The Brigadier's posthumous cameo in Doctor Who: Flux creates a plot hole, however. As the Grand Serpent and General Farquhar wander the halls of UNIT headquarters, a voice is heard calling out, ' Lethbridge-Stewart here, I want a call to the RAF, please.' It's a wonderful nod to the late Nicholas Courtney, who accompanied multiple regenerations of The Doctor and sadly passed away in 2011.

Doctor Who: Flux's 'Survivors of the Flux' reframes UNIT's formation completely, revealing the villainous Grand Serpent constantly oversaw the organization from its initial conception to Chris Chibnall's off-screen dissolution in Doctor Who season 11's New Year's special.ĭoctor Who: Flux also finds time for a touching Brigadier tribute.

An Earth-based military force designed to combat extra-terrestrial activity (calling The Doctor, in other words), UNIT has been a reliable Doctor Who ally, ever-present across the decades and traditionally led by Nicholas Courtney's Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. Archive footage material does not count towards the episode totals.Doctor Who: Flux performs a hefty rewrite on UNIT's origin, but does this Brigadier retcon solve the Fifth Doctor's infamous UNIT dating controversy? Debuting in 1968's Second Doctor episode 'The Invasion,' UNIT quickly became part of Doctor Who DNA. The green squares indicate a season in which the actor was a full-time regular, the grey squares indicate a season in which the actor merely guest-starred, the blue squares indicate a season in which the actor merely co-starred, and the red squares indicate a season in which the actor did not appear, and thusly feature no episode count. Archive footage material does not count towards the episode totals.īelow is a table featuring the seasonal appearances by each of the ' Guest Starring' castmembers of How to Get Away with Murder. Below is a table featuring the seasonal appearances by each of the ' Starring' castmembers of How to Get Away with Murder.

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