A former member of the British Army, Sergeant Paterson joined the Territorial Army and also ran a number of community activities in the Perivale area of West London. These included keep fit for older people, and self-defence for young men. He was also active in the local Neighbourhood Watch scheme. The Doctor and Ace met him at Perivale Youth Centre during one of his self-defence classes. He knew Ace from before she was sent to Iceworld, and he berated her for failing to keep in touch with her mother.
Later, when the Doctor was seen to be acting suspiciously in the street, Paterson followed him in his Neighbourhood Watch role. The Doctor was about to catch a Kitling - an alien feline - and both were transported to the planet of the Cheetah People.
Whilst the Doctor tried to get him and other victims - young friends of Ace - to band together, Paterson was shown to be cowardly and bullying - picking on what he thought to be the weakest member of the group.
Transported back to Perivale, he showed no gratitude for the Doctor's help, instead dismissing the whole experience as an hallucination. On arriving back at the Youth Centre, he was confronted by the Master and a young man named Midge, who had fallen under his spell after beginning to transform into a Cheetah person. They now controlled the class, and manipulated them into killing Paterson.
Played by: Julian Holloway. Appearances: Survival (1989)
- Paterson was originally scripted to be a Police Officer, but the production team felt it would be wrong to show a policeman as a cowardly bully.
- Holloway was the son of noted British comic actor Stanley Holloway - best known for movies such as My Fair Lady and The Lavender Hill Mob.
- His own roles included 8 of the Carry On... movies. He also featured in the Beatles movie A Hard Day's Night, and he dubbed Horst Janson in the Hammer film Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter.
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