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  • Bill Ferguson, a [[travel agent]] in [[Edinburgh]], has an argument with his girlfriend Stella after ...cope with the women all meeting each other, as well as Stella finding out about them.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090114080200/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.
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  • ...team, it is their first ever trip abroad, while for others it is the first time they have returned to France since their service in [[w:World War I|World W ...de is buried, he visits a local farm and meets Martine, with whom he spent time eight years before when she was eleven. Now an attractive young woman, she
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  • ...f the Universe, built atop the ruins of Frogstar World B and existing in a time bubble near the [[Ultimate fate of the universe|end of the universe]], whic ...d that they have been too preoccupied with trying to form council meetings about [[Documentary film|documentary]]-making, [[fiscal policy]], searching for [
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  • ...to the Galaxy (book)|first]] and [[Life, the Universe and Everything|third novels]], the [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases# ..., Slartibartfast is assigned to the continent of [[Africa]]. He is unhappy about this because he has already started "doing it with fjords again" (arguing t
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  • ...[[alliteration]] in parody of the titles of [[Jane Austen|Jane Austen's]] novels ''[[Sense and Sensibility]]'' and ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]''. ...ackadder tries to con his friends out of £30,000 with a fake [[time travel|time machine]] which, thanks to Baldrick, unexpectedly works up to a point.
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  • The [[science fiction]] series, ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', starts some time in the future,<ref>the exact date is unclear, as a calendar in [[Stasis Lea ...r. Binks of the ''Enlightenment'' as "bred from the domestic house cat and about half as smart".
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  • ...y Camp]]'', it concerns the erotic adventures of Timothy Lea, based on the novels written under that name by [[Christopher Wood (writer)|Christopher Wood]]. ...es. When novice film producer Greg Smith became interested in adapting the novels to screen, the hoax was maintained and Timmy Lea received credits as the au
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  • ...s hologram. But as the ship can only officially generate one hologram at a time, Rimmer (played by [[Chris Barrie]]) refuses to allow it, and goes so far a ...ooking through Kochanski's dream recorder, discovers that Kochanski dreamt about him three times. He believes from this that Kochanski might have been infat
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  • ...g her as "The holy mother, saved by Cloister the Stupid, who was frozen in time, and who gaveth of his life that we might live ... who shall returneth to l ...parents, a female "cripple" and a male "idiot" who ate his own feet. Over time, the rest of the cat people died off.<ref name="waiting for god">{{Cite epi
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  • ...The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', a pan-galactic encyclopaedia and travel guide. After Earth is destroyed in the first episode, Arthur and Ford find ...to the Galaxy (TV series)|television]]. This was followed by three further novels, a [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game)|computer game]],
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  • ...d States).<ref name="TRP booklet"/> Chilton later wrote three best-selling novels and several comic strip stories based upon the radio series. !''Frozen in Time''
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  • <!--This section is about the radio and TV series in which Miliways was on Magrathea; it was only Fro ...t all probability, he eventually finds himself on Ursa Minor Beta, just in time to rescue Zaphod from a robotic tank.
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  • | novels = {{ubl|''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)|The Hitchhiker's G ...dcast on [[BBC Radio 4]], it was later adapted to other formats, including novels, stage shows, comic books, a [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV ser
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  • ...tted to [[Bethnal House Asylum|Bethnal House Lunatic Asylum]]. Released to travel under his family's supervision, he [[murder]]ed his father, the Reverend Ju ...space, the Rutherford Centre, is now named after her) and, from the age of about 13, at Raven's Croft School, a boarding school in Sutton Avenue, Seaford.<r
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  • ...(the lowest ranking crewman) on the mining ship ''Red Dwarf'' spending his time performing tasks under the hated supervision of [[Arnold Rimmer]]. In the s ...ave pined after Kochanski; Lister mentioning that he had always been crazy about Kochanski but never acted on his feelings to ask her out or make love to he
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  • ...version of Rimmer from series eight has not been revealed yet. For a brief time in the feature-length special Red Dwarf The Promised Land, Rimmer is upgrad ...astronavigation exam" without passing nine times, or ten, if you count the time he had his spasm. He also claims in this episode that his father had said,
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  • ...cy]]'' (1987) and ''[[The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul|The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul]]'' (1988), and co-wrote ''[[The Meaning of Liff|The Meaning of ...Adams's height had made him stand out and that he had been self-conscious about it.<ref name=Adams_7>{{Harvnb|Adams|2002|p=7}}</ref><ref>Botti, Nicholas. [
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  • ...rgen-Belsen concentration camp|Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]]. He said about this experience: <blockquote>Millions of words have been written about these horror camps, many of them by inmates of those unbelievable places. I
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  • Since the opening of the third book starts at the same place and time (prehistoric Earth) as the opening of the second radio series, the entire S ...s back. Ford carries news that he has detected disturbances in the "space-time wash", and that they might be able to escape. The disturbance turns out to
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  • ...e a co-writer's credit on episode five, for the material on the statistics about the universe. ...ited the programme into TV movies, broadcasting more than one episode at a time without interruption. The UK videotape release was on two cassettes, each c
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