Knights from a parallel universe arrive on Earth to find the legendary sword Excalibur. Only the Doctor and Ace with the assistance of Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart can save the Earth from to... Read allKnights from a parallel universe arrive on Earth to find the legendary sword Excalibur. Only the Doctor and Ace with the assistance of Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart can save the Earth from total catastrophe.Knights from a parallel universe arrive on Earth to find the legendary sword Excalibur. Only the Doctor and Ace with the assistance of Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart can save the Earth from total catastrophe.
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- TriviaThe penultimate appearance of Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart on Doctor Who (1963), save for an appearance in the one-off charity episode Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time (1993) (though the canon status of that special is in doubt). Although the character has been mentioned in episodes of Doctor Who, he did not appear in the revived series. Nicholas Courtney would reprise the role in 2008, however, as a guest star in a two-part episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007).
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The Destroyer: Ah... little man. What do you want of me?
Brigadier: Get off my world!
The Destroyer: Pitiful. Can this world do no better than you as their champion?
Brigadier: Probably. I just do the best I can.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Storm Over Avallion (2008)
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Written and Performed by Eden Akhavi
I won't set out the rest of the plot, because it doesn't make much sense. I will freely admit that Sylvester McCoy was not my favourite incarnation of the Doctor, but he did suffer under the disadvantage of having to cope with some awful scripts, and while "Battlefield" is not quite the worst from this period- "The Curse of Fenric" from later in the same season would take some beating- it is nevertheless pretty bad. About the only thing I liked about this serial is that it brought back, for his final appearance in the series, one of my favourite characters, Nicholas Courtney's Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart of UNIT, a frequent feature of the programme in the late sixties and seventies. He is a by-the-book army officer who can seem like a narrow-minded stickler for discipline, but nevertheless possesses considerable reserves of courage and decency. Here he is called out of retirement to assist the Doctor and Brigadier Winifred Bambera, his successor as commander of UNIT.
The termination of the series at the end of this season meant that this was the only appearance of Angela Bruce's Brigadier Bambera. (A pity. She had the potential to become an interesting character). There is little about the serial as a whole, however, to convince me that the BBC1 were altogether wrong in their decision not to commission a twenty-seventh season. 4/10.
- JamesHitchcock
- Aug 15, 2022
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