Sir Charles Grover was a member of the British government who championed ecological issues. When London had to be evacuated after a spate of dinosaur manifestations, the government relocated to Harrogate in Yorkshire, but Grover elected to stay behind in the capital to liaise with the army and UNIT. The Doctor was introduced to him when he visited UNIT's temporary HQ and expressed his admiration for his views, having read one of his books on environmental concerns.
However, Grover was really the mastermind behind the dinosaur appearances, which were designed to empty the city so that a more ambitious scheme could be carried out. Grover was working with a scientist named Whitaker, who had perfected a time machine. Both were in league with the corrupt military commander General Finch, and with Captain Mike Yates of UNIT. Their scheme - Operation Golden Age - was intended to roll back time, taking the Earth back to a pre-industrial era before pollution. A group of like-minded people had been duped into thinking that they were going to be travelling to an alien planet to start a new life. They were really being held in a mock spaceship built beneath the streets of London, and when they emerged it would onto pre-industrial Earth rather than another world.
The Doctor was able to put a stop to the scheme, but Grover and Whitaker were transported back in time along with their device. At what point in history they ended up was never stated, but it may have been the time of the dinosaurs, if the machine was still fixed on that era.
Played by: Noel Johnson. Appearances: Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974).
- Johnson had previously played King Thous of Atlantis in The Underwater Menace. He was famous as the original voice of Dick Barton, Special Agent, on BBC radio between 1946 and 1949.
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