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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 from BBC Audio (as The Primary & Secondary Phases), as well as on a single MP3-CD. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was the first radio series released on Compact Disc and on MP3-CD, respectively, by the then BBC Radio Collection. The three additional phases adapted from the last three books in the series are available from BBC Audio. The Tertiary Phase was broadcast on BBC Radio 21 Septe ...

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Hitchhiker's has also appeared as a stage show, three LP albums with condensed (and slightly contradictory) versions of the first six radio episodes, a text-only adventure computer game, and three series of comic books (with a set of collectors' cards spun off containing art from the comics). The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Stage shows. There have been multiple professional and amateur stage adaptations of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. There were three early professional productions, ...

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Many merchandising and spin-off items were produced in the early 1980s, dubbed "Hitch-Hikeriana" and included a beach towel printed with the Guide's entry for towels. Other official items have included "Beeblebears" (teddy bears with an extra head and arm, named after Hitchhiker's character Zaphod Beeblebrox, sold by the official Appreciation Society), an assortment of pin-on buttons, t-shirts printed by Infocom (such as one bearing the legend "I got the Babel Fish" for successfully completing one of that game's most difficult puzzles ...

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The characters of Snark have appeared in other works. For example, the Bellman and The Hunting of the Snark are referenced in Jasper Fforde's The Well of Lost Plots, his third Thursday Next book. China Mieville's The Scar features a ship called the Castor (Latin for beaver), crewed by characters whose names reference the characters of Snark: for example Tinntinnabulum, meaning a tinkling or bells, as in the Bellman). Douglas Adams divided the radio series of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy into "fits", after a suggestion ...

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Adams played guitar, left-handed, and had a collection of twenty-four of these instruments when he died in 2001 (having received his first left-hand guitar in 1964). He also took piano lessons in the 1960s from the same teacher who taught Paul Wickens, who later played keyboards in Paul McCartney's band (and composed the music for the 2004-2005 editions of The Hitchhiker's Guide radio series). [12] Music, and in particular The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Procol Harum had great influences on Adams's professional life. See also:

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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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Douglas Adams created an interactive fiction version of HHGG together with Steve Meretzky from Infocom in 1984. In 1986 he participated in a weeklong brainstorming session with the Lucasfilm Games team for the game, Labyrinth. Later he was also involved in creating Bureaucracy (also by Infocom, but not based on any book). Adams was also responsible for the computer game Starship Titanic, which was published in 1999 by Simon and Schuster. Terry Jones wrote the accompanying book, entitled Douglas Adams’s Starsh ...

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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 and does not end happily. In addition to the disappearance of the Baker, the Banker loses his sanity, an event that is described in detail. Similarly, Henry Holiday's illustrations for the original edition are caricatures with disproportionate heads and unpleasant f ...

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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 forty-two, 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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Main Article: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as international phenomenon Many science fiction fans and radio listeners outside the United Kingdom were first exposed to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in one of two ways: shortwave radio broadcasts of the original radio series, or by Douglas Adams being "Guest of Honour" at the 1979 World Annual Science Fiction Convention, Seacon, held in Brighton, England, UK. It was there that the radio series was nominated for a Hugo Award (the first radio series to receive a ...

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Alternative comedy was a product of its time. In the early 1980s Britain was a politically divisive country, although also had a nihilistic streak running through its core. Margaret Thatcher had come to power and was pushing forward free trade reforms but many still believed that Britain would one day be a socialist country. Punk rock had just come and gone in the late 1970s and Britain was changing forever in ways few people understood. From ...

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Douglas Adams - Religion. Adams was a self-declared "radical atheist", though he used the term for emphasis, so that he would not be asked if he in fact meant agnostic. He stated in an interview with American Atheists [16] that this was easier and conveyed the fact that he really meant it, had thought about it a great deal, and that it was an opinion he held seriously. He was convinced that there is not a god, seeing not a shred of evidence of one's existence, and devoted himsel ...

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Douglas Adams, Douglas Adams - Early life, Douglas Adams - Education and early works, Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams - Doctor Who, Douglas Adams - Music, Douglas Adams - Pink Floyd, Douglas Adams - Procol Harum, Douglas Adams - Other musical links, Douglas Adams - Computer games and projects, Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently, Douglas Adams - Personal beliefs, Douglas Adams - Religion, Douglas Adams - Environmentalism, Douglas Adams - Technology, Douglas Adams - Personal life, Douglas Adams - Adams's death, Douglas Adams - Biographies, Douglas Adams - Douglas Adams's works, Douglas Adams - Novels in the HHGG series, Douglas Adams - The Dirk Gently series, Douglas Adams - Other works, Douglas Adams - Tributes and honorifics, Douglas Adams - Notes

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