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Dirk Gently (1987 - 2002)
Dirk Gently
Dates:
1987
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2002
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Dirk Gently (born Svlad Cjelli, also known as Dirk Cjelli) is a fictional character created by Douglas Adams and featured in the books Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. He is portrayed as a pudgy man who normally wears a heavy old light brown suit, red checked shirt with a green striped tie, long leather coat, red hat and thick metal-rimmed spectacles. "Dirk Gently" is not the character's real name. It is noted early on in the first book that it is a pseudonym for "Svlad Cjelli". Dirk himself states that the name has a "Scottish dagger feel" to it.
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The South Bank Show
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Season:
15
/ Episode:
13
Douglas Adams
Date:
January 15, 1992
Type:
Television Episode
This Television Episode refers to
Dirk Gently
This documentary episode about Douglas Adams, features an actor who portrays Dirk Genrly.
Episode:
Douglas Adams part of The South Bank Show Season 15
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Dirk Gently
Dates:
December 16, 2010
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March 19, 2012
Type:
Television Series
This Television Series is inspired by
Dirk Gently
Dirk Gently is a British comedy detective drama TV series based on characters from the Dirk Gently novels by Douglas Adams. The series was created by Howard Overman and stars Stephen Mangan as holistic detective Dirk Gently and Darren Boyd as his sidekick Richard MacDuff. Recurring actors include Helen Baxendale as MacDuff's girlfriend Susan Harmison, Jason Watkins as Dirk's nemesis DI Gilks and Lisa Jackson as Dirk's receptionist Janice Pearce. Unlike most detective series Dirk Gently features broadly comic touches and even some science fiction themes such as time travel and artificial intelligence.
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Books in this Book Series
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
written by
Douglas Adams
part of
Dirk Gently
and
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Date:
1987
Type:
Book
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a humorous detective novel by Douglas Adams, first published in 1987. It is described by the author on its cover as a "thumping good detective-ghost-horror-who dunnit-time travel-romantic-musical-comedy-epic".
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
written by
Douglas Adams
part of
Dirk Gently
Date:
October 10, 1988
Type:
Book
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a 1988 humorous fantasy detective novel by Douglas Adams. It is the second book by Adams featuring private detective Dirk Gently, the first being Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. The title is a phrase which appeared in Adams' novel Life, the Universe and Everything to describe the wretched boredom of immortal being Wowbagger, the Infinitely Prolonged, and is a play on the theological treatise Dark Night of the Soul, by Saint John of the Cross.
The Salmon of Doubt
written by
Douglas Adams
part of
Dirk Gently
Date:
May 2002
Type:
Book
A posthumously published by from Douglas Adams.
Pop Culture with the Same or Similar Titles
Dirk Gently
Dates:
December 16, 2010
-
March 19, 2012
Type:
Television Series
Dirk Gently is a British comedy detective drama TV series based on characters from the Dirk Gently novels by Douglas Adams. The series was created by Howard Overman and stars Stephen Mangan as holistic detective Dirk Gently and Darren Boyd as his sidekick Richard MacDuff. Recurring actors include Helen Baxendale as MacDuff's girlfriend Susan Harmison, Jason Watkins as Dirk's nemesis DI Gilks and Lisa Jackson as Dirk's receptionist Janice Pearce. Unlike most detective series Dirk Gently features broadly comic touches and even some science fiction themes such as time travel and artificial intelligence.
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