Sunday 2 September 2018

F is for... Finch, General


General Finch was the regular army officer placed in command of military forces in London when prehistoric dinosaurs began to appear across the city. UNIT forces remained in the city during the crisis, but the Brigadier was answerable to Finch. The General was secretly part of the organisation responsible for the dinosaur appearances. This was known as Operation Golden Age, led by Sir Charles Grover, the government minister who had elected to stay in London after evacuation. A scientist named Whitaker was bringing the creatures into the 20th Century in order to clear the city so that they could work unimpeded. The group planned to roll back time to a supposed golden age, before industrialisation, and had tricked a number of people into thinking that they were travelling through space to a new planet. Sarah Jane Smith discovered their base, built in a cold war bunker beneath the city, but made the mistake of telling Finch. He agreed to go with her to see the bunker, but he then took her prisoner. He next arranged for the Doctor to be blamed for the dinosaur appearances. Once the Doctor had been captured, the Brigadier insisted that he be held by UNIT. The Doctor was able to convince him that Finch was a traitor. Sergeant Benton knocked the General out, and he was placed under arrest.

Played by: John Bennett. Appearances: Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974).
  • Bennett returned to the series in 1977, when he played Li H'sen Chang in The Talons of Weng-Chiang. In 1970, Bennett played the police officer investigating the disappearance of a horror actor portrayed by Jon Pertwee, in portmanteau horror film The House That Dripped Blood.

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