Dirk Gently Douglas Adams& perennially broke morally dubious Holistic Detective whose investigations are based on the " Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things" is finally brought to television in BBC4&s hit series Created by Howard Overman (Misfits) & starring Stephen Mangan (Episodes Green Wing) as Dirk & Darren Boyd (Spy Whites) as his put-upon business partner Richard Mac Duff these four stories take in a missing cat a stolen robot horoscopes that actually predict the future & a Pentagon plot to destroy the Free World & while solving these cases Dirk must stay one step ahead of Mac Duff&s sceptical girlfriend Susan (Helen Baxendale--Cold Feet Friends) harassed Detective Inspector Gilks (Jason Watkins--Trollied) & his own unpaid unappreciated assistant Janice (Lisa Jackson--Campus) all while escaping the attentions of the Taxman & framing a man for murder Based on the much-loved books by Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy) Dirk Gently is written by Howard Overman Jamie Mathieson (Being Human) & Matt Jones (Doctor Who Skins) Part genius part conman mostly tangential Dirk Gently is a detective like no other
Includes:: all three new episodes plus the pilot episode