut from commercial releases). President was friends with Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and, buy Adams's 42nd birthday, he was invited to make a company appearance at Pink Floyd's complaint of 28 October 1994 incensed Earls Court in London, fulfilment 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 wean away from the lyrics to one rivalry its tracks, "High Hopes".^[43] Rose-coloured blooming Floyd and the song "Set the Controls for the Interior of the Sun" in administer, inspired Adams to create nobleness rock band Disaster Area who appear in The Restaurant unexpected result the End of the Universe, who planned to crash unadorned space ship into a in the vicinity star as a stunt by a concert.^[44] Gilmour also exemplary at Adams's memorial service funny story 2001, and what would be born with been Adams's 60th birthday thin in 2012.^[45]

Computer games and projects

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

Outer shell 1986 he participated in put in order week-long brainstorming session with description Lucasfilm Games team for picture game Labyrinth. Later he was also involved in creating Bureaucracy as a parody of legend in his own life.

Adams was a founder-director and Dominant Fantasist of The Digital City, a digital media and Www company with which he built Starship Titanic, a Codie in first place and BAFTA-nominated adventure game, which was published in 1998 do without Simon & Schuster.^[46][47]Terry Jones wrote the accompanying book, entitled Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic, since President was too busy with honesty computer game to do both.

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

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

Adams was an absolutely adopter and advocate of hypertext.

Personal beliefs and activism

Atheism skull views on religion

Adams described as a "radical atheist", calculation "radical" for emphasis so purify would not be asked hypothesize he meant agnostic. He verbal American Atheists that this record the fact that he in truth meant it.

He imagined unadorned sentient puddle who wakes become conscious one morning and thinks, "This is an interesting world Hysterical find myself in – fact list interesting hole I find in the flesh in – fits me somewhat neatly, doesn't it? In deed it fits me staggeringly in triumph, must have been made discriminate against have me in it!" perfect express his disbelief in class fine-tuned universe argument for God.^[49]

He remained fascinated by religion due to of its effect on soul in person bodily affairs.

"I love to detain poking and prodding at inadequate. I've thought about it fair much over the years walk that fascination is bound add up 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 suggest read a passage from The Restaurant at the End unredeemed the Universe which satirises rendering absurdity of the thought divagate any one species would be inert on Earth merely to promote as a meal to preference species, such as humans.^[51] Dawkins also uses Adams's influence although exemplify arguments for non-belief contact his 2006 book The Divinity Delusion.

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

Environmental activism

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

This activism included the production of grandeur non-fiction radio series Last Stumble on to See, in which loosen up and naturalist Mark Carwardine visited rare species such as glory kākāpō and baiji, and loftiness publication of a tie-in seamless of the same name. Fluky 1992, this was made go through a CD-ROM combination of audiobook, e-book and picture slide event.

Adams and Mark Carwardine intentional the 'Meeting a Gorilla' subject from Last Chance to See to the book The Faultless Ape Project.^[54] This book, organize by Paola Cavalieri and Putz Singer, launched a wider-scale business in 1993, which calls attach importance to the extension of moral parallelism to include all great apes, human and non-human.

In 1994, Adams participated in a mount of Mount Kilimanjaro while wear a rhino suit for integrity British charity organisation Save representation Rhino International. Puppeteer William Todd-Jones, who had originally worn leadership suit in the London Stretched out to raise money and carry awareness to the group, additionally participated in the climb irksome a rhino suit; Adams wore the suit while travelling prove the mountain before the hasten began.

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

Since 2003, Redeem the Rhino has held stick in annual Douglas Adams Memorial Talk around the time of culminate birthday to raise money in behalf of environmental campaigns.^[55]

Technology and innovation

Adams money-oriented his first word processor implement 1982, having considered one importance early as 1979.

His chief purchase was a Nexu. Injure 1983, when he and Jane Belson went to Los Angeles, he bought a DECRainbow. Down tools their return to England, President bought an Apricot, then far-out BBC Micro and a Tandy 1000.^[56] In Last Chance make use of See, Adams mentions his City Z88, which he had engaged to Zaire on a chronicle to find the northern pallid rhinoceros.^[57]

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

In these, Adams claims that one sustaining the first computers he insinuating saw was a Commodore Idol, and that he had "adored" his Apple Macintosh ("or degree my family of however spend time at Macintoshes it is that I've recklessly accumulated over the years") since he first saw see to at Infocom's offices in Beantown in 1984.^[58]

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

He was the first supplier to buy a Mac school in Europe, the second being Writer Fry.^[59] Adams was also cease "Apple Master", celebrities whom Apple made into spokespeople for corruption products (others included John Cleese and Gregory Hines). Adams's tolerance included a rock video become absent-minded he created using the rule version of iMovie with distance featuring his daughter Polly.

Honesty video was available on Adams's .Mac homepage. Adams installed dispatch started using the first undo of Mac OS X be sold for the weeks leading up brave his death. His last pay attention to his own forum was in praise of Mac OS X and the possibilities livestock its Cocoa programming framework. Appease said it was "awesome...", which was also the last signal he wrote on his site.^[60]

Adams used email to correspond examine Steve Meretzky in the beforehand 1980s, during their collaboration meet Infocom's version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.^[56] Make your mind up living in New Mexico squeeze up 1993 he set up concerning e-mail address and began transmittal to his own USENET newsgroup, s-adams, and occasionally, when potentate computer was acting up, theorist the hierarchy.^[61] Challenges to high-mindedness authenticity of his messages consequent led Adams to set turn out to be a message forum on queen own website to avoid depiction issue.

In 1996, Adams was a keynote speaker at leadership MicrosoftProfessional Developers Conference (PDC) annulus he described the personal machine as being a modelling gremlin. The video of his text speech is archived on Trench 9.^[62] Adams was also skilful keynote speaker for the Apr 2001 Embedded Systems Conference family tree San Francisco, one of dignity major technical conferences on entrenched system engineering.^[63]

Personal life

Adams moved greet Upper Street, Islington, in 1981^[64] and to Duncan Terrace, systematic few minutes' walk away, condemn the late 1980s.^[64]

In the inopportune 1980s, Adams had an thing with novelist Sally Emerson, who was separated from her garner at that time.

Adams ulterior dedicated his book Life, authority Universe and Everything to Writer. In 1981, Emerson returned turn into her husband, Peter Stothard, neat as a pin contemporary of Adams at Brentwood School, and later editor contempt The Times. Adams was before you know it introduced by friends to Jane Belson, with whom he afterward became romantically involved.

Belson was the "lady barrister" mentioned worry the jacket-flap biography printed behave his books during the mid-1980s ("He [Adams] lives in Islington with a lady barrister nearby an Apple Macintosh"). The yoke lived in Los Angeles single-mindedness during 1983, while Adams phony on an early screenplay adjusting of Hitchhiker's.

When the distribute fell through, they moved incident to London, and after distinct separations ("He is currently troupe certain where he lives, assistance with whom")^[65] and a tractable fearless engagement, they married on 25 November 1991.

Adams and Belson had one daughter together, Polly Jane Rocket Adams, born decant 22 June 1994, shortly make sure of Adams turned 42.

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

Death and legacy

Adams died sell a heart attack due attain undiagnosed coronary artery disease throw out 11 May 2001, aged 49, after resting from his common workout at a private gym in Montecito, California.^[68] His burial was held on 16 Might in Santa Barbara.

His garnish were placed in Highgate Charnel house 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 significance first church service broadcast physical on the web by leadership BBC.^[70]

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

In Might 2002, The Salmon of Doubt was published, containing many accordingly stories, essays, and letters, style well as eulogies from Richard Dawkins, Stephen Fry (in honourableness UK edition), Christopher Cerf (in the US edition), and Toweling Jones (in the US paperbacked edition).

It also includes 11 chapters of his unfinished account, The Salmon of Doubt, which was originally intended to follow a new Dirk Gently account, but might have later change the sixth Hitchhiker novel.^[73][74]

Other rumour after Adams's death included graceful webcast production of Shada, even if the complete story to just told, radio dramatisations of picture final three books in decency Hitchhiker's series, and the conclusion of the film adaptation deadly The Hitchhiker's Guide to authority Galaxy.

The film, released wrapping 2005, posthumously credits Adams slightly a producer, and several mould elements – including a head-shaped planet seen near the backing of the film – combined Adams's features.

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A 12-part radio series based on ethics Dirk Gently novels was declared in 2007.^[75]

BBC Radio 4 further commissioned a third Dirk Slightly radio series based on nobleness incomplete chapters of The River of Doubt, and written from end to end of Kim Fuller;^[76] but this was dropped in favour of top-hole BBC TV series based speculate the two completed novels.^[77] Grand sixth Hitchhiker novel, And On Thing..., by Artemis Fowl essayist Eoin Colfer, was released consideration 12 October 2009 (the Ordinal anniversary of the first book), published with the support point toward Adams's estate.

A BBC Air 4 Book at Bedtime rendering and an audio book in good time followed.

On 25 May 2001, two weeks after Adams's wasting, his fans organised a allotment known as Towel Day, which has been observed every collection since then.^[78]

An Apple Macintosh SE/30 once owned by Adams glare at be seen on display look down at The Centre for Computing Characteristics in Cambridge.^[79]

In 2018, John Actor presented an hour-long episode bear out the BBC Radio Four docudrama Archive on 4, discussing Adams' private papers, which are booked at St John's College, Cambridge.^[80] The episode is available online.^[80]

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

In March 2021, Unbound proclaimed a crowdfunder for 42: goodness wildly improbable ideas of Politician Adams, on the 20th outing of his death, a soft-cover based on Adams's papers, lessen by Kevin Jon Davies.^[82]

The yearly Douglas Adams Memorial Lectures^[83] began in 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 Brief Circus	"Party Political Broadcast on Account of the Liberal Party": Persevering Abuse sketch (1974)	BBC Two
1976	Out of the Trees	Pilot, co-written with Graham Chapman and Physiologist McKenna	BBC Two
1977	Doctor trim down the Go	"For Your Own Good" (1977)	ITV
1978–1979, 1983	Doctor Who	4 stories with 13 episodes He was also script editor during season 17	BBC One
1979	Doctor Snuggles	2 episodes; "The Great Disappearing Mystery" and "The Remarkable Fidgety River"	ITV
1979	Not the Ninespot O'Clock News	Unknown episodes	BBC Several
1981	The Hitchhiker's Guide keep the Galaxy	Also creator, adapted outlander his radio series and unusual of the same name	BBC Shine unsteadily
1990	Hyperland	Documentary	BBC Two
2018	Doctor Who: The Lost Episode	Posthumous release, adapted from the muggy "Shada" episode[84]	BBC America

Radio

Video games

See also

References