About Gallifrey One

Gallifrey One Conventions, Post Office Box 8022, Van Nuys, California 91406 USA

Gallifrey One, the annual North American Doctor Who celebration, is the world's largest and longest-running annual Doctor Who convention.

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Founded in 1989 by members of the local Southern California fan organization, the Time Meddlers of Los Angeles, Gallifrey One Conventions has run an event every year since 1990, and has over time become one of the world's most popular fan-run themed events devoted to the series and its spinoffs.

While very much a modern celebrity-driven convention, Gallifrey One stays extremely close to its roots in "old school" fandom: one admission cost for nearly everything at the event, with no preferred seating or tier packages, where pros and fans alike mix throughout the day. Our convention still boasts a classic-style art show, a hospitality suite (or "con suite") with free snacks for convention members, a supervised children's program room, hallway fan tables available for free to clubs and conventions, and specialized costuming events, as well as a dealers room, video program and special themed events. Plus, unlike other celebrity shows, our event goes well into the evening on Friday and Saturday nights with extensive evening programming, dances and karaoke, and a fully judged Masquerade.

With over 300 guests spanning twenty-two years, Gallifrey One has hosted (with only two exceptions) every living principal cast member of Doctor Who, as well as many behind-the-scenes guests, from the end of the William Hartnell era in 1966, to the end of the classic series in 1989 and the 1996 TV movie, including Carole Ann Ford, Anneke Wills, Michael Craze, Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling, Wendy Padbury, Terrance Dicks, Barry Letts, Jon Pertwee, Caroline John, Nicholas Courtney, John Levene, Richard Franklin, Katy Manning, Elisabeth Sladen, Louise Jameson, Mary Tamm, John Leeson, Geoffrey Beevers, John Nathan-Turner, Peter Davison, Matthew Waterhouse, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Graeme Harper, Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Bonnie Langford, Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Andrew Cartmel, Terry Molloy, Paul McGann, Daphne Ashbrook, Yee Jee Tso and Eric Roberts.

Additionally, we have hosted guests from the new Doctor Who series such as Steven Moffat, Noel Clarke, Phil Collinson, Tracie Simpson, Ian McNeice, Louise Page, Mark Gatiss, Paul Cornell, Tom MacRae, Andrew Hayden-Smith, Robert Shearman, James Moran, Nicholas Briggs, Paul Kasey and Georgia Moffett; its spinoffs Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, with guests such as Gareth David-Lloyd, Kai Owen, Naoko Mori, Cush Jumbo, Phil Ford and Tommy Knight; and a variety of genre television series such as Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Farscape, Crusade, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, AlienNation and Lost in Space. Gallifrey One has also become an international event, hosting hundreds of fans from outside the US, as well as attracting dozens of writers of Doctor Who fact and fiction and many science fiction, fantasy and horror producers, writers and technical wizards.

The Gallifrey One conventions are presented by Gallifrey Conventions / Gallifrey One, a subsidiary of The Institute for Specialized Literature, Inc. (ISL), a California 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Additional support is received from the Southern California Institute for Fan Interests (SCIFI) Inc. and the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (LASFS) Inc., as well as guest sponsorship courtesy our friends at Tenth Planet Events.

The Gallifrey One website is created and edited by Shaun Lyon.