Doctor Who comes to Blackpool with Invasion: a special one day event celebrating six decades of the show
Viva! Blackpool and Crusader Events will be celebrating sixty years of Doctor Who with a dedicated one day convention next month: Invasion. The action all takes place on the 30th of April at the Viva! venue all day from 10am to 8pm. As well as the usual mix of guests, panels, merchandise and displays, there will be the world premiere of Doctor on Display, a new documentary narrated by Sophie Aldred dedicated to the Doctor Who Exhibition that made Blackpool its home in the 1970s and 80s. There’ll also be a monster making workshop and a showcase of select items from the Museum of Classic Sci-Fi!
You’ll even have the chance to hear one of the main writers of Blogtor Who, Bedwyr Gullidge, author of Doctor Who Exhibitions: The Unofficial and Unauthorised History discuss the subject.
Guests attending include
Colin Baker (The Sixth Doctor)
Frazer Hines (Jamie)
Jeff Cummins (Target Books cover artist)
Keith Barnfather (Who on Display producer)
Neil Cole (curator of the Museum of Classic Sci-Fi)
Events on the day include
Doctor Who Audio Writers Room Panel with Andy Lane, Will Hadcroft, David J Howe, and Steven Gallagher
Monster Making Workshop with sculptor Philip Robinson
Monster Mayhem display of monster costumes
K9 Tribute – with Paul M Tams (producer of the K9 spin-off show)
Comics Panel with Adrian Salmon, John Freeman, Gareth Kavanagh, and Ian Winterton
Doctor on Display premiere
Doctor Who Exhibitions panel with David J Howe, Keith Barnfather, John Collier, Alex Storer and Blogtor Who’s very own Bedwyr Gullidge!
Avenue Who with a live show of the Doctor Who puppet parody!
Tickets for Invasion are £24.50 and can be prebooked now from the Viva! website.
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