Geoff K

I have reported back to my 'handler' & she is very happy with the itel I gathered on you at St Michaels. One of our agents will shortly be embedded at your place of work.

My first thought was Robert Strange. He's played a quite large creatures in Doctor Who.

I understand the combinations thing. I do like to get photo shoots at DW events that are nice combinations, especially ones that are unlikely to be repeated. Like Sacha & Waris, and Claudia Grant & Carole Ann at the 2nd DWAS 'An Adventure in Space & Time' screening.

I'm glad that I only need to get one auto now from Doctor Who cast & crew. I used to get New Series & Classic autos on DW DVD covers, DW Top Trumps, & various DW books etc. Last year though, I decided just to concentrate on 8x6 photos signed by New series guests, so the books were broken up, & selected pages kept, like the one signed by Sydney Newman's daughter Deirdre. The other items, including all my Classic Who autos, other than 8x6s signed by those who have appeared in the New series, were disposed of via eBay. I do have multiple items signed by some New Series cast & crew though. Either where I have a retained page from a book, or where I have more than one 8x6 signed if they appeared in more than one episode.

It wouldn't make sense for the other event to cancel Ncuti's attendance at Birmingham, even though they'd still have Chris & Jodie. They would surely lose a great deal of money in refunds, & it would cause a good deal of upset amongst their attendees. It would be cutting their nose off to spite their face. I wonder if SM took advantage of poor wording regarding doing other events in Ncuti's contract with the Birmingham event, to book him at Spring? In my previous post, I was just wondering if the other event might feel that their contract with Ncuti does prevent him from doing Spring, & point that out to Ncuti.

Do you mean the other event could force Ncuti to pull out of Spring, or something else? I agree with you about the DPs. They saved me turning up early on both days of the Winter event. I was able to arrive around Noon each day.

One thing I regret from when I started collecting autos back in 2009, is all the guests I met in the first few years, & only got one auto from. So many of them have never been seen again. It's better to have the autos & regret spending the money, than to have the money, & regret not getting the auto.

I'm not fussed enough about the character to pay £30. Maybe if he turns up at St Michael's for £15.

That's an interesting one. I was aware that it wasn't her in the costume, but I never really thought about it not being her treated voice either. The scene in the barn, where Bill still sees herself as human, but everyone else sees the Cyberman, plus the shadow of the Cyberman behind the human looking Bill, & the bit with the mirror... I nearly got Pearl to sign a photo of the Cyberman reflection in the mirror in Cardiff the week after the winter event, but didn't in the end.

The boxset booklets were great for getting signed. Such a shame that they were ditched from Series 5 on. I still have a few of the signed pages, including the page from the Series 2 booklet signed by Barbara Windsor.

Thanks for doing that. Let's hope that his reply is specific enough to tie down if he was a Host, or someone else.

The thing was that Matt did play one of the two Kerblam postmen, just not the one in my photo. He ended up giving me one of his own 10x8s for free & signing it, so it all ended happily.

Yes, I am making things hard for myself by just getting photos signed. The thing is I only collect New Series autos, & I never found the New Series DVD box sets, or individual DVD covers suitable for signing, so that's why I stick to 8x6 photos. I have tried starting what I call 'cast items' for New Series episodes, but I always ended up not being satisfied with them, & passed them on. Paul Kasey does have one appearance on screen where you can see his face, which is 'Harold Green' in Nicola Tesla's Night of Terror'. I did find some screencaps online of him in the episode, but I didn't really like them. For most New Series cast & crew, I'm happy with one signed image from just one of their episodes. Sometimes, I will get a signed photo from another of their episodes - if they did more than one - should I meet them again at another event. For the Varada DP auto, I'm going to get a photo of her as 'Belinda' signed, but I will be taking another photo of her as 'Munday' from 'Boom' plus the cash for the auto, as at the Winter event, I was asked a couple of times (Jenna was one) how many autos I was getting, even though when you buy the DP it does say you have to queue again for more than one auto. I suspect that the one auto rule with DPs is there just there so they can apply it if they want to. I met Millie last time, so I don't need need to meet her again. One auto & photo is enough for now. Christopher Chung I'm not paying £30 for an auto. I have already met Michelle Greenidge, Jemma Redgrave & David Bradley (the last two several times) so I don't need any more for them at the moment. I may well get them again, when I need a reason to go to an event, or they're an included auto at a Con. I've bumped into Toby at several SM events at Olympia. He's usually there as the carer for his stepson (the one who stole his sonic!).

Funnily enough, I bumped into Toby several times at the Winter event, & again at Earls Court on the way home.

So far, for this event, my list of people I'm meeting is... Saturday - Paul Kasey & Sophia Myles. Sunday - Ncuti (DP), Varada (DP), Colin McFarlane, & Eve Newton.