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Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

It was very effective to a 40 year old me back in 2006 as well

It truly was a jaw dropping moment

And for me too.

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Power Of Kroll – Part 1

(The Tardis materialises in a reed bed that reaches almost to her flashing blue light.)
Romana: Was it absolutely necessary to land in a quagmire?
The Doctor: Well I told you it was a bit swampy. It's not the Tardis' fault, anyway. These marshes go on for miles. A little water doesn't hurt.
Romana: Try telling that to K9. He's marooned.
The Doctor: Yes, well, we won't be here long enough to need K9. Come on. (They clamber up onto a piece of raised dry land. The Doctor raises his arm a few times then drops his hat.) Gravity check. Escape velocity about one point five miles a second.
Romana: Really? Isn't that a little low for a planet?
The Doctor: Yes. This must be one of the moons of Delta Magna. (He wets his finger and holds it up.) I'd say the third.
Romana: Doctor? Sometimes I don't think you're quite right in the head.
The Doctor: Never mind about that. Just point the tracer and see where we go next.
Romana: Oh, it's not a very clear reading. It's a very diffuse signal. It seems to cover about forty two and a half degrees in that direction.
The Doctor: Forty two and a half degrees?
Romana: Hmm. I don't like the sound of that.
The Doctor: No.
Romana: It either means the source is right on top of us, which it isn't.
The Doctor: Yeah, or else the tracer's developed a fault.
Romana: Yes, well, perhaps the atmosphere here's affecting it. I know, I'll try the higher ground here.
The Doctor: Yes, why don't you try the higher ground there.

The Power Of Kroll – Part 2

(Ranquin and two Swampies walk up to them.)
The Doctor: What? Well, you'd better introduce me.
Romana: As what?
The Doctor: Oh, I don't know. As a wise and wonderful person who wants to help. Don't exaggerate.
Romana: This is
Ranquin: Seize them.
The Doctor: I told you not to exaggerate. (Rohm-Dutt is dragged through.) Who's that?
Romana: Rohm-Dutt. A popular figure in these parts about an hour ago.
The Doctor: Ah.
Skart: Soon, dryfoot, you will wish you had died on the Stone of Blood.
Ranquin: Guard the dryfoots, Varlik. No harm must come to them. (The Doctor and Romana are taken away.) I will talk to Kroll, and he will tell me by which of the seven holy rituals they must meet death.

The Power Of Kroll – Part 3

(As clouds gather overhead, the drums beat, and Rohm-Dutt and Romana have already been tied to a pallet with creepers.)
The Doctor: I don't remember that last night. Early Samoan influence? (He lies down on the pallet to be tied up.) Interesting how traces of old cultures survive, isn't it?
Romana: I'm rather more interested in surviving myself.
The Doctor: Well, that's understandable at your age. Still, I prefer it to Gothic Perpendicular.
Rohm-Dutt: Varlik. Varlik? What is this seventh ritual?
Varlik: It is the slowest of all.
Romana: I knew it.
Varlik: I tried to persuade Ranquin that only Rohm-Dutt deserved to be punished by the seventh ritual and that you others should die by the first. That's very easy. They just throw you down the pit and drop rocks on you.
Romana: Oh, thank you. It's nice to know who your friends are.
Varlik: Ranquin says that your crimes are too serious. Kroll will only be appeased by extending your death agonies.
The Doctor: You know, that window's quite out of place. It's not in character at all.
Romana: Will you stop babbling about the architecture? We're having a serious conversation about death.
The Doctor: Well, architecture's quite a serious subject. Skart, where did that window come from?
Skart: What window?
(That big round glazed thing in the roof.)
The Doctor: What? That window up there.
Varlik: It was brought from Delta Magna when the temple was first built.
The Doctor: I'd have sacked him.
Romana: Who?
The Doctor: The architect.

The Power Of Kroll – Part 4

Dugeen: Thawn, you can't kill innocent people!
Thawn: They're Swampies.
Dugeen: Call them what you like, they're no different from you or me.
(The Doctor and Romana are tip-toeing unnoticed down the passage.)
Thawn: They are very different, Dugeen! Now get back to your place.
Dugeen: No.
Thawn: Are you refusing to obey orders?
(The Doctor and Romana go back down the passage.)
Dugeen: On moral grounds, sir. Look, if you fire that rocket, it's not just the monster that'll die. You'll destroy a civilisation as old as your own.
Thawn: I don't count the Swampies as being civilised. You're talking like one of those cranks from Sons of Earth.
Dugeen: They're not cranks. All life began on Mother Earth. All life is sacred!
Thawn: I'm giving you one last chance, Dugeen. (Dugeen tries to take Thawn's hand weapon, and is knocked down.) Now then, Fenner, do you want to give me an argument?
(Fenner sits and starts operating controls.)
Fenner: Countdown in two minutes.
Thawn: Right. Now, keep a track on that thing.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Andrew Skilleter's artwork for the 1980 Target book of The Power of Kroll.

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Armageddon Factor – Part 1

Romana: Well, there's still no sign of Zeos, but I'm picking up a reading for Atrios' twin. (whistles)
The Doctor: What's the matter?
Romana: Look. Radiation levels you wouldn't believe.
The Doctor: Good heavens. You could fry eggs in the street.
Romana: But that means
The Doctor: What?
Romana: There must be a huge nuclear war going on down there.
The Doctor: Not at all, no.
Romana: Well, what else could it be?
The Doctor: I don't know. Probably someone giving a huge breakfast party. Think positive. Why do you always assume the worst?
Romana: Because it usually happens.
The Doctor: Empirical poppycock. Where's your joy in life? Where's your optimism?
Romana: It opted out.
K9: Optimism. Belief that everything will work out well. Irrational, bordering on insane.
The Doctor: Oh do shut up, K9. Listen, Romana. Whenever you go into a new situation you must always believe the best until you find out exactly what the situation's all about, then believe the worst.
Romana: Ah, but what happens if it turns out not to be the worst after all?
The Doctor: Don't be ridiculous, it always is. Isn't it, K9?

The Armageddon Factor – Part 2

(Romana is still waving the tracer about.)
Merak: What are you doing?
Romana: Looking for something.
Merak: What?
Romana: I wish I knew. All I know is that this will tell us when we find it.
Merak: And that's why you're here?
Romana: Yes.
Merak: Not to help us?
Romana: Look, we will if we can. You'll just have to trust us, Merak. Will you?
Merak: What else can I do?

The Armageddon Factor – Part 3

(Meanwhile, the Doctor has arrived in a dark place, ruled by a humanoid dressed in a long black robe and black half-skull mask.)
Shadow: Place the control device. (One of the minions puts a small device on the Doctor's throat.) Now, Doctor, you are completely in my power.
The Doctor: Really? Do you mean because of that?
(The Doctor removes the device.)
Shadow: Ah! Very well. (The Doctor is pushed into a small alcove and onto a seat. Metal frame doors swing closed.) Now do you hear me, Doctor?
The Doctor: Yes. Yes, I hear you. Who are you?
Shadow: I am the Shadow. Your adversary, shall we say. It is not important. You come in quest of a key.
The Doctor: Yes.
Shadow: The Key to Time, as it is called.
The Doctor: Yes.
Shadow: You are in possession of certain elements of that key?
The Doctor: No.
(Static electricity flickers around the Doctor.)
Shadow: I warn you, Doctor. If you lie, the pain will increase. Where are they?
The Doctor: I don't know.
(More static.)
Shadow: Where are they?
The Doctor: Lost. Lost!
(More static.)
Shadow: Open your eyes, Doctor. (i)(A corner of the room lights up to reveal a blue police box.) Are they in there?
The Doctor: Yes.
Shadow: Then you will open it.
The Doctor: Yes.
Shadow: Release him.

The Armageddon Factor – Part 4

The Doctor: We have a problem. Well, several problems. Mentalis knows, but won't tell, about Astra. Refuses us access to the memory banks but tells us that the Marshal's on his way here to blow this place to smithereens.
Shapp: But won't it react?
Romana: Oh, yes. Mentalis is convinced it's invincible. It's been programmed not to accept defeat.
Merak: Then it'll stop him.
Shapp: It'll counterattack.
The Doctor: Unfortunately, it's been programmed that the war is over, so it can't attack. It thinks it's won. That's the trouble with machines.
Romana: So what will happen?
The Doctor: Well, it will self-destruct. I think obliteration was the term it used.
Romana: So if the Marshal attacks
Shapp: Which he will.
The Doctor: There will be a rather large bang, big enough to blow up Zeos, take Atrios with it, and make certain the whole thing ends in a sort of draw. That's the way these military minds work. The Armageddon factor.

The Armageddon Factor – Part 5

Drax: Drax is the name.
The Doctor: Drax?
Drax: Come on, Theet. Class of ninety two?
The Doctor: Not
Drax: Yeah?
The Doctor: Drax.
Drax: Yeah. We was on the tech course together. Long time ago now, Theet, eh? Must be what, four hundred and fifty years? And a long way from Gallifrey.
The Doctor: Yes, Gallifrey. Of course! Ha, ha! Drax.
Drax: Yeah, I was all right at practical, remember?
The Doctor: Yeah.
Drax: Temporal theory did me. Still, you did well, mind, getting your doctorate and all that.
The Doctor: What happened to you?
Drax: I failed, didn't I. Still, not to worry. I was doing all right till this lot. I went into repair and maintenance. Do anything, anytime, anywhere. I've been all over the galaxy. Buy a bit, do it up, sell it.
The Doctor: Yeah. What sort of things?
Drax: Cybernetics, guidance systems, you name it.
The Doctor: Armaments?
Drax: Yeah, and that. Not on a regular basis, of course.
The Doctor: Drax, I was introduced to a computer on Zeos. Called itself Mentalis. Did you by any chance have anything to do with the installation?
Drax: Strictly under duress. That's why I'm here. The minute I finished the job, wham. Feet never touched the ground.
The Doctor: The Shadow?
Drax: I didn't know who he was, did I. Just another customer, I thought. And then he puts the heavy word on. Do it or die. I mean, what would you have done?
The Doctor: Yes, very tricky.
Drax: Yeah. (Drax spots the broken distress beacon.) : So that's where it was. I thought somebody'd nicked it. Huh, not a lot of bottle now, is it.
The Doctor: Did you make that?
Drax: Knocked it up, yeah. Well, you gotta do something. There's always a chance some geezer would pick up the distress call.
The Doctor: You made this here?
Drax: I never go nowhere without me tools. Fat lot of good it did, though, eh? Got us both in nick together.
The Doctor: Drax, I don't want to pry, but where did you acquire this peculiar vocabulary?
Drax: Brixton, weren't it?
The Doctor: Brixton?
Drax: Brixton. London. Earth.
The Doctor: I've been to Earth.
Drax: Yeah, me transport broke down. Hyperbolics, as usual. And I was investigating certain possibilities with regard to replacements. I got done, didn't I. Ten years I got. Well, I had to learn the lingo, didn't I, to survive. Why, is there something funny about the way I talk?
The Doctor: No, no. It's very colourful. Very demotic.

The Armageddon Factor – Part 6

Romana: Right, I'll set the coordinates for Gallifrey, shall I?
The Doctor: Why Gallifrey?
Romana: Well, that's where we're going, isn't it?
The Doctor: We have the power to do anything we like. Absolute power over every particle in the universe. Everything that has ever existed or ever will exist. As from this moment are you listening to me, Romana?
Romana: Yes, of course I'm listening.
The Doctor: Because if you're not listening I can make you listen, because I can do anything. (The Doctor rolls his eyes back like a maniac.) As from this moment there's no such thing as free will in the entire universe. There's only my will, because I possess the Key to Time!
Romana: Doctor, are you all right?
The Doctor: (normal) Well of course I'm all right. But supposing I wasn't all right. This thing makes me feel in such a way I'd be very worried if I felt like that about someone else feeling like this about that. Do you understand?
Romana: Yes.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Another photo from the 1973 Radio Times special - this time it's Jamie (Frazer Hines) and Victoria (Deborah Watling) escaping from a Yeti.

[Susan Foreman]

Jodie (and Judoon) during the filming of the new series

https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/27/first...3RX5CoyQb8-Zcw

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New cover, out this week.

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

Destiny of the Daleks – Part 1

(The Doctor is examining a bit of K9.)
The Doctor: What a brain. Oh ho. What a brain. (K9 coughs.) Do that again. Say Ah.
K9: (croaky) Ah.
The Doctor: Ah! Ah, laryngitis. How can a robot catch laryngitis? I mean, what do you need it for, hmm? Romana! Laryngitis?
Romana: Doctor?
The Doctor: Romana, the dog's got laryngitis. (Princess Astra of Atrios enters.) Sorry, I thought you were Romana. Have you seen her? What are you doing here?
Romana: Regenerating. Do you like it?
The Doctor: Regenerating? What are you talking about, regenerating? Only Time Lords regenerate. Look, it's awfully nice to see you, Princess Astra
Romana: Romana.
The Doctor: Romana? Ah.
K9: Ah.
The Doctor: Shut up, K9. What are you doing in that body?
Romana: Regenerating. Do you like it?
The Doctor: But you can't wear that body.
Romana: I thought it looked very nice on the Princess.
The Doctor: But you can't go round wearing copies of bodies.
Romana: Why not? We're not going back to Atrios, are we?
The Doctor: No.
Romana: Well, then.
The Doctor: Well then, go and try another one. Go on.
Romana: All right.
(Romana leaves. The Doctor goes back to trying to fix K9.)
The Doctor: What's the trouble here? Preoccupation with external appearances.
Romana: I quite like this one but its a bit short.
(It's also very blue.)
The Doctor: Well, lengthen it then. Go on. Trying to look like other people. (Romana reenters as a voluptuous brunette in belly dancer gear.) It's just not important, is it, K9. (looks up) No thank you. Not today. It's what's on the inside that matters. That's what's important, isn't it, K9? Do you agree with me, K9? (The Doctor looks up to an eight foot Greek goddess.) Too tall. Take it away. Now, listen. You listen to me in there. What you want is something warm and sensible. Something that will wear well. Something with a bit of style and, well, style. You know.
(Romana walks in dressed just like the Doctor, complete with scarf and hat pulled down nearly to her nose.)
Romana: How about this, Doctor?
The Doctor: Exactly! Good heavens, that's exactly right. Ha! I never realised you had such a sense of style.
Romana: I thought you said external appearances weren't important.
The Doctor: Ah, but it's nice to get them right, though, isn't it.
Romana: Ah, but it's what's inside that counts.
The Doctor: Exactly. (The Doctor takes her hat off to reveal - Astra.) Oh.
Romana: Don't you like it? I think it'll do very nicely. The arms are a bit long. I can always take them in.
The Doctor: No, no, no, the arms are just fine. They're just fine. It's just that, oh well, all right, have it your own way. But get rid of those silly clothes, eh?

Destiny of the Daleks – Part 2

The Doctor: Romana. Ha ha! I thought you were dead.
Romana: Well, the only way to escape the Daleks was to feign death. It's lucky they didn't know I was a Gallifreyan.
The Doctor: Good girl.
Tyssan: Gallifreyan?
Romana: Yes, they taught me at school how to stop my hearts.
Tyssan: Hearts? How many have you got?
Romana: One for casual, one for best.

Destiny of the Daleks – Part 3

Davros: So, the long darkness has ended and the eternity of waiting is over. The resurrection has come, as I always knew it would. Now, where are my Daleks? (Davros trundles through the plastic curtain to be stopped by the Doctor.) Doctor.
The Doctor: Davros. You don't look a day older and I'd hoped you were dead.
Davros: Dead? I do not die. Mark this moment, Doctor. In the history of the universe, this moment is unique. Davros lives!
The Doctor: Yes, well, I can see your long rest hasn't done anything to cure your megalomania. Have a jelly baby.

Destiny of the Daleks – Part 4

Romana: Doctor, could you really have solved their problems and won the war for them?
The Doctor: Of course I could. It's obvious.
Romana: Was it?
The Doctor: Yes. Both sides were fighting with computers, perfectly logically. Each computer could predict the move of the other and counter it. Result, stalemate.
Romana: So the first side that switches its computer off and does something irrational
The Doctor: Wins the battle, yes. Make mistakes and confuse the enemy.
Romana: Brilliant.
The Doctor: Yes.
Romana: Is that why you always win?
The Doctor: Yes. What?
Romana: Because you always make mistakes.
The Doctor: Mistakes? Me? Well, perhaps once a century or so. (They go into the Tardis.) [OC] Well, I have made the odd mistake.
(The Tardis dematerialises.)
Romana [OC]: Not that switch.
The Doctor [OC]: What? (The Tardis materialises.) [OC] Oh, yes.
(And dematerialises again.)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A classic publicity image for the 1972 story The Three Doctors featuring Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee as Doctor's two and three.