Captain Mike Yates is a fictional character in the British science
fiction television series Doctor Who, played by Richard Franklin. He
was adjutant of the British contingent of UNIT, an international
organisation that defends the Earth from alien threats.Yates first
appeared in the Third Doctor serial Terror of the Autons, the latest
in a line of Captains assisting Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, although
the Doctor implies that he was around for previous stories. He proved
more durable than his predecessors, appearing semi-regularly in the
programme from 1971 to 1974 alongside the Brigadier and Sergeant
Benton. Together with the Doctor and his companions, Yates fought off
alien invasions, the machinations of the renegade Time Lord known as
the Master, rogue computers and mutated maggots.Little is known of him
outside of his time with UNIT. He was cool under fire, efficient, and
both gave and carried out his orders with a minimum of fuss. He
appeared to have a relatively good rapport with his men, although he
did remind Benton on occasion that "rank hath its privileges". The
Third Doctor's assistant, Jo Grant, was dressed up to go on a date
with Mike at the start of The Curse of Peladon, only to be taken on a
trip in the TARDIS by the Doctor.Yates's fall from grace started when
he was brainwashed by the artificial intelligence BOSS in the 1973
serial The Green Death. The brush with ecological disaster apparently
made Yates very concerned about the future of the planet, and he was
easily recruited by Sir Charles Grover into a conspiracy to reverse
time and return Earth to a "golden age" (Invasion of the Dinosaurs).
The conspiracy was thwarted by the Doctor, and in return for his past
service to UNIT, the Brigadier allowed Yates to take medical leave and
then quietly resign (actor Richard Franklin believes the initial plan
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