A Day with Jon Pertwee

Science Fiction Convention
Name:	A Day with Jon Pertwee
Dates:	October and November 1986
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Location:	east coast, US, and Florida
Type:	for-profit, celebrity guests
Focus:	Doctor Who
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URL:	List of Conventions in the United States - BroaDWcast, Archived version
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A Day with Jon Pertwee was a series of five cons in 1986. The focus was Doctor Who.

Ironically, Jon Pertwee appears to have not been in attendance in at least one of them. A fan in 1992 comments:

Batscon. BATS (the British-American Television Society) was a new group created earlier in the years by a convention promoter being backed by Jon Pertwee's agents to run an organization and put on some conventions. Pertwee was supposed to appear at a series of cons in the fall of 1986. Then he came down with hepatitis and had to withdraw. So BATS signed up Patrick Troughton, Paul Darrow, and Michael Keating to replace him. Then Pat's check from the New York con bounced. So he flew back to England, leaving Paul and Michael to carry on.

[snipped]

Batscon was a great convention. Paul presented a broadcast and discussion of "Rumours of Death" (sort of like hearing Captain Kirk talk about Edith Keeler). In response to one question about "Blake," he claimed it was his idea to have Avon shoot Blake, rather than one of the Federation troopers. "I thought that since Avon had killed the only woman he had ever loved, he who'll kill the only friend he ever had." That insight made me realize just how well Paul understood his character.

Dates

• Oct. 18, 1986: Trenton, New Jersey at the War Memorial Auditorium (This is the con that Jon Pertwee may not have attended, and instead Patrick Troughton, Paul Darrow, and Michael Keating were brought in. In the end, only Darrow and Keating attended.)
• Oct. 19, 1986: Baltimore, Maryland at the Baltimore Convention Center
• Nov. 8, 1986: Albany, New York at the Hilton Hotel
• Nov. 9, 1986: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Philadelphia Hilton
• Nov. 28-30, 1986: Tampa, Florida at the Tampa Theatre and the Tampa Hyatt Regency ("Jon Pertwee's Thanksgiving Weekend Convention")