John Benton: Difference between revisions

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 as soon as it was light outside. 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 [[handbag]], which contained her [[crystal ball]] (or "reticule", as she referred to it). 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 also worked with the [[Third Doctor]] and his [[Second Doctor|previous incarnation]] whom the [[Time Lord]]s had called in to help against [[Omega]]. Benton was delighted with the reunion. It was during these events that Benton travelled for the first and only time in the TARDIS — namely, the short journey on the [[anti-matter universe]] from the displaced UNIT H.Q. to Omega's palace. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'')  

The displacement of the HQ building turned it into a space-time [[Waypoint]]. As a result, it was involved in a temporal crisis that affected the Doctor's incarnations throughout the timeline. The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] got a premonition that [[Clara Oswald]] would pass by UNIT HQ, and had [[K9 Mark IV]] (newly fitted with a [[vortex manipulator circuit]]) warn Benton about her, telling him not to get in her way. He was still in the lab when [[Jo Grant]] dropped in, looking for the Doctor. While they were both in the lab, the [[vortex energy]] suffusing UNIT HQ caused a [[Cyberman]] from the [[Cyberman invasion of Earth (The Invasion)|earlier invasion]] to reanimate and break out of the [[The Vault (The Scales of Injustice)|UNIT Vault]]. However, Jo was able to kill it with her [[gold]] [[bracelet]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Lost in Time (video game)|Lost in Time]]'')

He was not a fan of [[Woody Allen]]'s films, preferring the ''[[Carry On]]'' line when it came to comedy. He was familiar with ''[[Star Trek]]'' to the point of recalling the "episode where [[Spock]] had a beard" when the [[Third Doctor]] mentioned visiting a [[Inferno Earth|parallel universe]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'')