MCCOY ON HIS PORTRAYAL OF THE DOCTOR
Sylvester McCoy told an interesting story of how, after the first season, he realised he wasn't playing the Doctor the way he wanted too. He told of his grandmother who made him swear to her when he was very young that he would never drink alchohol and how much she preached against it. The day after her 100th birthday Sylvester saw her and she was really drunk. She started drinking heavily at that point and died a month later. He felt it was like she was just tired of life and having seen so many of her friends and family die she just gave up. He said he wanted to play the darker Doctor as someone who had all this baggage that was wearing him down.
SYLVESTER MCCOY ON THE CANCELLATION
McCoy got a big applause from the crowd when he was asked how he felt when the series was cancelled. "I was really pissed off," he said. He had originally agreed to do three seasons but the BBC came to him after the second season and said if he didn't agree to do a fourth they wouldn't do a third. He felt that since they cancelled the series after his third season he felt the BBC never lived up to their part of the agreement. He also told how the BBC had, in early 1998, sent a memo to it's controllers asking for ideas for a half-hour Saturday afternoon science fiction children's series.
DOCTOR WHO IN STANGE PLACES
Mark Strickson was one of the biggest surprises of the convention. Turlough was always so laid back and quiet but Strickson was always bouncing around the stage, telling stories, and making funny gestures. He told how he was in Australia looking for a place to stay for a few months while he directed a documentary. He was taken to this beautiful estate where these two elderly ladies showed him around their massive garden. He was very shocked when he saw some evergreens that had been carefully sculpted into the shape of Daleks. The two women said they had an English gardner but it was obvious they had no idea what they resembled..
THE CONVENTION
LOUISE JAMESON AND TERRY WALSH
CAROLINE JOHN AND GEOFFREY BEEVERS
LISA BOWERMAN AND A VISIONS COLLAGE
