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The events of the story begin four billion years before the present day on the primordial Earth. ( December 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. This section may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Adams stated that this was his personal "absolutely perfect" piece of music, and that he listened to it "over and over drove my wife completely insane" while writing Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. The piece of music by Bach that is heard aboard the satellite is "Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ" from the cantata "Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden", BWV 6 (also an organ chorale BWV 649). Likewise, Richard's room – filled with Macintosh computers and synthesisers – was based on Adams' own flat (visited and photographed by Hi-Fi Choice Magazine). The South Bank Show revealed that Adams based Chronotis' rooms on the rooms he occupied in his third year at university. When the staircases were completed, it was discovered that the sofas could no longer be removed from the rooms, and the sofas remained in those rooms for several decades. In a similar incident that occurred while Douglas Adams attended St John's College, Cambridge, furniture was placed in the rooms overlooking the river in Third Court while the staircases were being refurbished. For example, one plot thread involves moving a sofa which is irreversibly stuck on the staircase to Richard MacDuff's apartment according to his simulations, not only is it impossible to remove it, but there is no way for it to have got into that position in the first place. Ī number of elements in the novel were inspired by Adams' time at university.
The story was also animated in 2017 and released on DVD. Shada was cancelled before completion due to a production strike and later released on VHS with Tom Baker narrating the unfilmed segments. These trademark elements from Doctor Who were removed by Adams for Dirk Gently. In Shada, Chronotis's longevity is due to him being a Time Lord, and his time machine is an early model TARDIS. He has been living and working at a Cambridge college for centuries, apparently attracting no attention (noting with appreciation that the porters are very discreet).
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The genesis of the novel was in two Doctor Who serials written by Adams, City of Death (in which an alien tries to change history at the cost of erasing humanity from existence) and in particular the cancelled serial Shada, which first introduces a Cambridge professor called Chronotis who is hundreds of years old. A 2010 television adaptation for BBC Four borrowed some of the characters and some minor plot elements of the novel to create a new story, and a 2016 television adaptation for BBC America served as a continuation of the books.
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A second series based on the sequel was broadcast from October 2008. Adams also began work on another novel, The Salmon of Doubt, with the intention of publishing it as the third book in the series, but died before completing it.Ī BBC Radio 4 adaptation of six episodes was broadcast from October 2007. The only recurring major characters are the eponymous Dirk Gently, his secretary Janice Pearce and Sergeant Gilks. The book was followed by a sequel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
It is described by the author on its cover as a "thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic". Print (Paperback and Hardcover), Audiobook (cassette and compact disc)ĭirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by English writer Douglas Adams, first published in 1987.
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