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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Portal

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy began as a science fiction comedy radio series written by Douglas Adams (with some material in the first series provided by John Lloyd). It was originally broadcast in the United Kingdom over the BBC, soon followed by global short wave broadcast over the BBC World Service, in 1978. Broadcasting by National Public Radio (one of their first to occur in stereo) in the United States followed in March, 1981.

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Identification and critical commentary

The list below contains the main versions and does not include audio-books, stage show compact cassette, VHS, CD, DVD releases, edits, extras, extensions, and overseas versions.

As you can discover from the links below, each new version of the story is recreated for the medium.

Radio Primary Phase 1978 R4
Original book 1979 From Radio fits 1 to 4
LP album adaptations 1979-80 From Radio fits 1 to 4, 5/6
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe 1980 From Radio fits 5 to 9
Radio: Secondary Phase 1980♦ R4 New material
TV Series 1981 BBC2 From Radio fits 1 to 6
Marvin singles 1981 New material
Life, the Universe and Everything 1982 New material
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish 1984 New material
Computer game 1984 Infocom - play now Based on previous versions
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts 1985
Mostly Harmless 1992 New material
Making Of .. TV Series 1993 Shot in 1981
h2g2 1999
The Salmon of Doubt♥ 2002 New post mortem material
Radio: Tertiary Phase 2004 R4 Based on "Life, the Universe and Everything"
Radio: Quandary Phase 2005 R4 Based on "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"
Radio: Quintessential Phase 2005 R4 Based on "Mostly Harmless"
Film 2005 Based on original novel, new material
Don't Crash "making of" Film 2005

♥ Contains some Hitchhiker's material. ♦ Fit the seventh was broadcast at Christmas 1978.

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Selected article

Young Zaphod Plays it Safe is a short story by Douglas Adams set in his The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy universe. The story is included with several collections but has never been released as a standalone work. It first appeared in The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book (1986) which Adams also co-edited. It also appears in slightly modified form in the Adams retrospective The Salmon of Doubt. The story does appear in some versions of the complete omnibus editions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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Selected picture

Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, at a book signing during ApacheCon, 2000.

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Selected biography

Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. He is best known as author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Adams played the guitar left-handed and had a collection of twenty-four left-handed guitars when he died in 2001 (having received his first guitar in 1964). He also studied piano in the 1960s with the same teacher as Paul Wickens, the pianist who later played in Paul McCartney's band (and composed the music for the 2004-2005 editions of the Hitchhiker's Guide radio series). The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Procol Harum all had great influence on Adams's work.