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Dirk Gently (2010–2012) starred Stephen Mangan in the title role in a pilot broadcast on BBC 4 in 2010 and a three-episode series broadcast in 2012. The series includes several plot lines from The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul , including Dirk's Zen navigation, his psychological battle with his cleaning lady, and a horoscope that is aimed at ...
Dries is a Dutch masculine given name, the short version of Andries (see Andre, Andrew) and may refer to: Dries van Agt (born 1931), Dutch politician Dries Boussatta (born 1972), Dutch footballer
Dirk Gently (born Svlad Cjelli, also known as Dirk Cjelli) is a fictional character created by English writer Douglas Adams and featured in the books Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul and The Salmon of Doubt. He is portrayed as a pudgy man who normally wears a heavy old light brown suit, red checked ...
The first series, Dirk Gently, featuring the character was announced during Hitchcon, a 2009 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy event to launch the sixth Hitchhiker's book. Ed Victor, a literary agent who represents Adams' estate, announced that a television adaptation of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was in production.
Adams came up with an outline for a pilot episode, as well as a few other stories (reprinted in Neil Gaiman's book Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion) that could be used in the series. Towel Day 2005 in Innsbruck, Austria, where Adams conceived The Hitchhiker's Guide. In the novels, a towel is the most useful ...
In 1969, Gently and Bacchus delve into the world of army secrets when a young former soldier commits a murder in a known homosexual hangout. They soon learn he was discharged from the military for mental instability and when the psychiatrist he was seeing hangs himself, Gently believes the case is far from as cut-and-dried as it seems.
A puzzle is a game, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge.In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together (or take them apart) in a logical way, in order to find the solution of the puzzle.
The Endless Quest books were three series of gamebooks. The first two series were released in the 1980s and 1990s by TSR , while the third series was released by Wizards of the Coast . Originally, these books were the result of an Educational department established by TSR with the intention of developing curriculum programs for subjects such as ...