Doctor Who: 10 Things You Didn't Know About UNIT

There's a tendency in Doctor Who to depict UNIT as purely defending British interests. We only ever really see them in the UK, and as such, you could be forgiven for forgetting that the organisation actually has a massive global reach.

During the 1970s, the Brigadier was never off the phone to Geneva, while the modern UNIT in Battlefield has officers from multiple European nations.

UNIT also has multiple international bases that have been mentioned over the years on TV, and in expanded media. Audio dramas, comic-strips, and novels have revealed that there are UNIT bases in Russia, Germany, France, Japan, Singapore, and Morocco.

On TV, The Stolen Earth revealed UNIT's New York base, where Martha Jones worked on Project Indigo. When the Daleks laid waste to the base, Martha appeared to be the only survivor of the devastation, thanks to her teleportation device. By the time of The Return of Doctor Mysterio, New York's UNIT base appears to have reopened, before being infiltrated by Harmony Shoal.

Elsewhere, Torchwood: Children of Earth revealed that UNIT had also established a base of operations in Washington DC.

Now that Doctor Who is a global co-production with Disney, it's a safe bet that we can expect to see much more of UNIT's American bases in the years to come.