The puppets were operated by the best British performers, including: Chris Barrie Louise Gold Alistair Fullarton Nigel Plaskitt Anthony Asbury Steve Nallon Kaefan Shaw Simon Buckley Richard Coombs ...

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Main Article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy cultural references References to the series can be seen on websites, within TV and radio programmes, songs, and in console and computer games. Examples include borrowing Adams's characters' names, or references to the number 42, or other catchphrases, or even reusing "The Hitchhiker's Guide to ..." to title other books and articles (which Adams himself had borrowed from Ken Welsh). ...

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After the success of the first seven episodes of the radio series, all broadcast in 1978, negotiations for a TV pilot programme began at the same time the final five episodes of the second radio series were commissioned, in May 1979. A fully-animated version was briefly discussed in the autumn of 1978 (according to M. J. Simpson's book Hitchhiker), but it was eventually decided to make most of the series feature "live action" and only animate The Guide's entries. The script for the pilot was delivered in December 1979, and term ...

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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 Tertiary Phase, in 5.1 surround sound, in October 2006. This release was confirmed by Dirk Maggs in a web chat. A box set entitled The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Complete Radio Series was released on 3 October 2005. It contains fifteen CDs, subdivided per radio series, and bonus material exclusive to the box set. ...

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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 Hitchhiker's it was deemed impossible and after Hitchhiker's it was made compulsory in radio comedy). Being a fan of Pink Floyd and the Beatles (and especially the experimental albums both bands produced in the late 1960s and early 1970s) Adams also wanted to incorporate other bits of music from a variety of artists. This was only achieved during the first series. There were, naturally, some problems with copyr ...

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Spurred on by the actions of up coming television producers, such as Paul Jackson, Geoffrey Perkins and Jimmy Mulville (see also Hat Trick Productions), alternative comedy spilled onto TV in the 80s. It was supported by minority channel BBC 2 in the form of The Young Ones and other sitcoms. These were seen as cult programmes, although there was some mainstream success for shows like Not The Nine O'Clock News and French & Sau ...

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Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases In November 2003, two years after Douglas' death and 23 years after the production on the Secondary Phase had ceased, a new radio adaptation of Life, the Universe, and Everything was announced, to become the third series of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on radio. However, after all six episodes had been recorded by Above the Title Productions, a minor legal dispute erupted between the production company and Walt Disney Productions ...

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Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases The first radio series (first six episodes) were broadcast in March and April, 1978. A seventh episode was broadcast on 24 December 1978. This seventh episode was commonly known as the Christmas Episode. This had nothing to do with Christmas except in an early draft (which would have had Marvin the Paranoid Android revealed as the "star" followed by the Three Wise Men); it was called the Christmas Episode because it was first broadcast on Chris ...

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Disclaimer on spelling: Unfortunately, the different editions of the Hitchhiker's Guide spell it differently -- thus "Hitch-Hiker's Guide", "Hitch Hiker's Guide" and "Hitchhiker's Guide" are used in different editions (US or UK), versions (audio or text) and compilations of the book. Some editions even used different spellings on the spine and title page. For the sake of coherence, this article spells it Hitchhiker's Guide, which is reportedly the way author Adams himself preferred it See also:

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Many people are critical of alternative comedy and there is a strong generational divide between those who like and dislike it. Older people in particular find the swearing and no-holds-barred nature of alternative comedy to be offensive. In the early days of alternative comedy, a frequent criticism was that nobody found a person standing on a stage simply discussing events in his or her life particularly funny. There was a joke said at the time: "I'm an alternati ...

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It's debatable whether alternative comedy still exists. Comedians have always been averse to describing themselves as alternative, even during the era's hay day. Comedians like Mark Thomas, Mark Steel and Jeremy Hardy still perform stand-up with a hard political and intellectual edge but their isolation makes them conspicuous, and they're far from being household names. Few of the original alternative comedians appear on stage any longer, least of all performing stand-up comedy. Ben Elton, arguably the epitome of an alternative comedy for much of the 1980s, now considers him ...

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Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film). After years of setbacks and renewed efforts to start production and a quarter of a century after the first book was published, the big-screen adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was finally shot. Pre-production began in 2003, filming began on 19 April 2004 and post-production began in early September of 2004 [13]. After a London premiere on 20 April 2005, ...

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Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases On 21 June 21 2004, the BBC announced in a press release [11] that a new series of Hitchhiker's based on the third novel would be broadcast as part of its autumn schedule, produced by Above the Title Productions Ltd. The episodes were recorded in late 2003, but actual transmission was delayed while an agreement was reached with The Walt Disney Comp ...

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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 series and non-fiction book Last Chance to See, Adams wrote two other novels with a new cast of characters. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was first published in 1987, and was described by its author as "a kind of ghost-horror-detective-time-travel-romantic-comedy-epic, mainly concerned with mud, music and quantum mechanics." ^{See also:}

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Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series) The popularity of the radio series gave rise to a six-episode television series, directed and produced by Alan Bell, which first aired on BBC Two in January and February of 1981. It employed many of the actors from the radio series and was based mainly on the radio versions of Fits the First through Sixth. A second series was at one point planned, with a storyline, according to Alan Bell and Mark Wing-Davey, that would have come from Adams's abandoned Doctor Who ...

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Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary to Quintessential Phases On June 21, 2004, the BBC announced in a press release [11] that a new series of Hitchhiker's based on the third novel would be broadcast as part of its autumn schedule, produced by Above the Title Productions Ltd. The episodes were recorded in late 2003, but actual transmission was delayed while an agreement was reached with The Walt Disney Compan ...

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Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film). After years of setbacks and renewed efforts to start production and a quarter of a century after the first book was published, the big-screen adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was finally shot. Pre-production began in 2003, filming began on 19 April 2004 and post-production began in early September of 2004 [13]. After a London premiere on April 20, 2005, ...

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Main article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases The first radio series, of six episodes (called Fits, after an obscure term for a part of a poem) [4] was broadcast in 1978 on BBC Radio 4. Despite a low-key launch of the series (the first episode was broadcast at 10:30 pm on Wednesday, 8 March 1978), it received generally good reviews, and a tremendous audience reaction for radio ...

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The first radio series comes from a proposal called 'The Ends of the Earth': six self-contained episodes, all ending with the Earth being destroyed in a different way. While writing the first episode, Adams realised that he needed someone on the planet who was an alien to provide some context, and that this alien needed a reason to be there. Adams finally settled on making the alien a roving researcher for a "wholly remarkable book" named The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. As the first radio episode's writing progressed, the Guide became the centre of his story, and he decided ...

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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 Barbara in 1999.) He was survived by his wife Jane and daughter Polly. He was buried in Highgate Cemetery in north London. In May 2002, The Salmon of Doubt was published, containing many short stories, essays, and letters, and eulogies from Richard Dawkins, Stephen Fry (in the UK edition), Christopher Cerf (in the US edition), and Terry Jones (in the US paperback edition). It also includes eleve ...

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His official biography, Wish You Were Here, by Nick Webb, was published on 6 October 2003 (ISBN 0755311558). [22] Another recent biography is Hitchhiker: a Biography of Douglas Adams (2003) by M. J. Simpson, with a foreword (in the UK edition) by John Lloyd (ISBN 0340824883). The American edition contains a foreword by Neil Gaiman (ISBN 1932112170). Upon the mutual discovery that Webb and Simpson were both working on new posthumous biographies, the two authors agreed that the former would focus on Adams's life ...

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