Day 325: The Time Monster Episode 2

Sergeant Benton is one of the regular members of the UNIT family. He's characterised as a loyal and dependable man who will pop up in every other story and just lend the Doctor a hand. He works as a character because secretly, behind all of this facade of him being competent, he is actually rather thick. We feel sorry for this character as he consistently fails at understanding the plot or fighting alien menaces or whatnot. It makes his occasional successes all the more exciting because we realise that this is actually a rare occurrence for the series, and that we can enjoy Benton getting a good moment for once, such as in this episode when he successfully captures the Master. Of course, this fails almost instantly revealing that in the end, Benton is just as incompetent as ever.