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Subject: Re: The Watcher
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Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 10:21:37 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 13 10:21:37 1984
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     In response to your question, "who was the watcher in 'Logopolis', the
answer is that it was the doctor himself. You will remember that the doctor
(Tom Baker) had a conversation with the watcher early on in the show. The 
watcher told him that he was going to be killed and that inorder to preserve
his future regenerations, it had been arranged (apparemtly by the Time Lords)
to have the doctor's future self protected. (In one of the early Tom Baker showswhen the President of the high council was killed it was shown that if a time  
lord is injured severly enough, he cannot regenerate, the President had one 
regeneration left but was killed by the shot) If these measures hadn't been 
taken, the doctor's lives would have ended when he fell from the tower.