h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

(takes a step back to have a look around then realises where he is)

Nothing to do with Douglas Adams is it?

I can't see a connection with Roger Moore but John Lloyd (QI producer) co-wrote a couple of episodes of H2G2 with Douglas Adams. He seems like the sort of person who would inspire a sideways view of the world.

He co-wrote the Meaning of Liff too, I believe.

ekky99

"Nothing to do with Douglas Adams is it?"

Absolutely spot on there. It is as you say nothing to do with Douglas Adams.

Actually I have found a link with answer number three and Douglas Adams and H2g2 which is so tenuous that you must ignore it, although I found it so amusing that I will post a link to it at the conclusion of the QI.

I remember Jean Rook the journalist was once asked, by Michael Parkinson I think, who were the people she had interviewed who were most and least like she expected them to be. She said that she had real doubts about whether she would like Roger Moore and he turned out to be one of the nicest people she had ever met but that Eric Morley, the head of Mecca and organiser of Miss World, was just as awful as she expected, making a point of not looking up as she entered his office and making a great show of signing cheques for large amounts.

Other things I can remember about Roger Moore:
As a kid I saw him turn on the illuminations at Morecambe in the 60s.
He was in the early TV series Ivanhoe before The Saint.
The car he drove in The Saint was a Volvo because the TV company couldn't get hold of a Jaguar in time. A dentist in Keswick who opened a museum of Stars of the Cars tried to get hold of that car (number plate ST1 - Simon Templar) but settled for a similar model just before the original came up for sale which he also bought, so he found himself stuck with a duplicate.

Pick the bones out of that lot.

Inspector Gregory: “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?”

Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”

Inspector Gregory: “The dog did nothing in the night time.”

“That was the curious incident,” remarked Sherlock Holmes.

Lewis Carroll (curiouser & curiouser).

I solemnly declare that I will not be that obvious

I just got a bit lost

So will repost the question here for others in the same boat

"The real inspiration (in part) of QI and the Creator's first choice, well he was a saint. Put them together and what have you got, bibbity bobbity boo? Seven Dwarves?

Three answers, two people and what do you get when you put them together."

oscar wilde

played by stephen fry

roger played a part whos name was wilde

Taff Agent of Kaos has commited BBCide
"played by stephen fry"


The legend that is Taff returns! More reliable than a British Rail delay................

It has been quiet without you.

The creator's first choice.....

'And God said "Let there be light'........

Surely, the Creators first choice!!!!


GT

Then again, we could be talking of the first man, Adam....



GT

gandalfstwin
The creator's first choice.....
'And God said "Let there be light'........
Surely, the Creators first choice!!!!

Or dark? something to put the light in?

Then again, we could be talking of the first man, Adam

Ouch.."God"

Ooof.."Adam"

GT!!

Hans Christian Anderson

Michael Abner

angela lansbury

she is making a new series with ricky tomlinson

jessica fletcher and jim royal team up in

murder my @rse

jessica fletcher and jim royal team up in

murder my @rse



Taff, no points for that but I seriously suggest you knock up a three page background treatment and send it to the BBC, it looks like a winner

McKay The Disorganised
Hans Christian Anderson or Michael Abner


Not HC Anderson and I cannot even find a remote link that would amuse!

Who is Michael Abner? The only one I can find is a man who recently confessed to a double murder in Kentucky USA which interestingly is where Mammoth Cave is located, which has a feature named after Jenny Lind the famous Swedish opera singer with whom Hans Christian Anderson was in love and unsuccessfully proposed to.

The Danish tales guy is HC Andersen, with an e.

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Groucho Marx?

Groucho Marx?

No. Groucho is miles away from the answer. As are his brothers, Chico, Harpo, and Karl.

Karl was the straight guy, the romantic lead, though I think he published a book that was pretty funny.