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[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

Closing Time

The Doctor: Oh, you've redecorated. I don't like it.
Craig: It's a different house. We moved.
The Doctor: Yes, that's it.

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The Doctor: So when you say on your own
Craig: Yes, I meant on my own with the baby. Yes. Because no one thinks I can cope on my own. Which is so unfair, because I can't cope on my own with him. I can't. He just cries all the time. I mean, do they have off switches?
The Doctor: Human beings. No. Believe me, I've checked.
Craig: No, babies.
The Doctor: Same difference. Sometimes this works though. Shush.
(Alfie goes quiet.)
Craig: Can you teach me to do that?
The Doctor: Probably not.
Craig: Oh, please. Come on, I need something. I'm rubbish at this.
The Doctor: At what?
Craig: Being a dad. You read all the books, and they tell you you'll know what to do if you follow your instincts. I have no instinct. That's what this weekend's about, trying to prove to people I can do this one thing well.
(The Doctor is flicking through the books on the table. He laughs at Daisy's Wild Ride.)
The Doctor: So, what did you call him? Will I blush?
Craig: No, we didn't call him the Doctor.
The Doctor: No, I didn't think you would.
Craig: He's called Alfie. What are you doing here anyway?
The Doctor: Yes, he likes that, Alfie, though personally he prefers to be called Stormageddon, Dark Lord Of All.
Craig: Sorry, what?
The Doctor: That's what he calls himself.
Craig: And how do you know that?
The Doctor: I speak baby.
Craig: Of course you do

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(The Doctor is demonstrating a remote control helicopter to a group of children.)
The Doctor: It goes up tiddly up, it goes down tiddly down for only forty nine ninety nine, which I personally think is a bit steep, but then again it's your parents' cash and they'll only waste it on boring stuff like lamps and vegetables. Yawn!
Craig: Yeah, Soph. Just enjoy your holiday. Yeah, coping.
The Doctor: Nobody panic, but I appear to be losing control.
(The helicopter crashes near Craig.)
Craig: Yeah, love you.
The Doctor: Oops. Guys, guys, ladies and gentlemen. While I deal with this awkward moment, you go and find your parents slash guardians. Try in lamps. Craig!
Craig: What the hell are you doing here?
The Doctor: I'm the Doctor. I work in a shop now. Here to help. Look, they gave me a badge with my name on in case I forget who I am. Very thoughtful, as that does happen.

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(Inside the lift)
The Doctor: Just between you, me and Stormy, don't want to frighten me punters. Someone's been using a teleport relay right here in this shop. Missing people last seen in this area. Before you ask, CCTV's been wiped.
Craig: A teleport? A teleport? A teleport like, a beam me up teleport, like you see in Star Trek?
The Doctor: Exactly. Someone's been using a beam me up Star Trek teleport. Could be disguised as anything.
(There are six circles in a circle on the ceiling.)
Craig: But a teleport in a shop? That's ridiculous. (They teleport) What was that? Was that the lights again?
The Doctor: (strangled) Yes, that's it. That's all. It's the lights.
Craig: Why did you say that like that?
The Doctor: Like what?
Craig: Like that, in that high pitched voice.
The Doctor: Just keep looking at me, Craig. Right at me. Just keep looking.
Craig: Why?
The Doctor: Well, because, because, because I love you.
Craig: You love me?
The Doctor: Yes, Craig. It's you. It's always been you.
Craig: Me?
The Doctor: Is that so surprising?
(The Doctor puts his arms around Craig's neck and uses the sonic screwdriver on whatever it behind the definitely not a lift any more scene behind him.)
Craig: Doctor, are you going to kiss me?
The Doctor: Yes, Craig. Yes, I am. Would you like that? Bit out of practice, but I've had some wonderful feedback.
Craig: Doctor, no. I can't. I'm taken. (Craig looks behind him.) Oh, my God!
The Doctor: Or we could just hold hands if it make you'd feel more comfortable.
(A Cyberman notices them.)
Craig: What is happening?
The Doctor: Well, first of all, I don't really love you, except as a friend.
Craig: What is that?
(Back in the lift)
The Doctor: Quick reverse.
Craig: What the hell just happened?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A Silent as seen in The Night of the Doctor (2013)

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Wedding Of River Song

Nurse: Doctor, I'm so sorry. We didn't know how to contact you. I'm afraid Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart passed away a few months ago. Doctor?
The Doctor: Yes. Yes, I
Nurse [OC]: It was very peaceful. He talked a lot about you, if that's any comfort. Always made us pour an extra brandy in case you came round one of these days.

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The Doctor: Napoleon gave me this bottle. Well, I say gave. Threw. Salud!
All: Salud!
Rory: So, when are we going to 1969?
The Doctor [OC]: Everything was in place. I only had to do one more thing. I only had to die.
(The Doctor waves at Delaware by his pickup, and River sees the Impossible Astronaut.)
River: Oh, my God.
The Doctor: You all need to stay back. Whatever happens now, you do not interfere.
Rory: That's an astronaut. That's an Apollo astronaut in the lake.
(The Doctor goes to the astronaut, who is now the adult River, not the child Melody as before.)
The Doctor: Well, then. Here we are at last.
River: I can't stop it. The suit's in control.
The Doctor: You're not supposed to. This has to happen.
River: Run.
The Doctor: I did run. Running brought me here.
River: I'm trying to fight it, but I can't. It's too strong.
The Doctor: I know. It's okay. This is where I die. This is a fixed point. This must happen. This always happens. Don't worry. You won't even remember this. Look over there.
River: That's me. How can I be there?
The Doctor: That's you from the future, serving time for a murder you probably can't remember. My murder.
River: Why would you do that? Make me watch?
The Doctor: So that you know this is inevitable. And you are forgiven. Always and completely forgiven.
River: Please, my love, please, please just run!
The Doctor: I can't.
River: Time can be rewritten.
The Doctor: Don't you dare. Goodbye, River.
(The Doctor winks, then shuts his eyes. The astronaut suit zaps him multiple times but he doesn't die this time.)
River: Hello, Sweetie.
The Doctor: What have you done?
River: Well, I think I just drained my weapon systems.
The Doctor: But this is fixed. This is a fixed point in time.
River: Fixed points can be rewritten.
The Doctor: No, they can't. Of course they can't. Who told you that

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The Doctor: The Teselecta. A Doctor in a Doctor suit. Time said I had to be on that beach, so I dressed for the occasion. Barely got singed in that boat.
Dorium: So you're going to do this? Let them all think you're dead?
The Doctor: It's the only way, then they can all forget me. I got too big, Dorium. Too noisy. Time to step back into the shadows.
Dorium: And Doctor Song, in prison all her days?
The Doctor: Her days, yes. Her nights? Well, that's between her and me, eh?
Dorium: So many secrets, Doctor. I'll help you keep them, of course.
The Doctor: Well, you're not exactly going anywhere, are you?
Dorium: But you're a fool nonetheless. It's all still waiting for you. The fields of Trenzalore, the fall of the Eleventh, and the question.
The Doctor: Goodbye, Dorium.
Dorium: The first question! The question that must never be answered, hidden in plain sight. The question you've been running from all your life. Doctor who? Doctor who? Doc-tor *who*?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A behind the scenes image of a Macra from the 1967 story, The Macra Terror.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Wedding Of River Song

I really need to revisit this series in full.

Closing Time is the episode i've seen most from it, it's just so much fun. Followed by A Good Man Goes to War and the opening two parter. All excellent in my opinion.

Let's Kill Hitler, and the Ganger two parter i'm not so keen on, whilst stuff like Black Spot, God Complex and Girl Who Waited are fairly hum drum. I think i've only seen The Wedding of River Song three times perhaps at most.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I really need to revisit this series in full.

Closing Time is the episode i've seen most from it, it's just so much fun. Followed by A Good Man Goes to War and the opening two parter. All excellent in my opinion.

Let's Kill Hitler, and the Ganger two parter i'm not so keen on, whilst stuff like Black Spot, God Complex and Girl Who Waited are fairly hum drum. I think i've only seen The Wedding of River Song three times perhaps at most.

I was in a really bad place during this period. I have no recollection of watching most of Matt Smith's stories on original transmission

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

I was in a really bad place during this period. I have no recollection of watching most of Matt Smith's stories on original transmission

I'm sorry to hear.

I love Smith as the Doctor. He nails the role for me more than any of the nu-Who actors have.

Do you recall the scene at the end of An Adventure in Space and Time where Hartnell (David Bradley) is in a sad contemplative way at the TARDIS console and he glances up and Smith's Doctor smiles at him from across the console? In that scene Matt looks just as old as Bradley thanks to his facial acting. He doesn't speak, just smiles, it's an achingly beautiful scene and always brings a tear to my eye.

[iank]

Smith is my favourite New Who Doctor too, and his era is my fave of the new lot as well. Most Doctorish, best companions, generally best stories and run (if series 7 is a bit of a downturn).
6 is underrated.

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe

(On a spaceship, the Doctor is making a phone call to the Tardis.)
The Doctor [OC]: Amy. Amy? Hello? Amy, it's me, the Doctor. Hello. Bit of a situation.
Computer: Intruder alert.
The Doctor: I've got my finger on a button, which is fine, but as soon as I take my finger off the button the spaceship is going to explode. (Sparks.) Argh. Which is good in one way, because the spaceship in question is about to attack the Earth, but bad in another way, because I'm on the spaceship and I'm going to get all smithereened. Now, plan. I'm going to send you the coordinates so you can fly the Tardis here and rescue me. Only three flaws in this plan as far as I can see. One, I don't have the coordinates. Two, you can't fly the Tardis. Three, oh dear, you're not even there. You left ages ago. Oh, well. I think I just wanted a chat before all the smithereens. Merry Christmas, Amelia.
(He closes his eyes and releases the red button. The spaceship starts to go KaBOOM!)

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(It is the late 1930s. A woman is bicycling along when she hears an Argh! and a Whumph! as something hits the ground at speed. She falls off her bicycle into a hedge, then goes to investigate the crater in the field nearby. It contains an occupied spacesuit.)
Madge: Hello? Hello? Hello, are you all right?
The Doctor: Ow.
Madge: Are you hurt? Did you fall? Where did you fall from?
The Doctor: Helmet.
Madge: All right, just just let me. I don't want to hurt you. (She raises the solid protective visor, then the transparent one, to reveal a lot of hair.) Oh.
The Doctor: I can't see. I'm blind!
Madge: Oh no, love, no. I think you've just got your helmet on backwards. How did you manage that?
The Doctor: I got dressed in a hurry.

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Madge: Don't you want me to take you to hospital or something? You're welcome to come to our house.
The Doctor: No, no, no. I'm fine. I just need to find the, er, the key.
Madge: Do you want me to do it with a pin? I'm good with a pin.
(She takes out a hair grip.)
The Doctor: Multi-dimensional, triple encoded temporal interface. Not really susceptible to pointy things.
Madge: Got it.
The Doctor: Okay. Suddenly the last nine hundred years of time travel seem that bit less secure

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Madge: Who are you?
The Doctor: I'm the caretaker.
Madge: But you're not Mister Cardew.
The Doctor: I agree.
Madge: I don't understand. Are you the new caretaker?
The Doctor: Usually called the Doctor. Or the Caretaker or Get Off This Planet. Though, strictly speaking, that probably isn't a name. Hello, Madge Arwell.
Madge: Hello.
The Doctor: And Cyril Arwell. And Lily Arwell. Now, come on, come on. Lots to see. Whistle stop tour. Take notes, there will be questions.

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Lily: I don't understand. Is this place real, or is it fairyland?
The Doctor: Fairyland? Oh, grow up, Lily. Fairyland looks completely different.

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The Doctor: This is one of the safest planets I know. There's never anything dangerous here. (The ground shakes.) There are sentences I should just keep away from.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The on screen BBC2 Ident card for Logopolis when it featured in the 1981 Autumn series of repeats collectively called The Five Faces of Doctor Who.

Other stories broadcast in the run were An Unearthly Child, The Krotons, Carnival of Monsters and The Three Doctors.