The Doctor Who Thread

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Kandyman stalks the pipes beneath the city in the 1988 story The Happiness Patrol.

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Snowmen

Strax: They've taken samples from snowmen all over London. What do you suppose they're doing in there?
The Doctor: This snow is new. Possibly alien. When you find something brand new in the world, something you've never seen before, what's the next thing you look for?
Strax: A grenade.
The Doctor: A profit. That's Victorian values for you.
Strax: I suggest a full frontal assault with automated laser monkeys, scalpel mines and acid.
The Doctor: Why?
Strax: Couldn't we at least investigate?
The Doctor: It's none of our business.
Strax: Sir, permission to express my opposition to your current apathy?
The Doctor: Permission granted.
Strax: Sir, I am opposed to your current apathy.
The Doctor: Thank you, Strax. And if ever I'm in need of advice from a psychotic potato dwarf, you'll certainly be the first to know.

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The Doctor: Body frozen in a pond. The snow gets a good long look at a human being, like a full body scan. Everything they need to evolve. Pond. Good point, Clara. What are you doing here?
(Strax is holding an alien weapon.)
Strax: Madame Vastra wondered if you were needing any grenades?
The Doctor: Grenades?
Strax: She might have said help.
The Doctor: Help for what?
Strax: Well, your investigation.
The Doctor: Investigation? Who says I'm investigating? Do you think I'm going to start investigating just because some bird smiles at me? Who do you think I am?
Strax: Sherlock Holmes.
The Doctor: Don't be clever, Strax. It doesn't suit you.
Strax: Sorry, sir.
The Doctor: I'm the clever one, you're the potato one.
Strax: Yes, sir.
The Doctor: Now go away.
Strax: Yes, Mister Holmes.
The Doctor: Oi! Shut up. You're not clever or funny and you've got tiny little legs!

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Latimer: Children, what is the expla. Who the devil are you? What are you doing in my house?
The Doctor: It's okay. I am your governess' gentleman friend, and we've just been upstairs kissing!
Alice: Captain Latimer. In the garden, there's snowmen! And they're just growing out of nowhere, all by themselves. Look!
(Alice runs to answer the front door.)
Vastra: Good evening. I'm a Lizard Woman from the Dawn of Time, and this is my wife.
(Alice screams and runs back into -)
Strax: This dwelling is under attack. Remain calm, human scum.
(Alice screams and faints.)
The Doctor: So, any questions?
Latimer: You have a gentleman friend?
The Doctor: Vastra, what's happening?
Vastra: The snow is highly localised, and on this occasion not naturally occurring.
Jenny: It's coming out of that cab parked by the gates.
Strax: Sir, one pulver grenade would blow these snowmen to smithereens.
The Doctor: They're made of snow, Strax. They're already smithereens. See, Clara? Our friends again.
Latimer: Clara? Who's Clara?
The Doctor: Your current governess is in reality a former barmaid called Clara.

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Snowman: We are the Intelligence.
The Doctor: Ooo. Talking snow. I love new things.
Snowman: You are not of this world.
The Doctor: Takes one to snow one. Right, let's see. Multi-nucleate crystalline organism with the ability to mimic and mirror what it finds. Looks like snow. Isn't snow.
Simeon: You must leave here now.
The Doctor: Shut up, I'm making deductions. It's very exciting. Now, what are you, eh? A flock of space crystals? A swarm? The snowmen are foot soldiers, mindless predators. But you, you're the clever one. You're Moriarty. So, you turn up on a planet, you generate a telepathic field to learn what you can, and when you've learnt enough, what do you do? You can't conquer the world using snowmen. Snowmen are rubbish in July. You'll have to be better than that. You'll have to evolve.

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The Doctor: It's called the Tardis. It can travel anywhere in time and space. And it's mine.
Clara: But it's. Look at it, it's
The Doctor: Go on, say it. Most people do.
(Clara does the traditional circuit of the outside and returns.)
Clara: It's smaller on the outside.
The Doctor: Okay, that is a first.
Clara: Is it magic? Is it a machine?
The Doctor: It's a ship.
Clara: A ship?
The Doctor: Best ship in the universe.
Clara: Is there a kitchen?
The Doctor: Another first.

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Clara: Run. Run, you clever boy. And remember.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The TARDIS under fire from a Kroton in the classic second Doctor story The Krotons (1969)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Couldn't resist...

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Bells Of St. John

Girl: Hello.
The Doctor: Hello.
Girl: Why are you sitting on a swing?
The Doctor: Why shouldn't I?
Girl: Because you're old.
The Doctor: Yes, that's true. That is very true.
Girl: My mum says I shouldn't talk to strange men.
The Doctor: Ah, you mum's right.
Girl: Are you strange?
The Doctor: Oh, dear. I'm way past strange. I think I'm probably incredible.
Girl: Are you lonely?
The Doctor: Why would I be lonely?
Girl: Because you're sad. Have you lost something?
The Doctor: No.
Girl: When I lose something, I go to a quiet place and I close my eyes, and then I can remember where I put it.
The Doctor: Good plan.
Girl: I'm always losing things. I lost my best pencil, my schoolbag, and my gran, and my mojo.
The Doctor: Your mojo?
Girl: I got it back, though.
The Doctor: Hey, that's good.
Girl: What did you lose?
The Doctor: My friend. I met her twice before and I lost her both times, and now I don't think I'll ever find her again.
Girl: Have you been looking?
The Doctor: Yeah, everywhere.
Girl: That's sad.
The Doctor: It is a bit. Hey, is that your mum?
Girl: Yeah, I'd better go and see if she's all right.
The Doctor: Yeah, I think you better had.
Girl: How are you going to find her?
The Doctor: Well, the first two times I met her, I just sort of bumped into her, so I thought maybe if I just wandered about a bit, I might bump into her again. You know, like destiny, sort of.
Girl: That's rubbish.
The Doctor: Yeah, I think it probably is. Hey, maybe I could find a quiet room and have a good think about it instead.
Girl: That would be better. Goodbye.
The Doctor: Goodbye.
Girl: Mister, I hope you find her again.
The Doctor: So do I.
Mum: Who was that?
Girl: I was talking to a sad man.
Mum: Look, Clara Oswald, what have I told you about talking to strange men?

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Kizlet: I'm ever so fond of Alexi, but my conscience says we should probably kill him.
Mahler: I'll inform HR.
Kizlet: Actually, he's about to go on holiday. Kill him when he gets back. Let's not be unreasonable.

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Clara: Are you an alien?
The Doctor: I am. Yes, okay with that?
Clara: Oh, yeah. Think I'm fine.
The Doctor: Oh, good.
Clara: So, what happens if you do find them? What happens then?
The Doctor: I don't know. I can't tell the future, I just work there.
Clara: You don't have a plan?
The Doctor: Oh, you know what I always say about plans.
Clara: What?
The Doctor: I don't have one.

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Clara: You've hacked the lower operating system, yeah? I'll have their physical location in under five minutes. Pop off and get us a coffee.
The Doctor: If I can't find them, you definitely can't.
Clara: They uploaded me, remember? I've got computing stuff in my head.
The Doctor: So do I.
Clara: I have insane hacking skills.
The Doctor: I'm from space and the future with two hearts and twenty seven brains.
Clara: And I can find them in under five minutes plus photographs. Twenty seven?
The Doctor: Okay, slight exaggeration.
Clara: Coffee, go get. Five minutes, I promise.
The Doctor: The security is absolute.
Clara: It's never about the security, it's about the people. (Her fingers are a blur on the keyboard.) Why do you keep looking at me like that?
The Doctor: Sorry, no, it's nothing. It's just, you're a nanny. Isn't that a bit, well, Victorian?
Clara: Victorian?
The Doctor: You're young. Shouldn't you be doing, you know, young things, with young people?
Clara: You mean like you, for instance? Down, boy.
The Doctor: No. No. I didn't. Shut up.

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The Doctor: You know, the thing about a time machine, you can run away all you like and still be home in time for tea, so what do you say? Anywhere. All of time and space, right outside those doors.
Clara: Does this work?
The Doctor: Eh?
Clara: Is this actually what you do? Do you just crook your finger and people just jump in your snog box and fly away?
The Doctor: It is not a snog box.
Clara: I'll be the judge of that.
The Doctor: Starting when?
Clara: Come back tomorrow. Ask me again.
The Doctor: Why?
Clara: Because tomorrow, I might say yes. Sometime after seven okay for you?
The Doctor: It's a time machine. Any time's okay.
Clara: See you then.
The Doctor: Clara? In your book there was a leaf. Why?
Clara: That wasn't a leaf. That was page one.
(Clara leaves.)
The Doctor: Right then, Clara Oswald. Time to find out who you are.
(He sets the time rotor going.)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A atmospheric scene as the sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) and Peri (Nicola Bryant) investigate in The Two Doctors (1985)

[Susan Foreman]

Breaking news

https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?artic...OaaztaSfZqJYac

"Just announced on The Animations panel at London Comic Con, Fury from the Deep will be released in 2020 on DVD, Blu-ray and as an exclusive Steelbook next year. It will follow The Faceless Ones, announced earlier this year, and fill another gap in missing Doctor Who episodes.

Fury from the Deep is the missing sixth serial of the fifth season of Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from March to April 1968. Starring Patrick Troughton as the Doctor, the story concerns a colony of sentient, parasitic seaweed, last seen in the eighteenth century, returning to attack a number of gas instillations in the North Sea in an attempt to take over humanity.

No full episodes of this story exist within the BBC archives, and only snippets of footage and still images are still around to represent the story. However, off-air recordings of the soundtrack do exist, making the animation of a complete serial possible once again.

The six new animated episodes are being made in full colour, in the original black and white and in high definition and the release will include the surviving clips from the original 1968 production. It also stars Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon and Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield.

Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep will be released on DVD, Blu-ray and special edition Steelbook in 2020."

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

So with The Faceless Ones and Fury from the Deep at least there will be some decent Doctor Who next year that i haven't seen before.

[Susan Foreman]

The first clip from 'The Faceless Ones' animation

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The animations are definitely improving.