» sweet dreams brigadier alastair gordon lethbridge-stuart
good night, you old-school symbol of masculinity - you crusty-but-benign throwback to a time when a military uniform wasn’t a showbiz shorthand for lies, deceit and support of dubious battle - you monument to bravery, gumption and common human decency - you final gasp of an innocent, pre-punk, pre-thatcher trust in the possibility of an officer class the embodied the best of britain…rest in peace nicholas courtney, may the next person to essay this role fill that good soldier’s soul with the same stiff-upper-lipped dignity that made this character a human worthy of standing with a time lord.
