FREE LETHBRIDGE-STEWART: THE GRANDFATHER INFESTATION PDF John Peel | none | 23 Jul 2016 | Candy Jar Books | 9780993519239 | English | Cardiff, United Kingdom Lethbridge-Stewart On His Majesty’s National Service. – Merchandise Guide - The Doctor Who Site Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewartgenerally referred to simply as the Brigadieris a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Whocreated by writers Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln and played by Nicholas Courtney. Presented at first as reluctant to accept the continuing aid of the Doctor, over time the Brigadier became one of the Doctor's greatest friends and his principal ally in defending the Earth. As one of the series' most prominent recurring characters over its fifty-year history, the Brigadier appeared in 23 stories during the original run of Doctor Whofirst appearing in the serial The Web of Fear opposite Lethbridge-Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation Second Doctor Patrick Troughton. The character made frequent appearances on the series following the introduction of the Third Doctor Jon Pertwee in 's Spearhead from Space. Nearly 20 years later, Courtney reprised the role in the spin-off programme The Sarah Jane Adventures in[3] his last appearance prior to Courtney's death in Later still, a Cyberman avatar of the Brigadier also appears, and Lethbridge-Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation some closure with the Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldiin " Death in Heaven " The character was originally created in the unlicensed video spin-off Downtime inin which the Brigadier also appeared. Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart's ancestry goes back to Scotland, according to dialogue in Terror of the Zygons When the Doctor was forcibly regenerated and exiled to EarthLethbridge-Stewart gave him a position as UNIT's scientific advisor after he helped defeat the Auton invasion. While not as ubiquitous in following years, he appeared alongside every subsequent Doctor in the original television series run, excluding the Sixth Doctorwith whom he appeared only in the 30th anniversary special, Dimensions in Time in Although Lethbridge-Stewart first met the Doctor in his second incarnation, he also met and worked with the First Doctor in the opening serial of the 10th anniversary seasonThe Three Doctors and again in the 20th-anniversary special, The Five Doctors. He eventually retired from the military to teach mathematics at an English public school inas seen in Mawdryn Undead The Brigadier and the Sixth Doctor, as well as later incarnations of the Doctor, have been paired in numerous spin-off productions see Other appearances. As one of the most popular recurring supporting characters in the television seriesthe Brigadier is Lethbridge-Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation listed among the Doctor's companions. Lethbridge-Stewart's last appearance in a Doctor Who television episode was inin the Seventh Doctor serial Battlefield. Called out of retirement to deal Lethbridge-Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation an other-dimensional invasion of armoured knights led by Morgainehe found himself once again at the Doctor's side. Lethbridge-Stewart served as his world's champion as he faced down and killed the demonic Destroyer of Worlds armed only with his service revolver and a load of silver -tipped bullets. Battlefield was stated to be a few years into Ace 's future but not a Lethbridge-Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation date. The Virgin New Adventures books place it in Planet of the Spiders referred to a relationship with a woman called Doris. By Battlefieldhe was married to her played by Angela Douglas. It was Courtney's own belief that the Brigadier had been in a previous marriage to a woman named Fiona, and that he and Doris were having an affair; his first marriage ended due to his work. Although Lethbridge-Stewart never appeared in the revived series, the character is still alive during the Tenth Doctor 's tenure. He is then told that "Sir Alistair" Lethbridge-Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation "stranded in Peru", indicating that the Brigadier has been knighted by this time. This episode refers back to the Peru mission as there is mention of him being de-briefed about it. Sarah Jane prefers to avoid seeking official clearance, to avoid awkward questions about Lukeher artificially-grown son. In his old age, Lethbridge-Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation Brigadier has developed a dislike for the new way UNIT works and often Lethbridge-Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation to events that happened in "his day". His wife presumably Doris is mentioned in this episode. It had been intended by the production team that Lethbridge-Stewart would indeed appear in the story and meet the Tenth Doctorbut Courtney was recovering from a stroke and unable to take part. The Lethbridge-Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation is a seven-minute mockumentary where a fictional journalist interviews the Brigadier about his life. The Brigadier discusses his marriages with Fiona and Doris, and mentions his daughter Kate and grandson Gordon referencing Downtime. He concludes, "So, now I've hung up my uniform for good Sometime later, the Brigadier becomes ill and is moved into a nursing home. The Doctor is visibly shattered by the news, which forces him to realise that he can't avoid his predestined death. In the episode " Death in Heaven ", Missy Lethbridge-Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation regenerated female Master resurrects the Lethbridge- Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation dead as flight-capable Cybermen. The Brigadier's daughter Kate is apparently killed falling from a plane during a Cybermen attack. Overcoming his programming, the converted Danny Pink commands the Cybermen to sacrifice themselves to thwart Missy's plan. The Doctor prepares to execute Missy, but Lethbridge-Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation preempted by a lone surviving Cyberman, who seemingly vaporizes her with a forearm-mounted ray-gun. Finding that the Cyberman has rescued Kate, the Doctor realizes it is the converted Brigadier, saying "Of course! Earth's darkest hour, and mine. Where else would you be? What happens to him afterward is left unknown. In the Christmas special " Twice Upon Lethbridge-Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation Time ", the First and Twelfth Doctors unwittingly intervene when Testimony, an organization in the far future that collect memories from those about to die, retrieve a captain in the First World War from the moment before his death, the temporal anomaly of the two Doctors resisting their imminent regenerations disrupting Testimony's efforts to return the captain to his scheduled death. The Doctors are able to bend the rules and return the captain to a point a couple of hours after he was taken out of time, in time for his life to be saved by the Christmas truce. Before he returns to time, the captain reveals that his name is Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart, suggesting that he is a relative of the Brigadier. It is confirmed that the character is one of the Brigadier's grandfathers. The Sixth Doctor also meets the Brigadier in the novel Business Unusualalso purporting to be the first meeting of the two characters, subsequently working together in The Shadow in the Glass to track down the newly Lethbridge-Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation Fourth Reich ; in the short story "Brief Encounter: A Wee Deoch an.? The Brigadier and his family have made several appearances in the spin-off media. Also appearing was Kate's young son, Gordon Lethbridge- Stewart. The novels also gave Lethbridge-Stewart another offspring. While on duty in Sierra Leone as a young lieutenant, Lethbridge-Stewart met and was intimate with a local girl named Mariatu, the daughter of a village chief, and unknown to Lethbridge-Stewart, she had a son. This daughter, also named Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart: The Grandfather Infestationwent on to become a recurring character in the New Adventures. The novels have also fleshed out the Brigadier's ancestry, establishing that he comes Lethbridge-Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation a long-standing military family. The other two fought at Naseby and Waterloo. McIntee established that the Brigadier had an ancestor named Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart who worked for the Lethbridge-Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation Government in Deadly Reunion by Terrance Dicks and Barry Lethbridge- Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation establishes that the Brigadier was a Second Lieutenant serving in Army Intelligence inalthough this makes the Brigadier older than other stories would suggest. In the novels, Lethbridge-Stewart emerged from retirement again during the events of The Dying Days where he dealt with an invasion of Ice Warriors from Mars in At the end of that novel he was promoted to General. Lethbridge-Stewart was subsequently rejuvenated with alien technology in Happy Endings by Paul Cornelltaking place in The rejuvenated Lethbridge-Stewart, widowed as a result of an accident at sea but back with the military, next Lethbridge-Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation in the BBC Books Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Shadows of Avalonalso by Cornell, where he still held the rank of General but preferred to be called "the Brigadier". For Big Finish, he has played the part of Lethbridge-Stewart in several plays, with Minuet in Hell revealing that he played a role Lethbridge- Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation the establishment of the Scottish Parliament and also that he does covert work for the UN as a plausibly deniable agent. At the conclusion of Sympathythe alternate Brigadier- referred to as 'Alistair'- joins Warner's Doctor as his companion, but after an unspecified amount of time travelling together, they part ways in the later audio Masters of Warwhen the two arrive on Skaro and force the Daleks and the Thals to join forces to fight off an invasion by a race known as the Quatch, Alistair remaining once the Quatch are defeated to help the two sides maintain Lethbridge-Stewart: The Grandfather Infestation new truce. Courtney also voiced the Brigadier in the webcast Death Comes to Time.