About the Gallifreyan Embassy

The Gallifreyan Embassy is a Doctor Who fan organization founded in June 1985 originally serving the Long Island, New York area in the United States. Over the years it had expanded across the country. Today we are international.

In 2005 we celebrated two decades with a new revamped interactive web site (our previous website) and an international podcast, Doctor Who: Podshock reaching all over the world!

Join us for a trip of a lifetime as we celebrate Doctor Who past, present, and future as well as other British science fiction and fantasy.

In the mid 1980s, Doctor Who was reaching the peak of its popularity during its run on local PBS stations across the US at that time. It was a time before we would see the first return of Star Trek on television, the Star Wars saga had concluded itself which left many science fiction and fantasy fans looking for something new and different. For many of them, that was Doctor Who. More and more PBS stations started showing the series on a regular basis and were being introduced to new Doctors both the then current Doctor, Colin Baker as well as past Doctors they had never seen before such as William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, and Jon Pertwee. Conventions took notice by booking more Doctor Who guests and dedicated Doctor Who conventions started to take hold in the US.

Without the internet being in our homes like today, it left many fans no release or connection with other fans in between conventions. This is where local Doctor Who clubs really excelled. Clubs such as the Gallifreyan Embassy held monthly meetings, published newsletters in which we interviewed various members of the cast and crew of the series, volunteered at PBS pledge drives, participated at conventions and other Doctor Who special events, as well as a host of other special activities that made fans, friends.

Today, the Gallifreyan Embassy brings fans together on an international level with our interactive website, our ever popular international Doctor Who podcast,  Doctor Who: Podshock, and more. We record live shows at conventions such as the Gallifrey One conventions in Los Angeles, CA and I-CON in NY. Doctor Who: Podshock is the official podcast of the Gallifrey One conventions. We still work together with other fan organizations such as DWNY in New York, NY. We also bring people from around the world together for meet ups on Second Life.

Also see:

• About Doctor Who: Podshock
• Gallifreyan Embassy Image Gallery
• 20 Years Ago... (archived on previous website)
• 22 Years Today - Happy Anniversary (on previous website)
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• Link to Us