“Regenerations remembrances...”

“Regenerations remembrances...”

Episode Five of ‘Round The Archives’ was centred around our trip to the ‘Regenerations’ Convention that took place in Swansea in September 2016.

We had already used Terry Molloy’s interview on the previous episode, so we decided to focus on series that featured people we had seen at the convention.

We were also provided with a brilliant interview by the lovely Jenny Shirt, one of the nicest people we have ever had the pleasure to meet.

Sadly, just as we were preparing the issue Philip Bond (who appeared in the first Dalek story) passed away.  We had asked him about his role in an episode of ‘Sergeant Cork’ that predates his ‘Doctor Who’ appearance.  And we were thrilled when, after a few seconds thought, he asked if that was in the story that featured incest.  Which indeed it was and to learn more you’ll have to listen to the article.  Or possibly read a forthcoming blog entry!

We also covered ‘Space: 1999’ for the wonderful Catherine Schell, who we had the pleasure of meeting and had asked a question about her cats. Sadly, we weren’t able to bring our own cats, Rose and Martha, along to Swansea with us. They spent the weekend at a cat hotel, rather than one for humans.

One of the highlights of the weekend was having our photo taken with Clive Doig and the equally lovely Roger Bunce. 

Clive Doig is one of Andrew’s heroes, having been involved with inventive series such as ‘Vision On’ and is a truly remarkable man. It’s fair to say that he also deserves a blog entry of his own.

Andrew asked if could buy him a drink later, to which Clive Doig looked delighted, claiming that working on ‘Vision On’ had often involved a decent amount of drink! Sadly, the weekend was so packed, we ran out of time to actually follow up on this. But the offer still stands, sir!

We’ve always enjoyed our visits to the various ‘Regenerations’ events. They are friendly and relaxed and also have a wide range of interesting guests.

We were sad to leave on the Monday, but at least when we got home, we think the cats were mildly pleased to see us.

(By Lisa Parker)