And when the devastated 7 thought the Brigadier was dead: "You were supposed to die in bed! I could have handled it!" It killed me. and then we see that no, even the Brigadier dying of old age breaks the Doctor's hearts. The Brigadier was the one to perfectly sum up all the doctors incarnations: "Wonderful chap. All of them." Of course, the new Doctor who fans wouldn't like seeing those episodes because the doctor shows how much he respects archaeologists. He even teaches Ace about the importance of them 😁
Damn. I totally forgot that Kate Stewart debuted in Power of Three, but what I love in hindsight now is that the MINUTE the Doctor sees her, he salutes her. Then later on, when Kate mentions to 12 that the Brigadier's ambition was to have the Doctor salute him at least once. Considering he met Kate after he first hears the Brigadier's passing, I like to think he figured out the Brig's ambition, and sort of tried to make amends by saluting his daughter when he sees her. Until, of course, he gets that one last reunion a lifetime later.
I will never not get goosebumps when I see that scene in the cemetery, as realization dawns, both for the Doctor and for the audience. "Where else would you be?"
Well sort of but she also `unofficially` first appeared in `Downtime` years earlier, played by Beverly Cressman. Wonder where Kate`s son Gordon is now? He`d be about 28 in 2022.
My fave Brig moment as he snuck up on the Master in one of the multiple Dr eps "Lovely seeing you again!" and then just decks the Master! And, of course, the ultimate Brig quote: "Jenkins....chap with the wings there. 5 rounds rapid."
The Five Doctors. It was more of a feature film and it was great (and it’s a good thing to shove in the faces of people who think new who writers were the ones who wrote 1 to be a bit more sexist after Hartnell).
The Brigadier was an absolute treasure. The Doctor lost so much again and again and again, but in the end the Brigadier was always there. I know the Doctor’s never flat out said it, but the Brigadier was his BEST friend. When someone has your back for over 500 years of your life, how could he be anything else?
1st doctor when the Stewarts are mentioned: I have no idea who the Stewart's are but I will pop in to say hello. 12th doctor when the Stewarts are mentioned: SUPER SHOCK
The interesting thing about this is that the first doctor would've immediately forgotten about this encounter after parting ways with Twelve, but he still kept the promise anyway. Whether it was his subconscious guiding him, or maybe just fate, he honored his word for all his lives.
Well up until the uhh 14th? Doctor when all promises went out the window including the promise made when they took the name The Doctor and no that was not grey area
@@ShugoAWay What exactly are you referring to? The 14th doctor? Do you mean the upcoming version of Tennant's doctor? Has the doctor stated he will no longer keep his promise of looking after the Lethbridge-Stewart family? All promises out the window? What do you mean? Please be a little more specific.
@Kyle T. the recent one (female) srry the numbers are hard to keep straight after the 50th special and stuff as i keep thinking she was 14 due to war doctor and tennants double regen setting the regen counter askew
@@kyguy3242 the promise i was referring to was the original promise, the promise he made when he took the name doctor, the "never cruel or cowardly" promise, his most crucial promise
@@ShugoAWay Well, I was referring to the promise mentioned in the video that he would watch after the Lethbridge-Stewart family. But when did the 13th doctor break the original promise? I didn't really keep up with Jodie's run, so I wouldn't know.
@@spc1612 It's also a little bit heartbreaking - because once he receives that phone call, that establishes the timeline - that he was never able to visit the Brigadier again before he died, which means he can't just go back to a bit before his death and do it then, because *he already knows he never does.* One of the small intricacies of time travel that I can make sense of. Once a series of events is established, it's very difficult to change (if it's possible at all), and it doesn't get more concretely established than being outright told he hadn't visited.
That heartbreaking phone call the Doctor got regarding the Brigadier's death. The Lethbridge-Stewarts are very important and so very special to the Doctor because of the Brigadier.
You know the Doctor who I'd like to have seen him meet? The War Doctor. Imagine the Brigadier, seeing the Doctor turned into a solider. For all their friendship and friction, I think it would break his heart.
I think the war doctor would look disappointed at himself if he ever met the brigadier especially because the brigadier would never accept that it was his long time friend and ally he was staring at in that moment.
I imagine that was why he refused to call himself "Doctor" during that particular incarnation, in the hope that he would not be recognized by his friends.
Officially, the last time the Doctor and the Brig see each other is the Ninth Doctor meeting a retired Brig on a Scottish Highland island. Great story from Big Finish.
The Doctor had influence on thousands of bloodlines and Families but none quite like the Stewards! Yes even the Ponds! God why am I at the edge of crying again! This is why this the best Sci-Fi Franchise.
This had me in tears and laughing particularly 3rd Doctor's intimal comments to the Brigadier then praising him. Wonderful chap ALL OF HIM Brigadier Alister Gordon Lethbridge -Stuart. RIP😂
It's such a shame Nic could not appear as the brigadier in modern who with any of the doctors due to health reasons but at least he managed to appear alongside Sarah Jane in her show. For someone like me who never grew up when doctor who was originally on, i jump for joy when past characters appear who i been wanting to see in the show
and is the longest serving character, played by the same actor, in the dr who universe, 40 years from 1968-2008, on screen, and until his death, in big finish, the only character to have stories in the 60's 70;s 80's 90's AND 2000's, and has met and worked with TEN doctors, only River comes close in THAT count!!
I first watched Doctor Who in the 80's with the 4th Doctor on PBS. At some point they started showing the 3rd Doctor which was amazing. Tearing around England in an old car and lots of the Brigadier and UNIT. I know the effects are laughable now, bad rubber suits and spray painted wooden daleks, but none of that mattered the stories were great and the actors were not just going through the motions.
Same for me but then I have been a Doctor Who fan for as long as I can remember, and the moment for me is when the Doctor salutes the cyber Brig, after he saves Kate's life. Quite apt in the circumstances. Thank you for the upload. Gonna have to wipe my eyes now.
Just finished a two year marathon front to back of the classic era two days ago. Then I watched the movie, now I've started the audio range for the eighth doctor. Last night I finished a minute in hell, and it was great to see, or rather, to hear Lethbridge Stewart again.
I really can't think of anything clever so I'm just gonna say this: I really hope we see Kate in the future to keep lefbridge going, (hoping I spelled the words right 😅)
The Brigadier is the one character aside from River Song to encounter all of the Doctor's classic incarnations. 1st Doctor met him during the 3 Doctors then again during the 5 Doctors. 2nd Doctor was the original incarnation to meet the Brigadier. 3rd Doctor spent his entire era with the Brigadier. 4th Doctor met Alistair upon his regeneration. 5th Doctor encounter Lethbridge-Stewart during the 5 Doctors. 6th Doctor finally met him during the events of the 30th Anniversary special 7th Doctor met him during another alien invasion. Even the 8th Doctor & 9th Doctor meet him in the Big Finish Audio Plays.
Many years ago, I was part of a promotional team for a Bill Baggs video in which I portrayed a member of UNIT at a Doctod Who convention in Coventry. There were 6 of us in total & we provided a guard of honour for Nicholas Courtney. He was thoroughly charming & delightful man & seemed quite surprised that the greeting had been arranged. I managed to have quite a chat with him about various things & was very impressed with him. I also met Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Wendy Padbury (an absolute pleasure & very funny), Peter Davidson, Colin Baker (who i worked with in the video, one of "The Stranger" series), Deborah Watling, Tom Baker & others. As I was a participant, I enjoyed being able to get closer than those who were paying guests. But Nicholas Courtney was one of the stand outs for me.
Incredible man who took on the enemies of the Doctor and never gave up or in he definitely shall be remembered as the man who saved earth even though through death he was still fighting for all of us, and that old soldier and grandad were champions of every one of us Long may Brigadier Stewart live in Doctor Who history as friend of that crazy man in a blue box, and a Stewart still holds that light as Kate Stewart like her father did the herald of Unite, because she has herself work to do defending humanity
While sad Nicholas Courtney never returned with a modern Doctor at least he was in SJA with a reunion with 10 planned. But I think Kate Stewart is a worthy successor to both character and actors legacy. I hope in thr future Kate and the Doctor have an adventure showing her the stories she would have been told. The doctor is basically the uncle to Kate and would protect her as his own.
@@OzBaxter It was clearly intended to be the Brigadier, narratively. Saving Kate, staying long enough to let the Doctor know it was him, and finally going to join the rest of the Cybermen after finally receiving the long-sought-after salute from the Doctor... "The Earth's darkest hour and mine... where else would you be?" It may not have been the original actor, but there was a *reason* they canonically killed off the character.
@@Blazieth The Brigadier never "sought after" anyone's salute, including The Doctor's. That's revisionist writing to try and create a lazy pseudo-emotional scene as fanbait for the Classic crowd. Having the actor's portrait in the UNIT plane was more than enough and respectful to the character and the actor who played him. Literally "trotting out his corpse" for Tumblr memes was cheap and added nothing to the story.
He was just brilliant always a foil to the doctors pressure of crossing swords with scientific words that the doctor know he would completely missunderstould or say oh doctor please or smunkly say I under stand. The Brigaders daughter is a chip of the old bloke but a little smarter and it is a fiten tribute to her father. She now in charge of Unite and hopefully she players a bigger role for the years to come.
What happened to Doris, the woman Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart married long after he retired from UNIT? Wonder how she would've felt if the Doctor told her that he was reborn as a Cyberman and went out into the universe to explore after he prevented the Doctor from killing the Master who was in female form at the time by doing it personally to save the good Time Lord's soul?
Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart - 1st Doctor, 2nd Doctor, 3rd Doctor, 4th Doctor (was there to witness the 3rd Doctor regenerate into the 4th Doctor), 5th Doctor, 6th doctor and 7th doctor. He wasn't around to meet 8th Doctor, War Doctor, 9th Doctor, 10th doctor or 11th Doctor as he had died just around the time the 11th doctor planned to fake his death in Utah at the hands of River Song. Kate Stewart however has met the most recent ones - Ten, War, Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen. You could say that she might end up meeting Fifteen as well.
Wow how did l not see that before or notice it! This video is great way to put it in perspective? I wonder if 12 Doctor Peter Capaldi incarnation knew already he would meet 1st doctor William Hartnell also knew sorta when he would regenerate or 12th Doctor didn’t know how or why this family he always looked after especially and protected that also helped him countless times thru out his many doctor incarnation faces and regeneration cycles until this very moment that 12th doctor learned why his many faces are so loved and remembered also cherished even honoured lastly how importance of his existence everywhere throughout time and space across all galaxy and planets and world and timelines learning the doctor is always needed but also never forgotten completely entirely wherever he or she is which why he told solider/general/Sargent that 1st doctor William Hartnell will because 12th doctor remembers all times of his faces that he encountered him throughout his life traveling cosmos in space many he help different doctor when he ran into them
Sometimes, the Doctor crossing timestreams with his past selves doesn't go the way he remembered it going back when he was in the younger self's shoes. Time is always being written - sometimes even when you had thought a particular chapter had already been written. But when such events are in conflict, it's usually only the oldest version involved that gets to retain the memories of the newly changed timeline; the younger versions remember what "originally" happened in a given event, and only the oldest will know how things changed. 12, upon encountering 1, explicitly states to himself that he doesn't remember trying not to Regenerate back then; something has already changed right from the start.
It's more or less established that after Timelords cross their own timestream the memory of the younger incarnation fades to an extremely vague recollection at best, at least until they live it from the later perspective.
@@RealRoknRollr3108 It's not as "DEVILISH AND TERRIBLE" as some people make it out to be. What's so bad about the Brig getting one last chance to protect the people he cares about, and finally get that salute in the process?
The Cybermen used nano technology in the rain which turned dead bodies into new Cybermen, as the Brigadier had died and was buried it would stand to reason that he'd be re-animated too.
The lack of the 2nd Doctor in the many reunion specials and special episodes featuring the 1st Doctor is something of a disappointment. The producers (rightfully so) just don't want to put a look alike actor to Patrick Troughton.
God I do hate the Brigadier becoming a cyberman but I do really love Kate. I feel really mixed on how Moffat has treated the family. The cyberman thing really bloody ticks me off but that phone call from the nurse was good Wasn't a fan of Archibald as a character/connection/reference whatever but I did like how Kate was handled in the 50th But the BLOODY! cyber...
I dunno, the Brigadier gets to save his daughter, finally get a salute from the Doctor, and sacrifice himself for humanity one last time? Not a bad way to finish up.
Why though did they have to turn him into a cyberman. Sometimes gets good not to always have happy endings in drama but that was too much for such a beloved character. To think that is how he will live forever more unless killed. Nup, couldn't handle that.
@@willow5844 It is in a video called "Downtime" from 1995 (I had it!). It starred Nicholas Courtney, Elizabeth Sladen, Deborah Watling, Jack Watling, Geoffrey Beavers and John Leeson from Doctor Who with all but Leeson and Beavers playing their original characters. Beverly Cressman would play Kate Leithbridge-Stewart again in the next story, 2004's "Deamos Rising"! 🤔
The 2018 online short story "The Note" that depicts Archibald as Alistair's grandfather after an affair with his brother's wife was published by a company that has strange limited rights to produce Doctor Who material so I wouldn't consider it canon.
@@BeetoBeeto Well Missy threw her out of a plane from 30,000ft in the air, so when her dad caught her, she was a little out of it, but was aware of him.
Back when Doctor Who was great before Chris Chibnall decided to ruin the whole show now Doctor Who sucks. The only hope the show has now is Russell t Davis can't wait to see what he does with the show. He'll definitely save it and make it fantastic again.
@@johnnybanks5321 and never will. Believe it or not, each showrunner puts in their own style. Nothing is ruined. Only different. Chibnall didn't ruin it. Nobody had. Or everyone since the first showrunner who took over for Verity Lambert had. And they hadn't.
Yes it was a real shame when they decided to write in a totally different way for Jodie and the show. By the end of the first season they started to reverse it but even with that Dalek introduction they wrote it in a way insulting to fans and memories of the show. As the show progressed and died due to the poor writing, they tried to change but it was too late. Chris Chinbnall decided HE knew better than ALL the prior writers and directors and editors of the show, and he drove it into the ground. And the shame is Jodie is a good actor (or actress depending on how you lean). But I think she was picked as she would buy into the bad writing so she willingly participated in slicing the shows neck.
