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From: nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken)
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Subject: Re: more inconsistencies in "Five Doctors"
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Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 13:30:36 EST
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>> Something else that's been bothering me about The 5 Doctors for quite
>> awhile:  when Troughton's Doctor is confronted with the images of Zoe
>> and Jamie, he deduces that they can't be real, because the real Zoe and
>> Jamie were returned to their respective times by the Time Lords and
>> made to forget their time with the Doctor.  HOW DID HE - the 2nd Doctor
>> - KNOW?
>
>What with all the other responses, I never even realized how simple
>the answer to this question is.  The second Doctor knew that Jamie
>and Zoe were returned to there own times and their memories erased --
>the Time Lords disposed of his companions before they regenerated him.
>It is not unnatural to assume that Troughton's Doctor, since he
>was actually taken out of his own timestream, would have the memory
>which he had just before his regeneration into Pertwee.

That is assuming that the Time Lords would allow the Doctor to roam 
freely about the universe shortly after they captured him (with great
difficulty!) in order to say goodbye to people he knew.  Right.

This was one obvious flaw in the Five Doctors.

A better explaination, proposed elsewhere, was that Jon Pertwee filled
him in at a low point during The Three Doctors.

>BTW, speaking of regenerations, did anyone notice the great similarities
>between the third Doctor's condition shortly after regeneration in
>"Spearhead from Space" and the fourth Doctor's condition at the
>very beginning of "Robot"?  They both escape from their beds, are
>seen hiding in the corridors while in their pajamas, almost immediately
>search for the TARDIS keys, and both have it hidden in their shoes.

It just goes to show that they are the same person... but different!
-- 
James C. Armstrong, Jnr.	{ihnp4,cbosgd,akgua}!abnji!nyssa

"It's a sort of mini-clone!"  Who said them, what story?