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...program's popularity has spawned a slew of Who conventions. A two-day gathering held at Longleat, the Marquess of Bath's stately home in Wiltshire, drew 60,000 fans last Easter. A 20th-anniversary celebration of the series at Chicago's Hyatt Regency O'Hare in November attracted more than 7,000 aficionados. "Chicago has suddenly become the hotbed for Doctor Who, " says Rose Arias, 22, president of the Celestial Intervention Agency (CIA), a fan club for the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Who's Who in Outer Space | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

Weymouth, will adorn Longleat House in Wiltshire, one of England's finest Elizabethan mansions, whose stately grounds were laid out by the legendary landscape architect Capability Brown. "Maze King" Bright, as he is known in Britain, will embellish Longleat with a lakefront, three-dimensional maze of yew hedges and no fewer than six covered bridges. The maze, when completed in several years, will be open to the public, but its secret, Bright has sworn, will be known only to himself and the Lord of Longleat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Bright, the Maze Man | 4/21/1975 | See Source »

Monday, January 25 THE STATELY GHOSTS OF ENGLAND (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). British Actress Margaret Rutherford and Husband Stringer Davis tour three of the island's most famous haunted mansions: Longleat, Salisbury Hall and Beaulieu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 22, 1965 | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

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