British television science fiction fiction was "Star Cops" (1987), which ran for only nine episodes to poor viewing figures on the corporation's second channel, BBC2. It was written by Chris Boucher, who had contributed scripts to "Doctor Who" and "Blake's 7", and was script editor for the later series entire run. The 1980s also saw the arrival on the BBC of two science fiction comedy series both of which had their origins on radio. The first was "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" (1981) by Douglas Adams which amalgamated aspects of the original radio series with that of the subsequent novel. The second was
Planets in science fiction approach to classifying planet types from Orion's Arm Ice planets have figured prominently in science fiction, such as Hoth, an ice planet featured in "The Empire Strikes Back", or Gethen, an ice planet in the novel The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. An ice planet named Fichina is featured in the "Star Fox" video game series. Ancient Mesa (Ancient Mare in the Japanese version) is a venue in "". Its tracks includes the Split and Skating Circuits. Another ice planet appears in the name of White Land in every other F-Zero games. Described as covered in