U.N.I.T. (tie-in website)

In April 2005 the BBC launched the U.N.I.T. website to coincide with the 2005 series of Doctor Who, one of several websites created at that time. While the website seems to have been bought by the BBC in 23 November 2004, the earliest archives of content on the site is from late April of 2005, around the premiere of TV: World War Three. On 20 April, the Doctor Who website added a link to the U.N.I.T. website, visible as "Alien Hotline", after the site updated to focus on World War Three.

The website contained a mix of narrative and non-narrative prose fiction, all told from an in-universe perspective, as if you were reading the very pages on the in-universe website itself. The website prominently featured many references to the original and early revival eras of Doctor Who. Currently, non-narrative information is treated as an invalid source on this Wiki, so sources from this website vary in validity.

UNIT History
This webpage gives an overview of the history of UNIT.

UNIT Press Releases
This webpage gives a list of press briefings released by UNIT to the public.

UNIT Conferences
The page announces a conference to be hosted by UNIT.

UNIT Publications
A list of new publications published by UNIT is given.

UNIT News
The news webpage reports on several topics.

Privacy Policy, Disclaimer and Terms of Use
This webpage acts as a disclaimer for UNIT.

Operations Board
On the website, there is a password entry point. There are three passwords, each with a different purpose.
 * "bison" is the password to enter the operations board
 * "badwolf" later replaced "bison", but it was eventually reverted back to "bison"
 * "buffalo" allows access to a missile launch page, with other links to other private UNIT information

United Nations controversy
Notably, the disclaimer page had a direct link to the United Nations website, but this was later removed, and the actual disclaimer about the website being fictional was boldened, and made generally more visible. The website, inadvertantly posing as an official site of the UN, was the catalyst for the UN forcing the BBC to change the UNIT acronym from "United Nations Intelligence Taskforce" to "Unified Intelligence Taskforce".