Encyclopedia - Alternative Comedy: Encyclopedia - Alternative Comedy
Alternative comedy is a style of comedy that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and 1980s which would eventually go on to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marvin The Paranoid Android: Encyclopedia Ii - Marvin The Paranoid Android - References In Popular Culture
"Paranoid Android" is the name of a song by British rock band Radiohead, possibly named after Marvin, but without any other apparent expl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kytv: Encyclopedia Ii - Kytv - History
The show was effectively the TV version of Radio Active, which spoofed local radio stations, and was developed by the same team. It was w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Harry Enfield's Television Programme: Encyclopedia Ii - Harry Enfield's Television Programme - Harry Enfield And Chums
After the original series there were a couple of radio appearances and a one-off special for the characters Smashey and Nicey. During the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hunting Of The Snark: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hunting Of The Snark - Interpretations
Various theories have tried to elucidate the text or parts thereof. The Hunting of the Snark - Lewis Carroll is the Baker. This is by f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Tertiary To Quintessential Phases: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Tertiary To Quintessential Phases - The Tertiary Phase
The third 6-part radio series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Tertiary Phase, based on Life, the Universe and Everything, ran on B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spitting Image: Encyclopedia Ii - Spitting Image - Introduction
The name comes from British slang, an apparent misunderstanding of the established term "spit and image;" a person who closely resembles ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book: Encyclopedia Ii - The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book - Censorship
The book has never been reprinted following its initial print run, as a result of religious censorship. Douglas Adams complained that, as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Series: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Series - Early Development
Douglas Adams had contributed comedy sketches for BBC radio programmes produced by Simon Brett (including The Burkiss Way and Week Ending...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Tv Series: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Tv Series - Episode Summaries
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV series - Episode One. First Broadcast on BBC Two, 5 January 1981 Cast (in order of appearanc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Books
The books are described as "a trilogy in five parts", having been described as a trilogy on the release of the third book, and then a "tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternative Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternative Comedy - Definition
Alternative comedy relied not on punchline-based jokes, like traditional comedians. Instead a typical alternative comedian might rely on ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia Ii - Douglas Adams - Education And Early Works
Adams first attended Primrose Hill Primary School in Brentwood, Essex. He took the exams and interviewed for Brentwood School at age six,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia Ii - Douglas Adams - Early Life
Douglas Adams was born to Janet (Donovan) Adams (now Janet Thrift) and Christopher Douglas Adams in Cambridge, England. His parents had o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spitting Image: Encyclopedia Ii - Spitting Image - Sketches Of Note
Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet are in a restaurant. After Thatcher proclaims "steak, I'll have the steak", the waitress asked: "And wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spitting Image: Encyclopedia Ii - Spitting Image - Voices
The voices were provided by some of the best British impressionists, including: Chris Barrie (Arnold Rimmer in Red Dwarf) Roger Blake (p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Tertiary To Quintessential Phases: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Tertiary To Quintessential Phases - The Quandary Phase
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases - Fit the Nineteenth. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 3 May 2005 Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Tertiary To Quintessential Phases: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Tertiary To Quintessential Phases - The Fourth And Fifth Radio Series
A fourth and fifth series based on So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish and Mostly Harmless respectively follow. The names for these seri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia Ii - Douglas Adams - Doctor Who
Adams sent the script for the HHGG pilot radio programme to the Doctor Who production office in 1978, and was commissioned to write The P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia Ii - Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a concept for a science-fiction comedy radio series pitched by Adams and radio producer Simon Br...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Spitting Image: Encyclopedia Ii - Spitting Image - Performers
The puppets were operated by the best British performers, including: Chris Barrie Louise Gold Alistair Fullarton Nigel Plaskitt Anthony ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Cultural References
Main Article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy cultural references References to the series can be seen on websites, within TV and ra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Tv Series: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Tv Series - Development And Production
After the success of the first seven episodes of the radio series, all broadcast in 1978, negotiations for a TV pilot programme began at ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Series: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Series - After The Fifth Series
A script book for the final fourteen episodes was released in July 2005. The Online BBC Shop will be releasing a DVD Audio of the Tertiar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Series: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Series - Music Used In The Series
One of Adams' stated goals was to be experimental in the use of sound, thus the use of stereo sound (which he later said that before Hitc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternative Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternative Comedy - Transition To Mainstream
Spurred on by the actions of up coming television producers, such as Paul Jackson, Geoffrey Perkins and Jimmy Mulville (see also Hat Tric...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Series: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Series - New Adaptations Of Books Three Four And Five
Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases In November 2003, two years after Douglas' death and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Series: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Radio Series - The Primary And Secondary Phases
Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases The first radio series (first six episodes) were broadcas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Tv Series: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Tv Series - Other Trivia
Disclaimer on spelling: Unfortunately, the different editions of the Hitchhiker's Guide spell it differently -- thus "Hitch-Hiker's Guid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternative Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternative Comedy - Criticism
Many people are critical of alternative comedy and there is a strong generational divide between those who like and dislike it. Older peo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternative Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternative Comedy - Modern Alternative Comedy
It's debatable whether alternative comedy still exists. Comedians have always been averse to describing themselves as alternative, even d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Film
Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film). After years of setbacks and renewed efforts to start production and a quarter ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Radio Series Three To Five
Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases On 21 June 21 2004, the BBC announced in a press rel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia Ii - Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently
In between Adams's first trip to Madagascar with Mark Carwardine in 1985, and their series of travels that formed the basis for the radio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Tv Series
Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series) The popularity of the radio series gave rise to a six-episode television s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Radio Series Three To Five
Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases On June 21, 2004, the BBC announced in a press relea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Film
Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film). After years of setbacks and renewed efforts to start production and a quarter ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Original Radio Series
Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases The first radio series, of six episodes (called Fits, aft...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Origin Of The Guide
The first radio series comes from a proposal called 'The Ends of the Earth': six self-contained episodes, all ending with the Earth being...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia Ii - Douglas Adams - Adams's Death
Adams died of a heart attack at the age of 49, while working out at a private gym in Santa Barbara, California. (He had moved to Santa Ba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia Ii - Douglas Adams - Biographies
His official biography, Wish You Were Here, by Nick Webb, was published on 6 October 2003 (ISBN 0755311558). [22] Another recent biograph...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia Ii - Douglas Adams - Douglas Adams's Works
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on audio and video: The original 12 radio episodes (from 1978 and 1980) are available in CD sets fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Other Adaptations
Hitchhiker's has also appeared as a stage show, three LP albums with condensed (and slightly contradictory) versions of the first six rad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Hitch-hikeriana
Many merchandising and spin-off items were produced in the early 1980s, dubbed "Hitch-Hikeriana" and included a beach towel printed with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hunting Of The Snark: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hunting Of The Snark - Impact On Literature
The characters of Snark have appeared in other works. For example, the Bellman and The Hunting of the Snark are referenced in Jasper Ffor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia Ii - Douglas Adams - Music
Adams played guitar, left-handed, and had a collection of twenty-four of these instruments when he died in 2001 (having received his firs...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Original Radio Series
Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases The first radio series of six episodes (called "Fits" aft...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia Ii - Douglas Adams - Computer Games And Projects
Douglas Adams created an interactive fiction version of HHGG together with Steve Meretzky from Infocom in 1984. In 1986 he participated i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hunting Of The Snark: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hunting Of The Snark - Intended Audience
It is disputed whether Carroll had a young audience in mind when he wrote the book. The poem has no young protagonists. It is rather dark...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Cultural References
Main Article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy cultural references References to the series can be seen on websites, within TV and ra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - International Phenomenon
Main Article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as international phenomenon Many science fiction fans and radio listeners outside the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alternative Comedy: Encyclopedia Ii - Alternative Comedy - History
Alternative comedy was a product of its time. In the early 1980s Britain was a politically divisive country, although also had a nihilist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Douglas Adams: Encyclopedia Ii - Douglas Adams - Personal Beliefs
Douglas Adams - Religion. Adams was a self-declared "radical atheist", though he used the term for emphasis, so that he would not be as...   » Read the article