Auton was also the first BBV production to have no Doctor Who guest stars at all, after Nicholas Courtney ( who would have reprised his Doctor Who role as UNIT commander Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart ) was forced by ill health to withdraw from the project.

Despite the Doctor's best efforts to broker a peaceful solution, the Silurians are still determined to exterminate Humanity, only to have their base destroyed by the fictional United Nations Intelligence Taskforce on the orders of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart ( Nicholas Courtney ) to preempt this open threat.

The Doctor and Sarah are arrested on suspicion of looting, but are rescued by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart who is heading the UNIT operation, and the Doctor begins to combat the monsters, which have necessitated the evacuation.

Long-time Doctor Who companion, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, wore the ribbon of the order as the highest of his decorations in the series ' classic era.

* This marked the only time in which Nicholas Courtney and / or his character, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, appeared with the Sixth Doctor.

Nicholas Courtney reprises his role as Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart and becomes a regular cast member beginning with this serial.

In the meantime, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart of UNIT is trying to recruit Dr. Elizabeth " Liz " Shaw as his scientific advisor and investigate the unusual meteorite falls.

Soon, the Brigadier is faced with another mystery ; not far from where the meteorite impacts were reported, a man in hospital claims to be the Doctor ( whom Lethbridge-Stewart last encountered in The Invasion ).

* The Doctor tells Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart that his name is Doctor John Smith, an alias first used in The Wheel in Space.

# REDIRECT Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

The serial was the first of three loosely connected serials known as the Black Guardian Trilogy, and introduced Mark Strickson as a new companion, Vislor Turlough, as well as reintroducing Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.

In 1983, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart has retired from UNIT, and teaches mathematics at Brendon Public School.

# REDIRECT Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

Reports of the theft of the Nestene unit and sabotage at the radio telescope facility lead the Doctor, his new assistant Jo Grant and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart to investigate.

UNIT is called in to investigate, and the Third Doctor and Liz meet Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart at the plant.

A mysterious figure begins to use a Time Scoop to bring the previous incarnations of the Doctor, some of his former companions ( Susan Foreman, Sarah Jane Smith, and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart ) and archenemies ( including the Daleks and Cybermen ) into the Death Zone on Gallifrey.

The Doctor would have realised the truth about them when Victoria called Lethbridge-Stewart " Brigadier ", when she only knew him as a Colonel ( in The Web of Fear ).

In the end, they decided to use the character of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart ( played by Nicholas Courtney ) instead.

His photograph appears in the pilot episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures, hanging on the side of a roof joist in Sarah Jane Smith's attic, near a portrait of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and a photograph of Sarah Jane and K-9 Mark III.

The Doctor and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart are investigating the disappearance of several scientists from a top secret scientific research complex.

The Web of Fear was, incidentally, the serial that introduced Benton's commanding officer Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, though he was only a colonel at the time.

Despite his now-and-then arrogance, the Third Doctor genuinely cared for his companions in a paternal fashion, and even held a thinly veiled but grudging admiration for his nemesis, the Master, and for UNIT's leader, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, with whom he eventually became friends.

William Nicholas Stone Courtney ( 16 December 1929 – 22 February 2011 ) was an English actor, most famous for playing Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

The Lethbridge-Stewart character returned in the next season in The Invasion, promoted to the rank of Brigadier and in charge of British contingent of UNIT.

In 2000 he got back in uniform to recreate the character of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart for a couple of sketches in the third season of ' The Harry Hill Show '.

* The Doctor mentions the to the Brigadier and Lt. Sullivan ; his future ninth incarnation sees her off at Southampton.

* The Brigadier mentions an earlier adventure during which the TARDIS became invisible, a reference to the events of the 1968 television serial The Invasion.

* Sarah Jane mentions giving the Doctor's love to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Harry Sullivan at the end.

* The Doctor tells Ace about the events of Invasion of the Dinosaurs and mentions the Brigadier at the start of this story.

The Brigadier mentions something called " The Divergence " and says that the Time Lords would not be able to intervene lest they become infected with the anti-time.

* During the Brigadier ’ s flashback he sees Yeti ( The Web of Fear ), Cybermen ( The Invasion ), the Second Doctor ( The Three Doctors ), the Axons ( The Claws of Axos ), Daleks ( Day of the Daleks ), the Third Doctor ( Spearhead from Space ), the First Doctor ( The Three Doctors ), the K1 robot ( Robot ), a Zygon ( Terror of the Zygons ), the Fourth Doctor, and finally himself from The Three Doctors.

The professional history of radioactive weaponry may be traced to a 1943 memo from James Bryant Conant, Arthur Holly Compton, and Harold Urey, to Brigadier General Leslie Groves of the Manhattan Project and to a 1940 science fiction story, " Solution Unsatisfactory " by Lt. J. G. Robert A. Heinlein, USN ( R ).

He appeared in the 1955 BBC Television serial Quatermass II, had a role in the Powell and Pressburger wartime drama Battle of the River Plate ( 1956 ), and came to wide popular attention in Britain when he played the duplicitous Spanish envoy Mendoza in the ITC Entertainment series Sir Francis Drake ( 1961 – 62 ), after which he was much in demand ; an ' in-joke ' in the 1971 Doctor Who story Colony in Space refers to that role: the Brigadier tells the Doctor not to worry — the suspected sighting of the Master was only the Spanish Ambassador!

Under pressure from the White House and his commander, Brigadier General Hershberg ( Michael Moriarty ), to wrap things up quickly, Serling leaks the story to newspaper reporter Tony Gartner ( Scott Glenn ) to prevent another cover up.

* This story marked the only televised meeting of the Sixth Doctor and the Brigadier, meaning that actor Nicholas Courtney is the only person to have worked alongside the first seven Doctors from the original show's run, although his first appearance opposite the first Doctor was not as the Brigadier but rather Bret Vyon ; the first Doctor's later appearance in The Three Doctors was recorded separately and did not involve Courtney.

After the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse story broke in March 2004, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski was suspended and Miller was appointed the deputy commanding general for detainee operations for Multinational Forces in Iraq.

" The Swimmer " a short story by American author John Cheever, was originally published in The New Yorker on July 18, 1964, and then in the 1964 short story collection, The Brigadier and the Golf Widow.

Harry is mentioned in the story, however — the Brigadier tells the Fifth Doctor that he was " seconded to NATO " and was last heard of " doing something ' hush-hush ' at Porton Down.

# A story of three battles – Brigadier Harold Michigan 1971 Indo Pak War

* After falling, as the Doctor lies sprawled on the ground, he sees visions of all the companions that previously accompanied his fourth incarnation: Sarah Jane Smith ( Terror of the Zygons ), Harry Sullivan ( The Sontaran Experiment ), Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart ( Invasion of the Dinosaurs, a Third Doctor story ), Leela ( The Robots of Death ), K-9 ( The Armageddon Factor ), Romana I ( The Stones of Blood ) and Romana II ( Full Circle ).

The conspiracy was thwarted by the Doctor, and in return for his past service to UNIT, the Brigadier allowed Yates to take medical leave and then quietly resign ( actor Richard Franklin believes the initial plan for this story was to kill off Yates ).

None of the established UNIT characters are seen in this story, as Nicholas Courtney was unavailable to reprise the role of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.

* The original script for the story featured an ageing Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart, who had been moved from UNIT to the Extraterrestrial Xenological Intelligence Taskforce to study UFO activities.

Lanier's narrator, Brigadier Ffellowes, recounts his father's story of an encounter in the East Indies with a mysterious man calling himself " Verner ", and a race of large, intelligent rats.

* Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart makes his first appearance in this story, with the rank of Colonel.

* Terror of the Zygons ( the story that saw the departure of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart as a regular character );

Throughout the story the Brigadier is aided by a New World student named Daniel Hinton, a former student of his from the Brendon School.