Secretary General was a title for the leader of various organisations, most famously the United Nations.
In December 1986, Wigner was the Secretary General of International Space Command, also known as the General Secretary. (TV: The Tenth Planet)
A female Secretary General served in the 20th century. (AUDIO: The Paradise of Death)
Doris Lethbridge-Stewart received a telephone call for her husband, UNIT General Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, from the Secretary General. Upon being told as such, Alistair commented "I don't care if it was the King. I'm still retired". After hanging up, Doris passed a message to Alistair from the Secretary General informing him that the Doctor had returned. (TV: Battlefield)
The UN Secretary-General in 1997 was an Irish woman. She had been tricked into thinking Winifred Bambera was acting above the law and stood down UNIT-UK. (PROSE: The Dying Days))
Immediately following the London UFO crash in March 2006, the Secretary General asked that people watch the skies. (TV: Aliens of London)
During the Year of the Slow Invasion, Kate Stewart of UNIT had the Secretary General informed that the Shakri cubes were impairing people as well as hospitals and equipment. (TV: The Power of Three)
In 2017, a Secretary General of the United Nations asked the Twelfth Doctor for help when a 5,000-year-old pyramid appeared overnight in a the middle of a war zone in Turmezistan. He was killed by the Monks. (TV: The Pyramid at the End of the World)
Behind the scenes
- Lance Parkin had assumed Mary Robinson would be the next Secretary-General instead of Kofi Annan when he wrote The Dying Days. [1]
- The Secretary General's role in The Pyramid at the End of the World was originally written for Kate Stewart (though she wouldn't have died).[2]