DAVE WAS NONE TO PLEASED AT THE DEPARTURE OF THE OTHER TWO AFTER THE "ON THE BUSES" DEBACLE, BUT RATHER THAN GETTING INVOLVED IN A BITTER PUBLIC SLANGING MATCH OR A MESSY COURT CASE, MR BROCK INSTEAD CHOSE TO HOLD OUT THE "HAND OF PEACE" WITH THE IDEA OF ANOTHER TV PROJECT. HE ENVISAGED "DAVE'S ARMY" AS BEING HIS CROWING GLORY. WITH A NOD OF RECOGNITION TO THE 70'S BRITISH COMEDY "DADS ARMY", THE PLOT LINE WAS TO BE THAT DAVE WOULD BE CAPT. TECHNICAL, THE LEADER OF THE "TIVERTON HAWK GUARD". IT WAS TO BE SET IN THE FUTURE, 2002 TO BE PRECISE, A BITTER BATTLE RAGES OVER THE RIGHTS TO A RELATIVELY POPULAR SPACE ROCK BAND, SO DAVE GETS TOGETHER A FINE AND BRAVE BODY OF MEN, WELL A MOTLEY ASSORTMENT OF BAND MEMBERS BOTH PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, WHO WHERE "SYMPATHETIC TO THE CAUSE" TO PROTECT THE REAL HAWKWIND FROM THE MARAUDING INVADERS OF FORMER MEMBERS NOW BASED "ACROSS THE POND"
THIS TIME DAVE WAS SURE THAT MAINSTREAM STARDOM WAS JUST AROUND THE CORNER UNTIL MESSERS TURNER AND ANDERSON REBUKED THE IDEA. NIK "ALLEGEDLY" TOLD BROCK, ON ANDERSON'S ADVICE TO - " F**K OFF YOU PLASTIC THESPIAN, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?, ONE OF THE LUVVIE BRIGADE FOR F**K'S SAKE, IF YOU WANT THIS SORTED LETS DO IT IN COURT, NOT ON A F**KING SOUND STAGE"
BELOW ARE THE ONLY OTHER TWO PICTURES LEFT IN EXISTENCE FROM THE PROJECT. ON THE LEFT IS A STILL FROM WHAT WAS TO BE THE OPENING SEQUENCE, WHILE TO THE RIGHT IS ANOTHER EARLY PROMOTIONAL PICTURE.
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WE ARE ALSO PRIVILEGED TO HAVE IN OUR POSSESSION DAVE'S ORIGINAL HAND WRITTEN LYRICS TO WHAT WAS TO BE THE THEME TUNE, CLICK HERE TO VIEW THIS PRICELESS ITEM!