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Dirk Gently: Created by Howard Overman. With Stephen Mangan, Darren Boyd, Lisa Jackson, Jason Watkins. Holistic detective Gently relies on the universe to unravel mysteries based on the 'interconnectedness of all things'.
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Dirk Gently is a British comic science fiction detective television series based on characters from the novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency 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.
This is based on a true story, of course. Coleridge was a real poet, who really wrote "Kubla Khan" in 1797, which came to him in a dream. A visitor interrupted him so that the poem, in the real world, is unfinished. In Dirk Gently, the poem is complete in the original timeline. The first half is the same as the incomplete, real-world version.
Nov 11, 2017 · BBC America’s science fiction show Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is based on a pair of novels by Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
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"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.
