An Army of Shadows (short story)

An Army of Shadows was a piece of prose fiction published in DWMS Winter 1991. It gave a fictional history of UNIT in the form of a Metropolitan report on the organisation, including several accounts of the reporter's own encounters with them.

Not content to present a litany of references to preexisting UNIT television stories (though it did contain its fair share of nods to Third Doctor and Fourth Doctor serials), the content of this in-universe biography provided a wealth of new information about UNIT, including a brief appearance by a new incarnation of the Doctor.

An Army of Shadows
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Yates Speaks Out
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Exposed: The Day of the Daleks
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Characters

 * Andrew Dylan
 * Mary Gately
 * Winifred Bambera
 * Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Liz Shaw
 * Professor Rachel Jensen
 * Jo Jones
 * Mike Yates
 * Francis Gardner
 * Kevin W. Parker

Individuals

 * UNIT have been associated with eight or nine different "Doctor John Smiths" since its formation, including a man with a large, bushy beard.
 * Jo Jones is standing as a parliamentary candidate for the Green Party.

Story notes

 * The table of contents lists this story in three parts:
 * An Army of Shadows
 * Yates Speaks Out
 * Exposed: The Day of the Daleks
 * The titles are different on the actual pages:
 * UNIT Exposed
 * The Alien Cover-up
 * Alien Invasion: The Day of the Daleks

Continuity

 * UNIT currently operates in Maiden's Point. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)
 * John Wakefield wrote a satirical book (TV: The Ambassadors of Death) called A Yeti in Tooting Bec. (TV: The Web of Fear)
 * "Victor Magister" was apprehended in 1976. (COMIC: The Man in the Ion Mask)
 * Kevin W. Parker provides a short inset on Sarah Jane Smith, (PROSE: The Roving Reporter) which mentions her Doctor series (PROSE: Moving On) and Fighting for Humankind. (PROSE: The Roving Reporter; TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?)