but HW: New Hawkwind Biography Confirmed

[William Duffy]

> > Anybody fancy entering Mastermind with 'Hawkwind' as their specialist
> > subject? (You could laugh but one of the competitors on an earier
> > programme did "The Manic Street Preachers 1995 - 2002 (or
> > similar!!). I reckon we have our fair share of Boffins here (who could
> > hold thier own in the GK section)... no offence intended..or implied
>
>
> Oddly enough, at one of the old Dr Who "Fan Olympiads" (like conventions
but
> with silly games instead of guest stars .... I'll stop digging at this
> point....), I did a round of "Mastermind".
>
> The one I didn't get was the 3 Dr Who stories with the same name as
Hawkwind
> numbers.
>

Got me thinking, & I discovered these three (by slightly cheating & looking
at the video spines):-

Robot
The Awakening
Snakedance

There may be even more as well. There was even a rumour at one stage that
one of the script writers was a big fan, & on recent reflection of stories
he was involved with (featuring Sylvester McCoy), quite a numer of those
stories were based on ideas that were also covered by Hawkwind & Co.
Paradise Towers was based on the novel High Rise. Greatest Show in the
Galaxy featured the gods of Ragna Rok (Lucky Lief?), & Curse of Fenric was
virtually a visual interpretation of that same song by Bob Calvert.
There's others as well, that I can't think of at the moment, but it might
get some other Who fans thinking as well?

Bye for now
William