Douglas Adams made science fiction enjoyable. He additionally made philosophy, ethics, paperwork, and chance enjoyable. He made Tom Baker’s Physician Who much more enjoyable, and Tom Baker’s Physician Who was already fairly enjoyable. He a lot made the whole lot enjoyable. How did he try this? Right here’s extra from Kirkus Critiques:
In 1977, Adams had fallen right into a deep despair: his work was faltering, and others famous that “he was a expertise and not using a area of interest,” in response to Webb. In February, he met Simon Brett, a producer on the BBC, and the 2 had met for dinner. Adams introduced three concepts with him, though neither man would keep in mind years later what the primary two had been. One of many three did stick out: it was a science-fiction comedy known as The Ends of the Earth, wherein a “man’s home [was] being demolished after which the Earth being demolished for a similar cause”: a bypass was being constructed. Adams realized he wanted an alien for context, and created Ford Prefect: “I wanted to have somebody from one other planet round to inform the reader what was happening, to provide the story the context it wanted. So I needed to work out who he was and what he was doing on Earth.” He remembered his night time within the subject a number of years earlier, and realized that the character was a researcher for the Hitchhiker’s Information to the Galaxy, an intergalactic journey information.
On March 1, the BBC authorized a pilot episode for the radio, now titled The Hitchhiker’s Information to the Galaxy. By April, Adams delivered the primary script, and between then and August, they waited for approval from the BBC. The wait was agonizing, and Adams despatched “the pilot script to the script editor of Physician Who, to see if any cash is perhaps forthcoming from that route,” in response to Neil Gaiman in his e book Don’t Panic: The Official Hitch-hiker’s Information to the Galaxy Companion. Nonetheless, on August 31, they reached a call: the present was authorized for six episodes.
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