This article was originally published on doctorwhowatch.com as Doctor Who: The genius and influence of Douglas Adams.

Douglas’s exuberant creativity presented Doctor Who producers with quite a ... 42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas Of Douglas Adams, edited by Kevin Jon Davies, is out on August 24, published ...

Just before Hitchhiker's was commissioned for radio, Douglas was also commissioned to write scripts for Doctor Who. His first script was The Pirate Planet, a story involving a hollowed out planet ...

Douglas Adams was not just a science fiction writer ... the meaning of life – 42 – is referenced in TV programmes from Doctor Who to The Kumars at No 42. And yet, as the film shows, Adams ...

Think of Douglas Adams and you'll think of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The ... The plot was born out of Douglas's time working as Doctor Who script editor, almost ten years prior, in 1979. For his ...

Douglas Adams Happy #TowelDay ... and classic TV series like "Monty Python" and "Doctor Who." The symbolic towel that acolytes of the author proudly display or carry around today goes back ...