 The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything has a numeric solution in Douglas Adams' series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In the story, a "simple answer" to The Ultimate Question is requested from the computer Deep Thought - specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer which turns out to be 42. When asked to provide The Ultimate Question, the computer says that it can't, but can help design an even more powerful computer (the Earth) which can. The programmers then embark on a further, ultimately futile, ten million year program to discover The Ultimate Question, hindered by Golgafrinchans after 8 million years, and in the last five minutes by the Vogons. Image File history File links Answer_to_Life. ...
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Spoiler warning: The 42 Puzzle, as it appeared on pages 80 and 81 of The Illustrated Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The 42 Puzzle is a game devised by Douglas Adams in 1994 for his popular The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. ...
The cover of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, from a late 1990s US printing. ...
Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ...
The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ...
Spoiler warning: See also Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. ...
There are many minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ...
This article is about Earth as a planet. ...
This is a list of races, fauna and flora featured in various incarnations of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...
This is a list of races, fauna and flora featured in various incarnations of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...
The author was presented with many readers' theories about The Ultimate Question and The Ultimate Answer in his lifetime, all of which he rebutted with his own somewhat apocryphal explanations.
The search for The Ultimate Answer
According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a race of vast pan-dimensional hyper-intelligent beings constructed the second greatest computer in all of time and space, Deep Thought, to calculate The Ultimate Answer to The Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. Distracted by a demarcation dispute with two philosophers, a "simple answer"[1] is requested. After seven and a half million years of computing cycles, Deep Thought's answer is: forty two. There are many minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ...
A demarcation dispute occurs when two labour unions claim the right to represent the same class or group of workers. ...
| “ | "I think the problem is that the question was too broadly based..."[1] "Forty two?!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?" There are many minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ...
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."[2]
| ” | In a story filled with much more neo-numerology, Deep Thought is compared with other computers, some have huge numbers in their name, the Milliard Gargantuabrain and the Googleplex Starthinker; earlier the Heart of Gold is said to cost "only" five quilliard Altarian dollars[3] and that ship rescues Ford Prefect and Arthur at improbability level of 2267709:1 against. In the third novel, Zaphod Beeblebrox uses a factor of 375972XX to get to the Krikkit War Zone.[4] Numerology is any of many systems, traditions or beliefs in a mystical or esoteric relationship between numbers and physical objects or living things. ...
Milliard is a French-derived word meaning the number 1,000,000,000 (109; one thousand million; SI prefix giga). ...
This article is about the Google headquarters. ...
Heart of Gold is a fictional spaceship in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. ...
The English language has a number of words for indefinite and fictitious numbers - inexact terms of indefinite size, used for comic effect, for exaggeration, or when precision is unnecessary or undesirable. ...
Mos Def as Ford Prefect (left), along with Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent (right), from the 2005 film adaptation. ...
Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox, from the TV adaptation. ...
After teaching Arthur Dent about Deep Thought, Slartibartfast muses: Information Species Human Gender Male Age 30 (approx. ...
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| “ | I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.... What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day ... [But I am not,] that's where it all falls down of course." [2] | ” |
The search for The Ultimate Question Deep Thought then insists upon designing a greater computer - incorporating living beings in the "computational matrix" - to compute The Ultimate Question. Earth was so large and mistaken for a planet, and the programmers took on mice-form to supervise. The Ultimate Question - and Earth - was destroyed by the Vogons just five minutes before readout - the Vogons had been hired to destroy the Earth by a consortium of psychiatrists lead by Gag Halfrunt who feared for the loss of their careers when the meaning of life became known.[5] Numerical analysis is the study of approximate methods for the problems of continuous mathematics (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). ...
This article is about Earth as a planet. ...
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A consortium is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organisations or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal. ...
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Not to be confused with the Ultimate Question or Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...
Lacking a real question, the mice proposed to use "How many roads must a man walk down?" (from Bob Dylan's protest song "Blowin' in the Wind") as The Ultimate Question for the "5D chat show and lecture circuit" (in their dimension). Frankie Mouse admits: This article is about the recording artist. ...
Blowin in the Wind is a song written by Bob Dylan, and released on his 1963 album The Freewheelin Bob Dylan. ...
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Parallel universe or alternate reality in science fiction and fantasy is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with our own. ...
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| “ | I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to suspect that if there's any real truth it's that the entire multi-dimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs; and if it comes to a choice between spending another ten million years finding that out on the other hand just taking the money and running, then I for one could do with the exercise.[1] | ” | The correspondence theory of truth states that something (for example, a proposition or statement or sentence) is rendered true by the existence of a fact with corresponding elements and a similar structure. ...
In probability theory, an event happens almost surely (a. ...
The MANIAC I (Mathematical Analyzer, Numerical Integrator, and Computer), an early computer built by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, was based on the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) architecture developed by John von Neumann. ...
Take the Money and Run is a 1969 comedy film co-written by, directed by and starring Woody Allen. ...
Arthur's Scrabble tiles
There are only two "Y"s in a standard scrabble set At the end of the first radio series (and television series, and The Restaurant at the End of the Universe book) Arthur Dent having escaped the Earth's destruction potentially has some of the computational matrix in his brain, attempts to discover The Ultimate Question by extracting it from his brainwave patterns, as abusively[6] suggested by Marvin the Paranoid Android, when a Scrabble-playing caveman spells out FORTY TWO. Arthur pulls random letters from a bag, but only gets the sentence "WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE?" Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980, ISBN 0345391810) is the second book in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams. ...
Information Species Human Gender Male Age 30 (approx. ...
Numerical analysis is the study of approximate methods for the problems of continuous mathematics (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). ...
Electroencephalography is the neurophysiologic exploration of the electrical activity of the brain by the application of electrodes to the scalp. ...
Information Species Android Gender Male Age Thirty-seven times older than the Universe itself Occupation Servant Created by Douglas Adams In the BBC TV series, the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot [like Marvin] as Your plastic pal whos fun to be with. Marvins...
The verb to scrabble also means to scratch, scramble or scrape about: see Wiktionary:scrabble. ...
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| “ | "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is."
"I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe"[5]
| ” | Arthur and Ford are simply forced to accept "What a Wonderful World" the Earth is.[6] What a Wonderful World was written by songwriters Bob Thiele and George David Weiss, first performed by Louis Armstrong, and released as a single in early fall 1967. ...
The program on the "Earth computer" should have run correctly but the feckless middle-class Wodehousian[7] Golgafrinchans replaced the cavemen and caused input errors into the system - computing (because of the crap in, crap out rule) the wrong question - the question in Arthur's subconscious being invalid all along. [5] However, Dent, Fenchurch, and a dying Marvin did see "God's Final Message to His Creation" message ("We apologise for the inconvenience").[8] Fenchurch had figured out the ultimate question in a small cafe in Rickmansworth, but survived in an alternate universe the Vogons' destruction of Earth without a memory of what it is.[2] This article is about the socio-economic class from a global vantage point. ...
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (IPA: ) was a comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. ...
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Garbage In, Garbage Out (abbreviated to GIGO) is an aphorism in the field of computer science. ...
There are many minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ...
, Rickmansworth is a town in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire, England, 4¼ miles (7km) west of Watford. ...
This 'question' is impossible with a standard set of Scrabble, as it has only two Ys. In the TV series[2] and book[5], the set has been handmade from Arthur's memory; in the radio series Arthur has a "pocket Scrabble set" at Milliways.[1] This is a list of places featured in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...
The exclusion philosophy The exclusion philosophy first appeared in Fit the Seventh of the radio series, on Christmas Eve, 1978: The terms Primary Phase and Secondary Phase describe the first two radio series of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...
The Christmas Eve (1904-05), watercolor painting by the Swedish painter Carl Larsson (1853-1919) Christmas Eve, the evening of December 24th, the preceding day or vigil before Christmas Day, is treated to a greater or a lesser extent in most Christian societies as part of the Christmas season. ...
Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ...
| “ | Narrator: There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable. GRAMS: PEAK MUSIC ON ENTRY OF BASS A delusion is commonly defined as a fixed false belief and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception. ...
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A sunburst-colored Precision Bass The electric bass guitar (or electric bass; pronounced , as in base) is a bass stringed instrument played with the fingers (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick. ...
Narrator: There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
GRAMS: PEAK MUSIC AGAIN
Narrator: There is a third theory which suggests that both of the first two theories were concocted by a wily editor of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy in order to increase the universal level of uncertainty and paranoia and so boost the sales of the Guide. This last theory is of course the most convincing as The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the only book in the whole of the known universe to have the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on the cover.[1] A managing editor is a senior member of a publications management team. ...
In quantum physics, the outcome of even an ideal measurement of a system is not deterministic, but instead is characterized by a probability distribution, and the larger the associated standard deviation is, the more uncertain we might say that that characteristic is for the system. ...
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Towel with the words Dont Panic on Towel day For other uses, see Dont panic. ...
The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum. ...
| ” | The first two theories start the second novel (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe) and are confirmed at the close of the third (Life, the Universe and Everything) where Arthur encounters Prak (played on radio's The Tertiary Phase by the actor who was Arthur Dent in the 1 May to 9 May 1979[7] stage show"[7]). A Krikkit-robot delivered massive overdose of a truth serum was administered to Prak, who was then sworn to tell the "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth" which he did unstoppably. Prak confirms that 42 is indeed The Ultimate Answer, and confirms that it is impossible for both The Ultimate Answer and The Ultimate Question to be known about in the same universe, as they will cancel each other out and take the Universe with them, to be replaced by something even more bizarre, (as described in the first theory), and that it may have already happened (as described in the second theory).[4] The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980, ISBN 0345391810) is the second book in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams. ...
Life, the Universe and Everything (1982, ISBN 0-345-39182-9) is the third book in the five-volume Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy science fiction series by Douglas Adams. ...
There are many minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ...
The terms Tertiary Phase, Quandary Phase and Quintessential Phase describe the radio adaptations of the books Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish and Mostly Harmless recorded in 2003 and 2004 by Above the Title Productions for BBC Radio 4. ...
Christopher Langham (born 14 April 1949) is a British writer, actor, comedian and as such is most famous for playing MP Hugh Abbot in BBC Four sitcom The Thick of It and as presenter Roy Mallard in People Like Us, first on BBC Radio 4 and later on its transfer...
is the 121st day of the year (122nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 129th day of the year (130th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ...
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The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...
The final 42 resolution At the end of Mostly Harmless, which is the last of the series of novels, there is a final reference as Arthur and Ford are dropped off at Club Beta: The front cover of the US first hardcover edition of Mostly Harmless. ...
| “ | 'Just there, number forty two,' shouted Ford Prefect to the taxi-driver. 'Right here!'[9] | ” | The entire Earth (in every version of the Whole Sort of General Mishmash) is destroyed by the Grebulon Leader in a "most terrible catastrophe"[9] soon after this final 42 reference: "options collapsed, possibilities folded into each other, and the whole at last resolved itself out of existence ... the Guide Mark II bird, too, had crumpled out of all possibility" thus allowing Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz to put "a little tick in the little box".[9] For other uses, see Multiverse (disambiguation). ...
This is a list of races, fauna and flora featured in various incarnations of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...
There are many minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ...
There are many minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ...
Douglas Adams' ἀπόκρυφα In the second paragraph of the whole Hitch Hiker's adventure we are told that The Guide "contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate" and (according to Geoffrey Perkins) Douglas' recollections "may not be absolutely true or accurate, but where they are inaccurate I hope that (to quote the Guide) they are at least 'definitively inaccurate'".[1] Neil Gaiman's book starts with "It's all absolutely devastatingly true - except the bits that are lies".[7] The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy as depicted in the 2005 film adaptation. ...
In Judeo-Christian theologies, apocrypha refers to religious Sacred text that have questionable authenticity or are otherwise disputed. ...
Geoffrey Perkins has been a central figure in British comedy broadcasting. ...
Base 13 Some readers saw that 613 × 913 = 4213 (using base 13). Douglas Adams later rejected this as he was not aware of this at the time, saying:[10] Base-13, tridecimal, or tredecimal is a positional numeral system with thirteen as its base. ...
| “ | I may be a sorry case, but I don't write jokes in base 13. | ” | 4213 is read as "four two base thirteen" not "forty two base thirteen" as the four is not in a "tens" column.
Other theories rejected Douglas Adams was asked many times during his career why he chose the number forty two. Many theories were proposed, but he rejected them all. On November 3, 1993, he gave an answer[11] on alt.fan.douglas-adams: is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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| “ | The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do.' I typed it out. End of story. | ” | The binary numeral system, or base-2 number system, is a numeral system that represents numeric values using two symbols, usually 0 and 1. ...
Base-13, tridecimal, or tredecimal is a positional numeral system with thirteen as its base. ...
The Tibetan people are a people indigenous to Tibet and surrounding areas stretching from Central Asia in the West to Myanmar and China in the East. ...
Nonsense is an utterance or written text in what appears to be a human language or other symbolic system, that does not in fact carry any identifiable meaning. ...
Video Arts theory Whilst 42 was a number with no hidden meaning, Adams explained in more detail in an interview with Iain Johnstone of BBC Radio 4 (recorded in 1998 though never broadcast[12]) to celebrate the first radio broadcast's 20th anniversary. Having decided it should be a number, he tried to think what an "ordinary number" should be. He ruled out non-integers, then he remembered having worked as a "prop-borrower" for John Cleese on his Video Arts training videos. Iain Johnstone (born 1943) is a British film critic. ...
old Radio 4 logo BBC Radio 4 is a UK domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ...
Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Video Arts is a company that produces humerous training videos for companies. ...
Cleese needed a funny number for the punchline to a sketch involving a bank teller (himself) and a customer (Tim Brooke-Taylor). Adams believed that the number that Cleese came up with was 42 and he decided to use it. [13] Tim Brooke-Taylor (April 2000) Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor, (born 17 July 1940 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England) is a British comic actor most well known in Britain as a member of The Goodies comedy trio and in the comedy radio shows Im Sorry I Havent a Clue, and...
Letter from Douglas A letter was reproduced in Neil Gaiman's "Don't Panic"[7] book: Neil Richard Gaiman (IPA: ) (born November 10, 1960[2]) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, comics, and films. ...
Q. What was the Question of 'Life, The Universe, and Everything'?
A. The actual question for which Arthur Dent has been seeking has now been revealed to me. It is this: Revelation of the Last Judgment by Jacob de Backer Revelation is an uncovering or disclosure via communication from the divine of something that has been partially or wholly hidden or unknown, which could not be known apart from the unveiling (Goswiller 1987 p. ...
As soon as I've managed to decipher it - and I'm waiting for someone to send me a primer for the language in which it is written, and it may be some time - I will let you know. [citation needed] Encrypt redirects here. ...
The 1977 Burkiss Way: 42 Logical Positivism Avenue Adams' had also written a sketch for The Burkiss Way called "42 Logical Positivism Avenue", broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 12 January 1977[14] - 14 months before Hitchhiker's first broadcast "42" in fit the fourth, 29 March 1978.[1] The Burkiss Way was a BBC Radio 4 sketch comedy series that ran from August 1976 to November 1980. ...
Logical positivism grew from the discussions of Moritz Schlicks Vienna Circle and Hans Reichenbachs Berlin Circle in the 1920s and 1930s. ...
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is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ...
is the 88th day of the year (89th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ...
Further reading Smith, Mol (2007). 42 - The Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything. Maurice Smith, 178 pages. ISBN 978-0-9557-1370-5.
See also Not to be confused with the Ultimate Question or Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. ...
The Meaning of Life was a Monty Python comedy film made in 1983. ...
Front cover of the US hardcover edition of The Meaning of Liff, 1984. ...
Look up forty-two in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Spoiler warning: The 42 Puzzle, as it appeared on pages 80 and 81 of The Illustrated Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy The 42 Puzzle is a game devised by Douglas Adams in 1994 for his popular The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. ...
In physics, a physical constant is a physical quantity of a value that is generally believed to be both universal in nature and not believed to change in time. ...
The speed of light in a vacuum is an important physical constant denoted by the letter c for constant or the Latin word celeritas meaning swiftness.[1] It is the speed of all electromagnetic radiation, including visible light, in a vacuum. ...
According to the law of universal gravitation, the attractive force between two bodies is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. ...
A commemoration plaque for Max Planck on his discovery of Plancks constant, in front of Humboldt University, Berlin. ...
A mathematical constant is a quantity, usually a real number or a complex number, that arises naturally in mathematics and does not change. ...
When a circles diameter is 1, its circumference is π. Pi or π is the ratio of a circles circumference to its diameter in Euclidean geometry, approximately 3. ...
Not to be confused with Golden mean (philosophy), the felicitous middle between two extremes, Golden numbers, an indicator of years in astronomy and calendar studies, or the Golden Rule. ...
e is the unique number such that the value of the derivative of f (x) = ex (blue curve) at the point x = 0 is exactly 1. ...
References - ^ a b c d e f g The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts. Douglas Adams, edited by Geoffrey Perkins. Pan Books, London. 1985. ISBN 0-330-29288-9
- ^ a b c d Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. ISBN 0-330-25864-8.
- ^ Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series) Episode Two
- ^ a b Douglas Adams. Life, the Universe and Everything. ISBN 0-330-26738-8.
- ^ a b c d Douglas Adams (1 January 1980). The Restaurant at the end of the Universe. ISBN 0-345-39181-0.
- ^ a b Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series) Episode Six
- ^ a b c d e Neil Gaiman (1987). DON'T PANIC - the official Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion. Titan Books. ISBN 1852860138.
- ^ Douglas Adams. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. ISBN ISBN 0-330-28700-1.
- ^ a b c Douglas Adams (1992). Mostly Harmless. ISBN ISBN 0-330-32311-3.
- ^ BBC - h2g2 - A Conversation Forum. Retrieved on 2007-09-04.
- ^ Why 42 ? - alt.fan.douglas-adams - Google Groups. Retrieved on 2007-09-01.
- ^ This interview is contained on Douglas Adams's Guide to The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BBC Cassette ISBN 0-563-55236-0) and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The Collectors Edition (BBC CD ISBN 0-563-47702-4)
- ^ Several attempts by fans to find this particular video have been unsuccessful and it is possible it may never have been published or has since been deleted from use).
- ^ This is found on the Douglas Adams at the BBC CD set (ISBN 0-563-49404-2)
Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ...
Geoffrey Perkins has been a central figure in British comedy broadcasting. ...
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,[1] was a BBC television adaptation of Douglas Adamss The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy broadcast in January and February 1981 on BBC Two. ...
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,[1] was a BBC television adaptation of Douglas Adamss The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy broadcast in January and February 1981 on BBC Two. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...
is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Douglas Adamss Guide to The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is a BBC Radio production sold as an audio book on two cassette tapes. ...
The front cover of the booklet included with Douglas Adams at the BBC. Douglas Adams at the BBC is a three CD set released by BBC Audio in 2004 (ISBN 0563494042). ...
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