The Doctor Who Thread

[Susan Foreman]

New music video from Edward Russell featuring a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo appearance from Janet Fielding at 1.10

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

William Hartnell as the Doctor, which completes the series of four character promo images for the debut story 1963's An Unearthly Child.

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Horror Of Fang Rock – Part 1

Vince: This is quite a treat for me, miss.
Leela: Is it?
Vince: Oh yes, it's a lonely up in the lighthouse, you see. I go out sometimes and talk to the seals, you know, just to get a change from Reuben and Ben.
Leela: Seals are animals?
Vince: Well, yes.
Leela: That is stupid. You should talk often with the old ones of the tribe. That is the only way to learn.
Vince: I'll get you a hot drink, miss.
Leela: I could do with some dry clothes more than a hot drink.
Vince: Oh, I'm afraid we don't have nothing suitable for a lady.
Leela: I'm no lady, Vince. The clothes you are wearing will be most suitable.
(Leela removes her skirt and shakes out the underskirts.)
Vince: These are men's clothes, miss. Working clothes. (Vince turns round then averts his eyes.) I'll, er, I'll find you something, miss. I'll go and find something.
(He leaves as she starts to unfasten her blouse.)

The Horror Of Fang Rock – Part 2

Palmerdale: (sotto) Wake up, man. Wake up.
Harker: What?
Palmerdale: (sotto) Will you wake up?
Harker: What is it? What do you want?
Palmerdale: (sotto) Can you use a Morse apparatus?
Harker: Of course I can. Can I what?
Palmerdale: (sotto) Use a Morse telegraphic apparatus like that one over there.
Harker: Of course I can.
Palmerdale: (sotto) Good. Now, I want you to send a coded message for me. It's to be passed on to my brokers in London.
Harker: Send a message? What for?
Palmerdale: (sotto) That's none of your business. Just do as I tell you. It's a business matter. There's a great deal of money involved.
Harker: Money?
Palmerdale: (sotto) Oh, don't worry, you'll be handsomely rewarded. I had urgent reasons for getting back to London. Vital business affairs. This will have to do instead.
Harker: I remember. You was mad to get back to England.
Palmerdale: Was I?
Harker: I remember on the bridge, when the fog was coming down, Captain begging for permission to slow down, you telling him full ahead and damn the consequences. He should have slowed her, ignored you anyway.
(Skinsale wakes.)
Palmerdale: It was his duty to obey my orders.
Harker: He was old and weak. He was scared he'd never get another ship.
Palmerdale: Do as I tell you and you'll be well paid.
Harker: And when she struck it was get the owner away and the owner's fancy woman and the owner's fine friend. Never mind the poor sailors.
Palmerdale: I'll have no more of this. There's no time.
Harker: They're dead because of you.
(Harker grabs Palmerdale round the throat and pushes him against the sideboard.)
Palmerdale: Harker, get off!
(Skinsale comes to the rescue.)
Skinsale: Don't be such a damn fool, man. Harker!
(The Doctor enters.)
The Doctor: Let go, Harker!
Harker: There are good seamen dead because of you! You deserve to die.
The Doctor: Come on, sit down. Sit down. All that can wait. Gentlemen, I've got news for you. This lighthouse is under attack, and by morning we might all be dead. Anyone interested?

The Horror Of Fang Rock – Part 3

Adelaide: Doctor!
The Doctor: Shush.
(He checks that Leela has gone down the stairs.)
Skinsale: What's all this about, Doctor?
The Doctor: Survival, Colonel.
Skinsale: Survival?
The Doctor: Yes. Yours, mine, all of us.
Skinsale: Oh, this mysterious beast that eats lighthouse keepers.
The Doctor: Do you find that difficult to accept, Colonel?
Skinsale: Oh come, Doctor, I'm a man of intelligence, of education.
The Doctor: Quite so, quite so, and I don't believe in mythical sea creatures either.
Adelaide: Then why do you suggest that we're in danger?
The Doctor: Because somewhere out there is a hostile alien from a distant planet, and I believe it intends to destroy us.
Skinsale: A hostile alien from a distant planet?
The Doctor: Yes.
Adelaide: You call yourself a doctor? That's the most insane suggestion I've heard in my life

The Horror Of Fang Rock – Part 4

The Doctor: Now I remember. Reuben the Rutan.
Rutan: You know our form?
The Doctor: Well, when you've seen one Rutan, you've seen them all.
Rutan: We are a Rutan scout. We are specially trained in the new metamorphosis techniques.
The Doctor: Well, I expect you'll get better at it in time. What are you doing in this part of the galaxy anyway?
Rutan: That doesn't concern you. You are to be destroyed.
The Doctor: Got it! You're at last losing that interminable war with the Sontarans.
Rutan: That is a lie!
The Doctor: Is it? You used to control the whole of the Mutter's Spiral once. Now the Sontarans have driven you to the far fringes of the galaxy.
Rutan: The glorious Rutan army is making a series of strategic withdrawals to selected strong points.
The Doctor: Rutan, that's the empty rhetoric of a defeated dictator, and I don't like your face, either.
Rutan: Your mockery will end with your race, Earthling, when the mighty Rutan battle fleet occupies this planet.
The Doctor: Why invade an obscure planet like Earth? It's of no value to you.
Rutan: The planet is obscure, but its strategic position is sound. We shall use it as a launch point for our final assault on the Sontaran rabble.
The Doctor: But if you set up a power base here, the Sontarans will bombard it with photonic missiles.
Rutan: That is unimportant. It will serve the cause of our final glorious victory.
The Doctor: And what about its people?
Rutan: Primitive bipeds of no value. We scouted all the planets of this solar system. Only this one suits our purpose.
The Doctor: I can understand your military purposes, but why murder a hatful of harmless humans?
Rutan: It is necessary. Til we return to our mother ship, and the mother ship informs the fleet, no one must know of our visit to Earth.
The Doctor: But you crashed, didn't you, just as you made your discovery. You failed.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A promo photo of a Cyberman outside St. Paul's Cathedral for the classic 1968 story, The Invasion.

[Susan Foreman]

A blonde Eve Myles

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Invisible Enemy – Part 1

(Leela is back in her leather loincloth, and currently carrying the coat stand back into a proper shiny, metallic console room. No more wooden claustrophobia.)
Leela: We've never been in here before.
The Doctor: You've never been in here before.
Leela: What is it?
The Doctor: Number two control room has been closed for redecoration. I don't like the colour.
Leela: White isn't a colour.
The Doctor: That's the trouble with computers. Always think in black and white. No aquamarines, no blues, no imagination.
(The time rotor stops.)
Leela: Have we stopped?
The Doctor: No, we haven't stopped.
(The viewscreen opens.)
Leela: Have we materialised?
The Doctor: Yes.
Leela: Where?
The Doctor: Solar system, between Jupiter and Saturn. About five thousand AD. Five thousand AD? We're still in the time of your ancestors.
Leela: Ancestors?
The Doctor: Yes. That was the year of the great breakout.
Leela: The great what?
The Doctor: Mmm. When your forefathers went leapfrogging across the solar system on their way to the stars. Asteroid belt's probably teeming with them now. New frontiersmen, pioneers waiting to spread across the galaxy like a tidal wave. Or a disease.
Leela: Why disease? I thought you liked humanity?
The Doctor: Oh, I do, I do. Some of my best friends are humans. When they get together in great numbers, other lifeforms sometimes suffer.

The Invisible Enemy – Part 2

Woman: Patient's name?
Leela: Er, just the Doctor.
Woman: Place of origin?
Leela: Gallifrey.
Woman: Ireland?
Leela: Oh, I expect so.
Woman: Thank you, that's all we need for now.
Leela: But where is he?
Woman: Level X4, Isolation, being datalysed.
Leela: Being what?
Woman: Datalysed. Treatment is already underway. Are you next of kin?
Leela: Oh, no. Er, yes. I don't know. I expect so.

The Invisible Enemy – Part 3

Leela Clone: Is this your land of dreams and fantasies?
The Doctor Clone: Well, on the way to it.
Leela Clone: The evil thing. Very close. And another. Doctor, we're going to be trapped.
(The Doctor goes a little further on, and finds a three foot high pile of yuk with a single clawed tentacle flailing around.)
The Doctor Clone: Who are you?
Nucleus: I am the Nucleus.
The Doctor Clone: You're trespassing, you know. Treading on my unconscious, affecting my metabolism. Nucleus of what?
Nucleus: The Nucleus of the Swarm.
The Doctor Clone: Oh. Oh, I see. Why did you choose my brain?
Nucleus: Because of your intelligence.
The Doctor Clone: Oh, well, I can understand that, but do you realise you have no right
Nucleus: I have every right! It is the right of every creature across the universe to survive, multiply and perpetuate its species. How else does the predator exist? We are all predators, Doctor. We kill, we devour, to live. Survival is all, you agree?
The Doctor Clone: Oh yes, I do, I do. And on your argument, I have a perfect right to dispose of you.
Nucleus: Of course. The law is survival of the fittest.
The Doctor Clone: Touche
Nucleus: Your time is running short. How do you intend to dispose of me? You have no weapons, and in minutes you will cease to exist. I am the virus of the Nucleus of the Swarm. For millennia we have hung dormant in space waiting for the right carriers to come along.
The Doctor Clone: Carriers? What do you mean, carriers? I'm not a porter.
Nucleus: Consider the human species. They send hordes of settlers across space to breed, multiply, conquer and dominate. We have as much right to conquer you as you have to strike out across the stars.
The Doctor Clone: But you intend to dominate both worlds, the micro and the macrocosm.
Nucleus: We have waited, waited in the cold wastes of space. Waited for mankind to come. And now we have not only space but time itself within our grasp.
The Doctor Clone: Time?
Nucleus: Through you, Time Lord.

The Invisible Enemy – Part 4

The Doctor: Goodbye.
Marius: Goodbye, Doctor, and thank you for everything you've done for us.
The Doctor: It's been a pleasure, Professor. It's been a pleasure. Do you know that without K9 I think we'd have been part of the Swarm by now.
Leela: We'd never have managed with out him. Her. It. Sorry, K9.
K9: Apologies are not necessary, but thank you, mistress.
Marius: I think K9 has taken to you. Oh. Actually, I have to return to Earth shortly and you could do me a great favour if
The Doctor: What?
Leela: Take K9 with us?
Marius: Yes.
The Doctor: No.
Leela: Yes! Oh, please, Doctor, please, please, let's take him.
(K9 goes into the Tardis.)
Marius: K9 seems to have made up his own mind. (The Doctor and Leela go into the Tardis. Marius sniffs and wipes his nose.) I only hope he's Tardis trained.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Ben (Michael Craze) and Polly (Annekke Wills) still being pursued by Cybermen in the 1973 Radio Times Doctor Who special.

[Gothmogxx]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Ben (Michael Craze) and Polly (Annekke Wills) still being pursued by Cybermen in the 1973 Radio Times Doctor Who special.

Legend says that, to this very day, Ben and Polly are still being chased by those Cybermen.

[Gothmogxx]

Rewatching the Mind of Evil. A Masterpiece in every sense of the word.

Although I still question how the Doctor is frightened of the Zarbi during the scene with the Keller Machine. Why or rather how on earth is he frightened of the Zarbi?!? Or even Koquillion for that matter?

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

Image Of The Fendhal – Part 1

Fendelman: But Colby's methodology cannot be faulted. The excavation of the skull was brilliant. The reconstruction was first class work.
Thea: But he cannot accept the evolutionary implications.
Fendelman: And you, Thea? Can you accept them?
Thea: Chronology is my field, Doctor Fendelman. I'm a technician, not a human palaeontologist.
(Colby rushes in.)
Colby: There's a corpse by the wood.
Fendelman: What sort of corpse?
Colby: A dead one. What other sort is there?
Fendelman: Male or female?
Colby: Oh, male.
Thea: Do we know him?
Colby: I never saw him before.
Fendelman: How did he die? Are there signs of violence?
Colby: Well, not exactly. By the look of him, he didn't die easily.
Stael: It is never easy to die.

Image Of The Fendhal – Part 2

Colby: What was it?
The Doctor: They look like embryo Fendahleen to me. (The glow has gone, and Thea wakes up.) Come and sit down. You'll be all right.
Colby: Embryo what?
The Doctor: Embryo Fendahleen. A creature from my own mythology. Supposed to have perished when the fifth planet broke up. At least, so they said.
Colby: A creature from mythology? Do you know what you're talking about?
The Doctor: Well, you saw it. If it survived twelve million years, it's energy reserves must be enormous.
Colby: Twelve million? Why did you say twelve million?
The Doctor: What? Well, about twelve million. That's when the fifth planet broke up. There are four thousand million people here on your planet, and if I'm right, within a year there'll be just one left alive. Just one.
Colby: What are you, exactly? Some sort of wandering Armageddon peddler, hmm?

Image Of The Fendhal – Part 3

Tyler: Is this him? Is this your man? Oi, do you know what's going on? My Gran in hell of a state.
(The Doctor claps his hands.)
The Doctor: Come on, Mrs Tyler, wake up.
(Leela shakes Martha.)
Leela: Come on, old woman, wake up. Wake up now.
Tyler: Oi, what do you think you're doing? Leave her alone.
The Doctor: Do you know what's wrong with her?
Tyler: Well, no, but
The Doctor: I do. Make some tea.
Tyler: Tea?
The Doctor: Tea. She does drink tea?
Tyler: Well, yeah.
The Doctor: Off you go and make some. Use the best china. Four cups laid out on a tray. Off you go. Oh, and some fruitcake.
Tyler: Anything else?
The Doctor: No. (Tyler goes into the kitchen.) I love fruitcake. Come on, Mrs Tyler. This is no way to behave when you've got visitors. We've come for tea.
Leela: And fruitcake.
The Doctor: And fruitcake.

Image Of The Fendhal – Part 4

The Doctor: Down!
(Leela and the Doctor take cover behind a fallen tree, and the building explodes in a ball of flames which expand at first, then contract back to the point of origin, burning furiously.)
Leela: What now?
The Doctor: We leave. Vanishing priories take a lot of explaining.
Leela: Will the other be all right?
The Doctor: Yes. Probably at Mrs Tyler's now, eating plum cake off her best china.