Mike Yates

Mike Yates was a British Army officer seconded to UNIT who worked alongside Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Sgt Benton and the Third Doctor in UNIT. Years later, he also had a series of adventures with the Fourth Doctor and Mrs Wibbsey.

Yates first encountered the Doctor in his eighth incarnation, as well as Charley Pollard, when he was a local military lieutenant serving at an RAF base in Scotland. Soon after that, he was temporarily enlisted by the Brigadier to help him and the Third Doctor investigate the disappearance of an RAF fighter jet in the area. Afterwards, the Brigadier invited Yates to join UNIT full-time, which came with a promotion to captain.

At some point after his retirement from UNIT, Yates answered a magazine advertisement seemingly directed specifically at him about "light household duties" leading him to a house called Nest Cottage in the village of Hexford. During this time he was visited by the Fourth Doctor and had several adventures with him. After the events in H…more

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	Doctor Who: The Twelve Doctors of Christmas by Jacqueline Rayner 3.89 avg rating — 1,530 ratings — published 2016 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks 3.79 avg rating — 831 ratings — published 1974 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: Last of the Gaderene by Mark Gatiss 3.71 avg rating — 826 ratings — published 2000 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who and the Invasion of the Dinosaurs by Malcolm Hulke 3.63 avg rating — 597 ratings — published 1976 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who and the Daemons by Barry Letts 3.82 avg rating — 500 ratings — published 1974 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who and the Green Death by Malcolm Hulke 3.79 avg rating — 439 ratings — published 1975 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: The Third Doctor - The Heralds of Destruction by Paul Cornell (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 378 ratings — published 2017 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: The Scales of Injustice by Gary Russell 3.63 avg rating — 410 ratings — published 1996 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who: The Target Storybook by Terrance Dicks 3.59 avg rating — 392 ratings — published 2019 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons by Terrance Dicks 3.82 avg rating — 355 ratings — published 1975 add/edit characters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars