List of Douglas Adams projects

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) was an English humorist and writer who worked in the mediums of radio, television, theatre, 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†). Also included are adaptations of Adams' work by other writers, released both within his lifetime and after his death.

Title	Year	First edition publisher	Notes	Ref.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	1979	Pan Books	Adapted from the radio series	^[1]
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe	1980		Adapted from the radio series	^[1]
Life, the Universe and Everything	1982		Based on rejected Doctor Who film script Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen	^[2]^[3]
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish	1984			^[4]
Mostly Harmless	1992	William Heinemann Ltd		^[5]

Title	Year	First edition publisher	Notes	Ref.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency	1987	William Heinemann Ltd		^[6]^[7]
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul	1988	William Heinemann Ltd		^[6]^[7]
The Salmon of Doubt†	2002	Macmillan Publishers	Ten chapters of unfinished novel; includes short stories, essays, and interviews by Adams	^[8]^[9]^[10]

Title	Year	First published in	Notes	Ref.
"The Private Life of Genghis Khan"	1986	The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book	Based on a 1975 sketch by Adams and Graham Chapman from Out of the Trees	^[11]
"A Christmas Fairly Story"			Collaboration with Terry Jones
"Young Zaphod Plays It Safe"			Part of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series; revised by Adams for The Wizards of Odd (1996)

Title	Year	First edition publisher	Notes	Ref.
Last Chance to See	1990	William Heinemann Ltd	Co-written with Mark Carwardine; companion book to the radio series of the same name	^[12]^[13]
42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams†	2023	Unbound	Collection of Adams' notes and essays; edited by Kevin Jon Davies	^[14]^[15]^[16]

Title	Year	First edition publisher	Notes	Ref.
A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI	1980	Eyre Methuen Ltd	Co-written with Graham Chapman, David Sherlock, Alex Martin and David Yallop	^[17]
Not the Nine O'Clock News	1980		Received a writing credit (amongst many other writers) for various gags created in Footlights	^[18]^[19]
Not 1982	1981			^[18]
Not 1983	1982			^[18]
The Meaning of Liff	1983	Pan Books, Faber & Faber	Co-written with John Lloyd	^[20]^[21]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts	1985	Pan Books		^[22]
The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book	1986		Co-edited with Peter Fincham; also contributor (see above)	^[23]
Supplement to The Meaning of Liff	1986		Co-written with John Lloyd and Stephen Fry	^{[citation needed]}
The Deeper Meaning of Liff	1990	Pan Books, Faber & Faber	Co-written with John Lloyd	^[24]^[25]

List of Douglas Adams projects

Literature

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Dirk Gently

Short stories

Non-fiction

Other works

Adaptations of Adams' work into literary form

Stage productions

Radio and soundtrack

Audio adaptations of Adams' work

Television

Television adaptations of Adams' work

Video games

Film

Digital projects

References

Citations

Sources

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Title	Year	First edition publisher	Notes	Ref.
Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic: A Novel	1997		Written by Terry Jones; based on Adams' Starship Titanic	^[26]^[27]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases†	2005	Pan Books	"As dramatized, directed and annotated by Dirk Maggs from the novels by Douglas Adams"	^[28]
And Another Thing...†	2009	Penguin Books	Written by Eoin Colfer; sixth and final novel in the Hitchhiker's Guide series	^[29]

Title	Year	Debut venue	Notes	Ref.
Chox	1974		Footlights' 1974 May Week Revue; Adams contributed various sketches with co-writers Will Adams and Martin Smith	^[30]^[31]
Paradise Mislaid	1975		Footlights' 1975 May Week Revue; Used existing material from Adams, Will Adams and Martin Smith	^[32]
Unpleasantness at Brodie's Close	1976	Edinburgh Festival Fringe	Co-written with John Lloyd and David Renwick; Loosely based on The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers	^[33]^[34]^[35]

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"	^[36]
The Burkiss Way			^[37]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Primary and Secondary Phases)	1978–1980	"Fit the Fifth" and "Fit the Sixth" were co-written by John Lloyd.	^[38]^[39]
The Internet: The Last Battleground of the 20th century	1999		^[40]^[41]^[6]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Future	2000		^[42]^[6]

Title	Year	Broadcaster	Notes	Ref.
Shada†	2003		Released as both webcast and audio drama	^[43]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases)†	2004–2005		Adapted by Dirk Maggs from Adams' third, fourth and fifth Hitchhiker's novels	^[28]
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency†	2007–2008	BBC Radio 4	Based on the first two Dirk Gently books; adapted by Dirk Maggs	^[6]^[44]^[45]^[46]

Title	Episode or Serial	Year	Broadcaster	Notes	Ref.
Monty Python's Flying Circus	"Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Liberal Party"	1974	BBC Two	The sketch "Patient Abuse"; co-written with Graham Chapman	^[47]^[48]^[49]
Out of the Trees	Pilot episode	1976	BBC Two	Co-written with Graham Chapman and Bernard McKenna	^[50]^[51]
Doctor on the Go	"For Your Own Good"	1977	ITV	Co-written with Graham Chapman	^[52]^[53]
Not Now, I'm Listening	(broadcast 21 May)	1978		Wrote one sketch	^[54]
Doctor Who	The Pirate Planet	1978	BBC One	4 episodes	^[6]
	Destiny of the Daleks	1979		4 episodes; uncredited rewrites on Terry Nation's script	^[55]^[56]
	City of Death			4 episodes; co-written with Graham Williams, from an original storyline by David Fisher, and credited to "David Agnew"	^[57]^[58]
	Shada			6 episodes; filming was not completed due to industrial action at the BBC	^[43]
Doctor Snuggles	"The Great Disappearing Mystery"		ITV	Co-written with John Lloyd	^[59]^[60]
Doctor Snuggles	"The Remarkable Fidgety River"		ITV	Co-written with John Lloyd	^[59]^[60]
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	N/a	1981	BBC Two	Adapted from the first radio series	^[61]^[62]^[63]^[64]
Doctor Who	"The Five Doctors"	1983	BBC One	Uses scenes filmed for Shada; Adams was not credited	^[43]^[65]
Hyperland	N/a	1990	BBC Two	"Fantasy documentary"	^[66]^[64]^[6]
The South Bank Show	(broadcast 5 January)	1992			^[67]

Title	Year	Broadcaster	Notes	Ref.
Chox	1974		Filmed version of Footlights' 1974 May Week Revue (see above)	^[30]^[31]
Dirk Gently†	2010–2012	BBC Four	Based on the Dirk Gently series	^[6]
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency†	2016–2017	BBC America	Based on the Dirk Gently series	^[6]
Doctor Who: The Lost Episode†	2018	BBC America	Partly-animated reconstruction of Shada	^[68]^[43]

Title	Year	Publisher	Notes	Ref.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	1984	Infocom	Co-created with Steve Meretzky	^[69]^[70]^[6]
Bureaucracy	1987			^[6]
Starship Titanic	1998		Co-written with Michael Bywater and Neil Richards. Additional dialogue written by D. A. Barham.	^{[citation needed]}