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Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, humorist, and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame
Most Popular Douglas Adams Trailers
Total trailers found: 28
05 September 2005
An in-depth examination of the complete production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005).
28 April 2005
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
24 September 2007
A 30-minute documentary looking at the writing and production of The Pirate Planet.
21 September 1990
This made-for-TV documentary introduces the layperson to concepts and technologies that were emerging in computer interface design in the late 1980s and early 1990s: hypertext, multimedia, virtual assistants, interactive video, 3D animation, and virtual reality.
10 January 1976
Sketch comedy pilot from Douglas Adams and Graham Chapman.
24 September 2007
A retrospective documentary looking at Graham Williams' three-year tenure as Doctor Who producer.
07 November 2005
A 45-minute look at the making of City of Death, and in particular, the contribution of writer and script editor Douglas Adams.
24 November 2017
The Doctor visits his old Time Lord friend Chronotis in Cambridge, 1979. But the ruthless Skagra has also arrived to retrieve a book that will help unlock one of the Time Lords' greatest secrets: what is Shada? Filming for this story was never finished, and in this version the unfilmed material is completed via animation.
15 July 2021
Michael, a struggling actor, dies right after a bad breakup. He finds himself awakening in a very bright room with a very strange lady and learns that he is in singles Purgatory, where he must find his soul mate in order to cross over to the other side.
01 January 2000
In November, 1999, Apple brought together a group of people under its AppleMaster program to teach them to use their new digital video editing software.
17 November 1979
The Doctor and Romana follow a distress signal which leads to the jungle planet Chloris, whose ruthless ruler Lady Adrasta harbors a deadly creature in a pit.
12 January 1980
After the TARDIS collides with a spacecraft delivering human tributes to the evil bull-like Nimon, the Doctor and Romana must stop the fearsome alien's quest to rule the galaxy.
06 July 1992
Shada: a prison built by the Time Lords for defeated would-be conquerors of the universe. A scientist named Skagra needs the help of one of the prison's inmates.
09 February 1981
An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure across the universe with a known fugitive.
29 November 1993
A documentary celebrating the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who, featuring new interviews, rare archive footage and recently discovered material.
02 May 2003
Where the Fourth Doctor left off, the Eighth Doctor comes to finish the job. With Romana and K9 by his side, they have to stop the evil Skagra.
31 January 1994
Dennis Potter, Esther Dyson, William Gibson and other techno-thinkers appeared in this award-winning three-part documentary series which examined social changes brought about by new information technologies, along with other issues and dilemmas facing society in the 21st Century.
22 September 1979
The Doctor and a newly-regenerated Romana arrive on Skaro to find that the Daleks, locked in a war with the robotic Movellans, have returned to retrieve their buried creator Davros.
24 February 1979
The final segment of the Key to Time is at the heart of a devastating war between neighbouring planets Atrios and Zeos.
20 October 1979
While taking in the sights of Paris in 1979, the Doctor and Romana sense that someone is tampering with time.
20 March 2025
Author of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, polymath Douglas Adams was a pioneer of science fiction, comedy, technology and environmental activism.
21 October 1978
The Doctor and Romana learn the second segment of the Key to Time is on the planet Calufrax. Yet they arrive on a planet called Zanak, which has been hollowed out and fitted with hyperspace engines, allowing its insane, half-robot Captain to materialise it around smaller planets and plunder their resources.
15 December 1979
A freak accident leaves two dangerously unstable spacecraft locked together, and a horde of monsters unleashed on their passengers.
28 May 2001
Douglas Adams was the best-selling British author and satirist who created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
18 March 2024
Family and colleagues remember the Doctor Who producer. In 1977, Birkenhead-born first-time producer Graham Williams took over one of the BBC’s most famous shows, Doctor Who.
01 January 1993
A documentary looking at the making of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981), including interviews with leading members of the cast and production team, behind-the-scenes footage and out-takes.
01 July 2002
A celebration of Douglas Adams, the genius behind The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy who died in May 2001, aged just 49.
04 December 2013
Evil Time Lord Skagra seeks out the location of Shada, a lost planet which was once home to a Time Lord prison.
