Harry Sullivan is a fictional character from the British
science-fiction television series Doctor Who and is a companion of the
Fourth Doctor. Played by Ian Marter, the character appears as a
regular during the programme's twelfth season in 1974â€"1975.Doctor
Sullivan is a commissioned Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, who
is attached as medical officer to the United Nations Intelligence
Taskforce, the military organisation to which the Doctor acts as
scientific advisor. He is first mentioned (though not seen) in Planet
of the Spiders, when the Brigadier thinks the Third Doctor has gone
into a coma. The Brigadier calls "Doctor Sullivan" and asks him to
come to the Doctor's laboratory, but tells him not to bother when
Sergeant Benton wakes the Doctor by offering him a cup of coffee. In
the next serial, Robot, after the Doctor's third regeneration,
Sullivan is called in to attend him, and ends up travelling aboard the
TARDIS with the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith (played by
Elisabeth Sladen) for several subsequent adventures.Harry is rather
old-fashioned and stereotypically English in his attitudes. Somewhat
accident-prone, he once claimed he was always trapping his nose in the
doors of Portsmouth barracks. He often employs slightly archaic
language â€" for example, referring to Sarah Jane affectionately as
"old thing" or "old girl". He is nonetheless depicted as possessing
great bravery and a "can-do" attitude, adapting well to the many
strange situations in which he finds himself. He can, however, also be
quite clumsy and unsubtle, once leading the Doctor to declare, in a
moment of frustration and at the top of his lungs, that "Harry
Sullivan is an imbecile!" Nonetheless he is well liked by the Doctor
and Sarah Jane, and has a slightly flirtatious relationship with
her.[original research?]The character was originally devised by the
production team as a means of handling any action scenes required in
episodes when they had envisioned that the new Doctor would be played
by an older actor, as had previously been the case (Sarah Jane even
jokingly compares Harry to James Bond at one point). When
forty-year-old Tom Baker was cast, however, this was no longer a
concern and the decision was taken to write Harry out â€" something
producer Philip Hinchcliffe later admitted was probably a mistake, as
Harry was a likeable and popular character who worked well with both
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