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Faircon
| Convention | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Faircon |
| Dates: | 21-23 July 1978 |
| Frequency: | once? |
| Location: | Ingram Hotel, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Type: | fan-run, guests |
| Focus: | Science Fiction |
| Organization: | |
| Founder: | Bob Shaw? |
| Founding Date: | |
| URL: | |
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Faircon was a science fiction convention held in Glasgow, Scotland. The Guest of Honor was James White.
"The programme includes talks and the showing of a good many science fiction films." -- from an announcement in STAG #26
Con Report
A number of Star Trek: The Original Series episodes were shown at the con, as one Star Trek fan noted:
Everything went well this year at Faircon - the video room was fairly large with 4 TV sets showing simultaneously and with a video recorder for each system, i.e. Philips, Betamax and VHS, We certainly managed to show a few episodes - on Saturday ALL OUR YESTERDAYS, THOLIAN WEB, PLATO'S STEPCHILDREN (though the copy of this was poor as it was from a U.S. tape), the interviews from SWAP SHOP and the THREE OF A KIND spoof of STAR TREK. On Saturday evening they showed I MUDD, SPOCK'S BRAIN and MARK OF GIDEON as part of the main programme and they also showed ST-TMP. On the Sunday we showed RETURN OF THE ARCHONS, THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE and DAGGER OF THE MIND. Several of us collected at [name redacted's] house in the evening when nothing great was on and watched ST to our hearts content. The bookroom didn't have much ST, most of us just filled in our Starlog/ Starburst collections although there were a few copies of 'Entrophy Effect' and 'Death's Angel' about the place. Next year's FAIRCON is to be held in the Central Hotel. [1]
References
- ^ from STAG #49