New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club
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The New Zealand Doctor Who Fan Club (or NZDWFC), New Zealand's national Doctor Who fan club, was founded in January 1988 in Christchurch by Andrew Poulsen, Scott Walker and Kay Lilley. Since 1991 the club's administration has been based in Auckland. The club is currently run by Paul Scoones and Rochelle Scoones. Although the club is based in New Zealand, fans from the United Kingdom and North America currently comprise approximately half of the membership. The NZDWFC is a non-profit organisation.
The main focus of the NZDWFC is Time Space Visualiser (usually abbreviated to TSV), a fanzine published 2-3 times per annum.
The club has produced non-profit novelisations of five classic era Doctor Who TV stories (The Pirate Planet, City of Death, Shada, Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation of the Daleks). Other fan publications produced by the NZDWFC include five issues of a fan fiction anthology called Timestreams, and various other special issues.
Most of the NZDWFC's publications are no longer in print, but the back catalogue is being gradually made available to view online in the TSV Archive.
Social groups of club members, called chapters, meet regularly in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
The NZDWFC has a website located at www.doctorwho.org.nz.
Items of official Doctor Who merchandise are sold through the club.
The club has produced two VHS releases under the 'TSV Video' label: An Afternoon with Tom Baker (1997), and Colin & Katy Live! (2001).
Conventions and other major events organised by the club include Trakon (July 1989); WhoCon (September 1990, guests: Jon Pertwee, Mark Strickson); DoctorCon 2 (January 1992); Continuum (August 1994, guest: Gary Russell); An Afternoon with Tom Baker (January 1997, guest: Tom Baker); and DoctorCon 2003 (April 2003, guests: Janet Fielding, Paul Cornell).
Members of the club have been responsible for two discoveries of lost Doctor Who 16mm films. The first episode of The Crusade was found by Neil Lambess and Paul Scoones in Auckland in January 1999, and reels containing censor clips from lost episodes of The Web of Fear and The Wheel in Space were located by Graham Howard in Wellington in May 2002.
