Whooverville 15

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Remember, Whooverville 14 sold out and we know that some people were disappointed, so act fast to secure your place. And don't forget to look out for guest announcements over the coming weeks and months.

Stay tuned for more guest announcements.

Wendy Padbury

Let's have our first Whooverville 15 guest announcement. In fact this won't come as a surprise to anyone who was at Whooverville 14 last September, as we announced her appearance, on-stage, at the end of the day.

WENDY PADBURY first came to public prominence in 1966, when she joined the cast of popular soap Crossroads, having come second in a TV talent contest, Search For A Star. In 1968 Wendy joined Doctor Who as Zoe Herriot, companion to the Second Doctor, completing one of the best remembered teams in the show's history alongside Patrick Troughton and Frazer Hines. After leaving the show, she appeared in the 1974 stage show, Doctor Who and the Daleks in the Seven Keys to Doomsday, playing companion Jenny. She returned to the role of Zoe (briefly) for The Five Doctors and on many occasions since for Big Finish.

Wendy's other TV appearances have included three years in the well-remembered children's series, Freewheelers, Emmerdale Farm, and as co-presenter on pop show, Score with The Scaffold. Largely retiring from acting, Wendy worked for some years as a theatrical agent, during which time her clients included Nicholas Courtney, Colin Baker and Mark Strickson; and she discovered the young Matt Smith at the National Youth Theatre.

Wendy returned to the role of Zoe last year, appearing alongside Frazer in Tales of the TARDIS. We are delighted to be welcoming Wendy back to Whooverville for the first time as an Official Whoovers guest, her previous appearance at Whooverville 9 in 2018 being as a sponsored guest.

Maureen O'brien

Our second guest announcement of the evening is one that we are particularly excited to be able to make. MAUREEN O'BRIEN will be making her Whooverville début at Whooverville 15 at QUAD - Derby on 31st August.

Maureen's stint on Doctor Who, playing Vicki opposite William Hartnell's First Doctor came close to the beginning of a long career on TV, film and stage.

She was a founder member of Liverpool's Everyman Theatre and has had roles in series such as Casualty, The Duchess of Duke Street, Taggart, Cracker, A Touch of Frost, Heartbeat and Jonathan Creek, as well as in the 1985 film She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas. Maureen is also the author of seven successful detective novels.

Maureen has reprised the role of Vicki for Big Finish and most recently, alongside Peter Purves in Tales of the TARDIS.

We cannot wait to meet Maureen in September and send her our thanks for accepting our invitation.

Chris Chapman

The third Official Whooverville 15 Guest that we can announce is CHRIS CHAPMAN.

Chris is a television producer-director and writer, best known to Who fans for producing and directing Doctor Who documentaries, and features, mostly for the Blu-ray box sets. He is also the writer of several Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish.

We are delighted that Chris has agreed to make a return visit to Whooverville at QUAD

Tommy Knight

Our thanks go to TOMMY KNIGHT for agreeing to join us at QUAD this year!

Tommy is, of course, best known for playing Luke Smith in The Sarah Jane Adventures and Doctor Who. He has also played Kevin Chalk in the original run of Waterloo Road, Cal Bray in Glue and Archibald Brodie in Victoria.

We are delighted to be welcoming Tommy to Derby, as he makes his Whooverville début at this year's event.

Dominic Glynn

We are delighted to announce that Dominic Glynn is coming back to our convention for the first time since Whooverville 6 in 2014. In a long and prolific career as a composer and musician, Dominic has provided the music for many TV shows and films, including arranging the Doctor Who series' theme for Season 23. He also wrote the incidental music for the stories The Mysterious Planet, The Ultimate Foe, … See more

Jason Quinn

Jason is the award-winning author of Gandhi: My Life is My Message, Steve Jobs: Genius by Design, and many other graphic novels. He has worked in the comic book industry for the last thirty years and has written for Batman, Spider-Man, Ben 10, Doctor Who Adventures and many other popular magazines. In August 2023 he succeeded Marcus Hearn as editor of Doctor Who Magazine in time to lead the magazine's response to the relaunch of Doctor Who under Russell T. Davies. We look forward very much to meeting Jason and to welcoming him to Derby QUAD - Derby on 31st August.

Jeff Rawle

We are delighted to be able to announce that JEFF RAWLE will be joining us for WHOOVERVILLE 15 . Jeff is among the UK's busiest stage, film and television actors. He first came to prominence in the ITV comedy Billy Liar, in 1973. Further television credits include appearances in Van der Valk, Crown Court, Hammer House of Horror, Juliet Bravo, Bergerac, Angels, Boon, The Bill, the sitcom Faith in the Future, with Lynda Bellingham and Hollyoaks. Perhaps Jeff's most memorable role to date has been as George Dent in the brilliant comedy Drop the Dead Donkey (1990-98), recently revived to great acclaim for a nationwide theatre tour. Jeff has made several notable appearances in the universe of, Doctor Who, as Plantagenet in the 1984 story Frontios, as Mr Harding in the Sarah Jane Adventures story, Mona Lisa's revenge, and in three Big Finish stories, opposite the 8th and 3rd Doctors and Jago and Litefoot. We thank Jeff for accepting our invitation to Whooverville and look forward to welcoming him to QUAD - Derby on 31st August. Our thanks go to Matthew Campbell-Dell for helping us withthis arrangement.