#united nations intelligence taskforce

[communistpartyofgallifrey]

have you ever wondered why UNIT was renamed from "United Nations Intelligence Taskforce" to "Unified Intelligence Taskforce" in New Who? this is why.

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[presidentpoppy]

Kate Lethbridge-Stewart

[thienvaldram]

The Unified Intelligence Taskforce Official Catalogue – Detailing the Known Incarnations of the Renegade Time Lord Known as the Doctor.

(My attempt to explain the In Universe origin for the Doctor Numbering that makes sense)

General interaction protocol: Unless a specific placement in the life of a particular incarnation is evident, protocol is to assume the incarnation only has the knowledge of their predecessors life, not any encounters they themselves may have had with UNIT, unless they make specific reference to prior encounters without prompting. Encounters referenced that do not correlate to the known set of UNIT encounters with the Doctor are to be catalogued in the ‘Future Encounters’ database, subject to internal review.

The Numbered Roster, Incarnations Who Work Alongside UNIT

The First Doctor

First Official Encounter: UNIT Year 6 (Subject to Dating Protocol), Omega Incident

Important Interaction Notes: This incarnation is described as the First based on the Omega Incident and Death Zone incident, wherein this life is the earliest one present in both locations. The direct predecessor of the incarnation who first encountered UNIT, interactions with this version of the Doctor should be kept to a minimum as per the temporal protocols.

The Second Doctor

First Official Encounter: UNIT Year -4 (Subject to Dating Protocol), London Incident

Important Interaction Notes: This incarnation is the first to interact with UNIT, doing so during UNIT Year 1, The First Cyberman Incursion. As such it is to be assumed that this incarnation is unaware of UNIT or its operations unless they make specific reference to it themselves. The exception to this is encounters with a grey haired, older looking iteration, which are to be catalogued separately and not to be mentioned to future incarnations either.

The Third Doctor

First Official Encounter: UNIT Year 1, First Auton Invasion

Important Interaction Notes: As this incarnation was stranded working for UNIT until the Omega Incident, it is reasonable the majority of the time to assume any further encounters with this incarnation involve a version who is already aware of these events.

The Fourth Doctor

First Official Encounter: UNIT Year 8, K1 Incident

Important Interaction Notes: As this incarnation was born within UNIT and travelled with Sarah Jane Smith for his early life, it is reasonable to assume they are familiar with the events of the K1 Incident, First Zygon Invasion and the Krynoid Incident.

The Fifth Doctor

First Official Encounter: 1980, Discovery of the TARDIS in Pompeii

Important Interaction Notes: None to report

The Sixth Doctor

First Official Encounter: 1983, Derbyshire

Important Interaction Notes: None to report

The Seventh Doctor

First Official Encounter: 1997, Camelot Incident

Important Interaction Notes: This incarnation has been heavily involved in UNITs past prior to his first official encounter, specifically in UNIT Year 8, The Vardan Incident, among others.

The Eighth Doctor

First Official Encounter: 2003, Malebolgia Incident

Important Interaction Notes: There is a large period in which this incarnation lived on Earth (first reported in the late 19th Century until the early 21st), during this period they possessed amnesia and are to be treated as a named incarnation. (Specifically “The Amnesiac Doctor”)

The War Doctor

First Official Encounter: 2013, Operation Double

Important Interaction Notes: This incarnation, despite being chronologically between the Eighth and Ninth, was not catalogued until years later and is specially numbered as they are not to be mentioned to the subsequent three incarnations due to repressed trauma from an event known as the ‘Last Great Time War’.

The Ninth Doctor (Previously “Northern Doctor” before identification)

First Official Encounter: UNIT Year 8, Albion Defence Investigation

Important Interaction Notes: Avoid bringing up the events of the ‘Last Great Time War’.

The Tenth Doctor

First Official Encounter: 2006, Sycorax Incident

Important Interaction Notes: Do not confuse this incarnation with the ‘Fourteenth Doctor’ (First encountered 2023, The Giggle). Take extra care determining the incarnation in question and categorise as appropriate in the ‘Post-Giggle 10/14 Re-Categorisation Database’.

The Eleventh Doctor

First Official Encounter: 2011, Goruda Investigation

Important Interaction Notes: Avoid mentioning events still present in the ‘Post-Giggle 10/14 Re-Categorisation Database’. Also avoid alluding to future incarnations outright as this one believes himself to be the final one.

The Twelfth Doctor

First Official Encounter: 2014, Fracture Incident

Important Interaction Notes: Avoid mentioning events still present in the ‘Post-Giggle 10/14 Re-Categorisation Database’.

The Thirteenth Doctor

First Official Encounter: 2021, Three Minute Eclipse

Important Interaction Notes: Avoid mentioning events still present in the ‘Post-Giggle 10/14 Re-Categorisation Database’. First official encounter was during the 2017-2021 UNIT Shutdown caused by the infiltration of the organisation by an alien agent. As a result, care is to be taken regarding future encounters with this incarnation to avoid revealing the nature of said shutdown.

The Fourteenth Doctor

First Official Encounter: 2023, November 2023 UFO Incident

Important Interaction Notes: This incarnations entire life up to the events of ‘The Giggle’ is known and catalogued by testimony. Post-“Giggle Events” should be catalogued separately under the “Bigenerated Doctor” after being first placed into the ‘Post-Giggle 10/14 Re-Categorisation Database’.

The Fifteenth Doctor

First Official Encounter: 2023, The Giggle

Important Interaction Notes: Do not assume this incarnation is familiar with events that happen to the post-‘The Giggle’ Fourteenth Doctor until such a theory has been adequately tested.

Non-Numbered Incarnations of Unknown Placement

The “Bearded Doctor”

First Official Encounter: Prior to 1991 (Incident Report Lost)

Important Interaction Notes: Placement unknown, presumed to postdate the First through Eighth Doctors but that cannot be assumed.

The “Flaming Sword Doctor”

First Official Encounter: Prior to 1991 (Incident Report Lost)

Also known from the seizure of Clive Finch’s photographs of the Doctor.

Documented but not Encountered

The “Fugitive Doctor” (Active periods: 1962, 1999-2020)

The “Bearded Scholar Doctor” (Active periods: 1740-1804)

The “Detective Doctor” (Active periods: 1938-1944 – Worked with British Government)

The “Inventor Doctor” (Active periods: 1918-1955, 1975)

The “Adventurer Doctor” (Active periods: 1788-1792)

The “Ambassador Doctor” (Active periods: Pre-2005, only known from the seizure of Clive Finch’s photographs of the Doctor)

The “Enigma Doctor” (Active periods: 2472, via testimony from Jo Grant)

The “Agent Doctor”

The “Showman Doctor” (Active periods: 1960-1963, 1970)

“Dr Who” (Active periods: 18XX-Post 1963)

The “Ginger Doctor” (Active periods: 2010)

The “Wheelchair Doctor” (Active periods: Pre-2005, only known from the seizure of Clive Finch’s photographs of the Doctor)

[maniacwatchestheworld]

This came to me like a vision in the night and I just had to make it!

The UNIT men are all some flavor of himbo, but here's where they differ. Harry's a chauvinist. Yates is an asshole. The Brigadier is allowed to have one braincell. But Benton? Well, Benton is just the perfect man! A wonderful specimen of a himbo! Look at that precious smile! How could you say no to it?

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[harricislife]

I know no one will care now, but recently watched the Classic Who episode The Android Invasion, and am really kinda pissed at how badly it handled UNIT and its departure from the regular show, and especially it being the last appearances of both Harry Sullivan and John Benton, and it happening so unceremoneously, ugh.

I know this happened decades ago, but god I wish they had handled it better.

One last bit of their acting I did like from the serial was when the Colonel was excited that the man coming back to Earth was the first to have gone deeper into space than any human being, and Harry and Benton just shared a fleeting look, because they both have gone way deeper, lol, it really made me happy.

Also like that Benton has a younger sister, I hope someone writes a fanfic of him bonding with her.

Sorry, I just wanted to rant a bit about this.

[vintage1981]

Celebrating Caroline John

Caroline Frances John (19 September 1940 - 5 June 2012) was an English actress who played companion Liz Shaw in Doctor Who during its seventh season. She revived the character for the BBV P.R.O.B.E. video series, as well as the Big Finish Companion Chronicles line of audios.

John was the third of eight children born to Vera (née Winckworth), an actress and singer, and Alexander John, a theatre director. She was educated at St. Joseph's convent school, Crackley Hall in Kenilworth.

After training at the Central School of Speech and Drama, she worked in theatre and toured with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre Company. She appeared in Juno and the Paycock in a 1966 production directed by Laurence Olivier, King Lear, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Merchant of Venice and as Hero in Franco Zeffirelli's production of Much Ado About Nothing.

John played the role of the Doctor's companion in 1970 opposite Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor. John was recommended to then Doctor Who producer Peter Bryant by another BBC producer, James Cellan Jones, who sent Bryant and his associate Derrick Sherwin photographs of her. Unlike most of the preceding and subsequent female companions of the Doctor, Shaw was a brilliant scientist and understood much of the Doctor's technobabble. Shaw and the Doctor discussed things on a more equitable level of intelligence, and the Doctor respected and rarely patronised her. New series producer Barry Letts believed the character was too intellectual to be a suitable companion to the Doctor and decided against renewing her contract for the next season.

During her final story, Inferno, John also played the part of Section Leader Elizabeth Shaw, an alter ego of her regular character that the Doctor encounters in an alternative time stream. John reprised the role of Shaw, albeit as a phantom, in the anniversary episode The Five Doctors, and also appeared in the special episode Dimensions in Time (1993), part of the BBC's annual Children in Need appeal. In the 1990s she appeared in a series of straight-to-video releases including The Stranger: Breach of the Peace, and as Liz Shaw in the P.R.O.B.E. stories written by Mark Gatiss. In these stories made by the production company BBV, a pipe-smoking Shaw works as an investigator (for the P.R.O.B.E. organisation).

John later appeared in two Big Finish Productions' audio dramas based on Doctor Who; Dust Breeding (2001), although playing a character other than Liz Shaw, and The Blue Tooth (2007) where, as Liz, she recounts in narrative form an adventure she once had with the Doctor and UNIT. After The Blue Tooth she played Liz in four more Companion Chronicle audio plays; Binary, The Sentinels of the New Dawn and Shadow of the Past. Her final audio play, The Last Post, which she recorded on 26 January 2012, was released after her death.

In addition to her role as Liz Shaw, Caroline John appeared as Laura Lyons in a 1982 televised version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, starring Tom Baker as Sherlock Holmes. She also appeared in episodes of Z-Cars, Casualty, The House of Elliot, and EastEnders.

John read most of the audiobook of Elisabeth Sladen's posthumously-released autobiography, with David Tennant, Brian Miller and Sadie Miller reading their contributions.

John was married to actor Geoffrey Beevers. The couple had three children: a daughter, Daisy, and sons Ben and Tom. She died on 5 June 2012 from cancer.

[aphrodititi]

Do you think 3 ever had a holiday while he was stuck on earth? Did he take a week off and just go sight seeing? Did he just get on a boat one day, ended up in Denmark or Spain or wherever and called the Brig just being like "I'm not coming to work today" and hung up?

[dailyclassicwho]

did anyone else hear the term “UNIT dating controversy” for the first time and think it was about something completely different?