The following guests will be joining us for Gallifrey One in 35 Millimetre in February 2025. And this is just the beginning… we’ll have many additional guests to announce in the weeks and months to come. (As always, all guest appearances are subject to professional commitments.)
Colin Baker
Colin Baker is widely known throughout the world as the Sixth Doctor on Doctor Who. Originally guest starring as a Gallifreyan commander during the 20th season, he took over the lead role in the season 21 finale, playing the role on television from 1984 through 1986 – one of the most tumultuous eras of the show’s long history. He later returned to the role for both the 1993 special Dimensions in Time and then in Big Finish’s continuing series of audio adventures, where he became a fan favorite – a role he continues to this day. In recent years Colin has led a very busy career on the stage and in appearances on television, appeared in Peter Davison’s film “The Five(ish) Doctors,” the series “I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here” as well as participating in the Jodie Whittaker special “The Power of the Doctor” as one of the Guardians of the Edge. A long-time ambassador for the series and a delightful convention guest the world over, we are happy to welcome Colin back for his tenth Gallifrey One appearance, courtesy Showmasters Events.
Sylvester McCoy
Sylvester McCoy has been known for nearly three decades as the Seventh Doctor in Doctor Who. Appearing in the program from 1987-1989 opposite Bonnie Langford and later Sophie Aldred, McCoy later reprised the role in the 1996 FOX Television/BBC Doctor Who TV movie co-production, where he successfully handed off the reigns to Paul McGann after a regeneration sequence. McCoy also returned to the Doctor Who fold in 1993 for the charity special “Dimensions in Time” and later reprised his role for Big Finish Productions’ series of Doctor Who audios, alongside Langford and Aldred as well as additional companions including Lisa Bowerman and Philip Olivier; he also appeared in the final Jodie Whittaker story “The Power of the Doctor.” McCoy achieved worldwide fame as Radagast the Brown in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit series, and in recent years has maintained a busy career, including appearing in the Netflix series Sense8, Zapped, Thunderbirds are Go, Holby City, The Owners, Conjuring: The Book of the Dead and Lost at Christmas. Always one of our favorite convention guests (whose panels are an absolute riot), we are thrilled to welcome him back to Gallifrey One for his eighth appearance, courtesy Showmasters Events.
Catherine Tate
Catherine Tate is well known in the UK for a diversity of work in TV, film and on the stage, in particular, for her own creation, The Catherine Tate Show… but remains best known to Doctor Who fans as beloved companion Donna Noble. Tate first appeared in the Christmas special, “The Runaway Bride” before returning as a regular companion for Series Four of Doctor Who opposite David Tennant, as well as appearing in his final story “The End of Time.” Years later, the two reprised their roles in the 2023 specials “The Star Beast,” “Wild Blue Yonder” and “The Giggle” for the show’s 60th anniversary; she’s also returned to the role in several audio adventures for Big Finish Productions. Catherine is also known to US audiences for playing Nellie Bertram in seasons 7-9 of The Office, as well as appeared in The Nan Movie; has done voiceovers in Duck Tales, Monster Family and Monster Family 2; and wrote, directed and played multiple characters in Netflix’s Hard Cell and, in 2023, the first season of her new show Queen of Oz. She has mostly recently been back on stage in The Enfield Haunting in London’s West End. For her second visit to Gallifrey One, she will be with us on Friday & Saturday, courtesy Showmasters Events.
Jenna Coleman
Jenna Coleman, credited as Jenna-Louise Coleman in her early stories, portrayed teacher Clara Oswald on Doctor Who for three seasons, as a companion to both the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors, played by Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi. However, she actually appeared even earlier, in the Series 7 debut story “Asylum of the Daleks” as a separate version of the character, Oswin, and later made a cameo appearance in Capaldi’s final story, “Twice Upon a Time.” Coleman then led the period drama series Victoria from 2016 to 2019, as the legendary Queen of the same name, as well as appeared in the miniseries The Cry and The Serpent; played the role of Johanna Constantine in Netflix’s The Sandman; and has also appeared in Klokkenluider, The Jetty, Wilderness, Emmerdale, Inside Number 9 and Jackdaw, and on stage in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons and Sam Steiner’s Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons. Coleman will be making her first-ever appearance at the upcoming Gallifrey One in 2025, in a long-awaited visit sponsored by Showmasters Events, and will be with us on Saturday & Sunday (as well as a reception on Friday).
Steven Moffat
Emmy, BAFTA and Hugo Award winner Steven Moffat served as Doctor Who’s executive producer, principal writer and showrunner from 2010 to 2017, responsible for the creation of the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors, and the casting of both lead actors, Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi. Moffat has written over fifty teleplays for the series since it returned in 2005 and is responsible for some of the show’s most memorable characters, aliens and villains. He recently returned to the Doctor Who fold, writing the screenplay for Series 14’s “Boom” and the forthcoming 2024 Christmas special, “Joy to the World,” also serving as an executive producer on both. Moffat’s previous television work includes creating the series Press Gang, Jekyll and Coupling, as well as co-creating the popular Sherlock with Mark Gatiss, and penning the script for the 1999 Doctor Who/Comic Relief charity special, “The Curse of Fatal Death”; more recently he has developed, written and produced Dracula, Inside Man, The Time Traveler’s Wife and the miniseries Douglas is Canceled. A four-time guest of our event, last with us in 2018, we are thrilled to welcome Steven back to Gallifrey One in 2025.
Julie Gardner
Julie Gardner is an award-winning television producer. As BBC’s Head of Drama at BBC Wales, she spearheaded the 2005 revival of BAFTA-winning Doctor Who and launched new series Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures with Russell T Davies, and oversaw brand enhancing events such as Doctor Who at the Proms. Since co-founding Bad Wolf with Jane Tranter in 2015, she has executive produced titles including I Hate Suzie and I Hate Suzie Too, The Winter King and Red Eye. In the US, for sister company Bad Wolf America, she produced the limited series Lady in the Lake starring Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram, the company’s first scripted title. As BBC Commissioner, Gardner led an award-winning slate of independent programming including The Girl in the Café, Casanova, Life on Mars, Being Human, and Stuart: A Life Backwards. At BBC Worldwide Productions, she executive produced titles such as Da Vinci’s Demons and Getting On. Gardner is an honorary fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the University of West Glamorgan. She is the recipient of the Sian Phillips Award at BAFTA Cymru 2013. In 2014 she was made an MBE for her contribution to the growth of the television industry in Wales. Gardner received the Outstanding Contribution to Television Award at BAFTA Cymru 2024.
Joel Collins
Joel Collins is an Executive Producer at Bad Wolf, where as of 2025 he has produced 21 episodes of Doctor Who. He is currently in post-production on The War Between The Land And The Sea, the much-anticipated Doctor Who spinoff starring Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Joel began his career in 1992 as a modeller and creature designer on Babe, The Flintstones and Muppet Treasure Island, and gained experience at the world-famous Henson’s Creature Shop in London. He went on to become an award-winning production designer, playing a key role in the creative team Hammer and Tongs, designing the films The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy and Son Of Rambow. Joel’s role evolved from designer to editorial creative following his close collaboration with Charlie Brooker on award-winning anthology series Black Mirror. He joined Bad Wolf in 2017, helping Jane Tranter to launch the His Dark Materials trilogy. He has won multiple awards for Production Design, VFX and Titles, and brings his vast creative experience to the shows he now produces. (Photo credit: Bad Wolf/Sekh-Fei De Lacy)
Louise Jameson
Louise Jameson played Leela, the leather-clad barbarian warrior companion of the Fourth Doctor, on Doctor Who from 1977’s “The Face of Evil” for two seasons until departing in “The Invasion of Time.” She later reprised the role for the anniversary special, “Dimensions in Time,” and later for Big Finish Productions’ continuing series of audio adventures, with a starring role in their audio series Gallifrey and more recently alongside Baker for adventures set during their run on the show. Jameson became well known to UK audiences for starring in Tenko and EastEnders; later appeared in many series such as Bergerac, The Bill, Casualty, Doctors, and The Omega Factor; and recently returned to television as a regular cast member on Emmerdale which continues to this day. She is also very active in British theatre. We’re delighted to welcome Ms. Jameson back for her first visit since 2017.
Katy Manning
Katy Manning is best known to fans as Josephine “Jo” Grant, the beloved companion to Jon Pertwee’s Third Doctor in Doctor Who during the early 1970s for three seasons, in which she faced such nemeses as the Master, the Axons, the Daemons, Omega and the Daleks. She later returned to the role (as the married Jo Jones) in the Sarah Jane Adventures episode “Death of the Doctor” and brought the role to life on audio adventures from Big Finish Productions, where she also portrays the popular spinoff character Iris Wildthyme. She also made a cameo appearance in Jodie Whittaker’s final story, “The Power of the Doctor”. Manning has also appeared in Casualty, All Saints, Target, Whodunnit and Man at the Top and her one-woman show Me and Jezebel about Bette Davis. Always a delightful convention guest across the world, Manning makes her seventh visit to Gallifrey One this year.
Nicola Bryant
Nicola Bryant is well known to Doctor Who fans as American tourist Perpugilliam “Peri” Brown, who appeared as a companion of both the Fifth (Peter Davison) and Sixth (Colin Baker) Doctors in the 1980s era of the program. She has since reprised the role of Peri in dozens of audio adventures from Big Finish Productions, for which she has also directed several audio stories, and continues to appear in them to this day, most often alongside Colin Baker. Bryant has been active in the British theater for several decades, as well as appearing in such TV series as Blackadder, Holby City, Scoop, My Family, Doctors and Casualty, and recently reprised the role of Peri in both Tales from the TARDIS as well as the wonderful trailer for the Doctor Who season 22 Blu Ray box set. This will be Nicola Bryant’s sixth visit to Gallifrey One, and her first visit in five years, so we’re delighted to have her back.
Wendy Padbury
Wendy Padbury, who brought the companion character Zoe Heriot to life opposite Patrick Troughton and Frazer Hines in Doctor Who in the 1960s, returns for her sixth visit to Gallifrey One in 2024! Having been a regular on such series as Crossroads, Freewheelers and Emmerdale Farm, she later became a theatrical talent agent, representing (among others) Nicholas Courtney, Colin Baker and Mark Strickson, as well as helping discover the young Matt Smith at the National Youth Theatre. Now retired from both careers, Ms. Padbury’s involvement with Doctor Who has yet continued to this day, as she has appeared in a variety of audio adventures from Big Finish Productions, including appearing with her daughter Charlie Hayes in three audios, and she recently returned to the role of Zoe on television in 2023’s Tales of the TARDIS. We are always delighted to welcome Wendy back for another visit to our convention.
Frazer Hines
Frazer Hines – aka Jamie McCrimmon opposite Patrick Troughton’s second Doctor – is not only as synonymous with Doctor Who as the Doctor himself, but returns for his unprecedented seventeenth appearance at Gallifrey One, where he’s become an annual tradition (every year since 2009!) Known for his work on Doctor Who as well as his long-running twenty-two-year role as Joe Sugden on the British soap Emmerdale (originally Emmerdale Farm), and his more recent appearances as Sir Fletcher Gordon on Outlander and in annual pantomimes and theatrical runs in the West End and all over Europe, Frazer has also been reprising his Jamie role for Big Finish on their many audio releases. More he’s had a cameo in the film Blood Coral and stars in the award-winning Sundown with Caitlin Blackwood, and Lost at Christmas with Sylvester McCoy. Beloved by fans and beloved by us, it just wouldn’t be Gallifrey One without him!
Susan Twist
Susan Twist portrayed entrepreneur Susan Triad of “S Triad Technologies” in Doctor Who’s two-part 2024 season finale, “The Legend of Ruby Sunday” and “Empire of Death.” Twist was equally prominent throughout the earlier parts of the season, and even into the 2023 specials, as one of the big mysteries created by showrunner Russell T. Davies. Among the roles she played were brief cameos in “Wild Blue Yonder,” “The Church on Ruby Road” and “Space Babies,” as well as the Tea Lady in “The Devil’s Chord,” the face of the Villengard Ambulance in “Boom,” the hiker who encountered Ruby in “73 Yards,” and Penny Pepper-Bean in “Dot and Bubble”. She’s also been seen or heard in The Archers, Stone, Coronation Street, In the Flesh, Doctors, Girls in Love, The Bill and Brookside. She joins us courtesy Showmasters Events and will be with us all weekend for her first-ever convention in North America.
Seán Carlsen
Seán CarlsenBorn and bred in South Wales, Seán Carlsen trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. He has worked extensively in theatre, audio drama, television and film. He is best known to Doctor Who fans as the Time Lord Coordinator Narvin, having played the role for twenty years now both in the Big Finish Gallifrey series and their Doctor Who range. Seán also appeared in the TV episode The Christmas Invasion and ever so briefly in Torchwood. His other TV credits include Mudtown (BBCiplayer/S4C), Dal y Mellt (Netflix), All Creatures Great and Small (Channel 5), A Mother’s Love (Channel 4) and Series 5 of Stella (Sky1); film roles include supporting leads in Boudicca – Rise of the Warrior Queen, cult horror The Cleansing and Forgotten Journeys. Last with us in 2017, we are delighted to come Seán back to Gallifrey One.
David Gooderson
David Gooderson is best known to Doctor Who fans in the role of Davros, which he took over from Michael Wisher for the Tom Baker serial “Destiny of the Daleks”. Gooderson’s over-40 year career in stage, film and television has seen him appear in Terry and June and The Les Dawson Show and numerous other programmes and series including Tenko, Mapp and Lucia, Bergerac, Rumpole of the Bailey, Lovejoy, Footballers’ Wives, Huddwinks, Doctors and Talk to Me. Gooderson has also written several books, including a few plays such as The Killing of Mr. Toad and So Great a Crime, based on the true story of Major-General Hector MacDonald. He also played a recurring role in the Big Finish Sarah Jane Smith audio series. This is his second visit to Gallifrey One (the first time, ten years ago), and he is sponsored by Showmasters Events.
Lizzie Hopley
Lizzie Hopley is an actress and writer who has worked extensively with Big Finish Productions. First appearing as a potential new companion in the Paul McGann story Terror Firma, Hopley has appeared in multiple series for Big Finish including Doctor Who, Iris Wildthyme, I Davros and Bernice Summerfield and the animated story The Infinite Quest. She has also written extensively for many of their lines, including for no less than six classic and new Doctors, as well as multiple series including Stranded, Time Lord Victorious, Dalek Universe, Sontarans vs. Rutans, Unbound, The Diary of River Song, The War Master, Rani Takes on the World, The Eighth of March and Peladon. Her sitcom pilot, “Green”, won Pozzitive Television’s Funny Dot Comp 2021, and she won the Scribe Award for the Big Finish audio play The Curse of Lady Macbeth with Christopher Eccleston. Her film & TV acting work includes The Crown, The Devil’s Hour, Brassic, Luther, The Day of the Triffids, Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased); she’s also done extensive work on the London stage. This is her first appearance at Gallifrey One and we’re thrilled to welcome her.
Paul Magrs
Paul Magrs was born in 1969 and grew up in the North-East of England. He brought out his first novel in 1995 and has published many books since in all kinds of genres. In the world of Doctor Who he has written novels such as ‘The Scarlet Empress’ for BBC Books and audio dramas such as ‘The Horror of Glam Rock’ and ‘The Peterloo Massacre’ for Big Finish Productions. He is the creator of Iris Wildthyme and it was his scripts for BBC Audio’s Nest Cottage Chronicles that at last persuaded Tom Baker to return to the role of the Doctor. In recent years he has written a number of original novels for Puffin books, in which Doctor Who is mashed up with classic children’s literature, including ‘Josephine and the Argonauts.’ In 2024 he began a bookish channel on YouTube where he talks about all the books on his shelves and in his life. He lives and writes in Manchester with Jeremy and Bernard Socks. This is Paul’s first visit to Gallifrey One.
Jonathan Morris
Jonathan Morris has been working on Doctor Who spin-off fact and fiction for 25 years. He’s written five original novels, including “Festival of Death” and “Touched by an Angel.” He’s written about a hundred audios for Big Finish and BBC Audio, originating the characters of Vienna, Thomas Brewster and Flip Jackson, and adapting Russell T Davies’ ‘Damaged Goods’. He’s also written numerous comic strips for Doctor Who Magazine, mostly for the eleventh Doctor. In terms of factual work, he’s one of the longest-standing and most prolific contributors to Doctor Who Magazine, including three regular columns. Recently, he co-wrote “The Monster Vault” and “Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide for BBC Books.” Outside Doctor Who, he’s written for radio and television and has his own audio production company and serves as a city councillor. He is currently writing and producing a new SF project for Big Finish. He has never been to a USA convention before and is absolutely delighted to be invited to Gallifrey One.
Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith wrote the television serial “Full Circle” for Tom Baker’s final season of Doctor Who in 1980, at the age of seventeen, and later wrote the Target novelisation of that story. After four years as a TV writer (including Not The Nine O’Clock News, Kick Up the 80s and TV play Thieves), radio and comic strips, he took up a career in the police, retiring as a Detective Chief Inspector in 2014. He later became a prolific contributor to Big Finish, writing for almost all the classic Doctors, as well as for David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor in “The House of Kingdom.” His stories include “The First Sontarans,” “Domain of the Voord,” “The Sons of Kaldor,” “The Barbarians and the Samurai,” “Hour of the Cybermen,” and “Mistfall” (a sequel to Full Circle); he also script-edited Big Finish’s Survivors, four seasons of Star Cops and their 16-part epic series UNIT: Nemesis. Andrew is a keen runner for a charity close to his heart and entered his first marathon in 2024. This is his second visit to Gallifrey One, after an eleven year gap!
Nev Fountain
Nev Fountain is an award-winning writer, chiefly known for his work on the BBC sketch show Dead Ringers. He has also contributed to many other shows including Have I Got News for You and Newzoids, and his radio sitcom Elephants to Catch Eels ran for two series. He is a principal gag writer for satirical magazine Private Eye and contributes to every issue. He script-edited the BBC online Doctor Who story “Death Comes to Time” in 2001. He has gone on to write some of Big Finish’s most popular audios, including ‘The Kingmaker,” “Peri and the Piscon Paradox” and “The Curious Incident of the Doctor in the Night-Time”, and adapted the Fourth Doctor lost story ‘The Doomsday Contract’, originally pitched by John Lloyd in 1979. He’s also written The Mervyn Stone Mysteries and Painkiller; his novel The Fan Who Knew Too Much is out now, and the sequel Lies and Dolls will be released later in 2024. This is his seventh visit to Gallifrey One, and his first since 2016.
Gary Russell
Gary Russell was once the editor of Doctor Who Magazine for Marvel UK/Panini. Gary was once the co-creator and executive producer of Big Finish. Gary was once an author of many books, factual and fiction, about Doctor Who and others. Gary was once part of the script editing team on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Gary was once a TV producer and script writer who ran his own animation show in Australia for the ABC. Gary was once a useful, well-adjusted member of society and a danger to absolutely no one (unless they keep the company of onions, spiders or cows.) Gary is currently a writer and editor for Cutaway Comics/Roundel Books, having written their forthcoming Inferno prestige comic book, as well as editing “The DNA of Doctor Who: The Philip Hinchcliffe Years” and “Go Figure: The Guide to Character Options Doctor Who Action Figures.” Gary considers that he has had a very lucky and frankly happy life getting paid to do his hobbies. Gary is making his 26th appearance at Gallifrey One. Gary admires your patience, fortitude and especially tolerance at letting him back in year after year. Gary is also the servant of Sutekh who, by the way, needs no others…
Lisa McMullin
Lisa McMullin is a Doctor Who obsessive and screenwriter who also writes audio drama for Big Finish Productions. She has written across various Doctor Whoniverses including Gallifrey: Time War, UNIT, Torchwood, Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon, The Fourth Doctor Adventures, Eighth Doctor: Time War, Missy, Tenth Doctor: Out of Time, The War Master, Eighth of March, The Paternoster Gang, The Robots, and Stranded. Outside of the world of Big Finish, Lisa writes on a variety of BBC television shows (Death In Paradise, Casualty, Moving On, EastEnders, Doctors) and also has original dramas in development in the UK and US. She also writes for the theatre. You can follow Lisa on Twitter: @lisamcmullin
Tony Lee
New York Times #1 Bestseller Tony Lee has written for Doctor Who in both comics and audio productions, and over the years has written for publishers and broadcasters including Marvel, DC Comics, Heavy Metal Magazine, BBC One, ITV, Amazon / Audible, Big Finish and Titan Comics on licenses such as Spider-Man, Star Trek, Superboy, Robin of Sherwood, Bernice Summerfield , Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Grey, Doctors and Battlestar Galactica among others. Now writing books with rockstars, he’s just started a series of graphic novels with Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson and writes procedural crime and thriller novels under the pen name Jack Gatland. A long-time Gallifrey One guest, we’re always happy to welcome him back.
Alfie Shaw
Alfie Shaw is a writer, script editor and producer for Big Finish Productions. He’s written for numerous ranges including The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles, The Seventh Doctor Adventures, The War Master, Class, Torchwood, and UNIT: Brave New World as well as currently producing the various Doctor Chronicles ranges. He has also written various articles and quizzes for the official Doctor Who website in addition to scripting videos for the Doctor Who YouTube channel. This will be his third visit to Gallifrey One and we’re delighted to welcome him back in 2025.
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Long-time Gallifrey One guest and friend Jason Haigh-Ellery is the Managing Director of Big Finish Productions, which recently won a Guinness Book record for “longest running science fiction audio play series.” Jason founded Big Finish in 1998, producing over 3,500 hours of award-winning audio drama, including winning two prestigious BBC Audio Drama Awards for Best Drama for Doctor Who. In theatre, Jaosn has produced 16 West End shows and 26 touring shows including “Footloose”, “Fame”, “An Officer and a Gentleman” and the recent massively successful revival of “Bonnie and Clyde”. He is also a recipient of an Olivier Award for Best Comedy for “Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense”. He is a director of fashion brand Marfa Stance and actors agency Intertalent. He has produced two reality shows, seven serials of animated “Doctor Who”, “Prisoner Zero” for ABC, teen drama series “More Than This” for Paramount+ and feature films “Mrs Lowry and Son” and “The Time of Their Lives” with Universal Pictures.
MANY more guests to be announced in the months to come… stay tuned!
