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The book now contains transcripts of all Hitchhikers radio sketches, barring a sketch for Marvin that Adams wrote for the BBC Radio 1 show Studio B15 to promote the television version of the serial, which was broadcast in 1982. [1] In the first edition a page of dialogue was omitted from Fit the Twelfth. The 25th-anniversary edition reprint ...
A comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams, adapted to various formats, including novels, radio, TV, film and games. The series follows the adventures of Arthur Dent, a human rescued from Earth's destruction by an alien guidebook, and his encounters with other characters in the galaxy.
In 1980 a few American radio stations had broadcast the series (and a hardback was released in October), and the programme was finally broadcast in stereo by US National Public Radio in March 1981, prior to the first US book's paperback release in October of the same year. [1]
The Science Fiction Radio Show originated in 1979 from a proposed science fiction class at Odessa College in Odessa, Texas. David Carson, a media-design specialist at the college, and Keith Johnson, the school's astronomer and planetarium director, offered a science fiction course to students. However, it failed to attract enough interest.
Orson Welles's adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds, broadcast live on October 30, 1938, as a Halloween episode of The Mercury Theatre on the Air. The program, presented as a series of news bulletins, caused a panic by convincing some listeners that a Martian invasion was happening.
The episodes were thought entirely lost until 1988, when 25 of the 26 scripts were rediscovered in the Library of Congress storage and republished. Adaptations of the recovered scripts were performed and broadcast in the UK, on BBC Radio 4, between 1990 and 1993. In 1996, some recordings of the original show were discovered (all recorded from ...
During World War II and the post-war years, the juvenile adventure radio serial, sponsored by Kellogg's Pep, was a huge success, with many listeners following the quest for "truth and justice" in the daily radio broadcasts, the comic book stories and the newspaper comic strip. Airing in the late afternoon (variously at 5:15pm, 5:30pm and 5:45pm ...
Front cover of the November 1951 issue. The Mysterious Traveler was an American media franchise created by Robert Arthur and David Kogan. All versions of the franchise focused on suspense and crime fiction, with occasional elements of horror or science fiction.