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I want to know just how obsessed others have become with a TV show/actor/actress and what that obsession involved. I have had many obsessions with actors and sci fi shows, including Doctor Who, Star Trek, Rutger Hauer, Christopher Lee, Rene Auberjonais and Tom Baker. I would write letters to the cast, and more often than not, received reply letters, some with phone numbers etc.

Doctor Who was my greatest tv obsession and lasted for over a year. I wrote many letters and have replies from most of the living cast members, some of whom were friends for a time and spoke to me on the phone. I collected everything and anything I could, and my heart would light up when I got lists of memorabilia for sale... I remember visiting one collection of Dr Who stuff, that was going for about £2000. It has everything, from costume to book, jigsaw to autograph to props... I was given a william hartnell signed book on the premise that I would advertise it for them. My god, did I want that collection badly!

Anyone else?

While I never got as far as getting signings from the cast and getting props, I was very obsessed, re Doctor Who. I collected the books, the videos (this was before the DVDs came out), the magazines...

And then, one day, I realised that I didn't like Doctor Who enough to hold onto this stuff anymore. So I sold quite a lot of it. I didn't get back onto Doctor Who until a little time before the new series, though my fan-ness was a candle flame compared to the oil-well inferno that it was. I think the reason why I burnt out was that there wasn't as much supply for Doctor Who memorabilia in Australia than there is in the UK. Not to mention I was often teased for my monomania. In fact, my username, Quatermass, comes from that period after. I started looking at British Comedy (at the time, Red Dwarf and Blackadder) to fill the void, but while at Uni (a different one to the one I attend now), I found the Penguin-published scripts of the Quatermass serials, which are generally thought to have inspired many Doctor Who storylines. When I joined my first BBS, I decided to use "Quatermass" as my username.

I was obsessed with `the professionals` (uk tv series - Bodie and Doyle) in late 70`s early 80`s and last year got the complete set of episodes on dvd and watched them constantly until having to move - I need to go back and get them...
First time round I really liked Doyle but now like Bodie... Lewis Collins is a much better actor...

Big time Doctor Who fanboy. Haven't seen much of the TV series, though I have been watching the new series on a regular basis.

You could say I'm obsessed with Dragon Booster. Heck, I even signed a petition to make more episodes of it! It's an amazing show though, and it has awesome graphics.

Ooh yeah, I have done the fannish obsession thing since I was a kid, and got into Danger Mouse and Rocky and Bullwinkle to an extent that was just weird. More recently Doctor Who (is it just me, or is this show a total obsessive-fan magnet?), X Files, Farscape. Then I sort of got over that (still love Who though) and now my obsession is The Goodies and other stuff done by the same people, like I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again. I haven't got into Monty Python in a big way yet, but it'll happen...

I have only done making-contact-with-people type stuff a few times; I went to a Who convention (I met Sylvester McCoy!! !) and the live Goodies shows when they were in Australia. I felt really awkward and peculiar asking for autographs and stuff. I have lots of tapes, DVDs etc, but don't pursue the human contact side of things.

I tend to "write" a lot of this stuff in my head. Like, I'll go through obsessive periods where I'll end up composing episodes of X Files or The Goodies or whatever. I never write them down, coz they're really just remixes of existing stuff and really, really bad, and it gets quite repetitive coz I'll 'write' the same scene over and over again for weeks.

I rediscovered Dr Who 2 or 3 years ago (before the comeback) and obsessively downloaded every last episode (including the lost 'reconstructions'), but i only managed to see about 1/2 before losing interest & moving onto the next thing.