The Doctor Who Thread

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I watched the first episode of The Macra Terror last night. Black and white version, naturally.

I won't pass judgment until i've seen it all over the next three weekends but i'll just say that part one wasn't the greatest 24 minutes of Doctor Who and aside from the pre credits sequence and last few minutes was ever so slightly dull. The animation was nice to look at though and the cliffhanger impressive.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I watched the first episode of The Macra Terror last night. Black and white version, naturally.

I won't pass judgment until i've seen it all over the next three weekends but i'll just say that part one wasn't the greatest 24 minutes of Doctor Who and aside from the pre credits sequence and last few minutes was ever so slightly dull. The animation was nice to look at though and the cliffhanger impressive.

I've seen all four parts (black and white, of course)...and I'd say I agree with you!

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Mind Robber – Episode 1

Jamie: Come on, back to the TARDIS.
Zoe: Is that the right way?
Jamie: Of course it's the right way... Oh... Err... No, it could be... erm... oh.
Zoe: We're lost, aren't we?
Jamie: No, I wouldn't say that. We're just err... well, the... um... We're just a... [beat] You want to know something?
Zoe: What?
Jamie: I think we're lost.
Zoe: Oh, this isn't a joke, Jamie!
Jamie: No, you're right. The Doctor was saying that those images we saw on the scanner were put here to tempt us out.
Zoe: Well, if somebody was trying to tempt us away, where are they? And who are they?
Jamie: Aye. Aye. Well, let's not be in too much of a hurry to find that out, ey?
Zoe: But, what are we going to do?
Jamie: Well, the TARDIS can't be that far away. No, if we stand here and shout for The Doctor, when he hears us, he can guide us back. Doctor!
Zoe: Doctor! Can you hear us?

The Mind Robber – Episode 2

Dora [OC]: Cooeee!
The Doctor: Is that you, Zoe?
(A Victoria or Edwardian girl appears behind the doctor and a boy in front of him. She is from Edith Nesbit's Treasure Seekers, the eldest of the Bastable children.)
Dora: Cooeee!
The Doctor: Who's that? Who are you? (Now there are four boys and two girls around him.) Well. Well, well, well, well, well. How do you do?
Oswald: Why did the chicken cross the road?
The Doctor: Well, really, I don't think this is the time for riddles.
Dora: You must answer. Why did the chicken cross the road?
The Doctor: Oh very well. To get to the other side, or so I've always been led to believe. Now would you mind telling me...
Oswald: Which is correct. The yolk of an egg is white or the yolk of an egg are white?
The Doctor: Neither, it's yellow.
Alice: How many beans make five?
The Doctor: I...
Dicky: Where was Moses when the lights went out?
The Doctor: Well, I...
Noel: Adam and Eve and Pinch Me went down to the river to bathe.
Children: Adam and Eve got drowned. Who do you think was saved?
The Doctor: Well, Pinch Me, obviously. (So they pinch him, obviously.) Ow! No! Stop it! Don't do that! Now it's my turn to ask you questions.
(The first boy holds a sword blade to the Doctor's throat.)
Oswald: What can you make of a sword?
The Doctor: Huh?
Oswald: What can you make of it?
Dicky: Rearrange it.
Noel: Think.
Dora: This is your last chance.
Alice: S W O R D. Rearrange.
The Doctor: S W O R D. Rearrange. Well, rearranged it makes W O R D S. Words.
Children: Hooray!
(Oswald throws the sword in the air. The Doctor reaches to catch it and gets a large book instead.)
The Doctor: Well, it's a dictionary. Words.
Oswald: You have answered correctly.
Dora: You may be suitable.
The Doctor: Suitable?
Alice: I do hope so.
Horace: Come on, it's teatime!
Dicky: I'm hungry!
Noel: Race you home!
(The children run off and vanish.)
The Doctor: Words.

The Mind Robber – Episode 3

Jamie: So far, so good. Some sort of castle. Well, Jamie, now where? Well, you don't have much choice, do you?
(Jamie pulls on the rope. A blonde girl in mediaeval dress comes to the window.)
Rapunzel: Ouch! I suppose you know that hurts.
Jamie: You mean, this is your hair?
Rapunzel: Of course. I don't object to people climbing it. I'm quite used to it, actually. But you would keep tugging so.
Jamie: Oh, I'm terribly sorry.
Rapunzel: Are you a Prince?
Jamie: No. Why?
Rapunzel: You're supposed to be. I'm a princess, but I suppose you knew that. My name is Rapunzel. You're not a woodcutter's son, by any chance?
Jamie: No, I'm the son of a piper.
Rapunzel: Oh, how very disappointing. Well, in that case I think you'd better go. Goodbye.
Jamie: Your highness, wait.
Rapunzel: Well?
Jamie: I can't go back there, it's a sheer drop, and well, I can't just stand out here. I'll have to climb though the window.
Rapunzel: Oh. Well, I don't know if that will be allowed.
Jamie: Well, I won't stay long. Just passing through, you might say. Och, please.
Rapunzel: It's a great pity you're not a prince. You'd have made rather a good one. Well, I suppose you'd better come inside. For goodness sake be quiet.

The Mind Robber – Episode 4

Master: Resistance is useless. Submit your will for the sake of the greater good. It has been decided.
The Doctor: I refuse. I shall make that decision for myself.

The Mind Robber – Episode 5

Gulliver: We obey our creator, that is all that can be expected of any character, unless the Master bids us otherwise.

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Invasion – Episode 1

(The Doctor and Jamie arrive at a large skyscraper and enter the deserted reception area. There is one door labelled IE - no unauthorised entry - so the Doctor goes through. Outside, two men in a car watch them. The Doctor comes face to face with computer bank complete with magnetic tape and flashing lights.)
The Doctor: I thought so.
Jamie: What?
The Doctor: More stupid computers. Automatic receptionists. Right.
Woman: International Electromatic Company. State your business.
The Doctor: I would like, please, to speak with Professor Watkins.
Woman: One moment. Party not available.
The Doctor: Then I would like to speak with someone in authority.
Woman: Your request will be considered and your appointment arranged. Please state your name and address.
The Doctor: That's no good. I wish to speak with somebody now.
Woman: I am sorry. All personnel are engaged.
The Doctor: But I insist. This is an emergency!
Woman: State the nature of the emergency.
The Doctor: It's a private matter.
Woman: Private matters have no emergency status.
The Doctor: Oh shut up, you stupid machine! Diabolical inventions.
Jamie: What now?
The Doctor: Come on.
Jamie: Where are we going?
The Doctor: Well, there must be somebody else in this building except these stupid machines. Come on. (The Doctor and Jamie go out and down a back alley, watched by security cameras.)

The Invasion – Episode 2

(Jaguar drives across RAF Fairford to where a Hercules transport plane is lowering its access ramp. Military personnel put out a pair of smaller ramps and it drives straight up and onboard. Jamie and the Doctor walk through a door in a glass map of the northern hemisphere centred on the North Pole into an area where military personnel in grey uniforms with UNIT shoulder flashes are working. Benton and Tracy follow.)
Jamie: Would you mind telling us what all this is about?
Benton: You'll find out, sir.
Jamie: Sir?
(An officer comes out of a forward compartment.)
Brigadier: All right, Benton, thank you.
Benton: Sir.
Tracy: NAAFI break, sir?
Brigadier: Very well. (Benton and Tracy leave.) How nice to see you again, Doctor.
The Doctor: It's Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart!
Brigadier: Ah, Brigadier now. I've gone on up in the world.
Jamie: Oh course, the Yetis. We met you in the underground
Brigadier: That's right, McCrimmon, in the underground. Must be four years ago now.
Jamie: That long. It only seems about a couple of weeks ago, doesn't it.
The Doctor: I've told you over and over again, Jamie. Time is relative.
Brigadier: Are you still making a nonsense of it. Doctor, in your, what was it called? Tardis?
The Doctor: Yes, we're still travelling. Yes.
Brigadier: Yes, Mister Travers told me all about it. It's er, well it's, to say the least, an unbelievable machine.
The Doctor: Any more unbelievable than the Yetis?
Brigadier: No, true. I'm not quite so much of a sceptic as I was since that little escapade.

The Invasion – Episode 3

Packer: I'd think about it if I was you, Professor. After all, she's a pretty girl. It'll be a shame to spoil all that.
Watkins: What a vicious sadist, you are, Packer. I don't believe you anyway.
Packer: I don't make idle threats, Professor, as you well know. If you want to see that girl again in one piece I suggest you do as Mister Vaughn asks.

The Invasion – Episode 4

Jamie: That thing in there, it moved. In the crate, there's something alive in there.
The Doctor: Alive? Jamie, the darkness plays funny tricks with the imagination.

The Invasion – Episode 5

Zoe: Doctor, any luck? What did you find out?
Jamie: Some old friends of ours are here, Zoe.
Zoe: Who?
Jamie: The Cybermen.
The Doctor: Yes, I'm afraid it's true, Zoe.
Zoe: That's what you suspected, wasn't it?
Isobel: What on Earth are Cybermen?
The Doctor: They're from another world. Inhuman killers.
Turner: You mean they're from space, or something.
The Doctor + Zoe: Yes.
Zoe: And that spaceship we saw on the other side of the Moon was obviously their craft.
Isobel: What are they? Little green men? Oh, you're serious?
Zoe: We've met Cybermen before and seen what they can do.
Turner: Where exactly are they and how many?
Jamie: At Vaughn's headquarters in London.
The Doctor: Oh, there's hundreds of them, possibly thousands.

The Invasion – Episode 6

Turner: Penny for them?
Isobel: It's all so peaceful.
Turner: Do you think the Doctor could be wrong this time? I mean about the invasion.
Isobel: Well, he's been right up to now.
Turner: Yes, true, but, well, I don't know. Look.
Isobel: Yeah, I know what you mean. Why, it's just incredible, isn't it? Looking at all that peace out there, it's so difficult to imagine.

The Invasion – Episode 7

The Doctor: And you trust them?
Vaughn: Doctor, I've worked with the Cybermen for five years preparing this invasion. I know them, the way they think, the single-mindedness of their purpose.
The Doctor: Then you must know what ruthless and inhuman killers they are.
Vaughn: Of course. But then, they are my allies, not my enemies.
The Doctor: Do you really think they'll honour any bargain that you make with them?
Vaughn: Oh, I've planned this whole operation in great detail, allowing for every possible factor. It was I who contacted them in deep space, provided the means by which they travelled to Earth, and masterminded the whole operation from A to Z. They have merely provided their advanced scientific skills, their might and strength.
The Doctor: What do they get out of all this?
Vaughn: What they want, and what they're going to get, are two entirely different things.
The Doctor: Oh, you're a fool, Vaughn. When they get here, they'll take over.
Vaughn: All Cybermen here are conditioned to obey my orders. They are directly under my command.
The Doctor: Oh, possibly. But what about the others, out there in space? Are they conditioned to obey your commands?
Vaughn: If they're not, I'll destroy them.
The Doctor: With the Professor's machine?
Vaughn: Yes.
The Doctor: With one machine?
Vaughn: I'll have more made.
The Doctor: But you'll have to have the Professor's help to do that, won't you? We've got the Professor.
Vaughn: They'll be under my command, exactly like the others.
The Doctor: But you can't be sure of that, can you?

The Invasion – Episode 8

Vaughn: But if you do, you'll destroy everything here. Even your own Cybermen!
Planner: The sacrifice will be small.
Vaughn: You can't do this! I won't let you!
Planner: You cannot stop us. No one can.
The Doctor: Now you're beginning to understand the Cybermen, Vaughn, you can't make bargains with them!
Vaughn: I won't let them take over. I won't! You think you're indestructible? Well, I can destroy all of you!
(Vaughn aims Walter's device at the Planner and turns it on.)
Planner: Opposition is useless

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Krotons – Episode 1

Jamie: But what happened after this war with the Krotons?
Selris: Ever since, we have lived in peace with them. The Krotons never show themselves to us, but we learn from them through the teaching machines.
Zoe: Teaching machines?
Selris: Yes, in the Hall of Learning, where you were today. The machines fill the mind with knowledge.
The Doctor: And everyone uses these machines?
Selris: When they are young, yes. That is the law.
The Doctor: Whose law, Selris?
Selris: Our law

The Krotons – Episode 2

The Doctor: Great jumping gobstoppers! What's that?
Selris: The Kroton's command. It means there is a message for me.
(The hatch where the probe came out is open. Selris reaches in for a message pad.)
The Doctor: Oh, what does it say?
Selris: Class three one nine seven. Selected female, Zo-Gond.
The Doctor: Zo-Gond? Zoe! They mean you!
Selris: They've chosen you as a companion.
The Doctor: And we all know what happens to them, don't we?
Zoe: Oh Doctor, what shall I do?
The Doctor: Well, she doesn't have to go, does she? Well, does she or doesn't she?
Selris: I'm afraid she must. Complete obedience is the Krotons first command, and if we fail to obey
The Doctor: They'll destroy you, I see.
Zoe: Oh dear.
The Doctor: Now do you see what you've done? Fooling around with this stupid machine!
Zoe: Oh, but I'm not a Gond!
The Doctor: But that machine doesn't know that!
Zoe: Where are you going?
The Doctor: I'm going to take the test. I can't let you go in there alone! What do I do?
Zoe: Oh, sit down. And put this headset on. And press the button. Press the button!
The Doctor: All right, there's no need to shout! Now go away and don't fuss me. No, come back. What's this? It's all right, I know. Right, fire away. I'm ready.
(Zoe gestures at him to press the button. The circling symbols come up but he doesn't manage to get them into coherent equations.)
Zoe: Oh. Doctor, you've got it all wrong.
The Doctor: Oh dear, I've been working in square roots. Can I have that again, please?
Zoe: Well they don't give you a second shots. Well, press the button again.
Selris: This is the most advanced machine. Perhaps he can't answer the questions.
Zoe: Of course he can. The Doctor's almost as clever as I am.

The Krotons – Episode 3

(The Tardis is still on a monitor.)
Kroton 2: Shall I fire, Commander?
Kroton: We cannot kill them. We need their minds. You will leave the Dynatrope and fetch them back.
(The junior Kroton picks up a canister from a rack and leaves.)
Kroton: What is the operating principle of your craft?
Jamie: Er, you mean how does it work? Well, only the Doctor knows that.
Kroton: What is its transference interval?
Jamie: Transference interval? Well, er, what's that?
Kroton: You have no value.

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Seeds Of Death – Episode 1

Slaar: Guard! Kill him!

The Seeds Of Death – Episode 3

The Doctor: Your leader will be angry if you kill me... I'm a genius!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Seeds Of Death – Episode 1

Slaar: Guard! Kill him!

The Seeds Of Death – Episode 3

The Doctor: Your leader will be angry if you kill me... I'm a genius!

I can picture this scene in my head, Troughton's expression, arm movements, the lot.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Pic of the Day returns this weekend with a whole lot of randomness. Stills, promo pics, artwork...

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I can picture this scene in my head, Troughton's expression, arm movements, the lot.

Patrick is probably my favourite Doctor

It's a real shame that so many of his episodes are missing from the archive

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Patrick is probably my favourite Doctor

It's a real shame that so many of his episodes are missing from the archive

I'd love to see The Abominable Snowmen get the animation treatment. With having an episode still in the archive it should give the animators a lot to work with.

However Fury from the Deep is the story i'd most want to be recovered in full. Aside from reading the Target novel when i was a lot younger it's a story i know very little about.

It would be nice to know what the BBC have in terms of plans for animations. They probably know if episodes are still out there for recovery or not so i presume they have some long term animation schedule and are not just playing it by ear and going one to another seeing how sales of the last release went.