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Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, CMG, CBE, DSO, generally and affectionally referred to simply as the Brigadier, is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, created by writers Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln and played by Nicholas Courtney. He is one of the founders of UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, later Unified Intelligence Taskforce), an international organization that defends Earth from alien threats, and serves as commander of the British contingent. Presented at first as reticent 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 Who, first appearing in the 1968 serial The Web of Fear opposite Patrick Troughton. The character became a semi-regular on the series with the introduction of third Doctor Jon Pertwee in 1970's Spearhead from Space. His final appearance in the program was in 1989's Battlefield opposite Sylvester McCoy. Nearly 20 years later, the character returned in the spin-off programme The Sarah Jane Adventures in late 2008. Following Courtney's death in 2011, however, the character was retired through a line of dialogue in the Doctor Who episode "The Wedding of River Song" as the Doctor is informed by telephone that his friend had died peacefully in his sleep. The 2012 episode "The Power of Three" officially introduces the Brigadier's daughter, Kate Stewart, as UNIT's scientific adviser; she was originally introduced in the unlicensed video spin-off Downtime in 1995, in which the Brigadier also appeared, and later played the same role in the fiftieth anniversary episode "The Day of the Doctor" and the eighth series finale "Death in Heaven", in which a Cyberman avatar of the Brigadier appears and achieves some closure with the Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi."@en }

• Brigadier_Lethbridge-Stewart abstract "Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, CMG, CBE, DSO, generally and affectionally referred to simply as the Brigadier, is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, created by writers Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln and played by Nicholas Courtney. He is one of the founders of UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, later Unified Intelligence Taskforce), an international organization that defends Earth from alien threats, and serves as commander of the British contingent. Presented at first as reticent 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 Who, first appearing in the 1968 serial The Web of Fear opposite Patrick Troughton. The character became a semi-regular on the series with the introduction of third Doctor Jon Pertwee in 1970's Spearhead from Space. His final appearance in the program was in 1989's Battlefield opposite Sylvester McCoy. Nearly 20 years later, the character returned in the spin-off programme The Sarah Jane Adventures in late 2008. Following Courtney's death in 2011, however, the character was retired through a line of dialogue in the Doctor Who episode "The Wedding of River Song" as the Doctor is informed by telephone that his friend had died peacefully in his sleep. The 2012 episode "The Power of Three" officially introduces the Brigadier's daughter, Kate Stewart, as UNIT's scientific adviser; she was originally introduced in the unlicensed video spin-off Downtime in 1995, in which the Brigadier also appeared, and later played the same role in the fiftieth anniversary episode "The Day of the Doctor" and the eighth series finale "Death in Heaven", in which a Cyberman avatar of the Brigadier appears and achieves some closure with the Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi.".