1979 Interview With Douglas Adams

An anonymous reader points out the inaugural issue of the online sci-fi mag Darker Matter, which start off with a bang by publishing an interview with the late Douglas Adams that has not seen the light of day in 28 years, except for brief excerpts published in the magazine that commissioned the interview. The first two parts are now online with the last part coming next month.

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Doctor Who's finest hour...

[skoaldipper]

Tom Baker was my favorite Doctor, and I see Douglas Adams wrote a few of those episodes. I wonder how much of Adam's influence was present in Tom Baker's tenure outside of those 4 episodes he wrote. I later latched on to reruns from the crudgy old white guy and that blonde haired chap.

Re:6-by-9 department?

[The Darkness]

I think that ought to be 6*7. No.
(SPOILER ALERT)
In The Restaurant ah the End of the Universe when Arthur is stranded on the planet with all the Golgafrinchans and early Earth computer man he tosses out the scrabble pieces to form the Question for the Ultimate Answer. He tosses out:

W H A T D O Y O U G E T I F Y O U M U L T I P L Y S I X B Y N I N E

So the 'from' department is correct.