The United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (also known as UNIT) is a fictional military organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Operating under the auspices of the United Nations, its purpose is to investigate and combat paranormal and extraterrestrial threats to the Earth. In the original Doctor Who series, several UNIT personnel (such as The Brigadier) played a major role in the series. In the new Doctor Who series, UNIT has been referenced and appeared a few times but no specific UNIT personnel have been involved with the show the way they had been in the old series. History ).]] The roots of the organisation in the history of the Doctor Who universe lie in two such extraterrestrial incursions. The first was related in the Seventh Doctor serial Remembrance of the Daleks (1988). In that incident, two Dalek factions fought a battle in Lond