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Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) was an English humorist and writer who worked in the mediums of radio, television, literature and video games. Unless otherwise noted, he was credited as the sole writer of the following works (posthumous releases are marked with a dagger†).

Literature

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Title Year First edition publisher Ref.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1979 Pan Books[citation needed] [1]
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe 1980
Life, the Universe and Everything 1982
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish 1984
Mostly Harmless 1992

Dirk Gently

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Title Year First edition publisher Notes Ref.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency 1987 William Heinemann Ltd[citation needed] [2]
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul 1988
The Salmon of Doubt† 2002 Unfinished novel; includes short stories, essays, and interviews by Adams [3]

Short stories

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Title Year Published In Notes Ref.
"The Private Life of Genghis Khan" 1975 The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book Co-written with Graham Chapman, based on their sketch from Out of the Trees [4]
A Christmas Fairly Story 1986 Co-written with Terry Jones [citation needed]
Supplement to The Meaning of Liff Co-written with John Lloyd and Stephen Fry [citation needed]
"Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" Part of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series [citation needed]
"Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" (revised version) 1996 The Wizards of Odd [citation needed]
2002 The Salmon of Doubt [citation needed]

Non-fiction

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Title Year First edition publisher Notes Ref.
Last Chance to See 1990 Pan Books[citation needed] Co-written with Mark Carwardine; companion book to the radio series of the same name [5]
42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams† 2023 Unbound Collection of Adams' notes and essays; edited by Kevin Jon Davies [6][7][8]

Other works

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Title Year Notes Ref.
A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI 1980 Co-written with Graham Chapman, David Sherlock, Alex Martin, and David A. Yallop [citation needed]
The Meaning of Liff 1983 Co-written with John Lloyd [9][10]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts 1985 With a foreword by Geoffrey Perkins [citation needed]
The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book 1986 As editor with Peter Fincham. Also contributor, see above [citation needed]
The Deeper Meaning of Liff 1990 Co-written with John Lloyd [9][10]
Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic: A Novel 1997 Written by Terry Jones; based on Starship Titanic [11][12]
h2g2 1999 As creator.

Open source, online, comic encyclopaedia

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Television

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Title Episode or Serial Year Notes Broadcaster Ref.
Monty Python's Flying Circus "Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Liberal Party" 1974 The sketch "Patient Abuse"; co-written with Graham Chapman BBC Two [13][14][15]
Out of the Trees Pilot episode 1976 Co-written with Graham Chapman and Bernard McKenna [16][17]
Doctor on the Go "For Your Own Good" 1977 Co-written with Graham Chapman ITV [18][19]
Doctor Who The Pirate Planet 1978 4 episodes BBC One [2]
Destiny of the Daleks 1979 4 episodes; uncredited rewrites on Terry Nation's script [20]
City of Death 4 episodes; co-written with Graham Williams, from an original storyline by David Fisher, and credited to "David Agnew" [21][22]
Shada 6 episodes; filming was not completed due to industrial action at the BBC [23][24]
Doctor Snuggles "The Great Disappearing Mystery" Co-written with John Lloyd ITV [25][26]
"The Remarkable Fidgety River"
Not the Nine O'Clock News Unknown episodes BBC Two [citation needed]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1981 Adapted from the radio series and novel of the same name [27][28][29]
Doctor Who "The Five Doctors" 1983 Uses scenes filmed for Shada; Adams was not credited BBC One [23][24]
Hyperland 1990 "Fantasy documentary" BBC Two [30][31]
Doctor Who: The Lost Episode† 2018 Partly-animated reconstruction of Shada BBC America [32][23]

Radio and soundtrack

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Title Year Notes Ref.
The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975 Contributed to the sketch "Marilyn Monroe" [33]
The Burkiss Way [34]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1978–1984 "Fit the Fifth" and "Fit the Sixth" were co-written by John Lloyd.

Referred to as The Primary and Secondary Phases of the series. Subsequent episodes were produced following Adams' death

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The Internet: The Last Battleground of the 20th century 2000 [citation needed]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future
Shada† 2003 Released as both webcast and audio drama [24][37]

Video games

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Title Year Notes Ref.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1984 Co-created with Steve Meretzky [38][citation needed]
Bureaucracy 1987 [citation needed]
Starship Titanic 1998 Co-written with Michael Bywater and Neil Richards. Additional dialogue written by D. A. Barham. [citation needed]

Film

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Title Year Distributor Notes Ref.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy† 2005 Buena Vista Pictures Distribution Posthumous release, co-written with Karey Kirkpatrick [39]

References

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Citations

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