Gallifrey One 2022

We are thrilled to announce our first block of confirmed guests for our upcoming February 2022 convention, Gallifrey One: Thirty-Second to Midnight. As always, all guest appearances are subject to professional commitments as well as subject to change due to COVID-19 related issues, including possible impact of travel restrictions; please be mindful of that as we move forward with our planning during these interesting times!

Please note that tickets are still on sale! (Click here to purchase.)  We’ve sold approximately 85% of the tickets available for 2022 and we expect sales to ramp up as we exit pandemic uncertainty, so get your tickets as soon as possible! (All the proceeds coming in from now on contribute to the guest budget, so you can expect even more with additional sales!) There are also still hotel rooms available at the Marriott LAX hotel, among others in the area.

Our special thanks to Showmasters Events (Paul Jones, Jason Joiner), Alien Entertainment (Gene Smith), Laurence Wreford, Howard Hayes, Matt Campbell, Keith Barnfather, Cutaway Comics (Gareth Kavanagh), Gary Russell and Jason Haigh-Ellery for their help with this first guest lineup!

Sylvester McCoy

Sylvester McCoy has been known for nearly three decades as the Seventh Doctor in Doctor Who. Appearing in the program from 1987-1989 opposite Bonnie Langford and later Sophie Aldred, McCoy later reprised the role in the 1996 FOX Television/BBC Doctor Who TV movie co-production, where he successfully handed off the reigns to Paul McGann after a regeneration sequence. McCoy also returned to the Doctor Who fold in 1993 for the charity special “Dimensions in Time” and later reprised his role for Big Finish Productions’ series of Doctor Who audios, alongside Langford and Aldred as well as additional companions including Lisa Bowerman and Philip Olivier. McCoy achieved worldwide fame as Radagast the Brown in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit series, and in recent years has maintained a busy career, including appearing in the Netflix series Sense8, Zapped, Thunderbirds are Go, Holby City, The Owners, Conjuring: The Book of the Dead and Lost at Christmas.  Always one of our favorite convention guests (whose panels are an absolute riot), we are thrilled to welcome him back to Gallifrey One for his seventh appearance, courtesy Showmasters Events.

Sacha Dhawan

Sacha Dhawan received widespread acclaim as the latest incarnation of the Doctor’s archnemesis, the Master, appearing in four episodes of the 2020 series of Doctor Who opposite Jodie Whittaker, with whom he also appeared in Wired in 2008. Previously, Dhawan portrayed director Waris Hussein in the Doctor Who docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time from during the program’s fiftieth anniversary.  Dhawan appeared in two series of the children’s show Out of Sight and was part of the cast of the NBC sitcom Outsourced as well as the UK series Mr. Selfridge and In the Club.  He’s additionally been seen in the films The History Boys, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Boy with the Topknot and After Earth, and the television series Last Tango in Halifax, 24: Live Another Day, Not Safe for Work, Dracula, EastEenders, Altogether Now, City Centra, Weirdsister College, and The Last Train.  He played the role of Davos, a.k.a. the Steel Serpent, in the Netflix drama series Marvel’s Iron Fist, and recently starred as Count Orlo in Hulu’s period drama The Great.  We are thrilled to welcome him to his first North American convention appearance, courtesy Showmasters Events.

Sophie Aldred

​Sophie Aldred joined Sylvester McCoy’s seventh Doctor in 1987’s Dragonfire and become the final companion of the classic Doctor Who series, accompanying him throughout his final two seasons, as the teenage orphan Dorothy “Ace” McShane, mysteriously transported halfway across the universe. Since then, Aldred has reprised her role alongside McCoy for many installments of Big Finish’s long-running Doctor Who audio series, and has become one of Doctor Who fandom’s most beloved convention guests. In recent years, she’s appeared in the series Gentrification and Tiny & Crew, as well as voicing multiple characters in the animated Peter Rabbit, while remaining active as a children’s television presenter and voice-over actress. In 2019, she appeared as Mistress Na alongside Nabil Shaban and Christopher Ryan in the award-winning Reeltime Pictures film Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor.  Sophie makes her sixth appearance at Gallifrey One in 2022, courtesy Showmasters Events.

Frazer Hines

Frazer Hines – aka Jamie McCrimmon opposite Patrick Troughton’s second Doctor – is not only as synonymous with Doctor Who as the Doctor himself, but returns for his unprecedented fourteenth appearance at Gallifrey One, where he’s become an annual tradition (every year since 2009!) Known for his work on Doctor Who as well as his long-running twenty-two-year role as Joe Sugden on the British soap Emmerdale (originally Emmerdale Farm), and his more recent appearances as Sir Fletcher Gordon on Outlander and in annual pantomimes and theatrical runs in the West End and all over Europe, Frazer has also been reprising his Jamie role for Big Finish on their many audio releases. Recently he’s had a cameo in the film Blood Coral and stars in the award-winning Sundown with Caitlin Blackwood; he’s currently filming Lost at Christmas with Sylvester McCoy.  Beloved by fans and beloved by us, it just wouldn’t be Gallifrey One without him!

Sophia Myles

Sophia Myles stole the hearts of Doctor Who fans for portraying the Madame de Pompadour in Steven Moffat’s “The Girl in the Fireplace” in 2006. Winner of a BAFTA for Best Actress for her role as Kate in Hallam Foe, she has also won several other awards at various film festivals across the world for Two Words and November 1st.  She has appeared in Mansfield Park, From Hell, The Abduction Club, as Erika in Underworld and Underworld: Evolution, as Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward in Thunderbirds, Isolde in Tristan & Isolde with James Franco, Dary in Transformers: Age of Extinction, and Freya in Outlander.  Her TV appearances include roles in Close and True, Heartbeat, Foyle’s War, Agatha Christie’s Marple, Extras, as well as continuing roles including playing Beth Turner in Moonlight, as Beth Bailey in Spooks, Lady Katherine in Our Zoo, and Rebecca Bishop in AMC’s A Discovery of Witches.  In 2020 she reprised her Doctor Who role in a minisode sequel written by Steven Moffat on YouTube, and she is set to star in the film Decrypted in 2021.  We are delighted to welcome Ms. Myles to Gallifrey One in an appearance sponsored by Alien Entertainment.

Nabil Shaban

Nabil Shaban is best known to Doctor Who fans for playing the greedy reptilian company man Sil, who appeared in “Vengeance on Varos” and parts 5-8 of “The Trial of a Time Lord” (“Mindwarp”) opposite Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant. He later returned to the role for Big Finish Productions’ audios “Mission to Magnus” (under their “Lost Stories” banner) and “Antidote to Oblivion,” before returning to the role in Reeltime Pictures’ award-winning film Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor with Sophie Aldred. Mr. Shaban is the co-founder of the Graeae Theatre Company, which promotes the work of performers with disabilities. He has remained active in film, appearing in Born of Fire, City of Joy, Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein, Gaias børn and Children of Men, and in theatre, appearing in Ibsen’s Emperor and Galilean and Bertolt Brecht’s Threepenny Opera. He wrote and performed his one actor play about John Lennon’s killer, “I am the Walrus”, in 2001, and his anti-euthanasia play “The First To Go” premièred in May 2008, produced by Edinburgh’s Benchtours Theatre Company in association with Sirius Pictures. He has also written and directed several films and TV shows such as The Alien who lived in the Sheds and Morticia. His published books include The Ripper Code and Diary of the Absurd. We are thrilled to finally welcome him to Gallifrey One, with the support of Reeltime Pictures.

Annette Badland

Annette Badland is best known to Doctor Who fans as Cardiff mayor Margaret Blaine… or more accurately, Blon Fel-Fotch Pasameer-Day Slitheen, during the first season of the show’s revival in 2005.  A popular and hugely prolific actress in series on both sides of the Atlantic, she’s been a regular or recurring performer in Bergerac, The Worst Witch, Doctors, Cutting It, Coronation Street, EastEnders, The Sparticle Mystery, as well as appearing as Ursula Crowe in Russell T. Davies & Phil Ford’s Wizards vs Aliens, as Mrs. Fitzgibbons in the first season of the Starz period drama Outlander, and as Hazel Woolley in The Archers.  Her first film role was in Terry Gilliam’s Jabberwocky and other film roles include Beautiful People, Mrs. Caldicott’s Cabbage War, Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Baker, and Valiant.  Most recently, she appeared as Dr. Margaret Megarty in series four of Netflix’s The Crown, and in a recurring role as Mae the landlady in the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso starring Jason Sudeikis.  Ms. Badland joins us for her second Gallifrey One appearance (the last time, eight years ago in 2014!); our special thanks to Howard Hayes & Matthew Campbell for their support bringing her back this year.

Stephen Gallagher

Novelist and screenwriter Stephen Gallagher is a Stoker and World Fantasy Award nominee, and a winner of British Fantasy and International Horror Guild Awards for his short fiction. He is well known to Doctor Who fans for writing two beloved episodes of the original series, “Warriors’ Gate” with Tom Baker and “Terminus” with Peter Davison (both stories he later novelized for Target Books under the name John Lydecker).  More recently, his aborted Doctor Who screenplay “Nightmare Country” was adapted by Big Finish Productions for their Lost Stories series starring Peter Davison. His novels include Chimera, Oktober, Valley of Lights, Nightmare, with Angel, The Kingdom of Bones, The Bedlam Detective, and The Authentic William James. In his native England he’s adapted and created hour-long and feature-length thrillers and crime dramas; in the US he was lead writer on NBC’s Crusoe, creator of CBS Television’s Eleventh Hour, and Co-Executive Producer on ABC’s The Forgotten. His recent screen credits include an award-winning Silent Witness and Stan Lee’s Lucky Man. We are delighted to welcome Stephen to L.A., and thank Cutaway Comics for assisting us with this opportunity.

India Fisher

India Fisher is the voice behind Charlotte “Charley” Pollard, the Edwardian orphan and adventuress and one of Big Finish Productions’ most popular original Doctor Who creations, companion to both Paul McGann and Colin Baker’s Doctors. So popular was the character of Charley, in fact, that she more recently has starred in her own series of audios, Charlotte Pollard.  Beyond Doctor Who, India Fisher is one of Britain’s most well-known voiceover actors, as she has served as the narrator of BBC One’s cooking show MasterChef since 2005. She also appeared as Lora Mezin in the Blake’s 7 audio revival from B7 Productions, has appeared in the television series Dead Ringers and voiced Sophia Winchell in the webcast series Ghosts of Albion; she’s even been the voice of NatWest Bank. We are always delighted to see India at Gallifrey One, and she returns for her fifth appearance in 2022, courtesy Big Finish Productions.

Conrad Westmaas

Conrad Westmaas is best known to Doctor Who fans as C’rizz, the Eutermesan wanderer in an alternate universe visited by the Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann) and Charley Pollard (India Fisher) in the Big Finish Productions monthly adventures range from 2003 to 2007, joining in “The Creed of the Kromon” and departing the TARDIS in “Absolution.”  For the audio team he also played many guest roles including Tarpov in “Omega,” the Nekkistani Emperor in “Gallifrey: Imperiatrix,” Prime Usher Antonin in “Gallifrey: Series IV,” Damus in “Her Final Flight,” Thon in “Living Legend,” ST58 in “Iris Wildthyme and the Claws of Santa,” Hardy in “Bernice Summerfield: The Heart’s Desire,” and the Cat in “Zagreus”.  He also worked as an assistant editor for Doctor Who Magazine.  Outside the TARDIS, he was also seen in The Secret Diary of a Call Girl alongside Billie Piper.  Conrad is delighted to be joining Gallifrey One for his first-ever US convention and we’re thrilled to have him.

Sadie Miller

Sadie Miller made her television debut as Penny, the on-screen daughter of Minnie Driver’s character, Sally, in the BBC Screen One film Royal Celebration at only eight years old. Since then, the daughter of the late, beloved Doctor Who actress Elisabeth Sladen (and Sladen’s husband, actor Brian Miller) has appeared alongside her mother in the retrospective documentary Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS (1993), and as Natalie Redfern in both series of Sarah Jane Smith for Big Finish Productions in 2002. She’s written several monologues for her mother on the audio, The Actor Speaks, as well as several short stories, novellas, novels, and poems for several magazines. In April 2016, she published her debut novel as the first book of the second series of the Lethbridge-Stewart novels, Moon Blink, under the publishing house Candy Jar Books. Sadie recently took over her mother’s role of Sarah Jane Smith for the Doctor Who audio dramas, opposite both Tom Baker and Tim Treloar (who currently plays the Third Doctor). We welcome Sadie to her first visit to Gallifrey One, courtesy Big Finish Productions.

Christopher Naylor

Christopher Naylor trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and he has worked extensively in theatre, television and radio, as well as poetry recitals. His recent theatre work includes the UK/International tour of War Horse (National Theatre), The Woman In Black (West End, London), The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre Royal, York), Hay Fever (UK Tour), Blue/Orange (New Vic Theatre, Stoke), and the Middlemarch trilogy at the Orange Tree Theatre. On TV: The Alienist for TNT/Paramount and The Crown (Netflix), and he appears in the feature film Benediction, directed by Terence Davies. Making regular appearances as guest characters in the Big Finish Productions Doctor Who audio line, as well as other Big Finish series since 2016, he recently revived the role of Harry Sullivan, companion to the Fourth Doctor originated in the 1970s by Ian Marter, opposite Tom Baker and Sadie Miller for the Fourth Doctor Adventures line. Off stage, Christopher is a busy artist. This is his first convention appearance in North America, sponsored by Big Finish Productions.

Roberta Ingranata

Roberta Ingranata is an Italian comic book artist who has worked as an interior artist for European publishers including Delos Books and Star Comics, and as a colorist for Bonelli, Astorina, Egmont and Mondadori, and Disney. In 2014, she began providing art for American comics including Zenescope Entertainment’s Robyn Hood and Margins Publishing’s Vampire Emmy and the Garbage Girl and Anonymously Yours, as well as additional works for Voluntary. In 2016, Ingranata became the artist of the Witchblade relaunch at Image Comics. Most recently, she has been the regular artist on Titan Comics’ Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor line, alongside writes Jody Houser and colorist Enrica Eren Angiolini, as well as “Defender of the Daleks” from the Time Lord Victorious series, and “The Master Plan” on the Doctor Who: Missy series. She also provides cover art for Titan Comics, Valiant Entertainment, Top Cow Productions, and Lion Forge Comics. This will be her first visit to Gallifrey One.

Jody Houser

Jody Houser is the creator behind the webcomic Cupcake POW! which launched in 2010, and has written Faith for Valiant Comics, Max Ride: Ultimate Flight and Agent May for Marvel, and Orphan Black for IDW. She has been a contributing writer to numerous comic anthologies including Avengers: No More Bullying, Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows, Vertigo CMYK: Magenta, both Womanthology series, and Star Wars: Rogue One.  More recently, Jody has been the principal writer for Titan Comics’ Doctor Who series, including the Road to the Thirteenth Doctor arc, the Time Lord Victorious and Thirteenth Doctor comics, and currently on the ongoing main-title Doctor Who series and the Missy miniseries.  We are always thrilled to see Jody and welcome her back for her fourth visit.

Lisa McMullin

Lisa McMullin is a Doctor Who obsessive and screenwriter who also writes audio drama for Big Finish Productions. She has written across various Doctor Whoniverses including Gallifrey: Time War, UNIT, Torchwood, Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon, The Fourth Doctor Adventures, Eighth Doctor: Time War, Missy, Tenth Doctor: Out of Time, The War Master, Eighth of March, The Paternoster Gang, The Robots, and Stranded. (Plus some very exciting things that haven’t been announced yet so she can’t say!) Outside of the world of Big Finish, Lisa writes on a variety of BBC television shows and also has original dramas in development in the UK and US, and in April 2021, she was announced as one of the cohorts of the BBC Studios Writers Workshop, which “aims to find and develop the next generation of UK drama series creators and gives them the chance to develop their own original series.”  We’re thrilled to welcome her back for a return visit, and you can follow Lisa on Twitter: @lisamcmullin

Gary Russell

In a previous life, Gary Russell was once an editor of Doctor Who Magazine, and also wrote a number of Doctor Who novels, comics and non-fiction books. In 1997 he and Jason Haigh-Ellery set up Big Finish Productions, to create brand new audio adventures for the Doctor. After producing over 100 different releases, he left the company and moved to Cardiff to begin working on the show itself, as a script editor, and did the same job on Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. After a three-year exile to Australia, producing Prisoner Zero (an animated sci fi series most recently shown on Netflix) he returned to Cardiff in 2016 and since then has been overseeing the turning of old Doctor Who soundtracks into shiny new animations.

Mark Corden

Mark Corden worked as 2nd Assistant Director on Doctor Who Series 12 and the 2021 special. He was responsible for looking after the cast and hiring the monsters and supporting artists for the show. Being a life-long fan, Mark took the opportunity to make a cameo as Omega, seen stood next to Tecteun and Rassilon in a flashback to early Gallifrey for the story ‘The Timeless Children’. He may also hold the record for casting the most ever Doctors, if you count all the children seen in the episode… Mark’s recent credits include the movie Benediction, co-starring Peter Capaldi, and TV series The Long Call, both produced after COVID-19 struck. He has co-written & directed the short film Keep Breathing, which picked up multiple awards including Best Screenplay & Best Short Film on the festival circuit.

Tony Lee

Comics writer, novelist, screenwriter and playwright Tony Lee has written for Doctor Who in both comics and audio productions, and over the years has written for publishers and broadcasters including Marvel, DC Comics, Heavy Metal Magazine, BBC One, ITV, Amazon / Audible, Big Finish and Titan Comics on licenses such as Spider-Man, Star Trek, Superboy, Robin of Sherwood, Bernice Summerfield , Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Grey, Doctors and Battlestar Galactica among others. As well as writing novels for reluctant readers, Tony is now working in film and TV in the UK and US, and has recently started a bestselling series of procedural crime novels under the pen name Jack Gatland. Tony’s a Gallifrey One regular and we’re happy to welcome him back.

Rob Ritchie

Rob Ritchie is an animator and graphic designer, best known for his work on the BBC Doctor Who missing episode animations.  Rob began his career by recreating the iconic Dad’s Army title sequence for the missing story “A Stripe for Frazer.” He was then approached to create a proof of concept animation which would lead to the commission of the lost Doctor Who serial The Power of the Daleks. Since then, Rob has worked as a 3D Animator and Compositor on Shada, The Macra Terror, The Faceless Ones as well as producing the 10 minute cutdown animation of The Wheel in Space Part One. Occasionally Rob also contributes to the Blu-Ray season collection sets, having provided new VFX options for Planet of the Daleks and the special edition of Terror of the Vervoids.  You can follow Rob on Twitter: @Robritchie409

Martin Geraghty

Martin Geraghty has been one of the regular artists on Doctor Who Magazine’s long-running comic strip for nearly three decades, having started his association in the 1993 Summer Special, and was the main artist on the Eighth Doctor run of stories. His association on the magazine led to him being approached in 2015 to do character design work on an animation of a lost Dad’s Army TV episode before then joining the team that recreated the classic Doctor Who serials “Power of the Daleks,” “The Macra Terror,” “Shada” and “The Faceless Ones” as animated features for the BBC. He is currently working with Cutaway Comics on their range of titles based on the expanded Doctor Who universe.  We’re happy to welcome Martin to his first Gallifrey One event.

David & Samantha Lee Howe

Long-time friends of Gallifrey One, David J. Howe and Samantha Lee Howe, once again return to L.A. to participate in convention programming as well as join us in the Dealers Room. David has been a cornerstone of Doctor Who publishing for decades, both as a popular nonfiction writer and proprietor of Telos Publishing, while Sam first made a name for herself as a prolific gothic, horror and fantasy fiction novelist, and co-writer with David of the Doctor Who anthology film The White Witch of Devil’s End. She has now found great success writing under her real name – Samantha Lee Howe – with her debut thriller The Stranger In Our Bed. We are always thrilled to have them join us for Gallifrey One and welcome them back to Los Angeles for another visit.

Keith Barnfather

Keith Barnfather worked at the BBC and Channel 4 in the UK before forming the documentary film company Reeltime Pictures in 1984. As well as films, documentaries and business TV, he’s probably best known for CultTV and Doctor Who output – from the legendary Myth Makers interview series to dramas like Downtime and The White Witch of Devil’s End.  Most recently, his film Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor, starring Gallifrey One 2022 guests Sophie Aldred and Nabil Shaban, has won rave reviews with both fans and critics alike, and garnered nearly 100 awards at film festivals worldwide.  A long-time friend of Gallifrey One, Keith is returning to us in 2022 to help us celebrate the film’s extraordinary success!

Jason Haigh-Ellery

Long-time Gallifrey One guest and friend Jason Haigh-Ellery is the Managing Director of Big Finish Productions, which recently won a Guinness Book record for “longest running science fiction audio play series.” Jason co-founded and owns the company. As well as attending regular production and company meetings and making crucial decisions about how the company runs, Jason also occasionally directs and is involved in the commissioning of new projects (such as Graceless and The Mervyn Stone Mysteries). He has also been responsible for many key, creative decisions in Big Finish (such as the casting of India Fisher and Sheridan Smith). Nick Briggs has described him as “the best boss you could ever wish for.” Jason also produces theatre worldwide including Footloose and Never Forget, and work with Idina Menzel, New Boy, and Ladykillers.

Our guest announcement banner on the front page of this website today was inspired by the Big Finish Productions cover for “The Rapture” designed by Clayton Hickman.

As of Thursday April 29, all of the remaining hotel rooms at the Marriott Los Angeles Airport have opened up for reservations during the Gallifrey One 2022 weekend (18-20 February 2022), as well as a few days before and after the convention. Click on the button below to make your reservation!

Marriott LAX Hotel Reservations for Gallifrey One 2022

The sections that follow concern multiple accommodations-related topics, including standard-rate room availability; the convention discount block (mostly sold out); and where else you might stay for the convention.

Standard-Rate Room Reservations

The Marriott LAX has now fully opened standard (“rack”) rate rooms for the convention weekend (all rooms not included in our discount block). You can reserve rooms at the Marriott LAX directly via their reservations website (you can also click on the button up above), or you may use booking services like Expedia, Booking.com, etc.  We encouraqge you to book directly with the hotel as booking sites may not have updated information.

These rooms do not enjoy any perks from our convention contract; parking is billed at the Marriott’s standard rate.  Unfortunately we cannot get the Marriott to reclassify a room booked at standard rates to a convention discount block room.

Convention Discount Block Reservations

Our annual convention discount room block ($162/night) was opened in July 2020, when our next event was still planned for February 2021, and sold out within moments of becoming available. After the cancellation of our 2021 convention due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we engaged the Marriott LAX in moving all of those rooms from 2021 to 2022; this process was completed by the end of April 2021. Everyone with updated reservations should have received email from the Marriott with a new confirmation number for February 2022. If you did not reply to the Marriott by late April, your reservation is likely lost (we did send multiple emails from us, too!)  The convention rate includes a $15/night reduced parking for one car only and complementary wi-fi.

From now until the start of Gallifrey One 2022, there may be rooms available under our group code, GALGALC, for individual nights.  We encourage you to check back periodically throughout the year to see if you can get a discounted room at the Marriott website (you can click here to visit the reservations site with our group code automatically included; be sure to adjust your dates as appropriate). Note that we cannot assist you with getting a discounted room; they are automatically put back into availability due to cancellations or other matters, and we are not notified when this happens.  Discounted convention rate rooms are a courtesy only, not a guarantee!

Other Hotels in the Area

Don’t be discouraged if you don’t get into the Marriott, as there are many hotels in the area of Los Angeles International Airport. There are plenty of places to stay, many of which are within a short 5-minute walk from the Marriott – very close by and easily accessed after a long day at the convention. Here’s a quick guide to available options in the immediate area, all of which should have rooms to let for the weekend of our convention.

Important Note: As of April 2021, some of these hotel options may not be available, due to the Super Bowl happening the Sunday before our convention. We encourage you to keep checking these hotels throughout the year, as many rooms for our weekend may open up.

The Renaissance Los Angeles Airport and Courtyard by Marriott LAX are both local Marriott properties. The Renaissance just north of the Marriott and is a less than 5 minute walk; the Courtyard is west of the Marriott and is an approximately 10 minute walk. If you cannot get into the Marriott, these are great options for those with Marriott Rewards cards.

Other options include:

• Hilton Los Angeles Airport (5 minute walk, just on the other side of the Marriott outdoor parking lot; see note below)
• Sonesta Hotel LAX , formerly the Crowne Plaza LAX (5 minute walk, across Airport Blvd. and 1/2 block down Century Blvd.)
• Four Points Sheraton (5 minute walk, between the Marriott and Renaissance Hotels)
• Embassy Suites North – LAX (5 minute walk, across Airport Blvd. and 1/2 block north)
• Residence Inn LAX (5 minute walk, across Airport Blvd. and around the corner)
• Sheraton Gateway LAX (10 minute walk, west toward LAX and beyond the Crowne Plaza)
• Westin Hotel LAX, Holiday Inn LAX, La Quinta Inn LAX, Wingate by Wyndham LAX (all next to the 405 freeway); these are usually taxi/Uber/Lyft amenable as they are long walks.

There are many other local hotels in the LAX area as well within 10-15 minutes walk or a quick taxi ride… we’d encourage you to look at the online map sites and travel sites and choose your best option.

If you’re in the local area, getting to the Marriott LAX is easy… taxis, Uber and Lyft all serve the local area. Parking for the convention can be a bit of a challenge; although the Marriott lot fills up very quickly, there are other parking options in the area (we have a Directions & Parking page on this site, but we will be updating it closer to the convention with current parking info!)

IMPORTANT NOTE regarding the HILTON LAX: We are not the only convention in the LAX area on Presidents’ Day Weekend; the Strategicon gaming convention takes place at the Hilton next door, often at the same time as Gallifrey One. If you are making reservations at the Hilton LAX, make absolutely certain you are not booking your room using Strategicon’s discount hotel block. The Hilton will void any reservations by Gallifrey One attendees that were made using the Strategicon discount block — and Gallifrey One fully supports their right to do so. Please help us keep the genuine peace and good wishes between our events.

When Should I Arrive?

If you are getting a hotel room in the area, we encourage you to check into your hotel room on Thursday if possible (or before, if you are coming earlier; there are fans in the lobby usually as early as late Wednesday afternoon.) Pre-convention events will take place in the evening Thursday, with official events starting at 8:00pm but our social mixer in the hotel lobby (affectionately referred to as ‘lobby con’ by attendees) usually getting into full swing by 6-7pm; the convention proper begins Friday morning at 10am. Badge pickup for attendees will run Thursday 3pm-6pm and limited pickups from 8pm until the desk goes quiet, and resumes Friday morning at 9am. We’d encourage you to travel earlier rather than later to enjoy the full experience.

Over the past few months, we know we’ve thrown quite a lot of information out to our attendees (and prospective attendees), including about hotel reservations and ticket upgrades. We’d therefore like to take stock by summarizing all the important information everyone needs to know, below. With further questions, we hope to embellish this a bit in the weeks to come… and we will certainly add everything to our Attendee Guide as soon as everything is fully up to date.

Status of the Convention for 2022

As announced, Gallifrey One: Thirty-Second to Midnight, our rescheduled 32nd annual convention will take place February 18-20, 2022 at the Marriott Los Angeles Airport Hotel.

Pre-con badge pickup for ticketholders begins Thursday afternoon, February 17, with our annual pre-convention Launch Party the same evening at 8:00pm, followed by our first night of karaoke.  The convention proper begins on Friday morning, February 18, with badge pickup starting at 9:00am, and panel programming beginning at 10:00am.  Our main auditorium opens up at 11:00am Friday; events will run until 6:00pm Friday, then 10:00am to 6:00pm Saturday, and 10:00am to 5:00pm Sunday.  Our closing ceremony will be at 5:00pm Sunday evening.

Evening events will run both Friday and Saturday night, with main stage events, our annual Saturday night dance, three nights of karaoke (Thursday, Friday & Saturday), evening panels, readings and more. In addition, our annual Evening Guest Receptions will take place on Friday and Saturday evenings; these special events have an additional charge and will be announced close to the event.

Our Dealers Room will be open Friday through Sunday, and our Art Show both Friday and Saturday.  Our wonderful dealers have all been contacted (and so far, nearly all of them will be returning).  Art Show display sales open this summer.

Please note that your EventBrite ticket confirmation may have different dates on them (specifically the March 4-6 weekend); you can ignore that, as that was our original stand-by date before we decided to return to our regular weekend.

Status of 2021 & 2022 Convention Tickets

For anyone who bought tickets to the original postponed 2021 Gallifrey One convention, your tickets have automatically been applied to our February 2022 event instead.  You do not need to take any action if you bought tickets that say they’re for 2021; you’ll find your convention badges waiting for you upon arrival.

For those who haven’t yet bought tickets: we still have many available for sale. Visit our Registration page (either click here or on the dark blue Registration box at top right) for pricing information and a link to our EventBrite sales page.

Please note that, as previously announced, we are reducing the number of tickets sold for the 2022 convention by several hundred (with respect to our last convention in 2020), so we encourage you to purchase your tickets as soon as you are able.

If you purchased a child (3-11) or teen (12-16) ticket for 2021, and the postponement means that your child or teen will cross the threshold and no longer be eligible for their age category, please contact us via email with the name of your child or teen. We will be happy to upgrade them to the next ticket tier for at charge (for the 2022 event only, and only for the child/teen named on the ticket).

If you pre-ordered 2021 convention T-shirts or tote bags, your order has also automatically been applied to 2022’s convention as well.

For those of you who purchased tickets for the 2021 event prior to the postponement announcement last September, you will receive our special commemorative lapel pin (“The Year Without a Gally”) free of charge when you pick up your convention badge on site. For those who bought tickets after the postponement announcement, or would like more than one pin, you’ll be able to purchase them on site for a nominal fee. (Proceeds from the pin sales, beyond covering the costs of production, will go toward the convention’s annual charity.)

If Gallifrey One 2022 sells out, we will allow people with existing tickets who cannot make the event to resell their tickets to others… but ONLY if we sell out. Details on convention ticket resales will be posted at the time, if and when a sellout happens.

Status of 2022 Convention Guests

Guests for our 2022 convention will be announced beginning in the late spring or early summer of 2021 (with our usual caveat that guests from the more recent seasons of Doctor Who, if available, will be announced much closer to the event.)

As we’ve mentioned before… this update is coming out while both America and the rest of the world are still in the throes of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. We plan to invite many guests that we had hoped for in 2021, along with many others, but we cannot guarantee that some of them will be prepared to travel by February 2022, though we live in hope.  To that end, we do caution everyone that it might be a slightly lighter year in terms of guests, though we plan to revisit a lot of the ‘old favorites’ (to quote Tom Baker in The Day of the Doctor), too.

Status of Marriott Hotel Reservations

Hotel reservations at the Marriott LAX went on sale for our 2021 event in June 2020; the Gallifrey One convention discount block rate ($162/night) sold out within minutes, as it does every year. Hotel rooms were then available for higher standard rates (also called “rack rates”) via the Marriott LAX website and other sales pages such as Expedia.

When we postponed the convention for one year, the following happened to those reservations:

• Rooms made on the convention discount block rate ($162/night) using our group code were put into a special category, where they will be moved to 2022 instead, without any penalty to the customer.
• Rooms made at standard rates were canceled, either by the customer or by the Marriott itself.

For the convention discount block ($162/night) rooms ONLY: the Marriott reached out to everyone with this rate in January to let them know the process: their rooms for 2021 would be canceled, and the hotel would then reach out to them at a later date to rebook these rooms directly with the customer.  This process began on March 8, but as of March 17, will take several more weeks to complete.  Many of you have been reaching out to Gallifrey One because you are concerned that you have yet to be contacted… we ask you to please be patient, as they are nowhere near done with this.  We will also be consulting with the Marriott to ensure that everyone who was on the original convention block reservations list either has a reservation for 2022 or has informed the hotel directly they no longer need their rooms.  Please DO NOT contact the Marriott by phone, as they are working with a reduced crew and will be getting to everyone as soon as they can.  We will work with the Marriott to make sure NO ONE is left behind on this!

For all other rooms at the Marriott LAX: After the discount block transfer process above is complete, the Marriott will inform us when they plan to open up all remaining rooms for reservations for our weekend.  Remaining rooms will all be at the standard rate (rack rate) determined by the hotel; we have no control over these rates. The Marriott is currently holding all of these rooms so that no one can make any reservations in them; we will work with them on a date to open the rooms a bit later in the year, so that they are available first to Gallifrey One attendees. We go over the full rooming list with the Marriott each year so there is no hoarding of rooms. (Please note there will NOT be any more convention discount block rooms for 2022 made available, only regular rack rate rooms.)

Please follow us on either Twitter or Facebook, as we’ll be making announcements there when the Marriott’s re-housing for our convention block is complete, and when hotel rooms become available.

Status of Hotel Reservations Elsewhere

The current state of the 2022 Super Bowl, which is scheduled to take place at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, only a couple miles away from the Marriott, is still up in the air. Normally it would take place two weekends prior to ours; however, if the NFL expands the season from 16 to 17 weeks, it might delay the Super Bowl to February 13. 

Because of this, many hotels in the area still have a lock on dates surrounding both weekends, and that includes the Gallifrey One weekend. When that decision is finalized (expected to be in the next two months), we do expect many of these holds to be released.  However, some hotels are available at this time; we encourage you to check Expedia or other websites for availability.  Among these are the Hyatt Grand Regency right off LAX; the Sonesta LAX Hotel (formerly known as the Crowne Plaza LAX); and some of the hotels right off the I-405 freeway, including the Wingate by Wyndham, the Holiday Inn LAX Airport, and the La Quinta Inn & Suites.

Even if the Super Bowl in 2022 is on February 13, days before Gallifrey One, the vast majority of the hotels in the area will empty out in the days that follow, so you should be able to find a convenient place to stay.  There are also many hotels in a surrounding 5 mile radius that can provide very easy access to the convention via taxi, Uber or Lyft rides (it is, after all, one of America’s busiest airports), and rideshare is easy to pick up at the Marriott to return back to your hotel at night.

Status of the Convention Program

As we noted some time ago, this unexpected two-year gap has given us a great deal of time to do some rethinking about Gallifrey One, and the way we design and schedule the event. While we think we put on one of the finest fan-run events in North America, there’s always room for reflection, and we’ve already made some significant changes you’ll find for 2022.

One of the biggest changes has to do with the convention’s layout. Our very busy Photo Studio has finally made a move, up to the Aviation Ballroom off the main hotel lobby (previously the site of our “Program B” room).  The large size of this ballroom allows us to properly manage multiple lines all running simultaneously for various celebrity photo shoots, without the crisscrossing in the panel room hallway many of you came to expect each year. This will take the vast majority of lines off the convention level entirely, dramatically reducing the foot traffic during peak hours.

To make this change, we’ve moved Program B to the back quarter of the Imperial Ballroom, the site of our Dealers Room.  While this effectively means a reduction of the Dealers Room to three quarters of its previous size, it doesn’t mean major changes to the actual dealer portion of the room itself. Instead, the Autograph Alley, the TARDIS and console photo area (generously displayed by Pat Harper and AZ TARDIS) and our dedicated actor signing tables are all moving elsewhere on the convention floor.  You’ll find some of them in the open “pass-through” zone between the central and western hallways, which we know many people came to love as an easy way between parts of the convention until we had to eliminate that a few years ago.

In terms of the substance of the convention, our main program:

• You can expect all the Q&As, presentations, interviews and (hopefully) live commentaries back on the stage like always.
• The 2022 annual Bob May Memorial Charity Auction will once again take place on Sunday, with our Auction Donation Room open Friday and Saturday for your Doctor Who and SF/fantasy/horror/media merchandise donations to be auctioned off.
• Most or all of our very popular events will be returning for 2022, including the Radio Free Skaro Kickoff Show, This or That, our Idiot’s Lantern stage show, our “TARDIS Talks” academic program track, and much more.
• We fully expect the annual Science Workshops for Children (and their Parents) to take place again in 2022 (and we may also have something similar for adults… stay tuned!)
• Our yearly Kaffeeklatsches will happen again, with sign-ups a few weeks prior to the event.
• We will once again feature a science program featuring guests from NASA, JPL, Caltech and other established scientific institutions, as well as local SF, fantasy and genre writers, artists and production folks.
• We will be opening up submissions for our discussion panel program topics in the early summer.  Once our list of prospective panel topics are posted (likely late summer), we will then open up a form for attendee requests to be panelists on these panels. (In other words, we’re not doing both simultaneously like last time… we definitely learned a lesson of how much harder that was.) Please note that this will be for open discussion panels participated in by our attendees; we are not looking for additional hosted program items at this time.

However, we’re also making one major change, and it’s a big one…

Status of the Masquerade of Mandragora

We know many of you love our convention Masquerade, and we do too. However, we noticed that some of the interest level has been waning a bit, especially with so many people wearing such amazing costumes during the daytime. Behind the scenes, the Masquerade is usually a very labor-intensive event, with a lot of pre-planning involved: sign-ups, organizational meetings, workmanship judging, performance rehearsals, etc. 

For 2022, we are keeping the spirit of the event, but eliminating some of the trappings around it.  Instead, Gallifrey One’s Masquerade of Mandragora will transform into a fashion show format, open to anyone who wishes to display their costume on stage, be it a grand reveal or a look at a hall costume you’re planning to wear the next day.  Gone are both the judging and the awards portion of the Masquerade, as well as the performance (musical/vocal accompaniment) part of the show. Instead, all entrants will be free to write their own brief introduction to their costume, to be read by one of our hosts, and come on stage and out onto the runway to show off their fashion.  We’ll be keeping all the spectacle and pageantry, and the night will still be one to remember.

We’ll be making further announcements about this in the months to come, with clarification on when it will take place, when you can sign-up, what the specific rules are, and how it will be presented.  We are currently considering (but not final on) a possible move of this Masquerade event to Friday evening instead of Saturday, so that entrants can further show off their costumes the next day (Saturday, our busiest day.)  Also, because of the elimination of the judging and musical/verbal presentation portions of the Masquerade, there will no longer be a ‘half time’ show as part of the Masquerade itself… but we plan to have a show immediately following the event in the main auditorium, so stay tuned for more details on that.

Status of the Pandemic and Gallifrey One

As we post this, both America and the rest of the world are still buried in the mire of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccinations are increasing at a brisk pace in the US and other countries, with predictions that America might return to some semblance of “normalcy” by the fall. We have every confidence that that will happen.

We do know, however, that the effects of the disaster we’ve all just been through, and continue to endure, will linger for many years to come. Gallifrey One will be following all California state and Los Angeles city ordinances regarding meetings & gatherings, as will the Marriott LAX.  We will also be paying close attention to the guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), including recommendations for large gatherings, including how we manage lines, and foot traffic within heavy areas (specifically the Dealers Room).

As we have already noted several times, this might mean the wearing of masks at all times inside the hotel. If that is the case, we will give all of you ample notice prior to the convention that masks will be required, and it will be strictly enforced without exception.  However, we also live in hope that masks won’t be needed by February. (If masks are required next February, please note that we will not issue any refunds to anyone who cannot abide by this fact. Doctor Who teaches that “science leads,” and that’s what Gallifrey One believes, too.)

We hope this answers so many of your questions and satisfies your curiosity on what you might expect in 11 months time. We look forward to seeing all of you next February… so, stay safe, wear a mask, get vaccinated, and keep hope alive!

It is with deep sadness that today we must announce that we are officially postponing the 2021 Gallifrey One convention to the first quarter of 2022, due to the ongoing worldwide COVID-19 pandemic emergency.

Gallifrey One has run successfully every year since our first event in 1990, and we’ve never intended to take a year off.  But these are extraordinary times: infection rates are climbing, there are unknown factors regarding safety and community exposure, and there have been ongoing edicts from local and county officials in our area prohibiting all mass gatherings, so this news should come as no surprise to anyone.  There is simply no way we can continue planning our event for next February with the same goals in mind, given that it’s very likely our lives won’t return to any semblance of normalcy until after a vaccine is proven effective and is widely circulated to the general population… which according to the medical community won’t be happening until at least sometime in the middle of next year.

We do know this will still be a crushing disappointment to so many of you, especially those of you who held out such hope that we could avoid this, having just gotten through our last convention before the worldwide shutdown began.  It is equally upsetting to all of us who organize and run this beloved event every year… the idea of a year without a Gallifrey One scarcely bears thinking about.  By anyone.

But, together with our wonderful partners at the Marriott LAX Hotel, we’ve just worked out the details on postponing our event for a year and satisfying our contract obligations, and we have good news for those of you with hotel reservations made under the Gallifrey One discount block two months ago.  We’ve also made decisions about tickets that we feel will address everyone’s concerns.

So… our next convention will still be Gallifrey One: Thirty-Second to Midnight — but it’ll take place in early 2022.  But when, exactly?  That’s a little more complicated…  

Convention Dates for 2022

Our 2022 convention will take place February 18-20, 2022 at the Marriott Los Angeles Airport Hotel.  

The following is language we originally reported in September 2020, but is no longer relevant:

February 2022 will be huge for Los Angeles: the NFL’s Super Bowl LVI will be taking place that month at the brand new SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, just minutes away from where we throw our party every year.  The Super Bowl usually takes place on the Sunday two weeks prior to Presidents’ Day Weekend, and most everyone believes that this will be the case again: Sunday February 6.  Unfortunately, the NFL itself hasn’t confirmed the date, due to ongoing discussions about the length of the football season.

When the Super Bowl comes to any town, it’s a big deal, and it means that most hotels in the area are fully booked out by NFL contractors for multiple weeks on either side of the event. That includes our host hotel, the Marriott LAX.

Because of this, the part of our contract that covers 2022 was written with two possible dates in mind, instead of one: either February 18-20, 2022 if the NFL releases that weekend, or March 4-6, 2022, our default weekend, if they don’t (with our opening launch party taking place as usual on the Thursday night prior to either). That decision, unfortunately, is probably a few more months away. We simply can’t confirm which of the two weekends we’ll be on until that happens, when the NFL officially confirms its dates and the Marriott confirms it could accommodate us in February. Without both of those happening, we’d be on the first weekend in March.

We will, of course, update everyone as soon as we know.  Remember that at minimum, our next convention is 17 months away, and we will definitely know exactly what our next dates are by very early next year, if not later this year, so we appreciate your patience.  (Also, we will be back on our regular Presidents’ Day Weekend schedule in 2023 and beyond.)

Update: For everyone with current tickets who received the email we sent this morning through EventBrite, you may notice that it shows the March dates at the bottom.  That is our default at the moment; the EventBrite system requires a default date in order to function properly. As soon as we have a final answer on whether mid-February is open to us, we will confirm the dates through another email to our ticket holders, and of course broadcast it on our social media and this website.

Tickets, Refunds, and 2021 Commemorative Pin

By default, all tickets purchased for Gallifrey One 2021 have been automatically transferred to 2022.  If you have already purchased your ticket, and intend to join us in 2022, you do not need to take any action at all; your full admission is guaranteed for our next convention.

However, because of the unique situation we find ourselves in, and as a token of good faith to our attendees, we are also announcing a limited-time refund option on 2021 tickets that were purchased on or before September 11, 2020, which includes a refund of both the ticket price as well as the EventBrite processing fee.  If you purchased tickets before that date and would like your tickets refunded, simply go to the 2021 Ticket Refund Request page linked below and complete the form.  (You’ll need your EventBrite confirmation, but see that form for further details.)  The deadline for all refund requests is Friday, October 9, 2020, using the form linked below, and we will process these refunds through EventBrite after the deadline only.  There will be no refunds available for any tickets purchased on or after September 12, 2020, and the October 9, 2020 deadline for refund requests is final.

October 11 Update: All refunds that were requested up through October 9 have been fully processed by EventBrite. We will no longer accept any new requests for refunds.

For the rest of you, who purchased tickets prior to today’s announcement and aren’t requesting refunds, you’ll be receiving a free gift when you pick up your badge in 2022: a commemorative 2021 Gallifrey One pin.  This lapel pin, which will be designed in honor of the “Year Without a Gally,” is our way of saying thanks for your early support of our 2021 plans, even as the pandemic unfolded across the world, and for your continued support into 2022.

For those of you who haven’t yet purchased your tickets but would still like one of the commemorative pins, we’ll have some available for purchase on-site at the 2022 convention (while supplies last) for a nominal fee… part of which will cover pin cost, with the remainder donated to that year’s charity.

Meanwhile, we’ve updated our Convention Registration page to reflect the change to 2022; new tickets can be purchased there.  All of the admission prices used for the 2021 convention remain exactly the same for 2022: $125 adult, $75 teen ages 12-16, $35 child 3-11, free for children under 3.  Tickets will remain available until they sell out, and there are still plenty of tickets left for our next event in early 2022.

If you purchased a child ticket (3-11) or teen ticket (12-16) prior to September 12, 2020, and your child or teen will cross the age threshold due to the postponement (i.e. an 11 year old turns 12, or a 16 year old turns 17), please contact us with your specific details. We will be happy to upgrade them for this convention at no charge.

Marriott LAX Hotel Reservations Information

The past few days, we have been working on the last major detail with our partners at the Marriott LAX: the status of everyone’s hard-fought hotel reservations for February 2021 that were made under the Gallifrey One discount block reservation code. Recognizing that we just put everyone through “hotel day” two months ago, this was something we really wanted to avoid a second time.

We are extraordinarily pleased to announce that the Marriott will be shifting all existing reservations made under the Gallifrey One 2021 discount block rate to 2022!  Existing check-in and check-out days will correspond with the weekend like they do now… for example, a Wednesday-through-Monday reservation for 2021 will be a Wednesday-through-Monday one for 2022 instead.  These reservations will be moved internally by the Marriott LAX management in the next few weeks to our default March 4-6, 2022 weekend… with the understanding that, if the NFL’s decision enables the Marriott to welcome us back on our regular mid-February weekend, they’ll be shifted again. 

Again, this covers room reservations that were made under the Gallifrey One discount block only; these are the rooms that were reserved back in July, at $162/night, with our group code.  We can confirm that, whichever weekend we end up on in 2022, the room rates under the Gallifrey One discount block will be the same as those reserved for 2021: $162/night plus tax (with wi-fi and the $15/night parking rate for one car only).  The Gallifrey One discount block is currently no longer available.

As the move of our convention room block to 2022 will happen internally at the Marriott LAX, you may not receive confirmation for some time. Please do not contact Marriott Reservations, or the Marriott LAX Hotel directly, about rooms on the Gallifrey One discount block (that includes calls to request modifications); they will only be working with Gallifrey One directly on this process.

Please also note that we are unable to do anything with reservations that are not made using our group code; this includes reservations made at standard “rack” rates (i.e. not at $162/night), using other group discount codes (like AAA), or made through third-party vendors such as Expedia, Hotels.com, Booking.com and so forth.  For these reservations, we recommend that you cancel them as soon as possible to avoid penalties, through either the Marriott or the same third-party vendor you used.  Also, we cannot help you with any reservations made at other hotels.

For those of you with mixed reservations (some nights on the Gallifrey One discount block, others at rack rate), you’ll need to cancel the nights that aren’t on the Gallifrey One discount block yourselves… but please contact us by email about your particular situation; if we can help you at a later date, we will let you know.

If you are requesting a full refund of your ticket and you have hotel reservations, it is up to you to cancel them on your own, regardless of being on our convention block or not.

Finally, regardless of which weekend we end up on for 2022, we will be in touch with our partners at the Marriott about a date when (and if) remaining rooms will be made available, and we’ll pass that info on to you here and on our social media… but that likely won’t be until sometime next year.

Convention T-Shirt & Tote Bag Orders

All pre-orders received for Gallifrey One: Thirty-Second to Midnight convention T-shirts and tote bags have been automatically applied to the 2022 event. This merchandise can be picked up on site in 2022 as usual; if you’ve already made a purchase, there is no action needed on your part.

If you are requesting a ticket refund instead of deferring your ticket to to 2022, you have two options: we can offer you a full refund of your merchandise purchase, or you can request that someone else attending the 2022 convention pick them up for you. The Ticket Refund Request form linked in the section above has a field to indicate which option you select for your merchandise, and the deadline is that of the ticket refund request itself, October 9. We will not provide refunds on merchandise orders for anyone whose tickets have been moved to 2022, nor on any requests submitted after the October 9 deadline.

Our merchandise order form remains open and has been updated to 2022, and you can order items on the Add-Ons & Merchandise page on this website. 

What about a virtual event?

At this time, we don’t intend to host a virtual event in place of the 2021 convention.

We know that other conventions have chosen to present their events online, with live streaming guest chats and panels, and we think that’s great.  However, we feel very strongly that, as great as our guests and program have been over the years, that’s been only one part of the experience.  Gallifrey One is a community of nearly four thousand people, and there is no way to replace that community — the camaraderie, the joy of seeing friends every year, the shared experiences, the “lobby con” social atmosphere, the late night chatter, the parties, the cosplay, the photos and special moments — with a live-streamed event, panel or online chat. 

That said, we know many of you will likely be in touch with friends on Zoom or other streaming services that weekend anyway, so we definitely encourage you to keep in touch with the people that make Gallifrey One special to you; hopefully that will tide you over until we can all be together again.

And Finally…

We’d like to thank our amazing partners at the Marriott LAX — including Karla, Ryan, Hilda, Romeo, Traci, Kate, and especially Jeff Hart, the hotel’s general manager — who have worked with us throughout this process, as well as our wonderful and understanding sponsors, dealers and exhibitors, and of course, all of YOU for continuing to support our convention. We have every intention of returning in 2022, full speed ahead, with amazing guests, panels and so much more.  A confirmation of our 2022 dates should be coming within the next few months; meanwhile, we’ll begin to announce 2022 guests sometime next year.  You can keep updated by following our Facebook page or Twitter feed, or checking back here on our website.

Once again… thank you all for your faith in us. We know this is a depressing situation, not just for Gallifrey One but for everyone, and 2022 seems like an eternity away.  But we WILL be back, and we can’t wait to resume the festivities with all of you.  Stay safe, stay healthy, reach out to your friends and families, wear a mask, and keep hope alive.

“One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back.
Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties.
Just go forward in all your beliefs,
and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.”
– The First Doctor, 1964