WIGAN: Doctor Who fan celebrates 60th anniversary

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Doctor Who fan Brian Mattocks from Ashton-in-Makerfield, with some of his extensive memorabilia collection, celebrating the 60th anniversary of  Doctor Who.

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00:00 Hi, I'm Brian Matox. I've been a Doctor Who fan since I was nine years old. I've been

00:06 collecting since I was nine years old and this is my Doctor Who room and I have got

00:12 videos, DVDs, Blu-rays, posters, comics, magazines, figures, everything you can imagine and this

00:21 is where it all happens. I got into Doctor Who probably when I was about five or six

00:26 but I found it a little bit too frightening. I used to have to sit on my Dad's knee when

00:30 I was six but those memories stuck with me. And then when I was a child and possibly because

00:37 I was a very, very bullied child, this was my escape to somewhere else where I could

00:44 go through time and space and love all the adventures and the monsters and it let your

00:50 imagination go wild when you were a child and it gave you that permission to have that

00:55 sort of imagination and you could write your own stories and have your own adventures and

01:01 that just became a brilliant escapism and I still possibly use a little bit like that

01:07 today. This is a Doctor Who VHS from 1983 which my parents bought me for 40 quid which

01:17 was an awful lot of money in 1983 and this is the very first ever home video release

01:23 that the BBC ever did so apparently this is even worth quite a lot of money now. Blimey,

01:29 when I was a child back in the 70s these were some of my favourite toys that I ever had

01:35 and I couldn't wait to play with them and in fact I probably got through about four

01:40 of these before I started collecting because it was so worn out but I've managed to get

01:46 all of these in near mint condition since I was a child and I loved these. This is a

01:53 1965 Dalet board game and I believe it's the very first ever Doctor Who board game,

01:59 there's been quite a few over the years but this is a very, very rare Dalet board game

02:05 and it took me quite a while to find this but I believe this is probably worth around

02:09 200, 300 quid, possibly more on eBay.

02:13 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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