Other early UPN programs included the action show Nowhere Man starring Bruce Greenwood, the action show Marker starring Richard Grieco, The Watcher featuring Sir Mix-a-Lot as an omniscient narrator, the comic western Legend starring Richard Dean Anderson, the science-fiction themed action show, The Sentinel, and Moesha, a sitcom starring Brandy Norwood.

* Sheridan Le Fanu-The Watcher and Other Weird Stories

Other books that Carwardine has written include the award-winning Shark Watcher ’ s Handbook and Eyewitness Handbooks: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, which is the best-selling cetacean field guide ever published ( nearly a million copies in print ).

* The Watcher and Other Stories ( 1971 ).

In a parody issue of What If ?, the entry entitled " Spidey Intellectual Stories " ( a send-up of The Electric Company's Spidey Super Stories ) has Spider-Man defeating the Mad Thinker by debating philosophy, severely boring the observing Uatu the Watcher.

They are mentored by the school librarian who is also Buffy's Watcher, Rupert Giles ( Anthony Stewart Head ), who often works closely with Willow in researching the various monsters the group encounters.

She becomes best friends with Xander Harris ( Nicholas Brendon ) and Willow Rosenberg ( Alyson Hannigan ), and meets her new Watcher, Rupert Giles ( Anthony Stewart Head ).

These actors include Mark Hamill ( The Joker, Wolverine and the Watcher from Darksiders ), Michael Dorn ( various characters from World of Warcraft and Gatatog Uvenk from Mass Effect 2 ) and Claudia Black ( Chloe Frazer from the second and third entries in the Uncharted series ).

Giles has extensive knowledge of demonology and Slayer combat ( including at least a theoretical knowledge of jujutsu and aikido, but excelling at the art of fencing ), mainly due to his training as a Watcher.

Xander meets Buffy Summers ( Gellar ), the Slayer, on her first day at Sunnydale High, as well as her Watcher Rupert Giles ( Anthony Head ).

* Watcher ( comics ), an extraterrestrial species who watches the universe in Marvel Comics

* The Watcher ( 1851 novel ), an 1851 novel written by Sheridan Le Fanu

* The Watcher ( 1981 novel ), a 1981 novel written by Kay Nolte Smith

* The Watcher ( TV series ), a 1995 UPN TV series starring Sir Mix-a-Lot

* The Watcher ( film ), a 2000 film directed by Joe Charbanic

* Watcher ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer ), a member of the Watcher's Council in the Buffy and Angel television series

* Watcher ( Highlander ), a secret organization that watches the Immortals in the Highlander series

* Watcher ( Doctor Who ), a character in the 1981 Logopolis serial of the television series Doctor Who

* Watcher ( presence ), a subscriber for presence information

Unlike the long line of Slayers before her, Buffy accomplishes this with the help of her friends ( dubbed the Scooby Gang ), including her Watcher, Giles, who is also the school librarian.

* SWAP ( instrument ) ( Sun Watcher using Active Pixel System Detector and Image Processing ), a space instrument aboard the PROBA2 satellite

Nice wrote nearly 250 papers on birds, 3, 000 book reviews and several books including the Birds of Oklahoma ( 1924 ), The Watcher at the Nest ( 1939 ) and her autobiography.

As a songwriter Hendryx subsequently wrote powerful ballads (" You Turn Me On " and " Nightbird " from Nightbirds, " Going Down Makes Me Shiver " from Labelle's final album, Chameleon ), and a wealth of more uptempo numbers (" Space Children ," " Messin ' With My Mind ," " Gypsy Moths ," and " Who's Watching the Watcher ").

These include The Watcher ( also called the Silent Watcher or the Great Silent Watcher ), whose function it is to continually watch the akashic records and download daily all the information on them relevant to the life waves of Earth and forward it to the Custodian of the Hall of Records.

( the Watcher is part of a special race of beings who fulfill this function that are posted on planets thruout the Cosmos ); the Lords of Karma – Alice A. Bailey mentioned three Lords of Karma but did not name them ; they are called in the Ascended Master Teachings the Karmic Board and they are stated to number seven and each of them is identified by name: The Great Divine Director ( 1st ray ), The Goddess of Liberty ( 2nd ray ), Lady Master Nada ( 3rd ray ), Cyclopea ( 4th ray ), Pallas Athena ( 5th ray ), Lady Master Portia ( 6th ray ), and Kwan Yin ( 7th ray ).

Uatu was used similarly in the second series ( 1989 – 1998 ) until a point where, in the Fantastic Four comic book, Uatu was punished for destroying another Watcher.

The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher is a 1974 collection of 29 essays written by Lewis Thomas for the New England Journal of Medicine during the preceding three years.

* In Tales of the Slayer story " House of the Vampire ", part of an unofficial series of short stories based on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Peter Van Helsing ( cousin to Abraham ) is a Watcher ( an advisor and trainer of vampire slayers.

Wesley Wyndam-Pryce became Buffy and Faith's Watcher for a short period of time.

The stories of the inaugural series ( 1977 – 1984 ) feature the alien, Uatu the Watcher as a narrator.

At the end of the main story in each Marvel Apes issue, a gorilla version of the Watcher can be seen telling stories from the past and trying to get around to a story of the " Marvel Apes Age ".

This can be confirmed by reading the relevant stories: In the lead story of Fantastic Four Annual # 21, the Watcher refers to events in the lead story of Amazing Spider-Man Annual # 22 ; whereas in the backup of Amazing Spider-Man Annual # 22 the High Evolutionary has subdued the werewolf he fought in the backup of Fantastic Four Annual # 21.

Uatu, often simply known as The Watcher, is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics.

In 2000, he played a drug-addicted detective tracking down serial killer Keanu Reeves in The Watcher.

Another prominent alien race is The Watchers, immortal and wise beings who watch over the Marvel Universe and have taken a sacred vow not to intervene in events, though the Watcher assigned to Earth, Uatu, has violated this oath on several occasions.

Others such as Uatu the Watcher, Eon, or the Celestials Ashema and Tiamut are aberrations in the sense of sympathising with and occasionally coming to the defense of humanity.

Notes of a Potato Watcher, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas.

The Second Book of Enoch, also called the Slavonic Book of Enoch, contains references to a Watcher ( Grigori ) called Satanael.

First forming in the Season One episode " The Harvest " to prevent The Master from opening a portal to hell, the line-up of the group varied from year to year, but the core that remained intact throughout the series ' run was Buffy herself and her best friends, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg, as well as her Watcher, Rupert Giles.

* Rupert Giles — As Buffy's Watcher, and a father-figure and mentor to the entire group, Giles is a founding figure of the Scooby Gang, although his British upbringing resists the lighthearted nickname at first.

Thereafter, he is based in England where he is training a squad of Slayers, and Andrew as a Watcher.

* Faith Lehane — A troubled girl who became a Slayer as a result of Kendra's death, Faith arrives in Sunnydale in Season Three after her Watcher is killed.

Although the Scoobies are slow to accept him, he fights side by side with them during the season finale and starts training to be a Watcher in Season Eight.

During this time, he also imprisoned the Watcher, an evil and powerful necromancer, beneath the Cloudspine mountain range.

With the knowledge of Connacht in his possession, Balor freed the Watcher and enslaved him.

After doing so and escaping the army of The Watcher by fleeing in an underground tunnel, the Legion heads east to meet up with the Avatara Maeldun and his southern garrison.

After they successfully hold the passes, they prepare for a violent winter, as the army of The Watcher remains behind their lines, and they plan to turn and hunt him down.

Meanwhile, the Legion heads to Silvermines in search of the Arm of The Watcher, lost when Balor freed him from captivity.

The Deceiver has a force in Silvermines searching for the arm as well, for he and The Watcher were old enemies before Balor bound them to his will.

The Watcher was generally acknowledged to be the second or third most powerful sorcerer in living memory, and when Tyr fell, he and The Deceiver fought a Dream Duel, which The Watcher barely survived.

At the same time, The Watcher surprises Rabican's army from behind and crushes it, seemingly slaying the Avatara and scattering survivors around the mountain range.

In 1995, Sir Mix-a-Lot starred as the titular character of the short-lived TV series The Watcher.

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