80-537: The Three Doctors may refer to: The Three Doctors ( Doctor Who ) , a 1973 serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who The Three Doctors (motivational speakers) , a group of motivational speakers, authors, and physicians Three Doctors (band) , a musical group led by Gregg Turkington Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
160-539: A garrison cap , the Navy officer a white female variation combination cap . UNIT's first major appearance in the new series was in " The Christmas Invasion " in 2005. Here, a new insignia has been designed based on the Battlefield version. The troopers wear black uniforms consisting of police clothing/ SAS Counter Revolutionary Warfare (CRW) Wing overalls and a red Royal Military Police beret, and equipment. Insignia
240-745: A Time Lord, having been seen in the same role in Colony in Space (1971) discussing the Master 's activities and the Time Lords' use of the exiled Doctor as an agent. The same DVD commentary and the on-screen production captions note that the unavailability of actor Richard Franklin led to a shifting of the roles by the UNIT supporting cast. Sergeant Benton took on the majority of the role written for Captain Yates and
320-454: A cap rather than beret. After the series was cancelled and recommissioned, UNIT first had a minor appearance in the episode " Aliens of London " (2005). In this episode, UNIT were represented by four high-ranking US military officers, wearing Army Service Uniform with real UN peacekeeper patches on the sleeves, and Navy Service Uniform . Only the female officers wore headwear, the Army officer
400-654: A large laboratory in the base beneath the Tower of London. During the story, the laboratory is dedicated to studying cubes that appeared out of nowhere. Kate Stewart, daughter of the Brigadier and head of the scientific research department, has a handheld device that can scan a body (picking up the Eleventh Doctor 's twin hearts), and also serves as a communication device. The computers at UNIT HQ can detect anomalies such as artron energy spikes, and can also access CCTV on
480-484: A lengthy absence from the screen. They made a small cameo appearance in " The Five Doctors " (1983), which sees Colonel Crichton wearing service dress and a Sergeant in barrack dress, both with the oval patches on their uniform. Captain Yates returns in the serial also wearing service dress but with no markings. For their full return in Battlefield , their look was completely updated. Their appearance in this serial
560-594: A new character, Corporal Palmer, took on most of the lines originally written for Benton. Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times wrote that The Three Doctors "may not be the greatest story ever told" but it ended the Doctor's exile on Earth and brought back Troughton, though unfortunately Hartnell was not able to do much. The A.V. Club reviewer Christopher Bahn summarised that the serial "has some good ideas in it, but they're treated with such an unambitious lack of imagination that there's not enough actually happening here for
640-449: A rationale for Omega's realm to be a quarry : Over the millennia, Omega has become weary of the mental effort required to generate a verdant landscape and now makes do with rock and soil. The Second Doctor is referred to throughout as Doctor Two. In the book, Mr Ollis is renamed Mr Hollis. It is stated that Omega is only the second Time Lord that the Doctor has come up against as an adversary, the first being The Master . The Three Doctors
720-537: A stage comedy titled Recall UNIT: The Great T-Bag Mystery was produced, written by Richard Franklin (Captain Yates) who reprised his character in the play. The cast also included John Levene as Benton, and the play was performed between 20 and 24 August as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Due to other commitments, Nicholas Courtney was unable to appear as the Brigadier, but pre-recorded
800-647: A telephone message from Lethbridge-Stewart which was written into the plot. The novelisation of Remembrance of the Daleks (1990) by Ben Aaronovitch mentions that the troops that Gilmore commands were from the "Intrusion Counter-Measures Group". UNIT Exposed , the 1991 Doctor Who Magazine Winter Special , suggests that the ICMG is a forerunner of UNIT. Both Virgin Publishing 's Missing Adventures and BBC Books ' Past Doctor Adventures have set stories in
880-586: A universe made of antimatter . The Time Lords recruit the time travellers the First Doctor ( William Hartnell ), the Second Doctor ( Patrick Troughton ), and the Third Doctor ( Jon Pertwee ) for help when Omega drains power throughout the universe, threatening all of existence. The serial opened the tenth anniversary year of the series, and features the first three Doctors all appearing in
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#1732779577175960-400: A wide range of weaponry to call on, some custom-made to combat specific threats. Among these are special ammunition described by the Brigadier in Battlefield as armour-piercing rounds with a solid core and Teflon coating which "could go through a Dalek". Other munitions include explosive rounds for Yetis, other armour-piercing rounds for robots, and gold-tipped rounds for use against
1040-520: A world security organisation set up by the League of Nations that encountered the occasional extraterrestrial incident but was disbanded after it and the League failed to prevent World War II . The standalone 1996 Virgin novel Who Killed Kennedy by David Bishop , which provides a fictional history of UNIT from an investigative journalist's perspective, reveals Lethbridge-Stewart's role in proposing
1120-540: Is a small silver-metal UNIT parawings on a red beret and a large UNIT Parawing patch worn over the left breast pocket on the utility vest or fatigues. Commanding officers wear No. 2 service dress with UNIT insignia. Variations include Captain Magambo from " Turn Left " (2008) wearing a black version of service dress with a red beret, and Colonel Karim in The Sarah Jane Adventures story Death of
1200-690: Is abruptly abducted with him. The Second Doctor later allows the TARDIS with himself, the Brigadier, and Benton inside, to be taken by the blob, although this causes UNIT HQ to be stolen as well. Jo, the Third Doctor, and Dr. Tyler, whom they discover there, assess their situation in this new mystery universe of antimatter, inside the black hole. The Third Doctor also deduces that a conversion has taken place for their assailants and themselves to somehow exist in each other's universes without annihilation. Before they can do any more, though, they are accosted by
1280-481: Is close to the real-world United Nations Peacekeeping troop outfits. UNIT are represented by a nuclear missile convoy wearing UN issued blue berets and DPM camouflage. They have a new UNIT insignia patch of a winged globe, which is worn the upper sleeves and beret. There is also a Czech engineer team wearing Czech camouflage with the same UN issued blue beret as the convoy. The Brigadier returns, wearing at different times service dress, barrack dress, and DPM while wearing
1360-590: Is inside the Archive, the Archive is also ' TARDIS -proof', and has been used by UNIT as a means of assessing the Doctor 's companions to confirm whether they can be trusted. UNIT is also shown to at least have access to the Under-Gallery, a secret gallery containing works of art dating back to the Elizabethan era that Elizabeth I ordered locked away as they were too dangerous for the public. Across
1440-408: Is known to the public, but mainly as a security organisation with scientific expertise; its actual agenda is classified. Although the Brigadier originally states that UNIT do not arrest people, as of the 21st century, UNIT has the authority to detain persons indefinitely without trial, appeal, outside contact or legal representation, as experienced by Toshiko Sato before she was recruited to work for
1520-416: Is shown to have translation software which can decipher alien languages with great accuracy. The software, or at least the results from the translation, can be loaded on a hand-held device. In "The Poison Sky", UNIT is shown to be able to command and co-ordinate the world's combined nuclear arsenal for strategic strikes on orbiting alien craft. In " The Sound of Drums " (2007), the flying aircraft carrier
1600-463: Is the first serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who , first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 30 December 1972 to 20 January 1973. In the serial, the solar engineer Omega ( Stephen Thorne ), the creator of the experiments that allowed the Time Lords to travel in time , seeks revenge on the Time Lords after he was left for dead in
1680-539: Is to investigate and combat paranormal and extraterrestrial threats to Earth. Several UNIT personnel (such as the Brigadier, Sergeant Benton and Mike Yates ) played a major role in the original Doctor Who series, and it was a regular feature from The Invasion (1968) until The Seeds of Doom (1976). Originally referred to as the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce , executive producer Russell T Davies said in 2005 that
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#17327795771751760-452: The 2005 series episodes " Aliens of London " and " World War Three ", where it sent a delegation to a gathering of experts at 10 Downing Street . UNIT appeared again the same year in " The Christmas Invasion ". In addition to Doctor Who , UNIT has also featured in the spin-off series Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures . From " The Power of Three " (2012), the first on screen appearance of UNIT in any Whoniverse media since
1840-486: The British Union of Fascists : Sergeant Benton is Platoon Under Leader Benton, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is Brigade Leader Lethbridge-Stewart, and Elizabeth Shaw, a soldier rather than a scientist in their dimension, has the rank of Section Leader (which appears to be an officer rank). Their uniforms consist of contemporary US Army olive green military fatigues for Other Ranks, tan uniforms with black rank slides on
1920-574: The Cybermen (as well as silver bullets as suggested by the Doctor), and rad-steel coated bullets to neutralise Sontaran anti-bullet fields that target copper. In The Invasion (1968), UNIT has a command centre established in the cargo hold of a Lockheed Hercules military transport aircraft. The Dæmons (1971) features the UNIT Mobile HQ, a large bus-like vehicle that could be driven to
2000-605: The Doctor Who serial The Web of Fear (1968), which involved British Army characters, he told scriptwriters Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln to include all of the characters that he had originally invented for The Invasion . Sherwin was uncertain if the army forces featured in The Web of Fear appeared as UNIT, but was "convinced" that, as a teaser for UNIT's more substantial role in The Invasion , The Web of Fear
2080-621: The Doctor Who universe lie in the Second Doctor serial The Web of Fear (1968), following which the organisation is named and established in The Invasion (1968). According to " Survivors of the Flux " (2021), UNIT was founded in 1958 and built over the subsequent decade, with Lethbridge-Stewart joining the taskforce after it failed to act on the events of the First Doctor story The War Machines (1966). Following The Invasion ,
2160-616: The Eleventh Doctor tells Clara Oswald that he works for UNIT and that UNIT is his "job". In " Death in Heaven " (2014), Kate Stewart describes the Twelfth Doctor as "technically" still "on the payroll", as he never resigned. Prominent members of the British contingent of UNIT include Dr. Elizabeth Shaw , Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart , Sergeant Benton , Captain Yates , UNIT operative Jo Grant and later, Surgeon-Lieutenant Harry Sullivan, RN . After leaving
2240-639: The L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle , Sterling submachine gun , and Browning Hi-Power pistol, and they have worn 58 pattern webbing . They are also shown using heavy weaponry such as bazookas, machine guns, mortars and, in Terror of the Zygons (1975), a depth charge launcher. For Battlefield (1989), they have the Steyr AUG assault rifle while the Brigadier still uses a Webley Revolver . In
2320-808: The Royal Navy , British Army and Royal Air Force , and are still bound by the UK chain of command . Major Blake reports to the Prime Minister in "The Christmas Invasion". UNIT is able to call on the conventional military branches for support, and in The Seeds of Doom gets the RAF to provide precision air-strikes. Due to the international nature of the organisation, it is sometimes viewed with suspicion by local military and national security agencies, who feel that it might impinge on their sovereignty. UNIT's existence
2400-527: The Special Air Service with the black UNIT logo on a round white background as a cap badge were worn by all ranks. For UNIT's next appearance, Spearhead from Space (1970), the No.4s became uniform for all ranks, except for two radar operators seen in the opening who wear No.7s; the female officer wearing a tie with a UNIT logo printed on. The No.4 style of uniform stayed throughout Doctor Who and
2480-473: The Third Doctor visit a parallel universe. In this reality, Great Britain is a fascist republic, where the Royal Family was executed for treason in 1943, as depicted in the novel I, Alastair ; the novel also shows that this universe's leader of Britain was an associate of Oswald Mosley , and eventually became leader of the country following the downfall of the old order, with his picture being visible in
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2560-474: The Time Lords is also under siege; they are trapped themselves, with universal energy being drained through a black hole , threatening to unravel the fabric of time and space. Desperate to send help, the Time Lords break the First Law of Time by recruiting a previous incarnation of the Doctor from his own past. As the Second Doctor and the present Third Doctor cannot cope with each other's personalities,
2640-603: The Valiant is introduced. The Valiant is also shown (in "The Poison Sky") to be equipped with a scaled down version of the Torchwood Institute weapon that destroyed the Sycorax ship in "The Christmas Invasion". It is mentioned in The Sarah Jane Adventures story Death of the Doctor (2010) that UNIT has a Moonbase. In " The Power of Three ", UNIT is shown to have a scientific research department with
2720-463: The 2000s, they use Heckler & Koch G36C carbine, the M4 carbine (with different scopes used such as ACOG and holographic weapon sights , as well as equipping CQB receivers for indoor use ), SIG P226 pistols, and for heavy duty, use Stinger missile launchers. In " The Power of Three ", they are further equipped with PASGT helmets, goggles, and riot armour for their shins. UNIT's personnel have
2800-489: The 2020 New Year's Day episode, " Spyfall, Part 1 ", it is stated that UNIT and Torchwood no longer exist. The 2021 episode " Survivors of the Flux " reveals it to be caused by Grand Serpent, a political figure who assumed the identity of Prentis and was instrumental in UNIT's formation, to facilitate the Sontarans’ invasion of Earth during the Flux crisis. UNIT is resurrected in the 2022 BBC Centenary special " The Power of
2880-768: The Autons , producer Barry Letts decided to have UNIT wearing 1960 pattern fatigues, as well as appropriate contemporary British Army or RAF uniform, such as service dress and barrack dress . The UNIT patches and tan berets remain standard, although personnel are also seen in British Army peaked caps with regulation cap badges. In Terror of the Zygons , they wear DPM camouflage jackets and tactical black cap badges. The Android Invasion (1975) sees them wearing barrack dress, which they also wear for their brief appearance in The Seeds of Doom (1976). UNIT then had
2960-745: The Brigade Leader's office in Inferno . The parallel version of the British contingent of UNIT is an SS -like state paramilitary organisation known as the Republican Security Forces (RSF), manning their version of the drilling project as a "scientific labour camp". They are armed with a mixture of Soviet and German weapons, such as the SKS rifle and the Walther P38 pistol. Their rank system uses titles based loosely on that of
3040-491: The British government by the Torchwood Institute in a flashback in the Torchwood episode " Fragments " (2008). The organisation was rearranged by Kate Stewart, the daughter of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. In " The Power of Three " (2012), Kate heads UNIT's scientific research department, which now has authority over the military branch. The British troops of UNIT have been armed with standard British Army weapons such as
3120-495: The Doctor wearing black civilian clothes with UNIT insignia and rank epaulettes. UNIT returns in the series 7 episode " The Power of Three ". Their uniforms in this series are an alteration of the uniforms seen since 2005. They no longer wear ID cards on the right breast pocket, and appear to lack the logos on the arms. They wear PASGT helmets with black covering and black goggles in place of berets. They also wear riot armour for their forearms and shins, and plain black brassards on
3200-597: The Doctor ", once again under the leadership of Kate Stewart with a new building in London which is demolished by the end of the episode to defeat the Cybermen . By the time of the 2023 60th anniversary specials UNIT has relocated to a new headquarters in a skyscraper in the City of London , while remaining under the leadership of Kate Stewart. UNIT's status is supported by enabling legislation that allows it to assume emergency powers when necessary. Although it operates under
3280-488: The Doctor, Martha Jones joins UNIT. In The Claws of Axos (1971), an American agent named Bill Filer was sent from Washington to assist in the hunt for the Master . Kate Stewart, the Brigadier's daughter, becomes Head of Scientific Research and Chief Scientific Officer, and then Commander in Chief of UNIT, and appears in multiple episodes beginning with " The Power of Three " in 2012. The 1970 serial Inferno sees
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3360-509: The Doctors' help, they are stunned to find that the extremely prolonged exposure to the singularity has destroyed Omega's physical body; his willpower now also maintains his essence, and he will cease to exist if he leaves. Suffering a nervous breakdown from the shock, Omega now seeks to destroy all creation. Taking advantage of his neurosis, the two Doctors escape back to the TARDIS with all of
3440-745: The Seventh Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith against a branch of UNIT known as the 'Cortez Project', who consider any alien activity on Earth to be dangerous even if said aliens have no hostile intent, forcing the Doctor to discreetly work with a Chinese triad to help a crashed alien ship repair itself and depart. No Future (1994) by Paul Cornell featured an intelligence section of UNIT in an alternate 1970s called Broadsword. Broadsword agents wore plain clothes and were "hand-picked to offer us lateral and non-military solutions, backed up by SAS training and sheer common sense". The 1996 New Adventures novel Just War by Lance Parkin mentions "LONGBOW",
3520-474: The Silurians (1970). Christine Rawlins had a new futuristic-looking design produced for The Ambassadors of Death (1970), which features only in this story. All ranks are given khaki-coloured zip-up jackets without lapels, which are worn over tan rolled-neck sweaters. The Brigadier retained his No.4 uniform. For Inferno (1970), these changed to Denison smock camouflage uniforms. From Terror of
3600-613: The Third Doctor's vintage roadster . A special edition of the DVD, with new bonus features, was released in the UK on 13 February 2012 in the third of the ongoing Revisitations DVD box sets with additional bonus features. In 2019, The Three Doctors was released as part of the Season Ten Boxed Set Blu-Ray collection. The story and its special features occupy one disc in the set, and include features from previous releases and specially-made content. A special edition of
3680-505: The Time Lords after discovering the Second Doctor and correctly deducing his identity, Omega imprisons both Doctors, Jo, Benton, and Tyler. After the two Doctors help everyone escape through both of their own willpowers, Omega discovers the getaway, and challenges the Third Doctor to a battle of minds, nearly killing him. The Second Doctor convinces Omega to stop, appealing to his desire to escape. Now calmer, Omega explains further to
3760-466: The Time Lords attempt to retrieve the First Doctor to "keep them in order", but he is trapped in a "time eddy", unable to fully materialise, communicating through a viewscreen. The Doctors investigate, while UNIT headquarters faces an attack by shapeless lumpy-globule-like creatures. The First Doctor assists both Doctors by correctly surmising that the previously-sent energy blob is a bridge to another universe. The Third Doctor attempts to go alone, but Jo
3840-569: The UN was no longer happy to be associated with the fictional organisation and the UN's full name could now no longer be used. The "UNIT" and "UN" abbreviations could be used as long as it was not explained what the letters stood for. In 2008, the organisation's name was changed to the Unified Intelligence Taskforce . and this name was first mentioned on-screen in " The Sontaran Stratagem " (2008) in which dialogue indicated that
3920-611: The UNIT era and have revealed new information about UNIT's past, present and future. The novel Business Unusual sees the Sixth Doctor assist UNIT in an investigation involving the now-retired Brigadier being held prisoner by the agents of the Nestene Consciousness, while Deep Blue sees the Fifth Doctor interact with the Third Doctor's UNIT colleagues at a time when his past self was away. Bullet Times pits
4000-521: The United Nations still supports UNIT with funding. In a 2014 interview, former script editor Terrance Dicks recalled that he was present at the "birth" of UNIT during the production of the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Invasion . He credited writer and script editor Derrick Sherwin and producer Peter Bryant as having come up with the idea beforehand, saying that they were testing the concept in The Invasion before it had become central to
4080-446: The abductees. With the First Doctor, the two devise a way to defeat Omega, and also discover the Second Doctor's previously-lost recorder within the TARDIS' force field generator. The two meet with Omega again, claiming they can give him his freedom. Omega, though, retorts that he cannot be freed, and demands that they share his exile. The Doctors agree, on the condition that all of his abductees are sent safely back to Earth. Once done,
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#17327795771754160-550: The authority of the United Nations, its members are seconded from the host country's military and are still bound to obey that chain of command . Within the UK section of UNIT, ranks are those of the British Army : Lethbridge-Stewart is a Brigadier , Yates is a Captain, a Major appears in The Seeds of Doom (1976) and " The Christmas Invasion " (2005), and a Colonel and Captain appear in " The Sontaran Stratagem "/" The Poison Sky " (2008). UNIT personnel are seconded from
4240-671: The contribution of scientific advice in battling extraterrestrial threats is recognised and both Dr Elizabeth Shaw and the exiled Third Doctor joins UNIT just in time to help defeat the Autons in Spearhead from Space (1970). UNIT continued to feature in Doctor Who after Spearhead , but when the Third Doctor's exile is lifted in The Three Doctors (1972–73), his association with UNIT becomes more sporadic, especially after his regeneration into his fourth incarnation at
4320-477: The end of Planet of the Spiders (1974). Although the last appearance of UNIT in the series for many years was in The Seeds of Doom (1976), the organisation continued to execute its mandate to investigate and combat alien activity. The final appearance of UNIT during the original run of Doctor Who was the Seventh Doctor serial Battlefield (1989). UNIT is mentioned by both its acronym and full name in
4400-413: The episode aired on BBC iPlayer on 1 November 2023, in the spin-off Tales of the TARDIS . UNIT UNIT is a fictional military organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures . Operating under the auspices of the United Nations and initially led by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart , its purpose
4480-522: The eras, UNIT have been identified with different styles of uniform. For The Invasion , Privates and Corporals wore No.7 dress , while ranks of Sergeant and above wore uniforms based on No.4 dress , but lacking buttons and with the jacket – which appears to be fastened by velcro – tucked into the trousers. All UNIT members wore oval patches with 'U.N.I.T' embroidered on them on their left sleeves and NCOs wore their badges of rank on their right sleeves. Sand/Beige coloured berets, similar to those worn by
4560-779: The idea of exiling the Doctor was done because making every serial take place on Earth was cheaper to produce than if every serial had to have a new alien planet built, and that UNIT was an idea Sherwin had come up with to answer the question of what to do with the Doctor after he was exiled to Earth. Speaking in an interview on the 2012 DVD of the Doctor Who serial The Krotons (1968–69), Sherwin said that he wanted Doctor Who to be "down on Earth anyway, for credibility", and described UNIT as "the ideal vehicle" for this. In another 2014 interview in Doctor Who Magazine , Sherwin recalled that after submitting his scripts for The Invasion to Bryant, which included UNIT, Sherwin, who
4640-456: The left arm. The scientific research department that now serves as the head of UNIT consists of plainclothes civilians. The series 8 episode " Death in Heaven " introduces an officer uniform, consisting of black or navy-blue jacket and trousers, white shirt and black tie, with medal ribbons and rank epaulettes, inspired by (but not identical to) officers' No. 2 service dress, sans the gloves, peaked cap and Sam Browne shoulder belt. The Doctor ,
4720-524: The main protagonist of Doctor Who , is a member of UNIT. In " Aliens of London ", after reading up about the Doctor during his twelve-month absence, Mickey Smith tells Rose Tyler that the Ninth Doctor knows UNIT because "he's worked for them". In " The Sontaran Stratagem ", Colonel Mace tells the Tenth Doctor , "Technically speaking, you're still on staff." In " The Day of the Doctor ",
4800-546: The normal universe. With the Time Lords' power restored, they return the First and Second Doctors to their respective time periods. Forlorn, the Third Doctor implies to Jo that death was the only freedom anyone could offer Omega. Out of forgiveness, the Time Lords then send the Doctor a new dematerialisation circuit for the TARDIS and restore his knowledge of how to travel through space and time , lifting his exile. Working titles for this story included The Black Hole . The script
4880-537: The owners of Lethbridge-Stewart, who was the army commander from The Web of Fear , and mention how Bryant and director Douglas Camfield were negotiating the use of the character for The Invasion from Haisman and Lincoln in May 1968, subsequent to The Web of Fear being broadcast in February and March. The Web of Fear is also described in the notes as being a "major influence on The Invasion ". The roots of UNIT in
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#17327795771754960-465: The same serial. This makes it the first Doctor Who story in which an earlier incarnation of the Doctor returns to the show. It was also Hartnell's last appearance as the First Doctor prior to his death in 1975. A superluminal signal is sent to Earth, carrying with it an energy blob that seems intent on capturing the Doctor, but has already mysteriously abducted two individuals; a local game warden, and scientific researcher Dr. Tyler. The homeworld of
5040-438: The shapeless creatures and taken to an unfamiliar location. When they arrive, they meet the legendary Time Lord Omega , who created the supernova method that powers Time Lord civilisation, but which also supposedly killed him. Omega seeks revenge on the Time Lords, whom he assumes left him stranded alone for centuries in his universe, of which he explains that he willed into existence. Assuming he has been deceived once again by
5120-624: The shoulders (based on the brown shirts ) for officers, and black garrison caps with white piping and an RSF cap-badge as head-dress for both. The organisation has full authority to interrogate, court-martial, and formally execute prisoners as they see fit under the "Defence of the Republic Act, 1943". By the end of the story, most of the members of the RSF are killed when a volcanic cataclysm engulfed Great Britain and left much of their world devastated. UNIT has also been featured in many Doctor Who spin-offs . Different spin-offs have made varying attempts to be consistent with other stories. In 1984,
5200-433: The show in the Doctor Who serial Spearhead from Space (1970). In a series of interviews originally recorded for the 2006 DVD of the Doctor Who serial Inferno (1970), actor Nicholas Courtney , who played Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in The Invasion , similarly described The Invasion as a "dummy run" for the idea of the Doctor , the main protagonist of Doctor Who , being exiled to Earth. Dicks also said that
5280-401: The site of an incident. A mobile command centre is also shown in "The Sontaran Stratagem" and "The Poison Sky", where it is depicted as a black articulated lorry with UNIT insignia. UNIT employs unarmed helicopters for transport. It is also shown using a tank in Robot (1974–75). In " Planet of the Dead " (2009), it uses trucks with SAM launchers. In "The Christmas Invasion", UNIT
5360-399: The soap opera Emmerdale Farm . Much of the role originally intended for Jamie was reassigned to Sergeant Benton. The Chancellor is portrayed by Clyde Pollitt, who had also played one of the Time Lords who tried and exiled the Second Doctor. Barry Letts states in the DVD commentary that this was intentional, as he meant for this to be the same character. Similarly, Graham Leaman reappears as
5440-415: The story to be offensively bad—just boring". He felt the "most enjoyable part" was the "comic squabbling" between Pertwee and Troughton, and also called the Brigadier a "saving grace". DVD Talk 's Ian Jane gave the serial three out of five stars, noting that it was "slightly silly" and the production designs and special effects were "definitely not the best that the series has had to offer". He also felt that
5520-437: The story was wrapped up too quickly and was "fairly predictable". However, he praised Pertwee and Troughton's interplay, the fact that Jo was given more to do, and Stephen Thorne's performance as Omega. Alisdair Wilkins of io9 picked The Three Doctors as the worst Doctor Who story of the classic series, feeling that the Second Doctor and the Brigadier were written as too comical, the story had too much padding, and that Omega
5600-432: The streets. There is also mention of them using helicopters and tanks while testing the destructibility of the cubes. " The Day of the Doctor " (2013) shows that the Tower of London base contains the Black Archive housing various alien technological devices that UNIT has salvaged over the years and kept hidden away. Protected by various alien defences that erase the memories of visitors to ensure that they cannot reveal what
5680-502: The title The Three Doctors . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Three_Doctors&oldid=892182941 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Three Doctors (Doctor Who) The Three Doctors
5760-477: The two present him with the generator. Omega knocks it over in rage at the paltry offer and the recorder falls out, annihilating everything it meets in the antimatter universe in a flash (having fallen into the force field during the abduction, it was protected from conversion, remaining as normal matter), creating a new universal source of energy, and ejecting the Doctors in the TARDIS, UNIT HQ, and all of its stolen structures and objects, back to their proper places in
5840-459: The two that he shaped this reality within the black hole both with his willpower and the power of its singularity . However, due to this, his will is the only support keeping this reality stable. He cannot freely leave without releasing control, but releasing control would collapse the antimatter universe instantly , annihilating everything in it; and so Omega's intention is for the Doctors to take his place maintaining it. As he prepares to leave with
5920-487: The two-part Doctor Who special " The End of Time " in 2009–2010, UNIT has been shown to have been reorganised by Kate Stewart, the Brigadier's daughter. In the 2019 New Year special " Resolution ", the Thirteenth Doctor attempts to call on Kate Stewart for assistance, but discovers UNIT operations have been suspended and replaced with an outsourced call centre, due to a diplomatic argument over funding. In
6000-497: Was a "shouting, one-dimensional villain". The serial was repeated on BBC2 in November 1981, daily (Monday–Thursday) (23 November 1981 to 26 November 1981) at 17:40 as part of "The Five Faces of Doctor Who". The four episodes achieved ratings of 5.0, 4.5, 5.7 and 5.8 million viewers respectively. A novelisation of this serial, written by Terrance Dicks , was published by Target Books in November 1975. The novelisation provides
6080-540: Was also working freelance as a script editor, was told by Bryant to introduce his UNIT idea earlier, as it could "take some of the weight off [the] shoulders" of actor Patrick Troughton , who played the Doctor. Speaking in an interview on the 2011 special-edition DVD of Spearhead from Space , Sherwin said that he had created UNIT because he wanted to give some "considerable support" to the Doctor, "so that [Troughton] didn't have so many damn lines to learn each week". Sherwin said in 2014 that while working as script editor on
6160-575: Was in promotional photos for the story. One session of these took place in October 1972 at a photo studio in Battersea - this produced the image that was used for the cover of the Radio Times magazine to promote the story. The production team also planned for Frazer Hines to reprise his role of Jamie McCrimmon alongside the Second Doctor; however, Hines was not available, due to his work on
6240-497: Was originally supposed to feature all three Doctors equally, but William Hartnell was too ill to be able to play the full role as envisioned. He was, therefore, reduced to a pre-recorded cameo role , appearing only on the TARDIS's scanner and the space-time viewer of the Time Lords. It would be the last time he played the Doctor and his last acting role before his death in 1975. Hartnell's scenes were filmed at BBC's Ealing Studios. The only time that all three Doctors appeared together
6320-569: Was released twice on VHS , first in August 1991 and thereafter remastered and re-released in 2002 as part of the WHSmith 's The Time Lord Collection boxed set. It was released on DVD in the UK in November 2003 as part of the Doctor Who 40th Anniversary Celebration releases, representing the Jon Pertwee years. Some copies came in a box set housing a limited edition Corgi model of "Bessie",
6400-535: Was supposed to have replaced the basic army forces that were seen in the story. Sherwin asserted that he held the copyright on Lethbridge-Stewart, as he "created him in The Invasion ". In an interview recorded for the 2006 DVD release of Inferno , Sherwin described The Invasion as the start of UNIT and the beginning of the Doctor "coming down to Earth". Production notes in Doctor Who: The Complete History credit Haisman and Lincoln as
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