Hilda Winters

Hilda Winters is one of the two main antagonists of the Doctor Who story "Robot", along with the K1 Robot.

She was portrayed by Patricia Maynard, who reprised the role for Big Finish.

Biography[]

Hilda Winters was the director of the Think Tank and the head of the Scientific Reform Society, an extremist group that believed the human race should be ruled by those with the highest intelligence. When Professor Kettlewell, the Think Tank's robotics expert, developed the K1 Robot, intended to replace humans in difficult and dangerous tasks, Miss Winters saw it as an opportunity to put their ideals into action. Under guidance from Kettlewell, she and her assistant Arnold Jellicoe reprogrammed the K1 so that it would ignore its prime directive to harm humans, then had it conduct a number of raids to steal the plans and components needed to construct the Disintegrator Gun, which the Think Tank had worked on. When Sarah Jane Smith did a tour of the Think Tank, Miss Winters initially tried to hide the robot from her, then demonstrated its supposed harmlessness by ordering it to kill her when its prime directive was in place. She also had visits from the Doctor and the Brigadier, along with Harry Sullivan.

Under Miss Winters' direction, the robot killed civil servant Joseph Chambers and used the Disintegrator Gun to gain the world's missile codes. Miss Winters also tried to have the robot kill the Doctor. After UNIT raided a Scientific Reform Society meeting, Miss Winters, Jellicoe, Kettlewell and the robot escaped to a bunker with Sarah as a hostage. Hilda threatened to launch all the nuclear missiles if the world powers did not hand over control to them, intending to rule either way, being safe in the bunker if a nuclear war broke out and ready to rule the survivors when it was over. Kettlewell reluctantly started the countdown but had a change of heart and paused it. As UNIT stormed the bunker, Miss Winters restarted the countdown. Sarah held her at gunpoint to force her to surrender control of the computer, with UNIT taking her into custody. The countdown was subsequently stopped by the Doctor.

Hilda Winters acted as the main antagonist for the first season of Big Finish's Sarah Jane Smith series. Having spent fifteen years in prison, she first tried to frame Sarah for a terrorist attack on the London Underground and then for the release of brucella into the Indian water supply. Her schemes failed but she escaped. In the second season, Sarah learned Hilda Winters had been a member of a secret society called the Crimson Chapter who had killed her as a liability.

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