D-C-A

Unlike the last time Derek was called in as a last minute Replacement i had 36 hours notice but i was already in London on another trip and couldn't go home to change things around, thankfully i already had Lost in time and "The Invasion" on me for other guests (Wendy Padbury and Sally Faulkner, god love them both) so now i've got less than 12 hours to departure but i have access to the archives so i'm lumbering in an extra £5 to get an extra signature from Mr Chaffer and gonna put him on two season 11 stories, so as to not interfere with my July plans and mainly because that season is getting dry to the bone on Names.

Having a Barry Letts is by all accounts one of my pride and Joys as they seem to be rather rare, so even if it’s on a CD that has become more redundant than all but 1 other release on that particular label, but still a pretty good score. i did see another cover for the CD with a few names on there but sans Watling they were all alive but I didn’t wanna trade my sole Letts for that

Also just realised sans Roger Delgardo for reasons that are more obvious than Anthony Ainley in a ginger beard and wig, I just realised that whilst they all spread across 6 items minimum I have all of the big names from Pertwees era: Jon Pertwee - “Planet of the Spiders” (VHS) Caroline John - “Spearhead from Space” Nicholas Courtney - “Inferno” John Levene - “the Dæmons” Katy Manning - “The Dæmons” Richard Franklin - “The Dæmons” Elizabeth Sladen - “Genesis of the Daleks” Terrance Dicks - “The Dæmons” Barry Letts - “The enemy of the world” (CD) so needless to say that’s actually pretty awesome that I do have the lot of them just the shame they’re not all on a singular item and with only Manning and Levene still alive that sucks, but theirs still a few Terrance Dicks floating about which I’ll look into when I can. and I just realised if you wanna get even more technical I do have Derek Sherwin on my “The Mind Robber” and he was the producer for the opening 3rd Doctor story so I really do have one hell of a collection there I think.

Return to devils end should have been on the Blu Ray boxset or even as a DVD feature with “The Dæmons” it’s a fun little mid 90s documentary when they hadn’t come into their own yet and where else would you find 4 of the big names doing a documentary about the story in the location itself

Speaking of that movie, my mate who I do the favours for is annoyed he couldn’t afford the cash for last year when it came to Wayne Michael even when I said he only did brief stunts for “Survival” but he’s been working on his VHS cover as much as I have my DVD cover, which has gone up in some value due to Julian Holloway passing, hate that it has. theres still a few names from that movie that Cross into Doctor who that I wouldn’t mind seeing at LFCC given last year was the 35th anniversary I was amazed we didn’t see anything unless they’re gonna wait until next year and do an overall 45th anniversary

It’s the 5 Disc set with the companion Chronicles story “The Revenants” which in 2013 was my sole reasoning for asking for the Limited edition, which has saved me a lot of trouble in modern day hunting down such a limited release

I wouldn’t mind Joblin being rebooked for another event as I only got him on a single item so another item would go nicely either using my Sarah Jane Adventures boxset for which he is in a great story or I’d get one of the big finish works he did

Lads I have stumbled upon a gold mine of an item, I found what could be my new holy grail. ”Planet of the Spiders” VHS cover signed by Jon Pertwee, I am ecstatic I have found that, shame that for the new month it’s gonna be ice soup for meals but damn worth it.

Couple of announcements nothing to report on this occasion, but it does seem they’re gearing up for a Star Wars Zone again, hoping that the venue will be notably larger as a result

If you wanna be expansive and assuming you’ve got the same limited set as me, you can also get Terry Molly, Tracey Childs, Philip Hinchcliffe and Lisa Bowerman on the set thanks to the bonus discs

If anything with that illustrious set that’s another I will never see Jean marsh on, meaning the only complete pages I’ll see if I can meet Mark Strikson will be the companions of 2,3&5

The way I saw it their were only 3 options full stop, Lost in time and “Light at the end” which would also allow for Jean and Anneke, and of course “the Aztecs” Special edition which only occurred because we got lucky 2011. more lucky than that bloody news reporter who said the Chumblies were precursors to the Daleks, and he was a BBC news reporter

Well that’s yet another for Lost in time and I can even add her to a special set that whilst not a big project is still one that I have some pride in “The Aztecs” Special Edition, now I hear you type, seriously clean those keyboards, “But random person who has no life Lyn Ashley is only in Galaxy 4” to that I respond if you remember that particular release has Galaxy 4 Episode 3 on the set thanks to the reconstruction dug out of storage with the then newly discovered episode edited in. plus it’s my only set that has William Russell, Carole Ann-Ford, Maureen O’Brien and Peter Purves on it, the other two sets only have 3/4 IE Lost in time doesn’t have William Russell and “The Chase” doesn’t have Carole Ann-Ford because she’s not in it.

Tbh I can’t imagine Showmasters would be the most happy if he was to appear because then they wouldn’t get their cut

Derek is 100% going on my “the Moonbase” as I also have Frazer and John on that set and someone random actress called Anneke on the booklet. but Derek is down for like 6 items so far, mainly as he’s in two stories from Season 7 so that’s 3 sets there along with “the Moonbase” makes 4 and I can’t remember the other 2 off the top of my head but he still is going on a healthy number of items