The Harry Hill Show special (TV story)

The first episode of the third series of The Harry Hill Show was an untitled story broadcast in 2000. The story's sketches included an offically-licensed crossover with Doctor Who.

It featured the return of Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart on screen for the first time since Downtime, as well as the outside of a UNIT HQ.

Synopsis
The Brigadier congratulates for her casting as the Doctor and later joins in with a singalong on Space Station Badger.

Plot
Channel 4 News reports that Clare Short has been cast as the new Doctor. The news goes to a reaction from "Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart of UNIT" for a reaction. Lethbridge-Stewart says they're thrilled and offers Short a cut-glass vase on behalf of UNIT until a Cyberman deliberately bumps into him, causing the glass vase to smash. The Brig despairs, "You can't keep anything nice around here!"

Channel 4 News moves on to a report from a punch-up between the Pulp frontman and 's  at the Brit Awards' playground, where the reporter says "we understand Doctor Who is on her way" before she arrives on the scene to stop them fighting on a bouncy castle.

Later, during the Space Station Badger segment, the Brigadier arrives without warning to rescue the space station from the nefarious Darth Camembert, who has taken it over while pretending to be a salesman. He arrives firing a warning shot (that blasts part of Stouffer's wig prop off) to cow the fiend. When the characters question why Lethbridge-Stewart's there, he states UNIT had a tip off about a rouge Betterware salesman: "I came as quickly as I could." A crying Darth Camembert says they can't "leave me like this", which abruptly segues into a cover of Thelma Houston's Don't Leave Me This Way.

"Don't - leave me - this way. I don't understand. I'm at your command."

- The Brigadier, surrounded by dancing badgers

Cast

 * Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney
 * Cyberman - Harry Hill

rest to be added

Crew

 * Writer - Harry Hill
 * Director - Robin Nash
 * Producer - Charlie Hanson

rest to be added

Story notes

 * In Thelma Houston's American accent, "understand" and "command" rhyme. They very notably don't rhyme when Nick Courtney sings it.
 * Doctor Who is both a TV role (even though UNIT is real) and a real person who arrives to help in the same sketch.
 * The costumes were lent by the BBC for the story.
 * The Cyberman is a CyberNeomorph.