We are delighted to announce the following guests, who will be joining the lineup for our upcoming 2025 convention, Gallifrey One in 35 Millimetre:
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.
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.
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