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
Australian science fiction television Sydney's Fox Studios. A significant proportion of Australian produced science fiction programmes are made for the teens/young Adults market, including The Girl from Tomorrow, Watch This Space, the long-running "Mr. Squiggle", "Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left", Parallax, and the Jonathan M. Shiff Productions programmes "Ocean Girl", "Thunderstone", and "Cybergirl". The Australian Children's Television Foundation, a government initiative, produces a number of Science Fiction children's shows, including "Spellbinder" (in collaboration with Poland), "The Miraculous Mellops", and "The Crash Zone". A number of these are adaptations of children's books. In the late 1990s, Community TV in Melbourne (Channel 31) screened