1979 Interview With Douglas Adams

An anonymous reader points out the inaugural issue of the online sci-fi mag Darker Matter, which start off with a bang by publishing an interview with the late Douglas Adams that has not seen the light of day in 28 years, except for brief excerpts published in the magazine that commissioned the interview. The first two parts are now online with the last part coming next month.

Doctor Who's finest hour...

[skoaldipper]

Tom Baker was my favorite Doctor, and I see Douglas Adams wrote a few of those episodes. I wonder how much of Adam's influence was present in Tom Baker's tenure outside of those 4 episodes he wrote. I later latched on to reruns from the crudgy old white guy and that blonde haired chap.

"Does he not, to put it in a nutshell, fuck?"

[El_Oscuro]

I know no one on Slashdot reads TFA, but you need to. Some things should be required, like building your own PC or Lightsaber, or reading HHGTTG. Those who wish to learn more should go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_andre w.shtml [bbc.co.uk].

Re:6-by-9 department?

[Viceroy Potatohead]

But 6 * 9 is 42 in base 13.

Re:6-by-9 department?

[The Darkness]

I think that ought to be 6*7.

No.
(SPOILER ALERT)
In The Restaurant ah the End of the Universe when Arthur is stranded on the planet with all the Golgafrinchans and early Earth computer man he tosses out the scrabble pieces to form the Question for the Ultimate Answer. He tosses out:

W H A T D O Y O U G E T I F Y O U M U L T I P L Y S I X B Y N I N E

So the 'from' department is correct.

Re:Doctor Who's finest hour...

[Anonymous Coward]

Douglas Adams wrote 2 Doctor Who stories by himself: The Pirate Planet (one of the best Who stories ever IMHO) and the uncompleted Shada, and co-wrote City of Death. He was script editor for a lot of episodes.
I've always wished he had written more episodes!

Re:6-by-9 department?

[Phroon]

"I may be a pretty sad case, but I don't write jokes in base 13!" - Douglas Adams

See Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] and Wikiquote [wikiquote.org]. This quote is also in video form on the DVD release of the Hitchhiker's TV series.

Re:A Tragedy

[DMoylan]

> I love that gag. It is so easy to imagine that it actually happened.

i think in a part of salmon of doubt there is an interview that explains that did actually happen to him. he ate somebody else's biscuits as described in hitch hikers. and the other person probably never realised why he did it. there was no apology or explanation.