re: #238 CleverToad

Oooh, that’s definitely a prized souvenir! I was pure-D lucky enough to meet Nick Courtney at several cons in the 80’s — favorite memory is watching him messing about on the stage at Red Rocks, trying to see how far he could project his voice without a microphone. What actor could resist?

What Doctor Who fan club did you run? I was founder/prez of the Unofficial Harry Sullivan Fan Club back in the day.

I love the Harry/Sarah episodes. I watched Ark in Space about a week ago.

We were called The Third Zone, meeting mostly in Lombard and Des Plaines, IL. I probably still have a newsletter or two lying around.

The name is an obscure Doctor Who reference, because Doctor Who was our main show, but we didn’t want to sound obviously Doctor Who specific, since we were showing other British SF like Blake’s 7, Star Cops, Hitchhikers, Sapphire and Steel, etc…

At our peak, we had a PAL TV and VCR paid for via dues, to show tapes from England that we had traded American shows on tape for, and to make camera copies to NTSC, which were horrible. PAL looked beautiful to eyes that had only seen NTSC, but it did give me migraines because the frame-rate is too low and CRTs flicker.

What we have now is so much better. It’s a lot easier for fans today. No shipping tapes, and digital HD video plays everywhere.