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The pilot episode of ''Dirk Gently'' is the first broadcast episode of the BBC Four television series inspired by Douglas Adams's novel ''Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency''.〔 First broadcast on 16 December 2010 and repeated throughout the Christmas period, it was written by Howard Overman and stars Stephen Mangan as holistic detective Dirk Gently and Darren Boyd as his sidekick Richard Macduff. Recurring actors include Helen Baxendale as Susan Harmison, Jason Watkins as DI Gilks and Lisa Jackson as Janice Pearce. In the hour-long pilot, "holistic detective" Dirk Gently is hired by an old lady to investigate the disappearance of a cat, a case that gives him a new fridge and re-acquaints him with two old friends from university. Together they uncover a plot involving time travel, unrequited love, depression and murder. The comedy-drama is a loose adaptation of plot elements from Adams' 1987 novel ''Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'', although it updates the detective to the present day and focuses on only a few of the original novel's characters and plot threads. Critical reception to the pilot was generally positive, and in March 2011 BBC Four announced that it had commissioned a three-part series of one hour-long episodes, the first continuing drama series produced for the channel.〔"(Dirk Gently to return to BBC Four )", BBC Press Release, 31 March 2011〕〔Jason Deans, "(''Dirk Gently'' to return to BBC4 )", ''The Guardian'', 31 March 2011〕 ==Production== Shooting commenced early in October 2010 in Bristol.〔 The director was Damon Thomas and the producer was Chris Carey. Although it was commissioned by the BBC, it was produced by ITV Studios with The Welded Tandem Picture Company. The pilot was first broadcast on BBC Four on 16 December 2010 and was repeated a number of times during the next month.〔''(Radio Times )'' listing〕 The pilot gained a commission on 31 March 2011 for a three-part series of one hour-long episodes to be broadcast on BBC Four in 2012.〔〔 The screenplay by Howard Overman is not a direct adaptation of Adams's novel, but uses certain characters and situations from the novel to form the basis of a new drama centred on Dirk.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC - Press Office - Stephen Mangan to play Dirk Gently in drama based on Douglas Adams' novel )〕 Stephen Mangan, writing a BBC blog on the programme stated "In my opinion, ''Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'' and ''The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul'' are unfilmable as written...too much happens, there are too many ideas". The pilot concentrates on two relatively minor plot strands in ''Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'': the disappearance of a cat, and the simultaneous disappearance of millionaire Gordon Way. Although time travel is involved in the solution, the novel's entire St Cedd's College / Electric Monk / Coleridge strand is omitted, although key words relating to these elements do appear on Dirk's whiteboard when it is first seen, though they are never subsequently referred to.〔〔Tom Chivers, "(Dirk Gently on BBC4: would Douglas Adams have recognised his creation? )", ''Daily Telegraph'', 17 December 2010〕 The setting is updated to 2010, with email and voicemail replacing the answering machine messages in the book. There are changes to the characters too, one notable one being that Susan is Gordon's ex-girlfriend rather than his sister.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dirk Gently (pilot episode)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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