Captain James Munro was a member of the Regular Army who was seconded to UNIT - coinciding with its investigation into the mysterious meteorite falls in the Oxley Woods district of Essex.
Suspicions were raised when two showers fell in the same area only six months apart, and Munro was placed in charge of the troops tasked with searching for their remains.
The second incident saw the arrival of a battered blue Police Call Box in the woods, along with a comatose man, who was taken to the local cottage hospital. When Munro reported this to the Brigadier he immediately realised that this must be the Doctor.
The Captain had to deal with the attempted abduction of the Doctor - and his subsequent shooting by one of his own men - and the finding then loss of one of the objects which had fallen to earth.
When an intact Nestene sphere was located, the alien entity exploited Munro's temporary secondment - the Auton replica of General Scobie threatening court martial if he did not hand the sphere over to him.
Played by: John Breslin. Appearances: Spearhead from Space (1970).
- Munro was the second of the one-off Captains who served under the Brigadier, before the arrival of Mike Yates. He and his predecessor, Capt. Turner, had the same forename - leading some to refer to these officers as the Brigadier's "Jimmies".
- Glaswegian Breslin, who died in 2009 aged 80, studied piano under Frederic Lamond, who had personally been taught by Liszt and Wagner.
- One of his acting roles was as voice artist, dubbing Steve Reeves' sword & sandal epics.
- He appeared in nearly 100 episodes of 1960's footballing soap United!, which was devised by Brian Hayles and script edited by Gerry Davis.
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