![]() ![]() ![]() " It has always seemed a shame Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart never appeared in the 2005 relaunched series, but both the character and the actor are at least being honored through Redgrave's Kate Stewart, an excellent addition to Doctor Who. Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart petitioned the United Nations to create UNIT, an international force dedicated to protecting the world from similar threats, and he reprised the role countless times over the years, last appearing in the main series in the 1989 story "Battlefield. Courtney first appeared in Doctor Who in the 1968 story "The Web of Fear," as a military colonel who helped the Doctor repel a Yeti invasion of the London Underground. Redgrave is inheriting the mantle of the late Nicholas Courtney, who played the original Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. Jemma Redgrave returns as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, and UNIT, the long-running organisation set on defending the Earth, returns in the next series of DoctorWho. UNIT is confirmed to appear in the upcoming Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials, which will air ahead of season 14, and it's possible she will return there as well. The character has a rich history, which has made her attractive to countless writers, and she's appeared alongside every main revival Doctor bar Christopher Eccleston. ![]() ![]() Kate Stewart was reinvented in the 2012 story "The Power of Three," becoming the new leader of UNIT, the organization her father had founded. ![]()
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