I'm still willing to give the Dr Who production team the benefit of the doubt on this one (at least until the end of this season).

As Nick Courtney passed away whilst the series was still in production, they could have added something within an episode. However, this may have made sense in an episode we haven't seen yet. Or they may have dedicated a future episode to Nick Courtney because the storyline fitted the Brigadier's character better (e.g. "A Good Man Goes to War") etc.

Liz Sladen passed away just as the series was about to air so no such consideration could be made.

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Eh? He wasn't just any old actor who happened to be in Who a few times...

This is how I feel. I'm biding my time for the moment as I'm still hoping that some sort of mention/dedication will be made in a future episode. I just don't see why they would overlook him.

It's disappointing that BAFTA didn't think Nick was important enough to include him in the montage*, and that would have been BAFTA's choice not the BBC's as Ting's email reply has said. However I'm still a lot more annoyed at the BBC's own choice to so far ignore his passing.

*(which I think also shows that without her Doctor Who return not even Liz would have been thought worthy enough for inclusion either.)

Verity Lambert, Barry Letts, Elizabeth and even Howard Attfield have all got worthy dedications on the episodes that first aired after their passing, so why not Nick? The man was in the show on and off for decades. He is a Doctor Who legend. If the Brig is not worthy than what chance do other past regulars have? Will the likes of Katy Manning be ignored when they go in the (hopefully far) future? Lord knows what chance the likes of Caroline John will get in having one when they go.

I can only hope, as others have said that the BBC has got something planned because I simply can just not understand why Verity and Barry would get a tribute and not Nick. So yes they must have something planned!

I did write a polite email to the BBC after TIA had aired, saying how disappointed I was that he didn’t get a tribute with Liz and hope he was to get one in the future. I didn’t get a reply of course other than they don’t reply to emails but do read and consider all they receive.

I won’t be boycotting the BBC, I won’t be boycotting the BAFTA’s and I won’t be boycotting Doctor Who, writing dozens of complaining emails, overreacting (hopfully), moaning about it outside of these types of threads. This doesn’t affect my life at all, but I think I’ll always be that little bit disappointed with the BBC if he gets nothing.

Sorry about the long post!

I'm someone else that thinks that it's been disappointing that there hasn't been a tribute to him so far. He was part of my childhood. He had also crossed over into the SJA so I wonder if they were waiting until the next series of that. I do hope that there is a tribute because he does deserve it.

It did seem strange that he was missed from the BAFTA tribute as well.

He wasn't mentioned end of. Not sure what the big deal is to be honest.

The BBC Doctor Who website paid tribute, showed clips and wrote whole biographies about the character and the actor. What a disgraceful lack of coverage(!)

It's just a result of timing that he wasn't given a dedication in the show itself. The wider audience was in mourning for Elisabeth Sladen when the series started, who was much more in the public eye than Courtney.

There were many other actors I didn't see mentioned in the BAFTA tribute, Michael Gough being one of them...a TV and Movie Actor!

I've seen American TV shows do an "in memory of" naming more than one person at a time. Is there any particular reason our TV shows can't do the same?

Nick was also a TV and movie actor. And, indeed, theatre and radio as well.

Said it before an' I'll say it again, the programme formerly known as Doctor Who (FKDW), is legacy-disrespecting. The Brig will be remembered and honoured long after the bunch of whiny teens now heading the show are long forgotten.

Nick, buddy, I salute you!

You say that as if I thought Michael Gough deserved recognition but Nick Courtney didn't

My point was that BAFTA had missed out lots of talent in its tributes, and Nick Courtney was unfortunately one of them.

But the BBC didn't 'ignore' his contribution to the show.

Steven Moffat is looking pretty darn old for a whiny teen, as is Matt Smith

And legacy disrespecting is a laugh, considering the TARDIS storyline only a week ago, plus the last series had William Hartnell appear more times than David Tennant and he's not even alive!

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