Doctor Who Flux: 14 Best Easter Eggs You Might've Missed

4. The Brigadier's Cameo

Doctor Who the Brigadier
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Another "best easter egg in the entire series" is this one from Survivors Of The Flux, with legendary Doctor Who companion Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart bagging himself a cameo 32 years after his last proper appearance in the show.

If you rustled a crisp packet or shuffled on your couch while Prentis and Farquhar walked down the stairs at UNIT HQ, you might've missed the Brig's line "Lethbridge-Stewart here, I want a call to the RAF please", which comes from a room offscreen.

Brilliantly, this line is lifted directly from the 1971 serial Terror Of The Autons, meaning that Nicholas Courtney sort-of "reprised" the role.

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