Security Code (feature)

Security Code, known once as UNIT Code, was a sub-feature published in the Doctor Who Weekly UNIT Hotline feature. Doctor Who Weekly issues 26 and 27 featured instructions on how to "join UNIT" by sending in a coupon to a specific address. Those who followed instructions were sent a UNIT ID and a UNIT Codebook. In following issues of UNIT Hotline, starting in issue 29, coded messages would be published marked either Security Code Red or Security Code Green. The Codebook could be used to decipher the message from UNIT HQ.

Decoded Messages[[edit] | [edit source]]

DWM 29[[edit] | [edit source]]

SECURITY CODE RED UNIT'S CALLING SIGNAL IS "TRACK ONE". PLEASE USE THIN SIGN IN ANY CORRESPONDENCE WITH HQ.

SECURITY CODE GREEN IF YOU ENCOUNTER DALEK, ESCAPE BY WEAVING FROM SIDE TO SIDE. THIS MAKES YOU A MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TARGET FOR TEIR RUBY XRAY BLASTERS!

DWM 30[[edit] | [edit source]]

SECURITY CODE RED "KEEP YOUR "KNOW YOUR ENEMY" CARDS IS A SPECIAL, SECRET FOLDER. THEY MUST NOT FALL INTO ESEMY HANDS.

SECURITY CODE GREEN MEMBERS TO REPORT ANY UFO SIGHTINGS TO HQ. WE MUST BE IMMEDIATELY ALERTED TO AN ATTACK PROM THE SKY.

DWM 31[[edit] | [edit source]]

Attention all UNIT Force Fighters! Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart informs us that there was an error in the last week's coded message and that our undercover agents will have to use Security Code Green to decode the Red coded message. Similarly, use Security Code Red to decode the Green coded message. We apologise to all agents for any inconvenience this error may have caused. This is HQ signing off for this week. Over and out.

UNIT CODE GREEN NEVER SURRENDER TO A DALEK. HOWEVER SLIM YOUR CHANCE OF ESCAPE, TAKE IT. ONCE UNDER THE POWER OF THE DALEKS YOU ONLY HAVE TWO CHOICES: DEATH OR ROBOTIZATION!

DWM 32[[edit] | [edit source]]

SECURITY CODE GREEN NEVER TRUST A ROBOT WITH YOUR LIFE. HARMLESS SERVANTS CAN BE PROGRAMMED TO KILL THE HUMAN COLONISTS ON KALDOR FOUND OUT TOO LATE!

SECURITY CODE RED WE HAVE STARTED TO RECEIVE SOME CHILLING UFO REPORTS FROM UNIT MEMBERS. THE THREAT FROM THE STARS IS GREATER THAN WE SUSPECTED... HQ URGES ALL MEMBERS TO REPORT ANY UFO SIGHTINGS.

DWM 41[[edit] | [edit source]]

SECURITY CODE GREEN BE ON THE ALERT AGAINST AUTON INVASION. REPORT A SUDDEN, SUSPICIOUS APPEARANCE OF ANY LARGE, SUCCESSFUL PLASTICS COMPANIES IN YOUR SECTOR. FURTHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND ON PAGE TWENTY FIVE.

SECURITY CODE RED to be added

DWM 350[[edit] | [edit source]]

SECURITY CODE GREEN BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART AND ALL AT UNIT HQ WISH DWM MANY HAPPY RETURNS! CAPTAIN YATES HAS BAKED A CAKE, AND CORPORAL BELL HAS HAD ONE TOO MANY SHERRIES!

SECURITY CODE RED THE WATCHER WRITES: READERS WITH LONG NOSES AND SHORT SKIRTS WILL KNOW THAT I'VE WRITTEN SOME DRIVEL IN MY TIME, BUT THIS TAKES THE BISCUIT. THEN AGAIN WHICH IS SADDER - ME WRITING THIS RUBBISH, OR YOU ACTUALLY BOTHERING TO DERCIPHER IT? ON SECOND THOUGHTS, DON'T ANSWER THAT.