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== Connections with the DWU == | == Connections with the DWU == | ||
=== Shared Douglas Adams universe === | === Shared Douglas Adams universe === | ||
[[Douglas Adams]] served as [[script editor]] on ''[[Doctor Who]]'' television stories contemporarily to his writing the original ''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' radio series and the first few ''Hitchhiker's'' novels. | [[Douglas Adams]] served as [[script editor]] on ''[[Doctor Who]]'' television stories contemporarily to his writing of the original ''Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' radio series and the first few ''Hitchhiker's'' novels. | ||
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 as a novelisation by [[James Goss]] under the title of ''[[Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen]]''. | 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 introduced [[Oolon Colluphid]] as the author of [[Origins of the Universe|a book about "the origins of the universe"]] which the Doctor found laughable. | ||
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 | 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?''. | ||
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. | 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. | ||
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=== Subsequent in-universe connections === | === Subsequent in-universe connections === | ||
Other writers continued to | Other writers continued to indicate that ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' both took place in a shared universe. As early as [[1995 (releases)|1995]], ''[[Managra (novel)|Managra]]'' and ''[[Lords of the Storm (novel)|Lords of the Storm]]'', two separate [[Virgin Missing Adventures|''Missing Adventures'']], featured further references to [[Betelgeuse V|the planet Betelgeuse]]. It would be mentioned by multiple other stories in the 21st century. In [[2001 (releases)|2001]], a few months before Adams's passing, ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'', the first of [[Big Finish Productions]]' audios starring [[Paul McGann]]'s [[Eighth Doctor]], featured an [[Altairian dollar]], a currency from the ''Hitchhiker's'' series. | ||
In [[2002 (releases)|2002]], the six episodes of the [[1981 (releases)|1981]] TV miniseries version of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' were released on DVD. On the second DVD disc, a ''Making Of…'' documentary was included. Its credits were animated and showed [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] tracking a space-ship upon which [[Arthur Dent|Arthur]] was getting a lift. The ship was actually the ''Liberator'' from ''[[Blake's 7 (series)|Blake's 7]]'', making this a three-way crossover between the three largely contemporary 1970s-1980s BBC sci-fi cult classics. | In [[2002 (releases)|2002]], the six episodes of the [[1981 (releases)|1981]] TV miniseries version of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' were released on DVD. On the second DVD disc, a ''Making Of…'' documentary was included. Its credits were animated and showed [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] tracking a space-ship upon which [[Arthur Dent|Arthur]] was getting a lift. The ship was actually the ''Liberator'' from ''[[Blake's 7 (series)|Blake's 7]]'', making this a three-way crossover between the three largely contemporary 1970s-1980s BBC sci-fi cult classics. | ||
