"Hobby" to his friends, Jack Hobson was the British commander of the multi-national scientific team which ran the Gravitron programme from a base on the Moon in the year 2070. He was a blunt, straight-talking Yorkshireman, who didn't suffer fools gladly. The Gravitron was designed to control the weather on Earth by manipulating pressure fronts. When the Doctor and his companions arrived on the Moon, drawn off course by the machine, they found the base in a state of crisis. Crew members were being struck down by a mysterious illness - their medical officer Dr Evans one of the first to succumb. A series of faults were also plaguing the Gravitron, and the dome was suffering a number of minor pressure falls.
Whilst Jamie recuperated from an accident in the medical bay, Hobson asked the Doctor to investigate the illness, whilst he and his crew fought to bring the Gravitron back under control. The situation deteriorated when sick crewmen started to go missing from the medical bay. Polly claimed that she had seen a Cyberman, but Hobson refused to believe her. He threatened to throw the Doctor and his companions off the Moon if they didn't come up with an answer to the illness. It proved to be of alien manufacture - a virus which attacked the nervous system, created by the Cybermen. They had broken into the base to poison the sugar supply. The sick men were then taken to one of their spaceships to be mentally conditioned to operate the Gravitron for the Cybermen - to be used to destroy the surface of the Earth. Hobson helped the Doctor to align the Gravitron along the surface of the Moon, so that it could send the Cybermen and their ships hurtling into space.
Played by: Patrick Barr. Appearances: The Moonbase (1967).
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