Douglas Adams's 1982 science fiction comedy novel Life, the Universe and Everything – the third part of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series – features the urn containing the Ashes, as a significant element of its plot.

English writer Douglas Adams, who wrote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, used the metaphor of a living puddle examining its own shape, since, to those living creatures, the universe may appear to fit them perfectly ( while in fact, they simply fit the universe perfectly ).

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is named for a fictional galactic encyclopedia that one of the main characters works for.

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Other popular and inventive titles included a number of sequels and spinoff games in the Zork series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, and A Mind Forever Voyaging.

This release, however, was missing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Shogun because the licenses from Douglas Adams ' and James Clavell's estates had expired.

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1984, Steve Meretzky & Douglas Adams )

With the exception of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Shogun, the copyrights to the Infocom games are believed to be still held by Activision.

Five games ( Zork I, Planetfall, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Wishbringer and Leather Goddesses of Phobos ) were re-released in Solid Gold format.

* Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

* May 25 is Towel Day, in tribute to Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

* 1978 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.

* 1979 – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.

Slartibartfast is a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a comedy / science fiction series created by Douglas Adams.

He adds to this statement in Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion, an analysis by Neil Gaiman.

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The BBC also aired science fiction comedy series such as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1981 ) by Douglas Adams and Red Dwarf ( 1988 – 99, 2009 ).

Sometimes it appears as a genuine tool, but often it is parodied – for example, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game included tools such as the ultra-plasmic awl, and the BBC Radio 4 science-fiction comedy Nebulous offered the sonic crowbar.

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: Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1978 )

He played Ford Prefect in the radio series ( 1978 – 80 ) and subsequent LP releases of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, and reprised the role for the three new series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 2004 and 2005.

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Collector's Edition 8 CD set, containing the original 12 radio episodes from 1978 and 1980, as well as an untransmitted interview with Ian Johnstone and the twentieth anniversary programme.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio series written by Douglas Adams was first broadcast in 1978 and was the first incarnation of his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy franchise.

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Collector's Edition 8 CD set, containing the original 12 radio episodes from 1978 and 1980, as well as an untransmitted interview with Ian Johnstone and the twentieth anniversary programme.

Within a couple of years of the original 1978 radio broadcasts in the UK, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy became a large international phenomenon.

Hawkins was the original voice for the character of Frankie Mouse in the fourth radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, originally broadcast in March 1978.

* The Hippocratic Oath – an article by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( h2g2 ).

* Hitchhiker's Guide ( Adams ) – Places in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Best known as the BBC head of comedy ( 1995 – 2001 ), he produced the first two radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and is one of the people credited with creating the bizarre panel game Mornington Crescent for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

* 11 – Douglas Adams, 49, British author, works included The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the two Dirk Gently novels and serials in the series Doctor Who, heart attack.

* h2g2 – a collection of sometimes humorous encyclopedia articles, based on an idea from Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

* Project Galactic Guide – inspired by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, was one of the first Internet encyclopedia projects

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1981 ) ( miniseries ) – Ford Prefect

* Trillian in the television version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxySandra Dickinson said in an interview in The Making of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy that when she heard that she had been suggested for the role of Trillian, she thought it completely mad – Sandra Dickinson was blond and fair-skinned, and in the Hitch Hiker book, Trillian is described as dark and looking " slightly Arabic ".

In January 1980 Le Mesurier played The Wise Old Bird in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and appeared on the same channel as Bilbo Baggins in the 1981 radio version of The Lord of the Rings.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe ( 1980, ISBN 0-345-39181-0 ) is the second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction pentalogy of five by Douglas Adams.

The deliberately misnamed Hitchhikers ' Guide To The Galaxy Trilogy consists of five books: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1979 ), The Restaurant at the End of the Universe ( 1980 ), Life, the Universe and Everything ( 1982 ), So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish ( 1984 ) and Mostly Harmless ( 1992 ).

Audience-carrying capacity was not a problem at London's vast Rainbow Theatre where Campbell mounted a yet more grandiose version of The Hitchhiker's Guide in July 1980.

Harmony Books published the first Hitchhiker's novel as a hardback in October 1980.

McKeown has also appeared on numerous television series including: Yes Minister ( 1980 ), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1981 ), Pinkerton's Progress ( 1983 which he also wrote for ) and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles ( 1992 ).