UNIT HQ, London

The London HQ of the Unified Intelligence Taskforce (also known as the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce) was the command centre of the British branch of UNIT. It was part of the European commitment of UNIT.

UNIT HQ in London was supplemented by the Assault Platoon and at least two support platoons. (DW: "The Invasion", "Spearhead from Space") Other British facilities included UNIT Base 5, the Black Archive, a radar tracking station, a prison facility, a base in Belfast and a South London safe house. (SJA: "Death of the Doctor", "Enemy of the Bane", DW: "Spearhead from Space", TOR: "Fragments", DW: "The Stolen Earth", "The Zygon Invasion")

Emblem of the British branch of UNIT

History

Newbury

UNIT HQ in Newbury (1983)

Personnel

Commanding officers

• General Farquhar (c. 1966 - 1967)
• Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart (c. 1970 - 1976)
• Colonel Charles Crichton (after Lethbridge-Stewart's retirement - c. 1983)
• Brigadier Winifred Bambera (c. 1997)
• Colonel A. Mace (c. 2009)
• Colonel Augustus Oduya (c. 2009)
• Colonel Tia Karim (c. 2010)
• Colonel Ahmed (c. 2014)
• Kate Stewart (c. 2017), head of UNIT

Senior personnel under Lethbridge-Stewart's command

• Major Peters, officer in charge of support platoons (c. 1971)
• Major Walton (c. 1971)
• Major Cosworth (c. 1972)
• Major Beresford, senior officer and deputy to Lethbridge-Stewart (c. 1976)
• Captain Jimmy Turner (c. 1971)
• Captain Munro (c. 1971)
• Captain Hawkins (c. 1971)
• Captain Mike Yates (c. 1971 - 1974)
• Surgeon Lieutenant Harry Sullivan, medical officer (c. 1975)
• Corporal / Sergeant / Warrant Officer Class 1 John Benton, regimental sergeant major (c. 1971 - 1979; RSM from 1975 onwards)

Scientific advisers and assistants

• The Doctor, scientific adviser (1971 onwards)
• Jo Grant, assistant to the Doctor (1972 - 1973)
• Liz Shaw, scientific adviser and later assistant to the Doctor (scientific adviser briefly in 1971; assistant in 1971)
• Sarah Jane Smith, assistant to the Doctor (briefly in 1974)
• Kate Stewart, head of scientific research and chief scientific officer (c. 2013 - c. 2018)
• Malcolm Taylor, scientific adviser (c. 2010 - c. 2013)

Appendices

Appearances

• Doctor Who:
  • "The Invasion" (XV300)
  • "Spearhead from Space" (24 Cornwall Gardens)
  • "Doctor Who and the Silurians"
  • "The Ambassadors of Death"
  • "Terror of the Autons"
  • "The Mind of Evil"
  • "The Claws of Axos"
  • "Colony in Space"
  • "The Dæmons"
  • "Day of the Daleks"
  • "The Mutants"
  • "The Time Monster"
  • "The Three Doctors" (Newbury)
  • "The Green Death"
  • "Planet of the Spiders"
  • "Robot"
  • "Terror of the Zygons"
  • "Pyramids of Mars" (Newbury site in 1911)
  • "The Five Doctors"
  • "The Christmas Invasion" (Tower of London)
  • "The Power of Three"
  • "The Day of the Doctor"
  • "The Magician's Apprentice"
  • "The Zygon Inversion"
  • "Survivors of the Flux"
• "The Paradise of Death" (Newbury)
• "Global Conspiracy!" (Newbury map)

References

• Doctor Who:
  • "The Sea Devils"
  • "Frontier in Space"
  • "Invasion of the Dinosaurs"
  • "The Android Invasion"
  • "The Sontaran Stratagem"
  • "Planet of the Dead"
• Hornets' Nest: "The Stuff of Nightmares"

See also

• Space Defence Station
• UNIT Mobile HQ
• UNIT temporary HQ