This Way Up Alt: My Doctor Who Fandom Scrapbook

Travelling backwards in time...

The cover of the Saturday Night Monsters book which contains the best Doctor Who material from both This Way Up and Faze. Published in 2016 and still available in print or Kindle format from Amazon!

Covers for a later paper issue of This Way Up before it became a blog in 2011 and the zine Plaything of Sutekh which Richard Farrell and I co-edited from 2012-15.

This Way Up Doctor Who covers by Richard Farrell

A hat-trick of Fanzine of the Month from SFX!

Issue one of This Way Up 2002- this is the original colour version which unfortunately was too expensive to print in colour. The photo came from a shower advert.

Met my favourite Doctor twice; once he entertained a crowd of us after a performance of An Inspector Calls in 1987, then ten years later at his book signing. I asked him what he had in his bag and he said it was a pint of beer!

The very first Faze website from 1999, designed by Robert Stanley

In a coffee shop in London, Neil Hutchings and I thought of this idea for a Faze cover. Surely you've often wondered what Melkur would look like on a duck?

Good press for Faze from SFX.

Neil Hutchings and I did this as a Pertwee handy dandy guide for Faze in 1996 as part of a tribute to Mr P.

The front and back cover of issue 4 of Top, my first fanzine, from 1993.

Secret plots to form a new Doctor Who society were happening in the late 80s and early 90s, in retrospect perhaps the worst moment for such an endeavour. This one got as far as a flyer though in public we always called it Project X.

1990 at a convention in Cardiff in an alarmingly stripy shirt during a trip to a cafe.

More plotting in Cardiff ( front l-r) Steve O'Brien, Me, Paul Cornell. In the background Alan Barnes pretends he's not listening.

Outside The Fitzroy Tavern in London early 90s.

Tom Robin, me and the gun from Terror of the Vervoids at Panopticon 1987. We called it the banana gun as its bright yellow; Tom's local group won it in the raffle

A later issue of the Local Group Bulletin, produced by Andy Cull

Inside the Fitzroy Tavern, London, with Alec Charles and Nick Pegg circa mid 90s.

Each month I had a column in the DWAS newsletter CT and this is one of those.

During my time as Local Groups supervisor in the DWAS I received loads of local groups' fanzines of which Screech! Wah Wah! produced by Stuart Green was one of my favourites.

At the DWAS Early Days event on the hottest day ever in a building with few windows and no air conditioning!. On the left John Ryan and myself, on the right Neil Hutchings.

At DWASocial 5 holding two doors shut while Colin Baker and John Nathan Turner sign autographs. Little did they know a herd of bison were massing on the other side of the entrance.

The DWAS Exec at the end of a long, tiring event. Notice how we're all looking in different directions! (l-r) Dominic May, Paul Zeus, Ian MacLachlan, David Saunders, Anne O'Neill, Ian Bresman, Mark Stammers and me.

The programme for the 1985 Brighton PanoptiCon where we saw Patrick Troughton's rare appearance. Oh my word!

Just a handful of the many events I went to between 1981- 2002

At the Blackpool Doctor Who Exhibition in 1985 with a Cyberpal.

The three organisers of the Merseyside DWAS Local Group (MLG) about to face Omega (l-r John Brand, Graeme Wood, Me)

The self same MLG at a typical 80s meeting.

On the beach after midnight at the 1984 Blackpool gathering (l-r Justin Richards, Peter Lovelady, Paul Desborough, Me, Doug Smith, David Saunders, Andrew Martin, Alec Charles)