Douglas Adams
Videos
Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, humourist, and screenwriter. He wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which originated in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy, before developing into a "trilogy"
Adams c. late 1990s
Douglas Adams Unterschrift
Adams attended Brentwood School in Essex (pictured in 2010)
Adams in his first Monty Python appearance, in surgeon's garb
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a 1979 science fiction comedy novel by English author Douglas Adams, adapted from the first four parts of his radio comedy series of the same name. It centres o
Douglas Adams
…1978, he was commissioned to write for Doctor Who and served as script editor for its 17th season (1979–1980). The success of the first radio series and 1979 book adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy led to sudden fame for Adams. He subsequently wrote the novels Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987…
Cover of the original UK paperback edition of the novel, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Hipgnosis and Ian Wright. The back cover featured the slogan "DON'T PANIC" in the same colour-video-screen style.