Doctor Who’s New UNIT Character Future Confirmed By David Tennant & Producer

Doctor Who producer Phil Collinson and David Tennant reveal Ruth Madeley’s UNIT scientific advisor Shirley Anne Bingham will return in future appearances following her role in the first 60th anniversary special “The Star Beast”. Madeley starred alongside Tennant and Catherine Tate in the first episode of the long-running series’ three-part 60th anniversary celebrations. In “The Star Beast”, Bingham leads UNIT’s task force dispatched to secure a ship that has crash-landed at a London steelworks, crossing paths and meeting the Doctor, and quickly striking up a friendship with her scientific advisor predecessor while saving the city from destruction.