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 From: sr.wilson@ntlworld.com 
  
 "Rob Wynne"  wrote in message 
 news:42B728C8.6010206@america.net... 
 > Stephen Wilson wrote: 
 >>> 2 -> 3 No one say the regeneration.  We saw the process starting at the 
 >>> end 
 >>>       of War Games.  Plus that nit in the 5 doctors 
 >> 2->3 There was a nit in the 5 Doctors? Think I missed that. 
 > 
 > In "The Five Doctors", Troughton and the Brig meet up with apparitions 
 > of Jaimie and Zoe, warning them to turn back.  The Doctor realizes that 
 > they must be illusions because after he was tried by the Time Lords and 
 > sentenced to Earth, the Time Lords wiped Jaimie and Zoe's memories of 
 > their time with him, so they wouldn't recognize him. 
 > 
 > Now, given that that was the END of Troughton's tenure, Troughton's 
 > appearance in The Five Doctors must have been from some time prior to 
 > his trial in The War Games.  So how can he remember it? 
 > 
 > There's a bit of fanwank that suggests there was a "Season 6b", where 
 > the Doctor did work on behalf of the Time Lords before arriving on earth 
 > as PertweeDoc.  This makes absolutely no sense from a dramatic point of 
 > view, but it does help explain the inconsistency introduced in The Five 
 > Doctors. 
  
 I wouldn't call it fanwank. Terrance Dicks has authored books for the BBC 
 featuring the 2nd Doctor in this 'missing' Season 6b. This is the same man 
 who wrote the War Games in the first place. 
  
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