Talk:Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

message: I changed his rank in The Web of Fear from colonel to lieutenant colonel for these reasons:
* You can't be a (full) colonel in the Scots Guards, or in any other regiment; the highest regimental rank is lieutenant colonel. Past that rank, the officer is deemed to have left his parent regiment and joined the staff. (You can be  colonel of a regiment, but that is an appointment rather than a rank, and usually held by a general (often retired), or, in the case of  Guards regiments, by a member of the Royal Family: the current Colonel Scots Guards is Field Marshal HRH The Duke of Kent. The role includes presiding over regimental events, sounding out potential new officers, and pursuing the interests of the regiment in the corridors of power: it does not extend to chasing Yeti round the London Underground.)
* Having officially left his regiment, the full colonel no longer wears its distinctive insignia; e.g. its headgear is replaced with a cap bearing the badge of the Staff College, Camberley (see the main picture of the Brig in the article). The BBC have a photo-novel of this story, made from screen-shots of the original series; in them, L-S is quite clearly wearing regimental headgear, with what could be the Scots Guards' cap badge on it (see here for an illustration).
* The  rank insignia of a full colonel is two "pips" and a crown; that of a lieutenant colonel, one pip and a crown. L-S's insignia is hard to make out in the photo-novel, but he appears to be wearing a total of two indistinct blobs on his shoulder tabs, rather than three.
* There is no contradiction with the story's dialogue. In speech, the rank's full form is rarely used as a title: Lieutenant Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart would almost always be addressed as and referred to as Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart.
About four years (from L-S's POV) pass between this story and The Invasion, allowing enough time for his promotion first to full colonel and then to brigadier —assuming he isn't promoted straight to brigadier from lieutenant colonel, which I understand does, or did, sometimes happen. — Franey 10:08, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rank in ''The Web of Fear'' 

message: I recall there was one episode where one of the more recent doctors (number 7 or 8) goes back to Earth in the early 1960s and meets up with someone who is supposed to Be Brig L-S but at a much earlier rank and age.  The Dcotor is calling the character "Brigadier", and the character angerily asserts he is only a Lieutenant (or maybe a Captain).  Anyone remember the episode? -Husnock 14:00, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You're thinking of Remembrance of the Daleks, but it wasn't Lethbridge-Stewart, but a character named Group Captain Gilmore. ---khaosworks (talk • contribs) 14:19, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Who does get to meet the Brigadier in the prologue to the novelisation of Downtime, trivia fans. Terrible, terrible book, mind. Angmering 18:38, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Lieutenant L-S

message: Is the Brig established as Scottish in the TV series, or is this something from recent spin-offs such as The Island of Death and The Ghosts of N-Space? Tim! 12:00, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: He wears his clan kilt in Terror of the Zygons. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 12:59, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scottish 

message: I've finally finished the list of appearances, which is more difficult for the Brig and other UNIT characters than for common-or-garden companions.  It's possible, if not likely, that I've missed some — I'd appreciate it if others could check to see if there are any glaring omissions or errors.  Thanks. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 04:49, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appearances 

message: The hyphenation of the name on the photo caption appears not to agree with the hyphenation elsewhere. Lethbridge-Stewart is the hyphenated surname, is it not? [Unsigned post by IP 62.252.224.17 on 19 May 2005]
:From recollection the series credits are inconsistent on this and as most Who writings just have "the Brigadier" it's not received the level of attention that some uncertainties get. Does anyone have access to a clear source one way or the other as to which form is either correct or the majority usage on the credits? Timrollpickering 13:14, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure which is used more often in the credits, but for what it's worth the BBC's website uses "Lethbridge-Stewart".  My instinct is that that's the most common form. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 14:37, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hyphenation or not 

message: Shouldn't the voice-over Courtney recorded for Richard Franklin's stage play, Re-Call UNIT--The Great Tea Bag Mystery (or whatever; I did this off the top of my head, since it's not going into the article) be mentioned here somewhere? And BTW, Colin Baker wrote a short-short story for Doctor Who Magazine Special [subtitled UNIT Exposed], Winter 1991, in which the Sixth Dr. and the Brig. cross paths, although neither realizes it. Want me to get my copy and add the specifics? Ted Watson 22:35, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: UPDATE: Getting close to two years on this one. Surely somebody here feels one way or the other on this. --Tbrittreid (talk) 20:55, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-Call UNIT 

message: Since it's always useful to have reliable sources which are independent of the subject, this Radio Times interview might have some content which could be added to the article. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 01:46, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nicholas Courtney interview 

message: Concerning the Brig's forthcoming in appearance in Sarah Jane Adventures, the link given as source doesn't work anymore because the article got moved to the archives. There's no direct link I can find, but this one at least gets you to the month, and you can find the article if you scroll down a bit:
http://www.gallifreyone.com/news-archives.php?id=7-2008
I don't know what protocol is for updating this kind of change tho'. If there even is one. ^_^
Solarbird (talk) 18:18, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  New appearance in Sarah Jane Adventures 

message: An (anonymous IP) editor just added a story, "The Hornet's Nest" to the audio section, under BBC radio rather than Big Finish commercial market recordings as I would have expected. I freely admit that I haven't heard of this one, it is not mentioned in the text, and it's link shows red, i.e., no article. Does it actually belong in the BBC radio list or in BF? --Ted Watson (talk) 21:27, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: UPDATE for the record here: Editor Cumbersnatch has now completely removed that title. I'll assume that he (or she) knows what "he" is doing. After all, Amazon.com has no such title as a Dr. Who-related audio (I should have checked that before launching this thread!). --Tbrittreid (talk) 18:44, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: UPDATE 2: This has a Wiki-article now, Hornet's Nest (Doctor Who). It says this was produced by BBC Audiobooks and apparently released one CD at a time. No mention of the Brig among its characters (Tom Baker returns as Doctor #4 and Richard Franklin as Yates), so for the record, I guess this is settled. --Tbrittreid (talk) 20:55, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Hornet's Nest 

message: The Brigadier is mentioned by the Doctor and Jo Grant in Frontier in Space and by Harry Sullivan in The Ark in Space. --124.176.87.222 (talk) 11:28, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further mentions 

message: I was suprised this wasn't already on this talk page. I was wondering whether the Brig was, by Wikipedia standards, classed as a companion. I don't think he's been offciailly classed as one, but he hasn't been not classed as one. One arguement is he never travelled in the TARDIS (with the exception of a few instances, the Three Doctors being one), but now, with the new series, we have to consider the fact that many 'companions' also have not traveled in the TARDIS (mainly, if not exclusivly, specials companions). Personally I think he is. At the very least I think he deserves a place on the Companion Navbox. Opinions, guys?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Imagine Wizard (talk • contribs) 19:47, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I myself believe him to be a companion, but until we can find some sources, I don't think we can really add it into the article. Harry Blue5 (talk) 21:05, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't the BBC Classic Series page list him as one?~ZytheTalk to me! 14:25, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Some sources list him and some don't. Interviews with Letts and Dicks imply that he's a supporting character for the, then, new earthbound format they inherited from the previous production team. DonQuixote (talk) 17:08, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Companion? 

message: Am I the only one to notice Kate Stewart links to Vanessa Redgrave and not Jemma Redgrave on the main Article page??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jemma_Redgrave
Timelord2067 (talk) 06:48, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jemma Redgrave, not Vanessa Redgrave 

message: Inspired by this post on the UNIT Uniforms blog. Pages about Dad's Army characters often have a small section about their gallantry awards. Could we have one for Sir Alistair? Robin S. Taylor (talk) 00:22, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: See MOS:WAF DonQuixote (talk) 00:26, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Honours and Medals