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Charles Gordon was the manager of Gatwick Airport.
Some of those who worked under him derogatorily referred to him as "the Commandant" and privately felt that he "was better suited to a career in the Gestapo." (PROSE: The Faceless Ones [+]Loading...["The Faceless Ones (novelisation)"])
He initially disbelieved the Second Doctor's claims of murder and kidnapping occurring at the airport but was later convinced when the Doctor showed him a piece of alien technology. He then assisted the Doctor's investigations into Chameleon Tours. (TV: The Faceless Ones [+]Loading...["The Faceless Ones (TV story)"])
In July 1967, one year later, a phone call made by Claire Billing to Gatwick looking for her son Gerry was escalated all the way up to Gordon. Gerry had a psychic link with the Doctor's TARDIS that caused him to dream of the Doctor's adventures. As the Doctor's encounter with the Chameleons had occurred in his timeline one year after (PROSE: Imaginary Friends [+]Loading...["Imaginary Friends (novel)"]) his encounter with the War Machines on the same date, (TV: The War Machines [+]Loading...["The War Machines (TV story)"], The Faceless Ones [+]Loading...["The Faceless Ones (TV story)"]) Gerry's visions of the Chameleon encounter came to him the same amount of time later. Gerry had persuaded Claire to take him to Gatwick later in the day as he wanted to meet the Doctor, but disappeared after being taken captive by Mark Forester and Kenneth Williams, as Gerry's visions of the Doctor's adventures had made him a witness to crimes Forester had committed.
Gordon assumed Claire was a "sensation seeker" who had somehow picked up bits of gossip from the incident, and dismissed her call. Gerry was found after setting his teddy bear Doctor Bear off on a balloon with a note for help, and Forester and Williams were arrested.
Years later, Gordon told the Third Doctor about the telephone call at UNIT HQ. The Doctor realized that the call was not what Gordon had assumed it was, and tracked down Claire and Gerry, arranging to meet them in 1968 at the future UNIT headquarters, in the very room where Gordon had told him about the call, and explained the story. He was able to break Gerry's connection to the TARDIS after realizing what had happened. At that time, the Doctor described the Commandant as an "old friend". (PROSE: Imaginary Friends [+]Loading...["Imaginary Friends (novel)"])