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 In [[1976 (production)|1976]], prior to creating ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' or getting official work on ''Doctor Who'', Adams pitched ''[[The Krikkitmen (TV story)|The Krikkitmen]]'' to the ''Doctor Who'' production office. It would have introduced the titular [[Krikkitman|Krikkitmen]]. It was rejected by [[Robert Holmes]], although the story would ultimately resurface in [[2018 (releases)|2018]] as a novelisation by [[James Goss]] under the title of ''[[Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen]]''.
-''[[The Pirate Planet (TV story)|The Pirate Planet]]'', the first produced ''Doctor Who'' story written by Adams, debuted a few months after the radio series, airing between [[30 September (releases)|30 September]] and [[31 October (releases)|31 October]] [[1978 (releases)|1978]]. It had the [[Fourth Doctor]] quote "Don't panic!", the tagline of the in-universe guidebook and a phrase frequently used by [[Ford Prefect]], and introduced the planet [[Qualactin]] and the mineral [[Madranite one-five|Madranite]].  A year later, ''[[Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)|Destiny of the Daleks]]'', broadcast in [[September (releases)|September]] [[1979 (releases)|1979]], had the Doctor prominently mention [[Betelgeuse V|the planet Betelgeuse]], the home of Ford Prefect. It also introduced [[Oolon Colluphid]] as the author of [[Origins of the Universe|a book about "the origins of the universe"]] which the Doctor found laughable.
+''[[The Pirate Planet (TV story)|The Pirate Planet]]'', the first produced ''Doctor Who'' story written by Adams, debuted a few months after the radio series, airing between [[30 September (releases)|30 September]] and [[31 October (releases)|31 October]] [[1978 (releases)|1978]]. It had the [[Fourth Doctor]] quote "Don't panic!", the tagline of the in-universe guidebook and a phrase frequently used by [[Ford Prefect]], and introduced the planet [[Qualactin]] and the mineral [[Madranite one-five|Madranite]].  A year later, ''[[Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)|Destiny of the Daleks]]'', broadcast in [[September (releases)|September]] [[1979 (releases)|1979]], had the Doctor prominently mention [[Betelgeuse V|the planet Betelgeuse]], the home of Ford Prefect. It also mentioned [[Oolon Colluphid]] as the author of [[Origins of the Universe|a book about "the origins of the universe"]] which the Doctor found laughable; the opening of the radio series had mentioned him as the author of multiple skeptical theological books: ''Where God Went Wrong'', ''Some More Of God's Greatest Mistakes'', and ''Just Who Is This God Person, Anyway?''.
-A year after ''The Pirate Planet'', and the month after ''Destiny of the Daleks'' debuted, the first of Adams's ''Hitchhiker's'' novels came out. Simply entitled ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', it was an adaptation and expansion of the radio series' first four episodes, and came out on [[12 October (releases)|12 October]] [[1979 (releases)|1979]]. Qualactin and Madranite from ''The Pirate Planet'' were namedropped, and Oolon Colluphid from ''Destiny of the Daleks'' was prominently referenced as the author of multiple skeptical theological books: ''Where God Went Wrong'', ''Some More Of God's Greatest Mistakes'', and ''Just Who Is This God Person, Anyway?''.
+A year after ''The Pirate Planet'', and the month after ''Destiny of the Daleks'' debuted, the first of Adams's ''Hitchhiker's'' novels came out. Simply entitled ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', it was an adaptation and expansion of the radio series' first four episodes, and came out on [[12 October (releases)|12 October]] [[1979 (releases)|1979]]. Qualactin and Madranite from ''The Pirate Planet'' were namedropped (and Oolon Colluphid was once again prominently referenced).
 Adams also scripted ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'', a story intended to be released at the end of [[Season 17]] in early [[1980 (releases)|1980]], although due to a BBC strike it remained unproduced in live-action form for decades. Adams's script involved a [[sofa]] being dematerialised into the [[Time Vortex]]. (In the filmed version, this was replaced with a tray for unknown reasons.) Around this time, Adams also made a second attempt to produce ''The Krikkitmen'', this time hoping to make it a special one-off feature film. After this failed, Adams finally introduced the Krikkitmen in the third ''Hitchhiker's'' novel (and the first not to adapt existing episodes of the radio series), {{wi|Life, the Universe, and Everything}}. Also in this book, due to "eddies in the space-time continuum!", a sofa spontaneously rematerialises first on prehistoric Earth, then jumps forward — with Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect in tow — to the present day. Prefect recognises that the sofa must have been "washed up out of the continuum", calling it "space-time jetsam", and its origins are not otherwise addressed.