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Dr. Herbert "Harry" Stack Sullivan ( February 21, 1892, Norwich New York – January 14, 1949, Paris, France Harry Sullivan
Affiliated with Fourth Doctor
UNIT
Race Human
Home planet Earth
Home era 20th century
First appearance Robot
Last appearance The Android Invasion
Portrayed by Ian Marter

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Contents

Character history

Harry is a doctor in the Royal Navy, who is attached as medical officer to the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, the military organisation to which the Doctor acts as scientific advisor. A physician, medical practitioner or medical doctor who practices Medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human Health The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service) UNIT ( U nited N ations I ntelligence T askforce later the UN ified I ntelligence T askforce is a fictional military The Doctor is the central character in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, and also features in He is first mentioned (though not seen) in Planet of the Spiders, when the Brigadier thinks the Third Doctor has gone into a coma. Planet of the Spiders is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast The Brigadier calls "Doctor Sullivan" and asks him to come to the Doctor's laboratory, but tells him not to bother when Sergeant Benton wakes the Doctor by offering him a cup of coffee. Sergeant Benton is a Fictional character in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, played by John Levene In the next serial, Robot, after the Doctor's third regeneration, Sullivan is called in to attend him, and ends up travelling aboard the TARDIS with the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith (played by Elisabeth Sladen) for several subsequent adventures. Robot is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly The Doctor is the central character in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who, and also features in The TARDIS ( T ime A nd R elative D imension(s I n S pace is a time machine and Spacecraft in the The Fourth Doctor is the name given to the fourth incarnation of the Fictional character known as the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running Sarah Jane Smith is a Fictional character played by Elisabeth Sladen in the long-running British BBC Television science fiction series Elisabeth Sladen (born 1 February 1948, Liverpool) is an English actress best known for her role as Sarah Jane Smith in the British

Harry is rather old-fashioned and stereotypically English in his attitudes. He often employs slightly archaic language — for example, referring to Sarah affectionately as "old thing". He is nonetheless depicted as possessing great bravery and a "can-do" attitude, adapting well to the many strange situations in which he finds himself. He can, however, also be quite clumsy and unsubtle, leading the Doctor to once declare, in a moment of frustration, that "Harry Sullivan is an imbecile!" Nonetheless he is well-liked by the Doctor and Sarah, and has a slightly flirtatious relationship with the latter.

The character was originally devised by the production team as a means of handling any action scenes required in episodes when they had envisioned that the new Doctor would be played by an older actor (Sarah even jokingly compares Harry to James Bond at one point). James Bond 007 is a Fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve Novels and two Short story When forty year-old Tom Baker was cast, however, this was no longer a concern and the decision was taken to write Harry out — something producer Philip Hinchcliffe later admitted was probably a mistake, as Harry was a likeable and popular character who worked well with both of his fellow leads. Thomas Stewart "Tom" Baker (born 20 January 1934 is an English Actor. Philip Hinchcliffe (born 1944 is a former British Television producer, who is probably best known for the overseeing of British television series Doctor

Harry's last regular appearance is in the season thirteen opener Terror of the Zygons, which had actually been made at the conclusion of the twelfth production block and held over to start the following season. Terror of the Zygons is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast At the conclusion of this story he chooses to return to London by train rather than by TARDIS with the Doctor and Sarah, who continue their adventures without him. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The TARDIS ( T ime A nd R elative D imension(s I n S pace is a time machine and Spacecraft in the He does, however, reappear three stories later in The Android Invasion, both as the original Harry and an android double. The Android Invasion is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast This is the character's final appearance in the programme.

A later production team gave some consideration to bringing Harry Sullivan back for a guest appearance in the 1983 story Mawdryn Undead, part of the programme's twentieth anniversary season. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Mawdryn Undead is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast Their first choice was the character of Ian Chesterton, but those plans fell through due to actor William Russell being unavailable. Ian Chesterton is a Fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and a companion William Russell (born William Russell Enoch on November 19, 1924 in Sunderland, England) is a British Actor, In the end, they decided to use the character of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (played by Nicholas Courtney) instead. Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (sometimes Nicholas Courtney (born William Nicholas Stone Courtney on 16 December 1929) is a British Television Actor, most famous Harry is mentioned in the story, however — the Brigadier tells the Fifth Doctor that he was "seconded to NATO" and was last heard of "doing something 'hush-hush' at Porton Down. The Fifth Doctor is the name given to the fifth incarnation of the Fictional character known as the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running The North Atlantic Treaty Porton Down is a UK government and military Science park. It is situated slightly northeast of Porton near Salisbury in Wiltshire, "

Appearances in other media

After leaving the cast of the programme, Ian Marter went on to pen several novelisations of Doctor Who stories for Target Books, writing an original novel, Harry Sullivan's War, for them in 1985. Target Books was a British Publishing Imprint, established in 1973 by Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd, a paperback publishing company In Harry Sullivan's War, the character has become an MI5 operative (supporting the Brigadier's comment in Mawdryn Undead). Marter was believed to have been planning a sequel at the time of his death from a diabetic coma the following year. Diabetic coma is a Medical emergency in which a person with Diabetes mellitus is Comatose (unconscious because of one of the acute complications

Between 1994 and 2003, the character of Harry appeared in several novels from Virgin Publishing and BBC Books. Virgin Books is a United Kingdom book Publisher 90% owned by the publishing group Random House, and 10% owned by Virgin Enterprises, the company originally Some of these stories are set in gaps between televised adventures featuring the character, but in several books he has been seen either earlier or later in life.

In the Virgin Missing Adventures novel System Shock (1995) and the Past Doctor Adventures novel Millennium Shock (1999), both by Justin Richards, he is seen during the 1990s as a Deputy Director of MI5. The Virgin Missing Adventures (often referred to simply as MA s in fandom were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction System Shock is an original novel written by Justin Richards and based on the long-running British science fiction television series The Past Doctor Adventures (sometimes known by the abbreviation PDA or PDAs were a series of spin-off novels based on the long running BBC Science fiction Millennium Shock is a BBC Books original novel written by Justin Richards and based on the long-running British science fiction television An even later early-21st century Harry has a cameo in the New Adventure Damaged Goods by Russell T. Davies. The 21st century is the current century of the Christian Era or Common Era in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. The Virgin New Adventures ( NA s were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Damaged Goods is an original Doctor Who novel released by Virgin Publishing in their New Adventures range of Doctor Russell T Davies, OBE (born Stephen Russell Davies, 27 April, 1963) is a critically acclaimed British Television producer

The New Adventure Blood Heat (1993) by Jim Mortimore briefly depicts a parallel universe version of Harry serving on a nuclear submarine in a dystopian world ruled by the Silurians, where he manages to save the life of the Seventh Doctor's companion Bernice Summerfield. Blood Heat is an original novel written by Jim Mortimore and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Parallel universe or alternative reality is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with one's own A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος alternatively cacotopia, kakotopia, cackotopia, or anti-utopia) is the vision of a society The name Silurians refers to a fictional race of Reptile -like beings in the long-running British Science fiction television series The Seventh Doctor is a Fictional character, the seventh incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television Bernice Surprise Summerfield (later Professor Bernice Summerfield or just Benny) is a Fictional character originally created by author Paul Cornell

In David A. McIntee's Past Doctor Adventure The Face of the Enemy (1998) Harry is seen still working for the Royal Navy before his secondment to UNIT, which he first encounters in the novel. David A McIntee is a British writer He has written many spin-off novels based on the BBC Science fiction Television series Doctor The Face of the Enemy is a BBC Books original novel written by David A

In the Big Finish Productions audio drama UNIT: The Wasting (2005), Commodore Sullivan (who is working with NATO) is called on by the Brigadier for a favour but does not have a speaking part. Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to Compact disc and

Harry's previously unknown younger stepbrother, Will Sullivan (also a medical doctor), appears in the second series of the Sarah Jane Smith Adventures (2005-2006) audio plays by Big Finish, voiced by Tom Chadbon. Tom Chadbon (born 27 February 1946 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK) is a English Actor, who has Harry is mentioned by both Will and Sarah, but he is apparently on some secret assignment and neither has seen him for a long time. Will is eventually revealed to be a sleeper agent of a religious cult targeting Sarah, and dies during the course of the series.

A photo of Harry can be seen in Sarah Jane Smith's attic in The Sarah Jane Adventures and in "Invasion of the Bane", Sarah thought of naming her newly adopted son after him before deciding on Luke. The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British Science fiction Television series produced by BBC Wales for CBBC, created "Invasion of the Bane" is the first episode of the British Science fiction television series The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Harry is a character in a treatment for a proposed Doctor Who movie, written by Douglas Adams. Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 &ndash 11 May 2001 was an English author comic Radio dramatist The film was never made, but Adams recycled the plot as the third novel in his Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy series. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series

List of appearances

Television

Season 12
Season 13

Novels

The Companions of Doctor Who
Virgin New Adventures
Virgin Missing Adventures
Past Doctor Adventures

Short stories

Comics

External links

Short Trips Seven Deadly Sins is a Big Finish original anthology edited by David Bailey and based on the long-running British science fiction Short Trips A Day in the Life is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Ian Farrington and based on the long-running British science Short Trips Defining Patterns is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Ian Farrington and based on the long-running British science Gary Russell (born 18 September 1963) is a freelance Writer and former Child actor. Martin Geraghty is a Comic book artist who lives and works in the UK. Doctor Who Magazine (abbreviated as DWM) is a Magazine devoted to the long-running British Science fiction television
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