LI Who Add Three More Doctor Who Guests To Their Amazing Guest List

LI Who has added three more guests this week to their great guest list.  First up they added Richard Franklin who played Captain Yates who was a main stay in the Pertwee era as a member of UNIT. 

Also joining in on the fun and to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the 1996 TV Movie will be Daphne Ashbrook who played Grace Holloway and Jeremy Radick who played Gareth.  This years convention, which will be held November 11-13, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency Long Island, is shaping up to be a really good one and you can get your tickets at the LI Who website.

http://longislanddoctorwho.com/

Doctor Who - The TV Movie 20 Year Anniversary Review

Its the 20th anniversary of the TV Movie starring Paul McGann, Daphne Ashbrook and Eric Roberts as The Master.  We take a look back at this failed attempt to bring back Doctor Who in 1996.

Doctor Who
Doctor Who Movie 1996
By Matthew Jacobs

“If the Eye of Harmony isn't closed, this planet will be sucked through it! Grace, I need to fix the timing mechanism on the Tardis and close the Eye. I need an atomic clock. Grace, please, help me find one”


The newly regenerated Doctor now in his 8th body is in turmoil as the TARDIS needs to be reset and needs a part of an atomic clock to help close the Eye of Harmony before Earth is destroyed. While he was in his 7th incarnation he was attempting to deliver the remains of The Master back from his trial and execution on Skaro to Gallifey.  Things don’t go according to plan as The Master breaks free from his urn as an ooze like creature and makes the TARDIS to dematerialize by provoking the emergency procedure.  The TARDIS lands in San Francisco 1999 on December 30th.

The 8th Doctor meets up with Grace who thinks he is completely bonkers until stuff he is talking about becomes real.  The Master who now inhabits ambulance driver Bruce’s body opens the Eye of Harmony which is causing Earth weather to go haywire and will eventually destroy the planet.  With the help of Chang Lee The Master needs to steal The Doctor’s body so he can claim his remaining regenerations for himself.  The Doctor and Grace must find a way to stop The Master and close the Eye of Harmony and yet again save the Earth.

Doctor Who - Daphne Ashbrook Added To LI Who 3 Guest List

Daphne Ashbrook will be returning to LI Who this year.  This will be her third appearance at the convention.  If you never seen her before her panels with Paul McGann are a riot and should be again this year.  You can order tickets while they last at the LI Who Website.  LI Who is in November 13th to the 15th.
http://longislanddoctorwho.com/index.html

Doctor Who - Mastermind Review

Doctor Who:

Mastermind

By Jonathan Morris

Starring Geoffrey Beavers,

Daphne Ashbrook and Yee Jee Tso

Every Five years a certain prisoner awakens in the vault.  It is up to two members of the US Army to interrogate the prisoner and that dubious job belongs to Captain Ruth Matheson and Warrant Officer Charlie Sato.  You see the prisoner is a very dangerous person who is kept in a vault that has a lot of safety measures like both eyes to open the door, they are only allowed to talk to the prisoner in 10 minute shifts and if one gets hypnotized the other pushes a panic button that will lock the pair in the prison until they are deemed safe.  All these measures might seem a tad bit extreme but this prisoner is extraordinarily dangerous as the prisoner is none other than the evil Time Lord The Master and he is itching to get free.

L.I. Who Adds Another Doctor Who Guest

The Long Island Doctor Who Convention has added Daphne Ashbrook to the guest list.  She Joins Frazer Hines and there is more announcements this week with another companion and a Doctor.

http://longislanddoctorwho.com/guests-3/

ICON 31 – One Of The Best Ever

It’s another rainy, cold March day which means it must be ICON time.   Well that it is and this past March 31, 2012 The Knights (well four of us) partook in that geek filled love pilgrimage to the SUNY campus for the annual sci-fi and anime convention.   This has always been one of my favorite conventions and I can count on one hand how many that we have missed which is not many at all.  I have been taking that 3 hour plus drive since 1995 when I first enjoyed ICON for the first time.  So how did this year’s version which is the 31st edition measure up.  Well it was by far one of the best ICONS that I have attended.

Best. I-CON. Ever.

I wasn't the only one who enjoyed I-CON.

OK, so the headline is a little misleading because this past weekend's I-CON 31 at Stony Brook University on Long Island also was my first I-CON. Still, it was highly enjoyable - a near-perfect experience - and my friends, veterans of many I-CONs, said it ranked among their favorites. Who am I to argue?

What made the event special for me was the outstanding interaction with the guests. Yes, I understand that they are professional actors and could very well be "putting on a show" for the fans by pretending to be interested in their questions and engaging in conversation. That being said, we've all met celebrities - even at events where we were paying our hard-earned money to be in their presence - who seemed like they would like to be almost anywhere else. If that was the case at I-CON, each of the people who I met deserves an Academy Award.

In no particular order:

General Martok: It was a good day to mingle.

Again, I lie. Even with Big Names highlighting the program, as soon as I reviewed the guests, I knew who I wanted to meet first and most - J.G. Hertzler, best known in the Trek Universe for his two dozen appearances as Klingon General Martok from "Deep Space Nine." Why? I'm not even sure. Some small part of my brain - admittedly, my brain has only small parts - immediately was drawn to the idea that General Martok would be appearing at the convention. He did not disappoint. We had a delightful conversation.