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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 {{Delgado}} and the prison's prisoners. Benton then became the prison's acting governor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'') | 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 {{Delgado}} 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 | When the Doctor was recovering from being frozen at the [[Devil's Hump]], the Doctor's assistant [[Jo Grant]] asked Benton and Yates to come to [[Devil's End]]. They came in the Brigadier's helicopter at soon as it was light outside. While recceing for tracks, Benton discovered [[Olive Hawthorne]] had been tied up and put in a chest in the village church. He freed Miss Hawthorne, and they hid in the cavern beneath the church. Benton was rendered unconscious by a forcefield in the cavern, and Miss Hawthorne carried him to [[The Cloven Hoof]] pub when the [[Dæmon]] [[Azal]] killed [[Garvin]]. Miss Hawthorne saved Benton from an attacking [[Morris dancing|Morris dancer]] by hitting him over the head with her [[reticule]]. She and Benton helped stop the villagers from burning the Doctor when they tricked them into believing he was a mighty wizard. When the Doctor entered the church to save Jo, Benton and Yates were joined by UNIT reinforcements to get past [[Bok]] to save the Doctor and Jo, but to no effect. Benton fired a bazooka at Bok, but Bok's body immediately reformed. When Azal's powers turned against himself, rendering Bok immobile, the Master ran out of the church. UNIT arrested the Master, and Benton was ordered to take the Master with him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|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]]'') | ||
