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'''Land Rovers''' were a particular type of [[Car|motor vehicle]] used by many [[human]]s. [[UNIT]] used them in many operations as one of their main means of travel. | '''Land Rovers''' were a particular type of [[Car|motor vehicle]] used by many [[human]]s. [[UNIT]] used them in many operations as one of their main means of travel. | ||
The [[Second Doctor]] was the first seen to drive a Land Rover. He left the rest of the [[UNIT - list of appearances|UNIT]] team for a separate task on information retrieval against the cybermen. ([[The Invasion (TV story)|TV:'' The Invasion'']]) | |||
[[File:UNIT Land Rover Downtime.jpg|thumb|A UNIT Land Rover arrives at [[New World University]] in [[1995]]. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Downtime]]'')]] | [[File:UNIT Land Rover Downtime.jpg|thumb|A UNIT Land Rover arrives at [[New World University]] in [[1995]]. ([[HOMEVID]]: ''[[Downtime]]'')]] | ||
Revision as of 23:40, 7 July 2014
Land Rovers were a particular type of motor vehicle used by many humans. UNIT used them in many operations as one of their main means of travel.
The Second Doctor was the first seen to drive a Land Rover. He left the rest of the UNIT team for a separate task on information retrieval against the cybermen. (TV: The Invasion)
The Third Doctor overtook a Land Rover driven by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart using Bessie's Super Drive after he had discounted how reliable the Doctor's roadster could be. (TV: The Time Monster)
The Fourth Doctor used a Land Rover from UNIT to track a Skarasen in Scotland, but the vehicle ran out of fuel on Tulloch Moor. (TV: Terror of the Zygons)
The Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, Professor Watson and a few security guards got aboard a Land Rover to get away from the Nunton Experimental Complex before the RAF bombing raid to destroy the hand of Eldrad and the complex. They all crouched behind the vehicle — except the Doctor, who remained standing in the back — to protect themselves from blinding flashes, but there was no explosion. (TV: The Hand of Fear)
Warrant Officer John Benton and his driver, Private Willis of the Regular Army, used a Land Rover to transport a shipment of radioactive material to UNIT H.Q. through the wooded countryside of Bolton. (HOMEVID: Wartime)
Sarah Jane Smith had a Land Rover in 1996. (PROSE: Interference - Book One)
On Earth in 2009 the Tenth Doctor, whilst assisting UNIT into their investigations into ATMOS, was driven around in a Land Rover. This vehicle, like all government vehicles at the time, had ATMOS installed. (TV: The Poison Sky)
