Nicholas Courtney Archives

Downtime was an "unofficial" spinoff sequel to Doctor Who, featuring the Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney) with Sarah Jane Smith (Elizabeth Sladen) and former companion to the Second Doctor Victoria Waterfield (Deborah Watling), dealing with old enemy The Great Intelligence when the Doctor wasn't around to help out The script was by Marc Platt, who wrote "Ghost[...]

Nicholas Courtney also appears as The Brigadier for the last time on the show. Doctor Who "Battlefield": A Flawed Production Unfortunately, the production was also a mess It's not very well-directed, and moments that should have felt epic just looked like a LARPing weekend in the country The script called for knights in futuristic armor, but the[...]

Season 26 featured four epic adventures traversing a future Britain invaded by inter-dimensional knights, a strange Victorian house haunted by ghosts from Ace's past, an alien world populated by Cheetah People and a 1940s army camp under siege from monstrous vampires. With guest stars including Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart), Anthony Ainley (The Master), Jean Marsh, Nicholas[...]

The two arcs are almost complete, although the third episode of Web Of Fear is still missing and has been reconstructed using set stills and an audio track. The Web Of Fear is the second Doctor Who story with The Great Intelligence on the opposing team, and the first to feature Nicholas Courtney as Colonel (later[...]