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Benton was part of a team who investigated the [[Glasshouse]]. He had discovered that someone had kidnapped [[Barbara Redworth]], a police officer who had seen [[Silurian]]s, while murdering everyone else on the floor. He led UNIT troops in successfully fighting off a [[Silurian]] invasion fleet on the [[Kent]] coast. He detonated a bag full of flares at an invading [[Myrka]], killing it. He turned down a promotion to Captain because he preferred being a soldier to an officer. The promotion instead went to [[Mike Yates]], who became the Number Two to UNIT's British commanding officer [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scales of Injustice (novel)|The Scales of Injustice]]'') | Benton was part of a team who investigated the [[Glasshouse]]. He had discovered that someone had kidnapped [[Barbara Redworth]], a police officer who had seen [[Silurian]]s, while murdering everyone else on the floor. He led UNIT troops in successfully fighting off a [[Silurian]] invasion fleet on the [[Kent]] coast. He detonated a bag full of flares at an invading [[Myrka]], killing it. He turned down a promotion to Captain because he preferred being a soldier to an officer. The promotion instead went to [[Mike Yates]], who became the Number Two to UNIT's British commanding officer [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scales of Injustice (novel)|The Scales of Injustice]]'') | ||
While Benton tried keeping surveillance on Captain [[Chin Lee]], Chin Lee used the [[Keller Machine]] to psychically incapacitate Benton, allowing Chin Lee to escape. He later helped Yates escort the [[Thunderbolt]] missile to be dumped at the bottom of the ocean. Benton was was wounded when the convoy was attacked by escaped prisoners from [[Stangmoor Prison]] who stole the Thunderbolt. After recovering, he helped take Stangmoor Prison back from the Master and the prison's prisoners. Benton then became the prison's acting governor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'') | |||
He was preparing for a dancing date with his sister when a crisis with [[Azal]] interrupted his plans. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons]]'') | |||
Benton was a down-to-earth British infantryman and non-commissioned officer — reliable, uncomplicated and with a good dose of common sense. When the [[Third Doctor]] asked him if he was going to comment that [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] was [[dimensionally transcendental|bigger on the inside than on the outside]] as everyone did, Benton's classic reply was, "Well, It's pretty obvious, isn't it?" It was also on this occasion that Benton travelled for the first and only time in the TARDIS — namely, the short hop from UNIT H.Q. to [[Omega]]'s palace. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors]]'') Despite not understanding what the Doctor was doing or any of his explanations, Benton always took the Doctor at his word and trusted him implicitly. He was loyal, not just to the rank, but also to the people he worked with, and was willing to disobey orders in order to help them. During one incident, he allowed himself to be rendered unconscious when the Doctor was framed so as allow him to escape, and later subdued Mike Yates and [[Finch (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)|General Finch]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'') | Benton was a down-to-earth British infantryman and non-commissioned officer — reliable, uncomplicated and with a good dose of common sense. When the [[Third Doctor]] asked him if he was going to comment that [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] was [[dimensionally transcendental|bigger on the inside than on the outside]] as everyone did, Benton's classic reply was, "Well, It's pretty obvious, isn't it?" It was also on this occasion that Benton travelled for the first and only time in the TARDIS — namely, the short hop from UNIT H.Q. to [[Omega]]'s palace. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors]]'') Despite not understanding what the Doctor was doing or any of his explanations, Benton always took the Doctor at his word and trusted him implicitly. He was loyal, not just to the rank, but also to the people he worked with, and was willing to disobey orders in order to help them. During one incident, he allowed himself to be rendered unconscious when the Doctor was framed so as allow him to escape, and later subdued Mike Yates and [[Finch (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)|General Finch]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'') | ||
[[File:Baby Benton.jpg|thumb|left|Benton, after being regressed to a baby. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'')]] | [[File:Baby Benton.jpg|thumb|left|Benton, after being regressed to a baby. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'')]] | ||
