Space City (convention)

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Space City was a series of Blake's 7 conventions held in the UK. 
The convention was named after "Space City", the “Satellite of Sin” planet that appeared in show's second season, episode: Shadow.
== Space City 1985==
Date: Saturday 4 May 1985.
Place: Caversham Bridge Hotel, Reading.
There were 130 registered attendees.
Fans talk about it here.
One of the vids shown at the convention was Rebel Run which can be seen on YouTube here.
Linda Short performed Songs of the Seven.
Photos from the con by Susan Little are here, password is space85 The password is publicly available here.
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==Space City 1986==
Space City was held in 1986 in the UK. It was a one-day event. Approximately 150 fans attended with actors Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Sally Knyvette, Jan Chappell and Peter Tuddenham as guests.
A 1-hour 45 minute video compilation was sold via The Avon Fan Club in 2004.Avob Fan Club Merchandise Page WayBack link from 2004.
The video can be seen here.
A related fanwork: "Space City 1986, or, 'Rumours of Death' Revisited" is meta fiction by Ros Williams, a humorous con report for from Anna Grant's POV. It was printed in Avon Club Newsletter #27.
==Con Report: 1986==
See additional con reports (and a photo/s) in Avon Club Newsletter #27.
==Space City 1988==
Space City 1988 was held Oct 17-18, 1988 in Egham, Surrey, UK. Guests included Paul Darrow, Gareth Thomas, Michael Keating, Janet Lees Price, David Jackson, Sally Knyvette, and Jan Chappel. It was the first convention since the show had ended that had both Paul Darrow and Gareth Thomas at the same time.
A 3-hour video compilation was sold via The Avon Fan Club in 2004.Avob Fan Club Merchandise Page WayBack link from 2004. The contents:
* Saturday (Jan Chappell, Peter Tuddenham, David Jackson and Matt Irvine with the original B7 models including Orac)
* Sunday (Paul Darrow, Gareth Thomas, Jan Chappell, Janet Lees Price)
* All the Auctions (Paul Darrow, Janet Lees Price, Gareth Thomas, Peter Tuddenham and Matt Irvine).
===1988: Con Reports===
 
==Space City 1989==
===1989: Con Reports===
==Space City 1990==
Space City 1990 was held April 28-29, 1990 at Abbots Well Hotel, Whitchurch
Rd, Christleton, Chester, UK. 
Guests included Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Janet Lees Price, Sally Knyvette, Peter Tuddenham, and Jan Chappell.
This con generated a seeing eye dog named Avon. 
See Avon Calling To The Faithful, a mainstream press article about this con.
 
Image:spacecity1990-1.jpg|photo from the 1990 con, the Horizon fan club room party cake, the editor of Horizon Newsletter and president of the fan club is shown under a large amount of fan mail marked "Urgent!"
Image:spacecity1990-2.jpg|photo from the 1990 con, Paul Darrow outside the hotel
Image:spacecity1990-3.jpg|photo from the 1990 con, Janet Lees Price (Darrow), Paul Darrow, Peter Tuddenham
 
===Space City: 1990: Con Reports===
==Space City: 1999: Con Reports==
There are con reports by Judith M. Seaman, John Chadwick, Barbara Eidinger, Maureen Marrs [in verse!] in Avon Club Newsletter #41.
==Space City 1991==
From Aspects v.3 n.2: 
==Space City 1992==
May 2 and 3.
It was at Abbots Well Hotel. 
The theme was "Shadow."
Invited guests were Paul and Janet Darrow, Michael Keating, Peter Tuddenham, Stephen Greif, Chris Boucher, and Mat Irvine.
In the end, the Darrows did not attend. From Aspects v.4 n.3: "The heavy touring schedule of Macbeth unfortunately caused Paul to cancel his appearance at Space City '92."
==References==
Category:Blake's 7 Conventions
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Category:1992 Conventions