Doctor Who fandom in the 1970s
October 16th, 2010 (02:24 pm)
Remember this post? Simon, who writes the blog My TARDIS Years, did, and asked me whether he could reproduce my scans of early covers of TARDIS, the fanzine around which the Doctor Who Appreciation Society formed in 1976. They now appear in his latest blog entry, 'My fandom years with Steve Cambden + interview'. Read about the days when fandom was small and one could be lucky enough to watch The Pirate Planet on first broadcast at Debbie Watling's house; and also of the days when it was expected that most people started work at sixteen, and if you were also very lucky you could join the BBC and become K9's assistant operator.
>>>>also of the days when it was expected that most people started work at sixteen, and if you were also very lucky you could join the BBC and become K9's assistant operator.
Oh yes - how I remember those days - being looked down on by younger shop assistants because still wearing school uniform at 17.
On the other hand, as you say, there were the people who were working at Pinewood before they were 17. In those days, people alighted or took trains to and from Pinewood at the station where I boarded the school train.
Oh the thrill when, forty years later, it was my turn to arrive and board there by taxi for and from Pinewood!