The BEST episodes written by Douglas Adams

City of Death (4)
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8.67
144 votes

#1 - City of Death (4)

Doctor Who - Season 17 - Episode 8

Scaroth is determined to go back 400 million years in time to prevent a mistake. But the Doctor must stop him – because the consequences would be disastrous.

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City of Death (2)
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8.42
144 votes

#2 - City of Death (2)

Doctor Who - Season 17 - Episode 6

Captured by the Count, the Doctor and Romana uncover an elaborate plan to steal the Mona Lisa. But there is more to Scarlioni's plans than a simple theft.

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City of Death (3)
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8.20
142 votes

#3 - City of Death (3)

Doctor Who - Season 17 - Episode 7

The Doctor and Romana unwrap an intricate plot involving aliens, time travel and the Mona Lisa. How is Count Scarlioni living in two times at once? And what does he want?

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Episode 1
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8.09
377 votes

#4 - Episode 1

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Season 1 - Episode 1

Arthur Dent, a perfectly ordinary Earthman, is surprised to wake up one day to find bulldozers outside his house with orders to knock it down to build a by-pass. He is even more surprised later on in the pub when his best friend Ford Prefect reveals himself to be from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse. The two are forced to hitch a lift on one of the advancing Vogon spacecraft which proceed to blow up the Earth to make way for an interspace bypass. Our two heroes find themselves trapped in a storage room in hyperspace, with only a menacing Vogon guard for company.

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Episode 2
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8.06
215 votes

#5 - Episode 2

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Season 1 - Episode 2

Arthur and Ford have been discovered. Vogon Captain Jeltz tortures them by reading his poetry. He then has Arthur and Ford thrown off his ship, to what must be certain death - except for one improbable miracle. At the last second, an infinite-improbability prototype ship (which can pass through every point in the Universe) rescues them. What is rather surprising is that Zaphod Beeblebrox, the hip cat who stole the spaceship, is vaguely familiar to Arthur. And so is Zaphod's companion, Trillian.

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The Great Disappearing Mystery
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7.99
88 votes

#6 - The Great Disappearing Mystery

Doctor Snuggles - Season 1 - Episode 12

Doctor Snuggles matches wits with Professor Featherbody to foil a feathery kidnapping scheme.

The Pirate Planet (4)
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7.84
157 votes

#7 - The Pirate Planet (4)

Doctor Who - Season 16 - Episode 8

The Captain and Xanxia work toward their secret goals. Both depends on the pirate planet consuming one more victim - Earth.

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City of Death (1)
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7.82
176 votes

#8 - City of Death (1)

Doctor Who - Season 17 - Episode 5

Paris, 1979. The Doctor and Romana are here on holiday, but something is disturbing the flow of time. Could the time travel experiments of Count Scarlioni be to blame?

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Episode 4
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7.74
185 votes

#9 - Episode 4

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Season 1 - Episode 4

Arthur learns about the Great Project - the second most powerful computer in existence, called Deep Thought, created to answer the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. The computer comes back online much later on to give its final answer - 42. The scientists are understandably hacked off, even more so when Deep Thought cannot tell them what the Ultimate Question is, and a new computer, called the Earth, has to be built for that purpose. The current owners of the Great Project, Trillian's pet mice, want to cut open Arthur's head to find the Question, but when the crew are all trapped behind a bank of exploding computers, all appears lost.

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The Pirate Planet (1)
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7.63
199 votes

#10 - The Pirate Planet (1)

Doctor Who - Season 16 - Episode 5

Planet Zanak, unknown time. The Doctor and Romana are seeking the planet Calufrax where the second segment waits. They are in the right place and the right time… but on the wrong planet.

The Remarkable Fidgety River
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7.62
152 votes

#11 - The Remarkable Fidgety River

Doctor Snuggles - Season 1 - Episode 7

Dr. Snuggles discovers that the near-by river has dried up, and finds him hiding in a cave. The river is scared to go out to the sea because lately huge blocks of water have disappeared. Now Dr. Snuggles with the help of Uncle Bill and Woogie the Freckled Camel must find what is happening to all the water on Earth.

The Pirate Planet (2)
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7.61
166 votes

#12 - The Pirate Planet (2)

Doctor Who - Season 16 - Episode 6

The Doctor begins to investigate the mysteriously wealthy planet Zanak. Mentiads, a deranged Captain, strange omens, miraculous mines – what does it all mean? And what does it have to do with the Key to Time?

Episode 3
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7.60
222 votes

#13 - Episode 3

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Season 1 - Episode 3

The starship Heart of Gold is headed for the planet Magrathea, a planet which it is generally agreed does not exist. In trying to land on Magrathea's surface, the crew faces an ancient nuclear missile defence system, escaping only when Arthur turns on the Infinite Improbability Drive. This helpfully replaces the missiles with a bowl of petunias and a very surprised sperm whale, who learns about the ground before he hits it. Later on, deep in the core of the planet, an unknown enemy attacks Trillian, Zaphod and Ford while Arthur meets Slartibartfast, an old man who designs planets for a living. Slartibartfast takes Arthur on a tour of the factory floor, showing off his latest project - Planet Earth, Mark Two.

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Episode 6
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7.55
169 votes

#14 - Episode 6

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Season 1 - Episode 6

Fortune is on the crews' side - the transporter on the ship is still working, but needs someone to manually operate it. Marvin is therefore pressed into volunteering to sacrifice himself so the rest of the group can escape. Arthur and Ford get separated from Zaphod and Trillian and find themselves on board a space ship about to crashland into the prehistoric past of a planet that the two of them find strangely familiar. If this is indeed Earth, then history as they know it is about to be changed - and so is the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe and Everything....

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The Pirate Planet (3)
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7.55
181 votes

#15 - The Pirate Planet (3)

Doctor Who - Season 16 - Episode 7

The Doctor and Romana begin to uncover the secrets of Zanak. But the murderous Captain seems to have plans of his own.

Party Political Broadcast
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7.50
219 votes

#16 - Party Political Broadcast

Monty Python's Flying Circus - Season 4 - Episode 6

A Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Liberal Party; A woman ironing appliances, a laxative cereals, `I run out of beans!', Yes it's the Most Awful Family in Britain Contest for 1974; Icelandic Honey week; a man stabbed by a nurse has to fill out a form for the Doctor to treat him as he bleeds to death; brigadier dictates a letter of protest; animation- opera singer and cannon; an appeal on behalf of rich people who have nothing wrong with them; a woman who can't finish sentences; the quest for the walking tree of Dahomie; the legendary batsmen of the Kalahari; credits; the news.

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Episode 5
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7.47
171 votes

#17 - Episode 5

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Season 1 - Episode 5

Arthur, Ford and the gang arrive at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe on Magrathea, built on the ruins of a planet-building complex, transported there by the exploding computers. Here, thanks to compound interest, you can enjoy a vast five-course meal and cabaret at no cost whatever while the universe collapses and dies around you. Arthur and Ford are surprised to find Marvin still waiting for them in the restaurant's star-ship park. He has been there rather a long time. They decide to steal a space-ship, but unfortunately it turns out to be the stunt ship of <I>Disaster Area</I>, the loudest rock band of all time, and is programmed to plunge directly into the sun. So what next?

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Hyperland
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0.00
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#18 - Hyperland

BBC Documentaries - Season 1990 - Episode 1

In this one-hour documentary produced by the BBC in 1990 and broadcast on BBC2, Douglas falls asleep in front of a television and dreams about future time when he may be allowed to play a more active role in the information he chooses to digest. A software agent, Tom (played by Tom Baker), guides Douglas around a multimedia information landscape, examining (then) cuttting-edge research by the SF Multimedia Lab and NASA Ames research center, and encountering hypermedia visionaries such as Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson.