The thing is now they have animations of that Troughton crew they can just reuse them for any more Troughton stories hence The Faceless Ones being the same team of Pat, Ben, Polly and Jamie

They don't have Hartnell animations or at least not ones that are any good so those stories will prove more complicated and expensive to animate.

True... but they've got to start doing it sometime! ;)

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

Night Terrors

Alex: Ever since he was born he's been a funny kid.
The Doctor: Funny's good. We like funny, don't we?
Alex: He never cries. Bottles it all up, I suppose. Tell him off, he just looks at you.
The Doctor: How old is he?
Alex: He was eight in January. I mean, he should be growing out of stuff like this, shouldn't he?
The Doctor: Maybe. It's got worse, though lately?
Alex: Yeah. We talked about getting help. You know, maybe sending him somewhere. He started getting these nervous tics. You know, funny little cough, blinking all the time. But now it's got completely out of hand. I mean, he's scared to death of everything.
The Doctor: Pantaphobia.
Alex: What?
The Doctor: That's what it's called. Pantaphobia. Not a fear of pants though, if that's what you're thinking. It's a fear of everything. Including pants, I suppose, in that case. Sorry. Go on.
Alex: He hates clowns.
The Doctor: Understandable.
Alex: Old toys. He thinks the old lady across the way is a witch. He hates having a bath in case there's something under the water. The lift sounds like someone breathing. Look, I don't know. I'm not an expert. Maybe you can get through to him.
The Doctor: I'll do my best.

************************************

Rory: Amy? Amy? Are you here?
Amy: Yeah. Here. No, here. It's me.
(Rory has a small pencil torch.)
Rory: You okay?
Amy: Yeah, I think so.
Rory: What happened to the lift? We were in a lift, weren't we?
Amy: Yeah, yeah. We. I remember getting in and then. What?
Rory: We're dead, aren't we.
Amy: Eh?
Rory: The lift fell and we're dead.
Amy: Shut up.
Rory: We're dead. Again.
Amy: Oh, shut up. Let's just find out where we are.
(Lots of wood panelling and a tall ceiling. Georgian style layout.)
Rory: You know, it's obvious what's happened.
Amy: Yeah? Really? Because it's not obvious to me.
Rory: The Tardis has gone funny again. Some time slippy thing. You know, The Doctor's back there in Eastenders-land and we're stuck here in the past. This is probably seventeen hundred and something.
Amy: Yay. My favourite year.

*****************************************

The Doctor: That's better. No tears from George, that's what I've heard. Go on, give us a smile, there's a brave little soldier. Bit rusty at this. Anyway, let's open this cupboard, eh? There's nothing to be (He scans it.) (sotto) Off the scale. Off the scale. Off the scale. How?
Purcell [OC]: All I want is my three hundred and fifty pound. Simple as that. Night, night. Come on, son. Come on.
(Purcell leaves. Alex rejoins the Doctor and George.)
Alex: Right. Sorry about that. So, have we got this thing open yet?
The Doctor: No! No, no, no, no, no. You don't want to do that.
Alex: Why?
The Doctor: Because George's monsters are real.

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Alex: You're supposed to be a professional. I'll never get him to sleep now. It's so irresponsible.
The Doctor: No, Alex. Responsible. Very. Cupboard bad. Cupboard not bare. Stay away from cupboard. And there's something else. Something I've missed. Something staring me in the face.
Alex: Look, I'd like you to leave, please. You're just making things worse. Will you stop making tea. I want you to leave.
The Doctor: No.
Alex: What? What do you mean no? Leave. Get out. Now, please. Look, maybe this was a bad idea. We should sort out George ourselves.
The Doctor: You can't.
Alex: No one's going to tell us how to run our lives. I don't care who you are or what wheels have been set in motion. We'll sort it.
The Doctor: I'm not just a professional. I'm the Doctor.
Alex: What's that supposed to mean?
The Doctor: It means I've come a long way to get here, Alex. A very long way. George sent a message. A distress call, if you like. Whatever's inside that cupboard is so terrible, so powerful, that it amplified the fears of an ordinary little boy across all the barriers of time and space.
Alex: Eh?
The Doctor: Through crimson stars and silent stars and tumbling nebulas like oceans set on fire. Through empires of glass and civilizations of pure thought, and a whole, terrible, wonderful universe of impossibilities. You see these eyes? They're old eyes. And one thing I can tell you, Alex. Monsters are real.
Alex: You're not from Social Services, are you?
The Doctor: First things first. You got any Jammie Dodgers?

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An action shot of third Doctor Jon Pertwee, from his final story Planet of the Spiders (1974)

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Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Girl Who Waited

The Doctor: Doors. Yes. I give you doors. But on the other side of those doors, I give you sunsets, spires, soaring silver colonnades.
Amy: Have you seen my phone?
The Doctor: Your phone?
Amy: Yeah.
The Doctor: Your mobile telephone? I bring you to a paradise planet, two billion light years from Earth, and you want to update Twitter.
Amy: Sunsets, spires, soaring silver colonnades. It's a camera phone.
The Doctor: On the counter, by the DVDs.
Amy: Thank you.
Rory: How do we get in?
The Doctor: I don't know. Push a button.
(There is a choice of two - Green Anchor and Red Waterfall. Rory presses the Green.)

*********************************

Amy: What the?
(She is grabbed by a beam of light from a panel in the ceiling. It has a pleasant female voice.)
Interface: Welcome to the Twostreams Facility.
Amy: Er, who are you and why can't I see you?
Interface: I am the Interface between yourself and the systems of the Twostreams Facility. I will be your guide, your teacher, your friend.
(An image of a woman appears at a check in desk.)
Check-In Girl: Welcome to Twostreams. What is your name, please?
Amy: Amy. Amy Pond.
Check-In Girl: Welcome, Amy Pond. I see you're travelling alone. As a resident, you will now have access to all of the entertainment zones inside. For a taste of adventure, why not try the mountain zone, and explore Apalapucia's famous Glasmir Mountains. Or try our roller-coaster zone, authentically modelled on the famous Warpspeed Death Ride at Disneyland, Clom. All that you could wish for and more is through the Departure Gate, provided for you with kindness.
[Arrivals area]
Interface: Unexpected visitor. Welcome. Please seek assistance.
(A Handbot is up ahead.)
Amy: Hello? Hey. Oi, wait.
(The Handbot turns and scans her.)
Handbot: You are carrying unregistered bacteria. Please let me help you.
Amy: No, I'm not from this world. Your medicine'll kill me.
Handbot: Statement rejected. Do not be alarmed. This is a kindness.
(Amy ducks and hides.)
Amy: No, no, please, I hate needles.

**********************************

Robot [OC]: Will you be visiting long?
Rory [in glass]: Doctor? A little help, Doctor.
Amy: And where have you been?
Rory: What do I tell it?
Amy [in glass]: I've been here a week.
The Doctor [in glass]: A week? A week? I'm so sorry. Ah-ha. Same room, different times. Two different timestreams running parallel but at different speeds. Amy, you're in a faster timestream.
Amy: Doctor, it's going again.
Rory: Doctor!
The Doctor: Amy!
Amy [in glass]: Doctor!

********************************

Amy: Don't touch the hands. There's anaesthetic transfer on the skin. If they touch you, you go to sleep.
Rory: But you're still here?
Amy: You didn't save me.
Rory: But, this is the saving. This is the us saving you. The Doctor just got the timing a bit out.
The Doctor [silent]: Sorry.
Amy: I've been on my own here a long, long time. I've had decades to think nice thoughts about him. Got a bit harder to stay charitable once I entered decade four.
Rory: Forty years? Alone?
Amy: Thirty six years, thanks.
Rory: No. Right. I mean, you look great. Really, really.
Amy: Eyes front, soldier.
Rory: Still can't win then.
Amy: In fact, I think I can now definitely say I hate him. I hate The Doctor. I hate him more than I've ever hated anyone
[Tardis]
Amy [on screen]: In my life, and you can hear every word of this through those ridiculous glasses, can't you, Raggedy Man?
The Doctor: Er, yes. Putting the speaker phone on.
Amy [on scanner]: You told me to wait, and I did. A lifetime.
The Doctor: Amy
Amy [on scanner]: You've got nothing to say to me.
The Doctor: Amy, behind you.

***********************************

Rory: This is so wrong.
Amy: I got old, Rory. What did you think was going to happen?
Rory: Hey, I don't care that you got old. I care that we didn't grow old together. Amy, come on, please.
Amy: Don't touch me. Don't do that.
Rory: It's like you're not even her.
Amy: Thirty six years, three months, four days of solitary confinement. This facility was built to give people the chance to live. I walked in here and I died. Do you have anything to say? Anything, Doctor?
The Doctor: Where did you get a sonic screwdriver?
Amy: I made it. And it's a sonic probe.
Rory: You made a sonic screwdriver?
Amy: Probe.

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Anthony Ainley as the Master in Survival (1989)

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Clayton Hickman's cover art for the 2001 Big Finish audio adventure The Eye of the Scorpion, featuring the fifth Doctor and Peri.

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Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The God Complex

Amy: Let's go to Ravan-Skala, he says. The people are six hundred feet tall. You have to talk to them in hot air balloons and the Tourist Information Centre is made of one of their hats, he says. I'm sorry, but I don't see any huge hats.
The Doctor: Amy, Beaky, this could be the most exciting thing I have ever seen.
Rory: You're kidding.
Amy: How can you be excited about a rubbish hotel on a rubbish bit of Earth?
The Doctor: Because, assembled Ponds, this is not Earth. This has just been made to look like Earth. The craftsmanship involved. Can you imagine?
Amy: What? Then where are we?
The Doctor: I don't know. Something must have yanked us off course. Look at the detail on that cheese plant!
Rory: Right, but who would mock up an Earth hotel?
(The Doctor finds an apple in a large bowl.)
The Doctor: Colonists maybe, recreating a bit of home, like when ex-pats open English pubs in Majorca. No, whoever did this, I am shaking his stroke her hand stroke tentacle.

************************************

The Doctor: I'm kidding. (silent) We'll talk. (normal) I take it from the pathological compulsion to surrender, you're from Tivoli.
Gibbis: Yes. The most invaded planet in the galaxy. Our anthem is called Glory To Insert Name Here.

************************************

Rory: Have you tried the front door?
Rita: No. In two days it never occurred to us to try the front door. Thank God you're here.
(Amy laughs. The Doctor opens the front doors.)
The Doctor: They're not doors, they're walls. Walls that look like doors. Door-walls, if you like, or dwalls. Woors even, though you'd probably got it when you said they're not doors. I mean, the windows are (Pulls back the curtains to reveal more bricks.) Right, big day if you're a fan of walls.
Rita: It's not just that. The rooms have things in them.
The Doctor: Things? Hello! What kind of things? Interesting things? I love things, ask anyone.
Rita: Bad dreams.
The Doctor: Well, that killed the mood. How did you get here?
Rita: I don't know. I'd just started my shift. I must have passed out, because suddenly I was here.
Howie: I was blogging. Next thing, this.
Gibbis: Oh, I was at work. I'm in Town Planning. We're lining all the highways with trees so invading forces can march in the shade.
The Doctor: Ah.
Gibbis: Which is nice for them.
All: Yeah.
The Doctor: So, what have we got. People snatched from their lives and dropped into an endless, shifting maze that looks like a 1980s hotel with bad dreams in the bedrooms.

**************************************

Amy: What is it, a minotaur or an alien? Or an alien minotaur? That's not a question I thought I'd be asking this morning.
The Doctor: It's both, actually. Yeah. Here we go. (He reads a holographic database.) Distant cousin of the Nimon. They descend on planets and set themselves up as gods to be worshipped. Which is fine, until the inhabitants get all secular and advanced enough to build bonkers prisons.
Rory: Correction. Prisons in space.
(He and Gibbis are looking down through a porthole.)
Amy: Where are the guards?
The Doctor: No need for any. It's all automated. It drifts through space, snatching people with belief systems and converts their faith into food for the creature.
Gibbis: See that planet there?
Rory: Which one?
Gibbis: There. The grey one there.
Rory: Mmm hmm.
Gibbis: That's where I'm from.
Amy: It didn't want just me, so you must believe in some god or someone, or they'd have shown you the door too. So what do Time Lords pray to?
The Doctor: According to the in-flight recorder, the programme developed glitches. It got stuck on the same setting, the fears from the people before us weren't tidied away.
(The Minotaur growls.)
Amy: What's it saying?
The Doctor: An ancient creature, drenched in the blood of the innocent, drifting in space through an endless, shifting maze. For such a creature, death would be a gift

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Amy: Don't tell me. This isn't Earth, that isn't a real house. And inside lives a goblin, who feeds on indecision.
The Doctor: No. Real Earth, real house, real door keys.
Amy: You're not serious?
Rory: The car too? But, that's my favourite car. How did you know that was my favourite car?
The Doctor: You showed me a picture of it once and said this is my favourite car.

Apparently it comes with a free 100 minute DVD including exclusive and previously unseen material.
A 32-page supplement featuring an index of DWM and its sister publications, from 1979 to the present day.
A download code for 11 complete hour-long audio adventures from Big Finish.

DVD contents:

• "Doctor Who: Message from Space" featurette (21:14)
• "Sophie Aldred in Conversation" featurette (10:35)
• "Showman: The Life of John Nathan Turner" (10:44)
• "The Writer's Room: Season 26" featurette (6:34)
• "The Doctor Who Cookbook Revisited Bonus Recipes: Kipper of Traken - A Recipe by Johnny Byrne" (3:10)
  - "Vegetable Soup with Dalek Krotons - A Recipe by Patrick Troughton" (5:08)
  - "Lasagne - A Recipe by Sarah Sutton" (5:30)
• "Tom Baker in Conversation" (11:20)
• "Behind the Sofa: Genesis of the Daleks" (14:00)
• Trailers: "Season 10: Hello Boys" (2:30)
  - "Season 18: Galactic Glitter Tours" (2:42)
  - "Season 19: A Message from Jovanka Airlines" (2:29)
  - "Season 23: Back on Trial" (3:40)
  - "Season 26: The Promise" (3:35)

It's okay, going to watch it tonight i think. It's hardly exclusive material as was initially mooted.

The bonus 32 page supplement is purely an index. Yup 32 pages telling us where everything is in each mag across the whole 40 years. What a waste of time.

Glad i paid £3.50 for it as a subscriber. I'd feel a bit short changed had i paid a tenner from a shop...although the many pages devoted to Mr. Dicks are a good read as are the interviews with Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat regarding how they worked with the magazine throughout their eras.

We also get about forty words from Chibnall. Utterly pointless they are.

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.

*********************************

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

******************************

(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.

*********************************

(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?

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

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.

********************************

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

***********************************

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*?

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

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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

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.

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.

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!)

**********************************

(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.

**************************

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.

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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.

Doctor Who fans think they may have finally found Matt Smith’s secret Star Wars character | Radio Times

"Obviously, you can’t see much of this character behind his masked helmet and slightly scaled skin, but Whovians and other Matt Smith fans claim that the actor’s trademark brow and stare are unmistakable. Plus, the character’s name being kept secret (with only the very Doctor Who regeneration-friendly caption A New Face) only adds to their theories that this is Smith in action."

Saw Castrovalva the other day. I used to like this story, and then I kind of went off it and haven't even watched it properly in a decade. But... mark this up as another one I really enjoyed upon another revisit. Oh it has its flaws - dodgy pacing as always with Mr Bidmead - but it's still far more engaging than Traken or Logoboris. This is also the first time I've watched a story from the season 19 blu ray set I got for Xmas in full... and I have to admit I may have been wrong. The PQ is an improvement after all. :lol:

I have decided to start getting the Blu ray sets after all. :pound::whip::behindsofa:

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

Asylum Of The Daleks

Amy: Where are we? A spaceship, right?
The Doctor: Not just any spaceship. The Parliament of the Daleks. Be brave.
Amy: What do we do?
The Doctor: Make them remember you. Well, come on then. You've got me. What are you waiting for? At long last, it's Christmas! Here I am.
(The Doctor closes his eyes tight, expecting to die. The organic Dalek speaks.)
Dalek PM: Save us. You will save us.
The Doctor: I'll what?
Dalek: You will save the Daleks.
Daleks: Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks. Save the Daleks.
The Doctor: Well.
Daleks: Save the Daleks.
The Doctor: This is new.

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Dalek PM: What do you know of the Dalek Asylum?
The Doctor: According to legend, you have a dumping ground. A planet where you lock up all the Daleks that go wrong. The battle-scarred, the insane, the ones even you can't control. It's never made any sense to me.
Dalek PM: Why not?
The Doctor: Because you'd just kill them.
Dalek PM: It is offensive to us to extinguish such divine hatred.
The Doctor: Offensive?
Dalek PM: Does it surprise you to know the Daleks have a concept of beauty?
The Doctor: I thought you'd run out of ways to make me sick. Hello again. You think hatred is beautiful.
Dalek PM: Perhaps that is why we have never been able to kill you.
(A hole opens in the middle of the floor. The Doctor and Darla walk back to it. A planet is visible.)
Darla: The Asylum. It occupies the entire planet, right to the core.
The Doctor: How many Daleks are in there?
Darla: A count has not been made. Millions, certainly.
The Doctor: All still alive?
Darla: It has to be assumed. The Asylum is fully automated. Supervision is not required.
Amy: Armed?
Darla: The Daleks are always armed.
Rory: What colour? I'm sorry, there weren't any good questions left.

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Rory: Shush. (Other Daleks start to boot up, too, making sounds.) What? Sorry, what?
Dalek: Eg eg eg eg eg eg eg.
Rory: Eggs? You mean those things?
(The roundels on the Dalek's casing. Some have fallen off onto the floor.)
Dalek: Egg.
Rory: I don't, I don't know what you want. Those things. Are those things eggs? This? You want this.
Dalek: Egg. Stir. Min. Ate. (Rory drops the ball.) Exterminate.
Daleks: Exterminate.
(One weapon blast just misses him. Rory tries to run the gauntlet.)
Dalek: Emergency. Emergency. Exterminate. Exterminate.
Oswin [OC]: Run! The door at the end, run for it. They're waking up, but they're slow. The door at the end. Just run. Now! Now! Now!
Daleks: Exterminate. Exterminate.

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The Doctor: Identify me. Access your files. Who am I? Come on. Who's your daddy?
Dalek: You are the Predator.
The Doctor: Access your standing orders concerning the Predator.
Dalek: The Predator must be destroyed.
The Doctor: And how are you going to do that, Dalek? Without a gun you're a tricycle with a roof. How are you going to destroy me?
Dalek: Self-destruct initiated.
Amy: What's it doing?
The Doctor: It's going to blow itself up, and I with it. Only weapon it's got left.

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The Doctor: Oswin, I think I'm close.
Oswin: You are. Less than twenty feet away. Which is the good news.
The Doctor: Okay. And the bad which I suddenly feel is coming?
Oswin: You're about to pass through Intensive Care.
(The Daleks here are in cages.)
The Doctor: What's so special about this lot, then?
Oswin [OC]: Don't know. Survivors of particular wars. Spiridon, Kembel, Eridius, Vulcan, Exxilon. Ringing any bells?
The Doctor: All of them.
Oswin [OC]: Yeah? How?
The Doctor: These are the Daleks who survived me.

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Oswin: Run, you clever boy. And remember.

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Jenna Coleman made a surprise early appearance in Asylum of the Daleks (2012) as Oswin, a splinter of her as yet unseen character (Don't ask it's a very long story) Clara Oswald.

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

Dinosaurs On A Spaceship

Brian: Are you saying dinosaurs are flying a spaceship?
The Doctor: Brian, please, that would be ridiculous. They're probably just passengers

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Brian: What's the escape plan?
The Doctor: Why do we want to escape?
Brian: They have us hostage.
Rory: They're taking us somewhere. We might learn from it.
(The Doctor tweaks Rory's cheek.)
The Doctor: Oh, you see? He's so clever. I've missed you, Rory.
Rory: Don't do that.

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The Doctor: Go, Tricy. Run like the wind!
(It doesn't move, even when laser bolts whiz past.)
Robot 1 [OC]: After them.
The Doctor: Quick, how do you start a Triceratops?
Robot 1: There they are.
Robot 2: I know, I saw them before you.
Brian: Tricy, fetch.
(Brian bounces his other golf ball off its nose, and the creature lumbers away.)
The Doctor: Go, Tricy.
Robot 1: They've stolen a dinosaur.
Robot 2: I can see that.
The Doctor: Come on, Tricy, faster, baby!
Robot 1: They're turning off. We're losing them.
Robot 2: Which way did they go?
Robot 1: I thought you were looking.
Robot 2: No. Now they've got away.
Robot 1: We definitely used to be faster.
Brian: I'm riding a dinosaur on a spaceship.
The Doctor: I know!

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The Doctor: Hello! Having trouble leaving?
(The Doctor shorts out the robots with spare power cables.)
Robots: Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do.

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Lee Binding's artwork for Doctor Who - The Movie released on blu-ray in 2016.

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

A Town Called Mercy

The Doctor: Mercy. Eighty one residents.
Amy: Look at this. It's a load of stones and lumps of wood. What is it?
The Doctor: A load of stones and lumps of wood.
(The Gunslinger is watching from a distance.)
Rory: The sign does say Keep Out.
The Doctor: I see Keep Out signs as suggestions more than actual orders, like Dry Clean only. (They step over the load of stones and lumps of wood that circle the town and head down the street, towards the Grand Central Bank. The residents watch silently. An electric street lamp outside the Post Office sparks.) That's not right.
Rory: It's a street lamp.
The Doctor: An electric street lamp about ten years too early.
Rory: It's only a few years out.
The Doctor: That's what you said when you left your phone charger in Henry the Eighth's en-suite.
Amy: Doctor, er
The Doctor: Anachronistic electricity, Keep Out signs, aggressive stares. Has someone been peeking at my Christmas list?

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(The piano playing and the conversations stop dead when our trio walk in. The Doctor goes to the bar.)
The Doctor: Tea. But the strong stuff. Leave the bag in.

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Amy: What does he want? Has he issued some kind of demand?
Isaac: Says he wants us to give him the alien doctor.
Amy: But that's you. Why would he want to kill you? Unless he's met you.

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The Doctor: Can I borrow your horse, please? It's official Marshal business.
Preacher: He's called Joshua. It's from the Bible. It means the Deliverer.
The Doctor: No, he isn't. I speak horse. He's called Susan, and he wants you to respect his life choices.
(The Doctor gallops out of town.)

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Computer: Thank you for choosing Abarakas Security software. Incinerating intruders for three centuries.

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(Amy gets another gun and fires in the air.)
Amy: Let him come back, Doctor.
The Doctor: Or what? You won't shoot me, Amy.
Amy: How do you know? Maybe I've changed. I mean, you've clearly been taking stupid lessons since I saw you last. (Her gun fires again.) I didn't mean to do that.
(Isaac fires to get everyone's attention.)
Isaac: Everyone who isn't an American, drop your gun.

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The Robots of Death (1977) - Scared the living daylights out of me as a child.

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Filming pic for the Christmas Special.

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.u...cation-3456243

The 'official' reason why the bridge was shut

Terror of the Vervoids Special Edition. Otherwise known as "the one with no Trial", the SE simply presents Vervoids as a standard four part story in its own right, purged of the Trial format. And it pretty much works. Don't get me wrong, no one is ever going to accuse Vervoids of being a great story, and even the nice CG effects can't disguise the cheapness of the production and the laughability of the monsters, but at least without the interminable Trial scenes it zips along at a fair old pace and is a bit of ropey but amusing fun and you can actually enjoy it away from the drag factor of the rest of that awful season. You also realise that Pip and Jane pretty much throw the kitchen sink in, with a race of killer plant men, a murder mystery with a human killer and then in the last episode they chuck in an otherwise unrelated hijack plot just for the hell of it! It's rather jolly in this form, and I will almost certainly watch it in this way again. The PQ is again an improvement on Blu, I know it's only upscaled because it's videotape, but it does look sharper and the colours more vivid. :skull:

Noted!

Am digging out Horror Of Fang Rock for Halloween. So am revisiting the other Terror in the canon as it frightens me still a bit :ghost::skull:

Filming 'The Enemy Of The World'

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Power Of Three

Amy [OC]: Life with the Doctor was like this. (Lots of flashes of action clips.) Real life was like this.
Woman [answerphone]: It's Lane's Opticians. Just reminding you your reading glasses are ready for collection. Bye!
Amy: Milk two months out of date. Yogurt. (It smells and looks so bad she drops it.) Eek! Don't ask.
Rory: We've run out of washing tablets.

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Rory: We have two lives. Real life and Doctor life. Except real life doesn't get much of a look in.
Amy: What do we do?
Rory: Choose?
(The sound of a Tardis materialising.)
Amy: Not today, though.
Rory: Nah, not today.
Amy [OC]: Every time we flew away with the Doctor, we'd just become part of his life. But he never stood still long enough to become part of ours. Except once. The year of the slow invasion. The time the Doctor came to stay.

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The Doctor: Right, I need to use your kitchen as a lab. Cook up some cubes. See what happens.
Rory: Right, I'm due at work.
The Doctor: What? You've got a job?
Rory: Of course I've got a job. What do you think we do when we're not with you?
The Doctor: I imagined mostly kissing.
Amy: I write travel articles for magazines and Rory heals the sick.

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Rory: There are soldiers all over my house, and I'm in my pants.
Amy: My whole life I've dreamed of saying that, and I miss it by being someone else.
(A woman enters the house.)
Kate: All these muscles, and they still don't know how to knock. Sorry about the raucous entrance. Spike in Artron energy reading at this address. In the light of the last twenty four hours, we had to check it out, and the dogs do love a run out. Hello. Kate Stewart, head of scientific research at UNIT. And with dress sense like that...(She holds out a scanner, which shows two hearts beating in his chest.) You must be the Doctor. I hoped it would be you.
The Doctor: Tell me, since when did science run the military, Kate?
Kate: Since me. UNIT's been adapting. Well, I dragged them along, kicking and screaming, which made it sound like more fun than it actually was.

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The Doctor: I've run restaurants. Who do you think invented the Yorkshire pudding?
Rory: You didn't.
The Doctor: Pudding, yet savoury. Sound familiar?

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Amy: Secret base beneath the Tower. Hope we're not here because we know too much.
Kate: Yes, I've got officers trained in beheading. Also ravens of death.
Amy: I like her.

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Feifei Ruan's Doctor Who art shows the TARDIS in classical Chinese landscapes in a gorgeous promo push for the Chinese market earlier this year.

Daleks outside the London Planetarium on August 20th, 1964 as part of the promotion for 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth'

The woman carrying the bag...what exactly is she doing to that Dalek eye stalk?

On a Soviet Cultural Mission to Britain in 1966, Nadezhda Volchenko, the Deputy Chief of the Soviet Star Film Industry Committee, visited Shepperton Studios to see the completion of filming for ‘Daleks invasion of Earth 2150AD’

Just released on Steelbox Blu-Ray Doctor Who: The Specials - available from Amazon UK for £24.99

"Product Description

This Complete Specials includes all the Doctor Who Specials from 2009 starring David Tennant - The Next Doctor, Planet of the Dead, Waters Of Mars, The End of the time, part one and The End of the time, part two. It also includes the following special features: Commentary with Cast & Crew, Deleted Scenes, Exclusive David Tennant Video Diary, Doctor Who Confidential, Doctor who at the Proms, Doctor who at Comic Con and more.

This limited edition Steelbook also features a bonus disc including two animated episodes Dreamland and The Infinite Quest.

Dreamland
Dreamland sees the iconic TARDIS touch down in the desert in the USA. Stumbling across a mysterious alien artefact in a local diner, the Doctor is led to Area 51, also known as Dreamland, the US’ most secret base. He then finds himself on a momentous mission to rescue Rivesh Mantilax from the threat of the ruthless Viperox and the clutches of the American military. Created in eye-catching high-definition 3-D animation, the series sees the Doctor, played by David Tennant, hook up with two new companions - Cassie and Jimmy - and pits him against a new alien race, the monstrous Viperox, led by Lord Azlok.

The Infinite Quest
Based on the brilliant and popular series, The Infinite Quest sees the Doctor and his companion Martha step into a new dimension - a cartoon one. The pair set off on an animated adventure through space following a trail of clues across wild and wonderful alien worlds, to find the location of the legendary lost spaceship, the Infinite. However, the evil space pirate Baltazar is also searching for the ship, believing it will grant him his dearest wish - a means to destroy Earth and rule the galaxy. With spectacular animation, this vibrant cartoon is as gripping as any usual episode of Doctor Who."

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Angels Take Manhattan

The Doctor: I always rip out the last page of a book. Then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings.

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Rory: I always wanted to visit the Statue Of Liberty. I guess she got impatient.
(Rory runs to the opposite edge, behind Amy's back.)
Amy: What? What is it, what?
Rory: Just keep your eyes on that.
Amy: Is there a way down?
Rory: Er, no. But there's a way out.
(Rory climbs up onto the ledge.)
Amy: What are you doing? Rory, what are you doing? (Amy turns around and goes to him.) Rory, stop it. You'll die.
Rory: Yeah, twice, in the same building on the same night. Who else could do that?
Amy: Just come down, please.
Rory: This is the right thing to do. This will work. If I die now, it's a paradox, right? The paradox kills the Angels. Tell me I'm wrong. Go on, please, because I'm really scared. Oh, great. The one time you can't manage it. Amy, I'm going to need a little help here.
(Rory takes Amy's hand and puts it on his chest.)
Amy: Just stop it!
Rory: Just think it through. This will work, this will kill the Angels.
Amy: It'll kill you too.
Rory: Will it? River said that this place would be erased from time, never existed. If this place never existed, what did I fall off?
Amy: You think you'll come back to life?
Rory: When don't I?
Amy: Rory.
Rory: And anyway, what else is there? Dying of old age downstairs, never seeing you again? Amy, please. If you love me, then trust me, and push.
Amy: I can't.
Rory: You have to!
Amy: Could you? If it was me, could you do it?
Rory: To save you, I'd do anything.
(Amy gets up on the ledge next to Rory.)
Amy: Prove it.
Rory: No, I can't take you too.
Amy: You said we'd come back to life. Money where your mouth is time.
Rory: Amy, look.
Amy: Shut up. Together, or not at all.
(The Doctor and River arrive via the fire escape.)
The Doctor: What the hell are you doing!
Amy: Changing the future. It's called marriage.
(Gazing into each others eyes, Amy and Rory fall off Winter Quay.)
The Doctor: Amy! Amy!
(Balls of energy gather and flicker around the roof.)
River: Doctor! What's happening?
The Doctor: The paradox. It's working! The paradox is working!
(Whiteout.)
[Graveyard]
(Rory and Amy sit up.)
Rory: Where are we?
The Doctor: Back where we started. You collapsed the timeline. The paradox worked. We all pinged back where we belong.
Rory: What, in a graveyard?
Amy: This happened the last time. Why always here?
The Doctor: Does it matter? We got lucky. We could've blown New York off the planet. I can't ever take the Tardis back there. The timelines are too scrambled. I could have lost you both. Don't ever do that again.
Rory: What did we do? We fixed it. We solved the problem.
The Doctor: I was talking to myself.
(The Tardis has a bit of fire extinguisher damage. River appears from behind it with a bucket of water and a rag.)
River: It could do with a repaint.
The Doctor: I've been busy.
River: Does the bulb on top need changing?
The Doctor: I just changed it.
River: So. Rory and Amy, then.
The Doctor: Yes. I know, I know.
River: I'm just saying. They're going to get terribly bored hanging round here all day.
Rory: Doctor.
The Doctor: Ha!
Rory: Look, next time, could we could just go to the pub?
The Doctor: I want go to the pub right now. Are there video games there? I love video games.
River: Right. Family outing, then.
(The Doctor and River go into the Tardis. Rory hangs back.)
Rory: Amy, come and see this.
Amy: What?
Rory: There's a gravestone here for someone with the same name as me.
Amy: What? (Rory vanishes. There was an Angel behind him.) Doctor!
(The Doctor and River run out of the Tardis.)
River: Where the hell did that come from?
The Doctor: It's a survivor. Very weak, but keep your eyes on it.
Amy: Where's Rory?
(The Doctor sees Rory's gravestone - aged 82.)
The Doctor: I'm sorry. Amelia, I'm so, so sorry.
Amy: No. No, we can just go and get him in the Tardis. One more paradox.
The Doctor: Would rip New York apart.
Amy: No, that's not true. I don't believe you.
River: Mother, it's true.
The Doctor: Amy, what are you doing?
Amy: That gravestone, Rory's, there's room for one more name, isn't there?
The Doctor: What are you talking about? Back away from the Angel. Come back to the Tardis. We'll figure something out.
Amy: The Angel, would it send me back to the same time? To him?
The Doctor: I don't know. Nobody knows.
Amy: But it's my best shot, yeah?
The Doctor: No!
River: Doctor, shut up. Yes. Yes, it is.
The Doctor: Amy.
Amy: Well, then. I just have to blink, right?
The Doctor: No!
Amy: It'll be fine. I know it will. I'll be with him, like I should be. Me and Rory together. Melody?
The Doctor: Stop it. Just, just stop it!
(River takes Amy's hand and kisses it.)
Amy: You look after him. You be a good girl, and you look after him.
The Doctor: You are creating fixed time. I will never be able to see you again.
Amy: I'll be fine. I'll be with him.
The Doctor: Amy, please, just come back into the Tardis. Come along, Pond, please.
Amy: Raggedy man, goodbye!
(Amy turns her back on the Angel, and vanishes. Rory's gravestone gains more words - And His Loving Wife Amelia Williams aged 87.)
The Doctor: No!

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Amy [OC]: Hello, old friend. And here we are, you and me, on the last page. By the time you read these words, Rory and I will be long gone. So know that we lived well, and were very happy. And above all else, know that we will love you always. Sometimes I do worry about you, though. I think once we're gone, you won't be coming back here for a while, and you might be alone, which you should never be. Don't be alone, Doctor. And do one more thing for me. There's a little girl waiting in a garden. She's going to wait a long while, so she's going to need a lot of hope. Go to her. Tell her a story. Tell her that if she's patient, the days are coming that she'll never forget. Tell her she'll go to sea and fight pirates. She'll fall in love with a man who'll wait two thousand years to keep her safe. Tell her she'll give hope to the greatest painter who ever lived and save a whale in outer space. Tell her this is the story of Amelia Pond. And this how it ends.

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