Ever wanted to visit UNIT?

[CalliArcale]

The United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, that is. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /><br /><br />Well, now you can, albeit on the Web! Presumably as part of their efforts to promote the new series of Doctor Who, the BBC has launched a website for UNIT. I haven't poked around it much yet, but here it is for all you Whovians out there:<br /><br />www.unit.org.uk <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[jmilsom]

<img src="/images/icons/cool.gif" /> I have not really seen much of Dr.Who after Tom Baker. Has UNIT featured prominently in later series? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[CalliArcale]

Never as prominently as during the Jon Pertwee years, but yes, UNIT did show up from time to time. It's also been featured in a number of unofficial-but-practically-canon productions by Bill Baggs Video, produced mainly during the 90s when fans were suffering from Who withdrawal. <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" /><br /><br />Post-Pertwee episodes (BBC only) featuring UNIT that I can think of off the top of my head:<br /><br />TOM BAKER<br />Robot - heavy UNIT involvement<br />Terror of the Zygons - heavy UNIT involvement<br />The Android Invasion - heavy UNIT involvement<br />Seeds of Doom - UNIT used to establish government ability to call on the Doctor<br />Hand of Fear - UNIT used to establish why the government trusts the Doctor<br /><br />PETER DAVISON<br />Time Flight - UNIT used to establish government ability to call on the Doctor<br />Mawdryn Undead - Brigadier is a major character, but he's retired; UNIT is discussed heavily<br />The Five Doctors - minor UNIT involvement; Brigadier is a major character<br />Resurrection of the Daleks - UNIT mentioned to establish Doctor's credentials<br /><br />COLIN BAKER<br />None that I can think of, alas. <br /><br />SYLVESTER MCCOY<br />Remembrance of the Daleks - UNIT doesn't exist yet, but we meet its 1963 predecessors<br />Battlefield - heavy UNIT involvement<br /><br />CHRIS ECCLESTON<br />Aliens of London - aired just last weekend and ended with a cliffhanger; UNIT troops were involved with the defense of a captured "alien" pilot; may have much more involvement in the next episode <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[yevaud]

As my sig line says (thanks to Brigadier Lefbridge-Stewart). <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em>Differential Diagnosis:  </em>"<strong><em>I am both amused and annoyed that you think I should be less stubborn than you are</em></strong>."<br /> </p> </div>

 

[jmilsom]

Ah yes it's all coming back to me now - Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Sergeant Benton and Surgeon-Lieutenant Harry Sullivan. Those first few seasons of Tom Baker's were real classics. It is so long since I have any Dr.Who, when I finally return to Australia later this year (after ten years abroad), I am defintiely hitting the DVD stores for some old classics!!! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[iron_sun_254]

Wow! I never knew someone who had a dog who bit a celebrity before!

 

[SpaceKiwi]

OMG, I just about wet my pants!!! The titles of those UNIT 'publications' are hilarious!<br /><br />My personal favourite ...<br /><br /><i>UTE-17 – "Count the appendages once they're in a heap" – Proper Clean-up after operations</i> <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><em><font size="2" color="#ff0000">Who is this superhero?  Henry, the mild-mannered janitor ... could be!</font></em></p><p><em><font size="2">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font></em></p><p><font size="5">Bring Back The Black!</font></p> </div>