Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes
The Web Planet – Episode 1 – The Web Planet
The Doctor:
[looking at the pyramid] Hmm! It's a pity we didn't bring a ladder with us. We might be able to see what's on the top.
Ian Chesterton: Well, it isn't Nelson.
The Doctor: No. No pity.
The Web Planet – Episode 2 – The Zarbi
Ian Chesterton: Doctor, if your assumption was correct and this is Vortis, what do you know of its history.
The Doctor: History doesn't mean anything when you travel through space and time.
The Web Planet – Episode 3 – Escape To Danger
Ian Chesterton: What do you think they are, Doctor?
The Doctor: Hmm?
Ian Chesterton: Those things out there.
The Doctor: Well, to use a term of Earth's, I suppose we should call them insects.
Ian Chesterton: Ants?
The Doctor: Hmm.
Ian Chesterton: I've seen a colony of ants eat their way right through a house. That size, they could eat their way through a mountain. Why are they that big?
The Doctor: Size is only relative. In this rarefied atmosphere, it appears that evolution has chosen that particular form of life on this planet.
The Web Planet – Episode 4 – Crater Of Needles
Ian Chesterton: Will you kill your own kind?
Hetra: Listen, stranger... you are both from... that wilderness above ground..., where the light blinds and the air chokes, where only destroyer races live. And from where none of us who has ever gone forth has ever returned. You come foraging into our world only for new victims. Take them!
The Web Planet – Episode 5 – Invasion
Nemini: The wall is not friendly. We must break it!
Ian Chesterton: What's wrong?
Hetra: A silent wall. We must make mouths in it with our weapons. Then it will speak more light.
The Web Planet – Episode 6 – The Centre
Animus: Escape is impossible. Impossible.