Our Guests

The following guests will be joining us for The 36 Legends of Gallifrey One: Stories Untold in February 2026. Many more guests will be announced in the months to come. (As always, all guest appearances are subject to professional commitments.)

Peter Davison 

Peter Davison has been a fan favorite for decades, having originated the role of the Fifth Doctor in Doctor Who in 1981. Originally cast as the replacement for long-running star Tom Baker, Davison portrayed the Doctor for three seasons, including for the series’ 20th anniversary in 1983. Davison later reprised the role for Big Finish, a relationship that has continued to this day in dozens of audio adventures. Davison is also well known for having played varied roles such as Tristan Farnon on All Creatures Great and Small, David Braithwaite in At Home with the Braithwaites, Henry Sharpe on Law & Order: UK,  the BBC’s TV adaptation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and other roles including in The Name of the Rose, Gentleman Jack, Liar, Life, Call the Midwife, Beyond Paradise and Good Omens. His Doctor Who pastiche The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot has been universally applauded since its release in 2013, and he returned to the role briefly in 2022 opposite Jodie Whittaker in “The Power of the Doctor.”  Davison was last with us in 2020 and we’re thrilled to have him back for his seventh Gallifrey One appearance.

Paul McGann

Paul McGann portrayed the Eighth Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie, a role he later continued through audio with Big Finish Productions. To the astonishment of fans worldwide, McGann was also the headliner in “The Night of the Doctor,” a special mini-episode filmed in 2013, and saw him regenerate into his next incarnation – an event most everyone thought would never be seen on television. McGann is an actor, director and performer well known for his appearances in Withnail & I, Luther, Collision, Alien 3, The Monocled Mutineer and Hornblower.  More recently, he briefly returned to the role in 2022’s Doctor Who special “The Power of the Doctor,” while also making guest appearances in Annika, The Bletchley Circle, Ripper Street, The Musketeers and a long-running role on the soap Holby City, while he continues to appear in Big Finish’s Doctor Who audio dramas.  McGann made his first-ever convention appearance at Gallifrey One in 2004, and this will be his fourth appearance at our convention.

Anita Dobson

Anita Dobson is a celebrated British actress and singer, best known to Doctor Who audiences as the character Mrs. Flood, the mysterious character who first appeared in “The Church on Ruby Road” and who has appeared in both of the first two seasons starring Ncuti Gatwa.  UK audiences know her primarily for the role of Angie Watts in the long-running BBC soap EastEnders, and she has also appeared in Split Ends, Red Dwarf, Casualty, Gigglebiz, Call the Midwife, Generation Z, Curfew, The Worst Witch, Doctors, Play Away, Darkness Falls and London Road, among many others.  She has also appeared on stage in Chicago, Gertrude in Hamlet and The Merry Wives of Windsor, and was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress in the stage play Frozen.  Also known as Lady May, she is married to musician and physicist Sir Brian May.  Dobson will be appearing at Gallifrey One 2026 on our stage on Saturday and Sunday, in an appearance courtesy Showmasters Events.