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A meet-up for Doctor Who fans, new faces always welcome, on the last Saturday of the month from 3.00pm at The Briton's Protection pub in Manchester, UK.

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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 4h
With half the tickets sold already, #DoctorWho's 63rd Birthday Bash looks set to be a humdinger! Vworp your way over to Manchester this November for shenanigans galore! www.fatsoma.com/e/5mu56bbu/v...
Jo Grant (Katy Manning)
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tickets strictly limited to 50, and 10 sold already! 😲 Act now to avoid The Curse of the Deadly FOMO! #DoctorWho
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
After celebrating the 60th, 61st and 62nd anniversaries, it's now a tradition: Announcing Vworp Manchester's #DoctorWho 63rd Birthday Bash with KATY MANNING and friends! As before, all profits after event costs go to the British Heart Foundation. www.fatsoma.com/e/5mu56bbu/v...
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Cutaway Comics @cutawaycomics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New kickstarter! SHARE AND ENJOY is our definitively innacurate graphic novel about Douglas Adams. With words by @markauthor.bsky.social and art by Martin Geragthy, this is a must for all Douglas Adams and Hitchhikers fans! www.kickstarter.com/projects/roo...
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SHARE & ENJOY. A definitively inaccurate Douglas Adams story
A definitively inaccurate graphic novel celebrating the life of the absurdly talented and much missed Hitchhikers creator Douglas Adams
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🗓️Saturday 26th Sept 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection pub 🎉 #Vworp is Manchester's last-Saturday-of-the-month casual drop-in style #DoctorWho meet up 🚀Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Vintage TV, Comics etc. 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), silliness & general nerdiness!
Ood bartenders serving a blue drink in cocktail glasses
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 25/09/2026
This does usually end in fried chicken to be fair...
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🗓️Saturday 26th Sept 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection pub 🎉 #Vworp is Manchester's last-Saturday-of-the-month casual drop-in style #DoctorWho meet up 🚀Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Vintage TV, Comics etc. 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), silliness & general nerdiness!
Homer Simpson: Mmmmmmm tenders
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🗓️Saturday 26th Sept 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection pub 🎉 #Vworp is Manchester's last-Saturday-of-the-month casual drop-in style #DoctorWho meet up 🚀Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Vintage TV, Comics etc. 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), silliness & general nerdiness!
The Simpsons: at a sci fi convention, Tom Baker, in full #DoctorWho costume, signs autographs for queued fans next to a police box.Homer Simpson drools: Mmmmmmm, tenders
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🗓️Saturday 26th Sept 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection pub 🎉 #Vworp is Manchester's last-Saturday-of-the-month casual drop-in style #DoctorWho meet up 🚀Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Vintage TV, Comics etc. 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), silliness & general nerdiness!
An Ood sitting on the loo, probably not in Tooting Bec, in #DoctorWho minisode "Pond Life".
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🎉 #Vworp is Manchester's last-Saturday-of-the-month casual drop-in style #DoctorWho meet up 🚀Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Vintage TV, Comics etc. 🗓️Next: 26th Sept 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection pub 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), silliness & general nerdiness!
#DoctorWho underpants, depicting the 4th Doctor (Tom Baker) as he appears in the 1974-1979 title sequence, 2 silver Daleks, and the show's Diamond Logo (in the red/orange/blue) colour scheme common to the VHS range) on a blue background.
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Whisper it, but the wheels are in motion for a special edition of #Vworp on Saturday 21st November for #DoctorWho's 63rd Anniversary, with a special guest or two, fun, frolics, and possibly even some shenanigans...
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🎉 #Vworp is Manchester's last-Saturday-of-the-month casual drop-in style #DoctorWho meet up 🚀Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Vintage TV, Comics etc. 🗓️Next: 26th Sept 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection pub 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), silliness & general nerdiness!
The 17 incarnations of #DoctorWho
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Thanks one and all for another super bash, see you next month, and until then, just go forward in all your happy times and places and prove to us that we're not mistaken in ours! #Vworp #DoctorWho
The 2nd Romana (Lalla Ward) and the 4th #DoctorWho (Tom Baker) lean in with their jazz hands out, stood in front of the Eigfel Tower in City of Death.
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
AND YOU SHALL KNOW US BY OUR TOWER OF BISCUITS
Said tower
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Busy in the Britons today! #Vworp #DoctorWho
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It's the end of the month, but the moment has been prepared for! 🎉Join us for the end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 29th August 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
"Vworp Vworp" in the neon tube lettering style of the Doctor Who title sequence 1980-84
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
TOMORROW! 🎉Join us for Manchester's end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 29th August 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🎉Join us for Manchester's end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 29th August 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
TWANG - Red Pertwee era Doctor Who titles invoking The Ambassadors of Death
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🎉Join us for Manchester's end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 29th August 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It's the end of the month, but the moment has been prepared for! 🎉Join us for a #DoctorWho meet-up in Manchester! 🗓️Saturday 29th August 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
The 12th #DoctorWho and Nardole pulling Bill back inside the TARDIS, mid-flight in space
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🎉Join us for Manchester's end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 29th August 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
TWO WEEKS: 🎉Join us for Manchester's end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 29th August 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
The Fugitive #DoctorWho (Jo Martin) stood next to her TARDIS in UNIT'S Black Archive, in her usual costume, varied with a hot pink shirt and her new maroon hat.
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Kippy Woo @tygerwhocame2t.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Saturday 20th April 2030
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The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Saturday 23rd November 2030.
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Graeme Allan 🟦 @graemeallan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I'm sorry but that's the day Doctor Who retires, they'll be 67! 😁
Screenshot from gov.uk:

"Your State Pension age

You'll reach State Pension age on 23 November 2030.

Your State Pension age is 67 years.

Note: This may change following review of the State Pension age."
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
TWO WEEKS: 🎉Join us for Manchester's end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 29th August 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
The Fugitive #DoctorWho (Jo Martin) stood next to her TARDIS in UNIT'S Black Archive, in her usual costume, varied with a hot pink shirt and her new maroon hat.
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
If it's your first time popping along to #Vworp, spot us by keeping an eye out for Sam's Rush T-Shirt! #DoctorWho
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Kippy Woo @tygerwhocame2t.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
We've moved to the larger red room, still at the back of the pub! #Vworp #DoctorWho
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Kippy Woo @tygerwhocame2t.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Down and safe, in the green room at the back of the pub! #Vworp #DoctorWho
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
❗️TODAY! 🎉Join us for Manchester's end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 25th July 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
The 7th #DoctorWho (Sylvester McCoy), belated with a traffic cone, finds some right royal thief has had off with his TARDIS in Glasgow, on the eve of the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
TODAY! 🎉Join us for Manchester's end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 25th July 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
The 10th #DoctorWho (David Tennant) and Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) outside the TARDIS, being menaced by (L-R) a Dalek, an Ood, a Krillitane, a Clockwork Robot,  and a Cyberman.
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Darth Marenghi @darthmarenghi.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The finest Dr Who group in the country meets again tomorrow afternoon - hope to see some of you there!
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🎉Join us for Manchester's end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 25th July 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
The 7th #DoctorWho (Sylvester McCoy), belated with a traffic cone, finds some right royal thief has had off with his TARDIS in Glasgow, on the eve of the 2026 Commonwealth Games."Where have you brought me to this time, old girl?"
"You're not spring chicken yourself, Chuckles!"
King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla arrive at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in the "borrowed" TARDIS.
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🎉Join us for Manchester's end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 25th July 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
Cover art from the DWM 1991 Summer Special with the 7th Doctor sat on K9 leaning against the TARDIS on a beach, where Ace, in a yellow swimsuit, is running back ashore as a hoard of Monsters rise from the sea, including a Sea Devil, a Haemovore, the Skarasen, and a red Dalek.
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
NEXT WEEK: 🎉Join us for Manchester's end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 25th July 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
Cover art from the DWM 1991 Summer Special with the 7th Doctor sat on K9 leaning against the TARDIS on a beach, where Ace, in a yellow swimsuit, is running back ashore as a hoard of Monsters rise from the sea, including a Sea Devil, a Haemovore, the Skarasen, and a red Dalek.
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Thanks one and all for another super bash, see you next month, and until then, just go forward in all your happy times and places and prove to us that we're not mistaken in ours! #Vworp #DoctorWho
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Welcome to another edition of Strictly Come Vworping! #Vworp #DoctorWho
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Down and safe, outdoors but in the shade! #Vworp #DoctorWho
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Darth Marenghi @darthmarenghi.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If you can stand the heat, the finest #DoctorWho meet-up in the country proffers its wares tomorrow at the usual (happy) time and (happy) place.
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Pip @pipmadeley.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Amy and the Doctor taking Van Gogh to watch Scotland at the 2026 World Cup? No wonder he shot himself
Tony Curran and Karen Gillan at the Scotland v Brazil game.
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🎉Join us for Manchester's end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 27th June 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
Headline: "Bioluminescent plankton lights up waves on Anglesey beach"
Scene: A lighthouse against the night sky, with the sea below the rocks glowing with a bright turquoise light.Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🎉Join us for Manchester's end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 27th June 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
"Monthly Vworp Manchester" in the shape of the diamond logo
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🎉Join us for Manchester's end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 27th June 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON ON STAGE: Sack Russell T. Davies! Sack Julie Gardner! Sack Jane Tranter!
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🎉Join us for Manchester's end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 27th June 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
Doctor Who (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred) head back to the TARDIS in 1989's "Survival", unknowingly wandering into the shows "wilderness years".
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Safe journey home, all! Thanks one and all for another great do, and here's to more happy times and places next month! #Vworp #DoctorWho
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Down and safe! #Vworp #DoctorWho
Character Options figures: the Moxx of Balhoon and the Space Pig on a beer garden bench at the Briton's Protection
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🎉Join us for Manchester's end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 30th May 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
4 x #DoctorWho opening titles reading "Vworp Manchester" in the style of the Davison titles, Pertwee titles, and the titles for both Bakers.
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Darth Marenghi @darthmarenghi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The finest Doctor Who fan group in the country convenes once more for the usual japery. Should be fabulous weather, do pop along if you're in the vicinity!
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🎉Join us for Manchester's end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 30th May 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
4 x #DoctorWho opening titles reading "Vworp Manchester" in the style of the Davison titles, Pertwee titles, and the titles for both Bakers.
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VworpMeetMCR @vworpmeetmcr.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
🎉Join us for Manchester's end-of-the-month #DoctorWho meet-up! 🗓️Saturday 30th May 🕒3.00pm-ish till late 📍The Britons Protection, Manchester 🔷New faces always welcome! 🔷Chat, drinks (or not, your choice!), much silliness & general nerdiness!
The 8th #DoctorWho (Paul McGann) in his TARDIS
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