List of Douglas Adams projects

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

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Title Year First edition publisher Ref.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1979 Pan Books [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

Title Year First edition publisher Notes Ref.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency 1987 William Heinemann Ltd [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

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
Supplement to The Meaning of Liff Co-written with John Lloyd and Stephen Fry
"Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" Part of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
"Young Zaphod Plays It Safe" (revised version) 1996 The Wizards of Odd
2002 The Salmon of Doubt

Non-fiction

Title Year First edition publisher Notes Ref.
Last Chance to See 1990 Pan Books 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

Title Year Notes Ref.
A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI 1980 Co-written with Graham Chapman, David Sherlock, Alex Martin, and David A. Yallop
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
The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book 1986 As editor with Peter Fincham. Also contributor, see above
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

Television

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
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

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

[35][36]
The Internet: The Last Battleground of the 20th century 2000
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future
Shada† 2003 Released as both webcast and audio drama [24][37]

Video games

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

Film

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

Citations

  1. ^ "Douglas Adams | Hitchhiker's Guide, Sci-Fi, Humor". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 25 June 2025. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
  2. ^ a b Ainsworth, John, ed. (2017). "The Pirate Planet, The Stones of Blood and The Androids of Tara". Doctor Who: The Complete History. 29. Panini Comics, Hachette Partworks: 45. ISSN 2057-6048.
  3. ^ "The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams". The Independent. London. 10 May 2002. Archived from the original on 16 October 2009.
  4. ^ Simpson 2003, pp. 65–66.
  5. ^ "Last Chance to See - About - Background". BBC. Archived from the original on 23 June 2025. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
  6. ^ Larman, Alexander (6 August 2023). "In brief: 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams; Alchemy; Mercury Pictures Presents – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  7. ^ Barnett, David (3 September 2023). "Revealed: how Hitchhiker's Guide author predicted rise of ebooks 30 years ago". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  8. ^ "Unbound achieves first Sunday Times number one bestseller". The Bookseller. 4 September 2023. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  9. ^ a b Flood, Alison (15 October 2012). "Douglas Adams's Meaning of Liff redefined". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
  10. ^ a b Johnson, Ben (16 March 2012). "Follow Friday: A Twitter Feed Douglas Adams Would Have Loved". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Archived from the original on 7 December 2025. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
  11. ^ Jonas, Gerald (21 December 1997). "Science fiction". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
  12. ^ "How We Met: Douglas Adams and Terry Jones". The Independent. 26 April 1998. p. 66.
  13. ^ Simpson 2003, pp. 58–59, 62.
  14. ^ Handlen, Zack (7 August 2014). "Monty Python's Flying Circus: "Party Political Broadcast"". AV Club. Retrieved 9 December 2025.
  15. ^ "Monty Python". The Genome Project - BBC Programme Index. Retrieved 9 December 2025.
  16. ^ Simpson 2003, pp. 62–63.
  17. ^ "Out of the Trees". 10 January 1976. Archived from the original on 1 June 2021 – via BBC Genome.
  18. ^ Simpson 2003, pp. 59, 74.
  19. ^ "Barclay, Humphrey (1941-) Credits". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 10 December 2025. Doctor on the Go was broadcast on ITV.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  20. ^ Wright, Mark, ed. (2016). "The Power of Kroll, The Armageddon Factor and Destiny of the Daleks". Doctor Who: The Complete History. 30. Panini Comics, Hachette Partworks. ISSN 2057-6048. Adams heavily rewrote aspects of the scripts to bring the show within budget...
  21. ^ Cornell, Paul; Day, Martin; Topping, Keith (1995). "City of Death". The Discontinuity Guide. London: Virgin Books. ISBN 0-426-20442-5. Archived from the original on 1 April 2015.
  22. ^ Ainsworth, John (2018). Wright, Mark (ed.). "City of Death - The Creature from the Pit - Nighmare of Eden - The Horns of Nimon". Doctor Who: The Complete History. 31 (105–108). Panini Comics, Hachette Partworks: 45.
  23. ^ a b c McEwan, Cameron (12 October 2017). "Time after Time: A History of 'Shada' from The Essential Doctor Who". doctorwho.tv. Archived from the original on 15 July 2025. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  24. ^ a b c Ainsworth, John, ed. (2019). "Shada, Dimensions in Time, The Curse of Fatal Death and Time Crash". Doctor Who: The Complete History. No. 90. Panini Comics, Hachette Partworks. ISSN 2057-6048.
  25. ^ Bennett, Steve (6 March 2018). "The kids' cartoon written by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd". Chortle. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2025.
  26. ^ Ltd, Not Panicking (20 July 2009) [3 April 2006]. "Doctor Snuggles - Animated TV Series". h2g2.com. Archived from the original on 10 October 2024. Retrieved 9 December 2025.
  27. ^ "BBC Studios to release classic 1981 TV adaption of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on DVD and Blu-ray". www.bbc.co.uk. 6 September 2018. Archived from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2025.
  28. ^ Agustin, Francis (3 March 2025). "'Lying drunk in a field': Douglas Adams on the unlikely origins of the cult space comedy that inspired Elon Musk". BBC. Retrieved 9 December 2025.
  29. ^ "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - BBC Two England - 19 January 1981 - BBC Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 30 October 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  30. ^ "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - How Douglas Adams changed the future". BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on 19 January 2025. Retrieved 9 December 2025.
  31. ^ "Adams, Douglas (1952-2001) Credits". BFI Screenonline. Archived from the original on 30 January 2025. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  32. ^ Stockly, Ed (18 July 2018). "Thursday's TV highlights: 'Doctor Who: The Lost Episode' on BBC America". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  33. ^ Simpson 2003, pp. 60–61.
  34. ^ Simpson 2003, p. 86.
  35. ^ Armstrong, Stephen (27 March 2025). "Douglas Adams predicted our digital world – AI and all – but "found life extraordinarily difficult"". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 6 November 2025. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  36. ^ Webb 2017, 7th paragraph.
  37. ^ "Doctor Who: Shada - Doctor Who - Classic Series - Special Releases - Big Finish". www.bigfinish.com. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
  38. ^ Froholt, Joachim (5 February 2025). "Q&A with: Game designer Steve Meretzky". Spillhistorie.no. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
  39. ^ Felperin, Leslie (23 April 2005). "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Variety. Retrieved 9 December 2025.

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