Douglas Adams (in-universe)

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Douglas (AUDIO: The Wormery ^[+]Loading...["The Wormery (audio story)"]) Adams (PROSE: Love & War ^[+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"]) was a friend of the Sixth Doctor, who once answered what was wrong with being drunk with "ask a glass of water". (AUDIO: The Wormery ^[+]Loading...["The Wormery (audio story)"])

Professor Chronotis seemingly once replaced The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey in the Panopticon Archives with a book whose title began with The Hitch-, written by one of the "greatest writers" in Earth's history. (PROSE: Shada ^[+]Loading...["Shada (novelisation)"])

Olivia Kagg Waldermein, in her essay Love & War: A Meta-Historical Investigation of the Dawn of the Cosmic Revolution, while explaining two supposedly unconnected things, advised confused readers to go over the "elementary texts" of the Adams-Cjelli Fundamental Interconnectedness Theorem, of which the essay was an example. (PROSE: Love & War ^[+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])

Behind the scenes

Douglas Adams, a scriptwriter at the BBC. (WC: Tom Baker stars in John Lloyd's lost Doctor Who adventure, The Doomsday Contract ^[+]Loading...["Tom Baker stars in John Lloyd's lost Doctor Who adventure, The Doomsday Contract (webcast)"])

• "Douglas" in The Wormery ^[+]Loading...["The Wormery (audio story)"] is a reference to Douglas Adams, who wrote the line about the glass of water in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Adams also was script editor for Season 17 of Doctor Who, and wrote several scripts for the show himself.
• This in-universe counterpart to Adams was further detailed in Tom Baker stars in John Lloyd's lost Doctor Who adventure, The Doomsday Contract ^[+]Loading...["Tom Baker stars in John Lloyd's lost Doctor Who adventure, The Doomsday Contract (webcast)"], as the writer of Hitchhiker's, script editor for Doctor Who, and friend of/coworker with John Lloyd. However, due to being a promotional video, the webcast is not considered a valid source by this wiki.
• One of the main conceits of Love & War ^[+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"] is that all Doctor Who media exist in the Doctor Who universe as historical essays, and hence "Adams-Cjelli Fundamental Interconnectedness Theorem" is a reference to Dirk Gently's Fundamental Interconnectedness Theorem from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, implying that the real-world Adams, who wrote the book, collaborated with Gently on the theory.
• What If? depicts a part in-universe part meta-fictional world revolving around the Richard Griffiths Eighth Doctor.