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Neither of those examples are open-ended.

Posted by Joe (@joe) on March 15, 2024, 5:10 a.m.

As Tabs said, Dickens novels weren’t all written the same way, but they were all always going to be finite in length.

Hitchhikers was never the sort of thing you are talking about at all. It was one series of six episodes that came out weekly, and then one series of six episodes where one came out on Christmas Eve, the second one game out a month later, followed by four more a day later each. They had high production values, being the first BBC comedy series in stereo. Compare them to the Foundation radio series, which came out a few years earlier but sounds decades older.

Everything after the first two series came out decades later after Adams had died. I found out just now that And Another Thing… was adapted in 2018. I’ve never read or listened to that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Original_radio_series