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From: gjphw@mhuxo.UUCP (WYANT)
Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho
Subject: Re: how many Romana's are there?
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Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 16:56:44 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 19 16:56:44 1986
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> >Hello,
> 
> >                                           ....I noticed that they pulled a 
> >fast one on me by replacing Mary Tamm as Romana with Lella Ward as Romana who
> >just happened to be Princess Astra in the previous series 'The Armagedon
> >Factor'...                 ... Anyway, how often does this happen? how many 
> >Romana's are there?...
> 
> Mary Tamm wanted to leave after one season, so she regenerated.  That is
> the only time a companion has done so...

  About a year ago, someone who had attended a Dr. Who convention here in
Chicago posted some information to this newsgroup concerning, among other
things, why Mary Tamm (Romana I) left the series so suddenly.  Tamm appeared
at the convention, and said that she had become pregnant toward the end of
the Key to Time series.  Rather than deal with the issues surrounding a
baby Time Lord (how do they come about, whose baby is it), it was decided
that Tamm should leave the series.  I do not recall any mention being made
as to how Lella Ward (Romana II) was selected to replace Tamm.

                                    Patrick Wyant
                                    AT&T Bell Laboratories
                                    Naperville, IL
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