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[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

Planet Of The Daleks – Episode 1

(Jo tries to hide as someone approaches the ship. It is a blond man in a spacesuit with a weapon. He easily finds Jo and brings her into the main compartment. There is a younger man with him.)
Jo: Who are you?
Taron: My name is Taron. This is Vaber.
Jo: I'm Jo Grant. Do you live here? I mean do you live on this planet?
Taron: What are you? Where are you from?
Jo: Well, I'm from a planet called Earth.
Vaber: Earth?
Jo: You've heard of it?*
Taron: We've heard of the name.
Vaber: There is no such place as Earth. It's just a name in our old legends. It doesn't really exist.
Jo: Believe me, it does!

Planet Of The Daleks – Episode 2

The Doctor: A tiny motor with an electric power source. That's it. Yes. Yes, I'll dismantle the circuitry, reverse the polarity and convert to a low power receiver transmitter with a positive feedback.
Codal: That's right. The Dalek's guidance system functions by means of high frequency radio impulses.
The Doctor: Correct, and if we can jam them
Codal: It should give them quite a headache.
The Doctor: It should give them quite a brainstorm. Give me your screwdriver.

Planet Of The Daleks – Episode 3

The Doctor: Oh, well, that's it. That's the best that I can do. There's only one thing we need now.
Codal: What's that?
The Doctor: A Dalek to try it out on.

Planet Of The Daleks – Episode 4

Dalek: The bacteria are multiplying.
Dalek 2: We have calculated that after the release of the culture into the atmosphere, it will totally contaminate the planet within the space of one Spiridon day.
Dalek: All plant life will wither and die.
Dalek 2: All unimmunised animal life will die within one hour of inhaling the contaminated air.
Leader: Approved. Continue with preparations.
Dalek: The most virulent form of the bacteria will be ready for release in half a Spiridon day.

Planet Of The Daleks – Episode 5

Jo: Penny for them?
The Doctor: Oh, I was just thinking about Vaber. What on Earth possessed him to go rushing off like that?
Rebec: Once we'd worked out the plan, he wanted to attack straight away.
The Doctor: Plan, what plan?
Rebec: To blow up the refrigeration unit.
The Doctor: What? But that's the worse thing he could possibly do.
Rebec: But Codal said if we destroyed the refrigeration unit, we'd be destroying the Daleks.
The Doctor: On the contrary, you'd be bringing their army to life.

Planet Of The Daleks – Episode 6

Taron: Doctor, we'd never have succeeded without all your help. I wish there was some way of thanking you.
The Dctor: As a matter of fact, there is.
Rebec: Yes, Doctor?
The Dctor: Throughout history you Thals have always been known as one of the most peace loving peoples in the galaxy.
Taron: I hope we always will be.
The Dctor: Yes, well that's what I mean. When you get back to Skaro, you'll all be national heroes. Everybody will want to hear about your adventures.
Taron: Of course.
The Dctor: So be careful how you tell that story, will you? Don't glamorize it. Don't make war sound like an exciting and thrilling game.
Taron: I understand.
The Dctor: Tell them about the members of your mission that will not be returning, like Maro and Vaber and Marat. Tell them about the fear. Otherwise your people might relish the idea of war. We don't want that.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Doctor Who Magazine came up with this newly commissioned wrap around cover to celebrate the return of the Daleks in 2012's Asylum of the Daleks.

[Demoncrat]

Watched
Nightmare In Eden
The Happiness Patrol
Remembrance
Meglos
The Five Doctors

All enjoyable enough imho

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Green Death – Episode 1

Brigadier: But, Doctor, it's exactly your cup of tea. This fellow's bright green apparently, and dead.

The Green Death – Episode 2

Jo: I can hardly feel his pulse. Have you ever seen anything like it before?
Bert: No, never.
Jo: What could have caused it?
Bert: Dunno. I tell you what though
Jo: What?
Bert: Whatever it was, it's still down here with us.

The Green Death – Episode 3

Computer: Intruder in the area. Section two. Visual identification available.
(A monitor shows Jo and the Doctor climbing up inside the pipe.)
Elgin: It's that Doctor chap, and there's a girl with him.
(Fell uses an internal phone.)
Fell: Intruders located. Unauthorised entry into pipe.
Elgin: You mean they're actually in the pipe? Well, we've got to get them out.
Fell: Tank voiding operations completed. Waste disposal underway.
Elgin: Waste? You're putting the waste into that pipe? You'll kill them!
Fell: They are intruders.
Elgin: Turn it off, damn you!
Fell: I can't. The operation is automatic

The Green Death – Episode 4

The Doctor: Well, they're all over the place.
Jo: You mean they've tunnelled their way out?
The Doctor: The maggots are some sort of larvae and not the finished product. Trying to find their way to daylight.
Jones: They must be coming up some of the old shafts in the mine, breaking through the last few feet of earth.
Jo: But how did it happen?
Jones: Oil waste from Global Chemicals must have contaminated some of the maggots causing an atavistic mutation.
Jo: Giant maggots? What kind of insects are they going to turn into?
The Doctor: That's a very good question, Jo.

The Green Death – Episode 5

BOSS: Well, Doctor, have you nothing to say?
The Doctor: Why should I want to talk to a machine?
BOSS: Oh really, Doctor. As far as I can gather from your computer record at UNIT, the difficult thing is to stop you talking. No, no, no, you won't provoke me so easily.
The Doctor: You're still a machine.
BOSS: And you? And your human friends? Aren't you machines? Inefficient and organic machines?
The Doctor: No.
BOSS: No?
The Doctor: Then yes. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. We are more than machines.
BOSS: Ah! Thank you. Because in that case, so am I.
The Doctor: What are you then?
BOSS: I am the first Biomorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor.
The Doctor: B, O, double S. The BOSS.
BOSS: Precisely.
The Doctor: Ha!
BOSS: My designers also found it amusing. I find it suitable.
The Doctor: You're still nothing but a gigantic adding machine like every other computer.
BOSS: Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I am the only computer ever to be linked to a human brain.
The Doctor: Stevens?
BOSS: Yes, Stevens. And I learned from him that secret of human creativity is inefficiency. The human brain is a very poor computer indeed. It makes illogical guesses which turn out to be more logical than logic itself.
The Doctor: Yes, infuriating, isn't it.
BOSS: I programmed Stevens to programme me to be inefficient. I am now self-controlling, I am self-sufficient, I am the greatest being this planet has ever seen. I am the BOSS!
The Doctor: Today Llanfairfach, tomorrow the world, eh?
BOSS: How well you understand me, Doctor.
The Doctor: A machine. A megalomaniac machine, but still a machine!
BOSS: And as such, uniquely fitted to carry out my prime directive.
The Doctor: And that is?
BOSS: Efficiency, productivity and profit for Global Chemicals, of course. Nothing and nobody can be allowed to stand in the way of that. Not even you, Doctor.

The Green Death – Episode 6

Jo: Well, you're feeling better all right.
Jones: Aye.
The Doctor: Well, Jo, we'd better get back to UNIT HQ. We've got a report to make out.
Jo: Doctor. (Jones nods at Jo.) I don't think I'll be going back just yet.
The Doctor: Oh? Are you thinking of staying here?
Jo: Well, not here exactly. Only you see, Cliff is going on this expedition to look for this fantastic fungus.
The Doctor: Where?
Jones: The upper reaches of the Amazon.
Jo: And he's asked me to go with him.
The Doctor: And you want to go?
Jo: More than anything else in the world.
The Doctor: I see. When?
Jones: Well, very soon now. We'll just stop off in Cardiff, pick up our supplies, get married and
Jo: Married?
Jones: Aye.
(Jo and Jones gaze into each other's eyes.)
The Doctor: Er, look, will you excuse me? I do think I'm going to be wanted on the telephone.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Doctor (William Hartnell) held at gunpoint by Wyatt Earp (John Alderson) in a classic promo photo from The Gunfighters (1966)

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Time Warrior – Episode 1

Rubeish: Rubeish.
The Doctor: I beg your pardon?
Rubeish: Joseph Rubeish.
The Doctor: Oh, I see. I'm so sorry. Hello. How do you do?
(The Doctor shakes the younger man's hand. He wears thick glasses, a bow tie and a white lab coat. The Tardis stands in the corner now.)
Rubeish: It's disgraceful, of course. Utterly disgraceful.
The Doctor: Oh? What is?
Rubeish: Well, shutting us up. Like a lot of kids kept in after school. That Brigadier chap. Military idiot.
The Doctor: Yes, I know how you feel. Still, he means well, you know.
Rubeish: Haven't seen my wife and family for three days.
The Doctor: I'm sorry to hear that.
Rubeish: Ah well, just shows there's always a silver lining. And your name?
The Doctor: Er, Smith. Doctor John Smith.
Rubeish: Oh. Seems to be a lot of them about today.
The Doctor: I'm sorry?
Rubeish: Well, I was talking to a young woman just now, also Smith. (The door closes.) Well, there she is. Miss Smith?
Sarah: Yes, Professor?
Rubeish: Come and meet your namesake. Miss Lavinia Smith, Doctor er
The Doctor: Doctor John Smith. How do you do, Miss Smith?
Sarah: Hello.
Rubeish: Doctor, I'm intrigued. What's that for? (the Tardis)
The Doctor: That? Oh, that, er, that contains my equipment, Professor.
Rubeish: That's original.
The Doctor: You're the virologist, Miss Smith?
Sarah: Yes. Who told you?
The Doctor: I read your paper on the teleological response of the virus. A most impressive piece of work.
Sarah: Thank you.
The Doctor: Particularly when I realise you must have written it when you were five years old.
Sarah: Ah. Er, yes, that is rather difficult to explain, isn't it.
The Doctor: But you're going to try, aren't you.
Sarah: Well, my Aunt Lavinia is in America on a lecture tour, you see.
The Doctor: Mmm hmm.
Sarah: She had an invitation to visit here. I took her place.
The Doctor: Why?
Sarah: Well, I thought all this might give me a good story. I'm a journalist. Sarah Jane Smith.
The Doctor: You realise this is a very dangerous place to be in?
Sarah: Well I can't help that. I'm stuck here now and anyway, we've got all these soldiers looking after us. Are you going to give me away, Doctor?
The Doctor: I don't think so.
Sarah: Why not?
The Doctor: Well, you can make yourself useful. We need somebody around here to make the coffee.
Sarah: If you think I'm going to spend my time making cups of coffee for you, you're very
The Doctor: Professor! (Rubeish is writing equations on the Tardis.) Look, would you kindly desist? This is not a blackboard, you know?
Rubeish: Oh I do beg your pardon, Doctor. I was just trying to prove
Sarah: What do you plan to do in there?
The Doctor: Make myself a cup of coffee. Good day to you.
(The Doctor goes into the Tardis.)

The Time Warrior – Episode 2

Linx: You resisted well, Doctor. I could have increased the power, but I might have killed you. I need you alive. A brain of your capacity can be of use to me.
The Doctor: Thank you.
Linx: You're not of this planet. How came you to be here?
The Doctor: Oh, I'm just a tourist. I like it here.
Linx: This hole in space.
The Doctor: You haven't seen it at its best.
Linx: It has no military value, no strategic significance.
The Doctor: Once again, a Sontaran philosophy.
Linx: I'm Commander Linx - Fifth Sontaran Army Space Fleet.
The Doctor: Ah, yes. Yes, as I thought. A Sontaran warrior. So, the perpetual war between the Sontarans and the Rutans has spread to this tiny planet, has it?
Linx: Emergency landing. I was on a reconnaissance mission when I was attacked by a squadron of Rutan fighters. You have encountered my race before, Doctor?
The Doctor: Unfortunately.
Linx: I'll overlook that insult for the moment. What is your native planet?
The Doctor: Gallifrey. I am a Time Lord.
Linx: Ah, yes. A race of great technical achievement, but lacking the morale to withstand a determined assault.
The Doctor: Oh, do you think so?
Linx: I'm only a lowly Commander, Doctor. I merely quote from the appreciation circulated by our military intelligence.

The Time Warrior – Episode 3

The Doctor: You know, I was never much of a hand with a paint brush myself.
Sarah: No?
The Doctor: No. Nor a palette knife for that matter. But I'd like to study under one of the masters one day. Rembrandt, preferably.
Sarah: Rembrandt?
The Doctor: Mmm hmm.
Sarah: Can you, can you just go anywhere you like in that Tardis?
The Doctor: Yes, within reason.
Sarah: Then why are you staying here? Why don't you go somewhere safer?
The Doctor: Because, my dear Sarah, I've got a job to do. One that involves the whole future of your species. Here, hold this will you?
(The Doctor hands Sarah a piece of rope, and he cuts it into shorter lengths.)
Sarah: My species?
The Doctor: Mmm hmm.
Sarah: You're talking as if you weren't human.
The Doctor: Yes, well, the definition of the word humanity was always a rather a complex question, wasn't it?
Sarah: You know perfectly well what I mean. Are you or aren't you?
The Doctor: If you mean am I a native of the planet Terra, the answer is no, I'm not.
Sarah: Well, what are you then?
The Doctor: Me? I'm a Time Lord.
Sarah: A Time Lord?
The Doctor: Yes, that's right. And my people are very keen to stamp out unlicensed time travel. You can look upon them as galactic ticket inspectors, if you like.
Sarah: Galactic ticket inspectors? Oh, I could murder a cup of tea. You're serious, aren't you?
The Doctor: About what I do, yes. Not necessarily the way I do it

The Time Warrior – Episode 4

Sarah: I'm not afraid of men. They don't own the world. Why should women always have to cook and carry for them?
Meg: What else should we do?
Sarah: Stand up for ourselves. Tell the men you're tired of working for them like slaves.
Meg: We are slaves.
Sarah: Then you should set yourselves free.
Meg: Oh? And how should we do that?
Sarah: Don't you want to be free?
Meg: Women will never be free while there are men in the world, girl. We have our place.
Sarah: What subservient poppycock. You're still living in the Middle Ages.
Meg: Eh?
Sarah: Nothing.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Lee Binding's artwork for the 2013 special edition dvd of Inferno.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Watched Attack of the Cybermen over the last two nights.

Episode one is very good but part two drags a bit in the mid section due to far too much chatter with the Cryons. On the whole though it was a top notch start to Colin's first full season and banished The Twin Dilemma to distant memories.

[hivemind]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Watched Attack of the Cybermen over the last two nights.

Episode one is very good but part two drags a bit in the mid section due to far too much chatter with the Cryons. On the whole though it was a top notch start to Colin's first full season and banished The Twin Dilemma to distant memories.

I've always rather enjoyed Attack of the Cybermen + Revelation of the Daleks. The Twin Dilemma certainly would've been a perfect story for Jodie Whittaker's highly lame PC monstrosity of a season. A Twin Dilemma indeed. Instead of Romulus and Remus, we have Tweedledum (Whittaker) and Tweedledee (Chibnall) Very fitting.

[Demoncrat]

Found an Easter egg as such on The Five Doctors. A drunken Tennant and cohorts providing a "commentary" of their own . This being the second dvd release of said story. Some of their comments aren't PG