unit

UNIT was a military organisation which operated under the auspices of the United Nations, initially under the name of the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce until being renamed the Unified Intelligence Taskforce. Its remit was to investigate and combat paranormal and extraterrestrial threats to the Earth. UNIT was not the only alien defence organisation, but it was the one with which the Doctor had the closest personal involvement.

An incident which led directly to the creation of UNIT was the takeover of London by the Great Intelligence, with robot Yetis and a deadly cobweb-like fungus. Assisted by the Second Doctor, another group of British infantrymen, led by then-Colonel Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, beat back the Yeti from the tunnels of the London Underground. In reaction to the London Event, the British government formed the Home-Army Fifth Operational Corps to combat alien threats, headed by Lethbridge-Stewart. Lethbridge-Stewart was part of the organisation until the f…more
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Characters
  • The Fourth Doctor

    The Fourth Doctor

    The Fourth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by Tom Baker for seven consecutive seasons and remains the longest-lived incarnation of the Doctor in the show&apo...

  • Sarah Jane Smith

    Sarah Jane Smith

    Sarah Jane Smith is a fictional character played by Elisabeth Sladen in the long-running British BBC Television science-fiction series Doctor Who and its spin-offs K-9 and Company and The Sarah Jane Adventures.An investigative journalist, Sarah Jane is a ...

  • UNIT

    Unit

    UNIT was a military organisation which operated under the auspices of the United Nations, initially under the name of the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce until being renamed the Unified Intelligence Taskforce. Its remit was to investigate and combat...

  • Harry Sullivan

    Harry Sullivan

    Surgeon-Lieutenant Harry Sullivan was a companion of the Fourth Doctor. He was a Royal Navy surgeon in the employ of UNIT and later worked for NATO and MI5.Three weeks after confronting the Great One on the planet Metebelis III, the Third Doctor and his T...

  • John Benton

    John Benton

    Career Officer with UNIT Councilor (post UNIT?)Doctor Who character then companion beginning with the 2nd Doctor....

  • Kraals

    Kraals

    The Kraals were a race of technologically advanced humanoids native to Oseidon. The ever higher levels of radiation on their homeworld forced them to look for new planets to inhabit....

  • The Doctor

    The Doctor

    The Doctor is a Time Lord, an extraterrestrial from the planet Gallifrey, who travels through time and space in an internally vast time machine called the TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) which appears relatively small when seen from the o...