UNIT: The Coup

The Coup

Big Finish Productions audio drama
Series	UNIT
Release no.	Prologue
Written by	Simon Guerrier
Directed by	Ian Farrington
Produced by	Ian Farrington Jason Haigh-Ellery
Length	35 minutes

UNIT: The Coup is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It stars Nicholas Courtney reprising his role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, the former commander of UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce). The Coup was given away free with Doctor Who Magazine #351 as a prologue to a four-part mini-series. The Coup occupies the first thirteen tracks on the CD, the fourteenth to twenty-first being occupied by Silver Lining, and the twenty-second to thirty-third occupied by promotions for various Big Finish Productions Doctor Who and Bernice Summerfield audio plays.

From September 2008, Big Finish re-released the play as a free download.^[1]

Plot

As London faces the return of the Silurians, the UK branch of UNIT is preparing to shut down.

UNIT previously dealt with the Silurians in the TV story The Silurians.
This is the first story to state that the Brigadier has been knighted. This is later seen to be the case in the new TV series episode "The Poison Sky" and the Sarah Jane Adventures story Enemy of the Bane.

UNIT audio plays

UNIT	The Coup Time Heals Snake Head The Longest Night The Wasting

Doctor Who	The Paradise of Death The Ghosts of N-Space The Spectre of Lanyon Moor The Fires of Vulcan Death Comes to Time The Blue Tooth Old Soldiers The Doll of Death The Magician's Oath Shadow of the Past Find and Replace A Death in the Family Animal Tales from the Vault The Many Deaths of Jo Grant Serpent Crest The Valley of Death Binary Trail of the White Worm / The Oseidon Adventure The Rings of Ikiria UNIT: Dominion

Torchwood	Lost Souls Submission

Unbound	Sympathy for the Devil

Doctor Who: Silurian stories

Television episodes	Doctor Who and the Silurians The Sea Devils Warriors of the Deep "The Hungry Earth" / "Cold Blood"

Madame Vastra	"A Good Man Goes to War" "The Snowmen" "The Crimson Horror" "The Name of the Doctor" "Deep Breath"

Minor appearances	Frontier in Space "The Pandorica Opens" "The God Complex" "The Wedding of River Song" "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" "Face the Raven"

Novels	The Scales of Injustice Blood Heat Happy Endings Eternity Weeps Silhouette

Video Games	Destiny of the Doctors Evacuation Earth The Eternity Clock The Mazes of Time

Audio Dramas	Bloodtide The Poison Seas

See also	"The Monsters Are Coming"

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