
8 Season
157 Episode
Omnibus - Season 0 Episode 1 Life, The Universe, and Douglas Adams
A celebration of Douglas Adams, the genius behind The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy who died in May 2001, aged just 49. First heard on radio in 1978, Hitch-Hiker turned Adams and his intergalactic cast of Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox and Marvin the Robot into a worldwide cult, the books selling in their millions and enthralling fans from every continent. But Adams was as full of contradictions as the galaxies he created in Hitch-Hiker - a writer who found writing torture, a techie who was ill at ease with the modern world, a sci-fi fanatic who adored PG Wodehouse, and a giant of a man who forgot the extent of his own body and would shut his own legs in the car door.
- Year: 1961
- Country: United States of America, Italy, Spain
- Genre: Talk
- Studio: CBS, ABC, NBC
- Keyword: educational
- Director: Robert Saudek
- Cast: Alistair Cooke