October 27th, 1976 - Marvel UK, 50 years ago this week.

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***It was time to stick a safety pin through your nose and practice your gobbing because this was the week that saw the release of New Rose by the Damned, seemingly the first single ever to be marketed as punk rock.Elsewhere, racing driver James Hunt became the Formula One world champion.But of far more interest to me would have been that, on October 27th, BBC Two was showing The Mind Beyond: Stones; a drama in which a series of strange events related to Stonehenge lead an Oxford historian to wonder if it's true that stones and curses go hand in hand.I have no memory of this masterpiece but news of it makes me feel I may have found a worthy bedfellow to Children of the Stones and that BBC Ghost Story for Christmas in which a man and woman decide to move a fallen standing stone in their garden, only for it to cause nothing but trouble.And the good news is the thing's on YouTube, in…