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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency The Auction March 12, 2020 DIRK GENTLY: THE AUCTION 115 MARCH 12, 2020 Online Only Auction - will start at 11:00AM PDT IN HISTORY LIVE INTERNET ONLY PLACE YOUR BID OVER THE INTERNET! PROFILES IN HISTORY WILL BE PROVIDING INTERNET-BASED BIDDING TO QUALIFIED BIDDERS IN REAL-TIME ON THE DAY OF THE AUCTION. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT US @ WWW.PROFILESINHISTORY.COM AUCTION LOCATION PRESIDENT/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER PROFILES IN HISTORY JOSEPH M. MADDALENA GOURA OAD 26662 A R ACQUISITIONS/CONSIGNMENT RELATIONS CALABASAS, CA 91302 BRIAN R. CHANES AUCTION PREVIEW BY APPOINTMENT ONLY GENERAL MANAGER/CREATIVE DIRECTOR CALL: 310-859-7701 LOU BUSTAMANTE PROFILES IN HISTORY 26662 AGOURA ROAD EDITOR: JOE MOE CALABASAS, CA 91302 ACCOUNTING: MICHAEL MANSFIELD TELEPHONE 1-310-859-7701 EDITOR: ZACH POGEMILLER FAX OFFICE MANAGER: MARLENE ESCALERA 1-310-859-3842 PHOTOGRAPHY: ALISON MACINNIS E-MAIL ADDRESS [email protected] INVENTORY SPECIALIST: CHAD EVETT UBLICIST ANCY ELTZER SSOCIATES WEBSITE P : N S & A WWW.PROFILESINHISTORY.COM SOCIAL MEDIA: BRIGHTAGE DIGITAL CREATIVE AGENCY Find us on @ www.facebook.com/ProfilesInHistory @ twitter.com/pihauctions PAGE 2 VISIT US @ WWW.PROFILESINHISTORY.COM The three years and two seasons of making Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency remain the happiest, most challenging and rewarding of my professional life. This is unsurprising, given that I had been preparing my entire professional life for the chance to make this show. It started for me when I was 16 and brought Douglas Adams’ wonderful detective to life for the first time, on the student stage of Stowe School in Buckinghamshire. It continued when I did it again at college, and this time Douglas came himself and blessed our enterprise and helped kick-start my career… So 20 years later to have the chance to manifest the Dirkverse was without any exaggeration, a teenage dream come true. When the show was cancelled after two seasons, the sadness was cushioned somewhat by the indefatigable, ineffable love of you: the fandom. You kept petitioning, kept watching, kept loving the show and each other. You took our lonely band of misfit heroes and joined us and made a much bigger and less lonely band of misfit heroes that circled the globe. The show became yours, you loved it as much as we did, and that made both teenage and grown up me very happy indeed. This auction is a way to let each of you own a piece of the show for real, to hold in your hands what you already hold in your hearts. Looking though this beautiful catalogue — thank you to the hard working elves at Profiles in History! — I am transported back to the delight of creation, back when we were dreaming up all this absurd and wonderful stuff and when our Costume Designers (Antoinette Messam and Julie Carnahan) and Production Designers (Katie Byron and Tom Hallbauer) astonishingly transformed even our most ludicrous ideas into palpable reality. I’m also delighted that 42% of our auction proceeds will be going to Save the Rhino International (RIP Pepe, you are not forgotten) and to The Trevor Project to help them further their missions of protecting endangered rhinos and endangered LGBTQ youth when they need it the most. Yours holistically, Arvind Ethan David Executive Producer of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency …and keeper of the flame. @ArvD PAGE 3 310-859-7701 CONDITIONS OF SALE - AGREEMENT BETWEEN Profiles is in compliance, to the fullest extent possible, sale shall be conclusive. The auctioneer also may reject PROFILES IN HISTORY AND BIDDER with California procedures regarding the bonding of any bid and withdraw the lot from sale if the auctioneer Read This Part First auctioneers. decides either that any opening bid is below the reserve (see paragraph 5 below) of the lot or article or that an BY EITHER REGISTERING TO BID OR PLACING A 1. Final Bid Price, Purchase Price and Payment. The term, advance is insufficient. Unless otherwise announced by the BID, THE BIDDER ACCEPTS THESE CONDITIONS “Final Bid Price” means the amount of the highest bid auctioneer at the time of sale, no lots may be divided for OF SALE AND ENTERS INTO A LEGALLY, acknowledged and acceptable to Profiles. 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