Besides the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams also produced several books in the Dirk Gently series, revolving around the escapades of, who else, Dirk Gently, who runs a detective agency based on the belief in the “interconnectedness of all things.” BBC is now producing a television series based on the novels. Here’s the first glimpse.
As first glimpse’s go, it doesn’t give us much to go off of. Douglas Adams’ stories blended strange, supernatural, and science fiction elements into the Dirk Gently stories…and there’s not really any sign of any of that so far. Will the adaptation set Dirk Gently in a solely realistic, if somewhat wacky, reality? Or have we just not yet been given a peek at those sides of the storylines? Here’s BBC’s further synopsis of the show:
Stephen Mangan will play Douglas Adams’ eccentric detective Dirk Gently in a new BBC Four drama based on the author’s cult novel, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.
He is joined by Darren Boyd as his unwitting sidekick Richard Macduff and Helen Baxendale as Richard’s girlfriend Susan in the adaptation by Bafta-winning Howard Overman.
Anti-hero Dirk Gently operates his eponymous detective agency based on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. Perpetually broke, hopelessly chaotic and utterly infuriating, most people suspect Dirk is nothing more than a cheap conman. And they might be right – but nevertheless his methods, though unusual, do often produce surprising results.
When Dirk sets out to solve an apparently simple and harmless disappearance of a cat from an old lady’s house, he unwittingly uncovers a double murder which, in turn, leads to a host of even more extraordinary events.
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