The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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| Name: | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| Abbreviation(s): | HHGG, H2G2 |
| Creator: | Douglas N. Adams |
| Date(s): | 1978- |
| Medium: | Radio series, novel, television series, movie, computer game |
| Country of Origin: | United Kingdom |
| External Links: | BBC radio series, BBC television series, movie, Douglas Adams official site |
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Incarnations of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The radio series
The First Phase was first broadcast in 1978.[1]
The Second Phase was broadcast in 1978 (Christmas special) and 1980.[1]
The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases were first broadcast 2003-2005, and were based on the HHGG books written based on the original (first and second phases) of the radio series.[2]
The books
The Trilogy (in five parts)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel) (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)
Mostly Harmless (1992)
Tie-ins by Douglas Adams
The Salmon of Doubt - a collection of previously uncollected material, including the short story Young Zaphod Plays it Safe[3] (2001)
Tie-ins by other authors
Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic - a novelization by Terry Jones of the computer game of the same name.[3] (1997)
And Another Thing... - by Eoin Colfer will be a continuation of the trilogy[3] (expected 2009)
The television series
The computer games
The movie
Canon
The content of the different incarnations of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy mostly overlaps and partially contradicts itself. Most fan writers tend to pick one incarnation to use as canon, and disregard the rest.
