![]() ![]() Whilst writing for Doctor Who, the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was comissioned, originally appearing as two Radio 4 series ("Primary and Secondary Phases") the late 1970s. He would work with Tom again in 1990 for the documentary Hyperland. He moved from radio to become script editor of Doctor Who, also writing several stories for the Tom Baker incarnation of the Doctor. He also collaborated with Graham Chapman (from Monty Python) and produced a Radio 4 christmas pantomime. Some of his early work featured on Weekending, and The Burkiss Way. He started writing and peforming seriously at Cambridge, and his early work led on from material written for Footlights 'smokers'. His first published work was a short story in Eagle comic, age 11. He was educated at Brentwood School, Essex and St John's College, Cambridge where, in 1974 he gained a BA (and later an MA) in English Literature. Everybody assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on on the outside!" "I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Hear Douglas Adams discuss Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agencyĭouglas Noel Adams was born in Cambridge on 11 March 1952. ![]()
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