Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart is a fictional character in the British television series Doctor Who, played by Nicholas Courtney. He works for UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce), an international organisation that defends the Earth from alien invasion; he is one of UNIT's founders and head of British operations, and generally referred to simply as the Brigadier.

Lethbridge-Stewart first appeared in the Patrick Troughton season 5 serial The Web of Fear, when he was a colonel. By the 6th season story The Invasion, his next appearance, he had been promoted to brigadier and was working with UNIT. Most of the stories of the Jon Pertwee era of Doctor Who were set on Earth and heavily feature UNIT and the Brigadier. While not as ubiquitous in the following years, he has appeared with every subsequent incarnation through the Seventh Doctor, as well as with the Eighth Doctor in the Doctor Who audio series produced by Big Finish Productions. He retired from the military to teach mathematics at a British School during the 1980s, but subsequently went back to work for UNIT.

See also List of supporting characters in Doctor Who

External links

• BBC Doctor Who website