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Old 21st May 2019, 10:23 PM
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See with the last paragraph how desperate they are to give it positive spin, those figures soon dropped of a cliff and I can't see the majority who tuned in last season doing it for 12.
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See with the last paragraph how desperate they are to give it positive spin, those figures soon dropped of a cliff and I can't see the majority who tuned in last season doing it for 12.
A decent trailer and people will tune in. Not a load of bollocks about 'Breaking the glass ceiling' then doing nothing of the sort like they did last time round.
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Old 22nd May 2019, 05:35 AM
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Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes
The Invasion Of Time – Part 1
Leader: We will conclude formalities. Sign it.
The Doctor: I never sign anything before I've read it.
Leader: Then read it.
The Doctor: You promised complete control over the Time Lords.
Vardan: You will have complete control.
The Doctor: But here in paragraph four sub
Vardan: Lawyer's quibbles, Doctor.
The Doctor: Well, I've heard that before. Almost got me killed once, but of course you know that.
Leader: Sign it!
The Doctor: Complete control.
Leader: My word.
The Doctor: Well, I've signed so many things, one more won't make any difference.
Leader: But it will, Doctor. It will.
(The Doctor puts his sigil on the document and pockets the pen.)
The Doctor: I'm honoured to be allowed to serve your glorious cause.
The Invasion Of Time – Part 2
The Doctor: That's funny, I've got a ringing in my head.
Borusa: That's the alarm system.
(Andred enters.)
The Doctor: Shush. I've got a ringing in my head. Listen. Can you hear?
Andred: I ordered them to sound the alarm. The girl got away.
(Kelner enters.)
Kelner: What is happening? Who ordered the? Oh, your Excellency, you are feeling better.
The Doctor: Yes.
Kelner: I'm very pleased to see this.
The Doctor: So am I.
Kelner: Where is the girl?
Andred: She escaped.
Kelner: Escaped?
Borusa: The President ordered that she be expelled from the Citadel. She got away.
The Doctor: She can be dangerous, Castellan.
Kelner: Very well, I will take charge of the operations myself.
Andred: I'm quite capable of catching her.
Kelner: I will see that she is driven out of the Citadel
The Invasion of Time – Part 3
Leela: There's no point in further discussion. The discussion is for the wise or the helpless, and I am neither.
Rodan; Then what are you going to do?
Leela: Well, if the Doctor wished me banished, I'll be banished.
Rodan: You will surrender?
Leela: No! You talk always of surrender. Are all your tribe like this?
Rodan: We are rational.
Leela: You are cowards. No, if the Doctor wished me banished, it was for a reason.
Rodan: Reason dictates the Doctor is a traitor.
Leela: Never!
Rodan: Reason dictates
Leela: Then reason is a liar!
Rodan: And if I am right?
Leela: Then I am wrong, and I will face the consequence.
The Invasion Of Time – Part 4
The Doctor: No way to go out there and leave. I've got news for you.
Andred: What?
The Doctor: You're stuck here.
Andred: What?
The Doctor: Your pitiful attempt at revolution has failed.
(The Doctor shuts the Tardis doors.)
Andred: You're lying.
The Doctor: I'm the living proof I'm not. I don't know what they teach you at the Academy these days, but if you can't pull off a simple palace revolution, what can you pull off, hmm?
Andred: I don't believe you. (Andred tries to activate the scanner.) It's jammed.
The Doctor: Yes. And it's going to stay jammed until the invaders have gone. (sotto) You see, while I'm in here, they can't touch me, and they can't read my thoughts.
Andred: You mean they can travel along any form of broadcast wavelength?
The Doctor: Yes, and materialise at the end of it. But until they do materialise, I can't identify their planet of origin and time loop it.
Andred: But you have access to the greatest source of knowledge in the universe.
The Doctor: Well, I do talk to myself sometimes, yes.
Andred: I mean the Matrix.
The Doctor: Oh. Oh, that old thing.
The Invasion Of Time – Part 5
The Doctor: A Sontaran.
Leela: What are these Sontarans?
The Doctor: A race devoted to perpetual war.
Leela: Then I shall kill him.
The Doctor: You don't know how.
Leela: Do you know?
The Doctor: Oh, yes.
Leela: Well, tell me.
The Doctor: Small vent at the back of the neck.
Leela: Is that all? (She partly covers her mouth and calls in a deep voice.) Over here!
(Her voice echoes down the corridor. The Sontaran turns to look behind him, and she throws her knife straight into his probic vent. The group run down to the body and Leela retrieves her weapon.)
The Doctor: Oh, that was a prodigious throw!
Leela: Prodigious?
The Doctor: Well, it was an amazing throw.
Leela: Oh, it was nothing.
The Doctor: Well, yes, I know it's just an old hunting trick.
Leela: That's right.
The Doctor: Come on.
The Invasion of Time – Part 6
The Doctor: Well, ta-ta, everybody. Come on, Leela. Come on. What's the matter?
Leela: I'm staying.
The Doctor: What? Staying? Here? Why? (Leela takes Andred's hand.) Ah, I see.
Andred: I hope that
The Doctor: Yes, I'm sure you do hope. She'll look after you. She's terribly good with a knife. Come on, K9.
K9: Negative. I remain.
The Doctor: Here?
K9: Affirmative.
The Doctor: Why?
K9: To look after the mistress.
Leela: Doctor?
The Doctor: Yes?
Leela: I will miss you.
(The Doctor smiles and shuts the Tardis door on them all. He leans against the door for a moment.)
The Doctor: I'll miss you too, savage.
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The Invasion Of Time – Part 5
The Doctor: A Sontaran.
Leela: What are these Sontarans?
The Doctor: A race devoted to perpetual war.
Leela: Then I shall kill him.
The Doctor: You don't know how.
Leela: Do you know?
The Doctor: Oh, yes.
Leela: Well, tell me.
The Doctor: Small vent at the back of the neck.
Leela: Is that all? (She partly covers her mouth and calls in a deep voice.) Over here!
(Her voice echoes down the corridor. The Sontaran turns to look behind him, and she throws her knife straight into his probic vent. The group run down to the body and Leela retrieves her weapon.)
The Doctor: Oh, that was a prodigious throw!
Leela: Prodigious?
The Doctor: Well, it was an amazing throw.
Leela: Oh, it was nothing.
The Doctor: Well, yes, I know it's just an old hunting trick.
Leela: That's right.
The Doctor: Come on.
It's scenes like this that made even the worst episodes of classic Doctor Who more than watchable.

Not that The Invasion of Time is unwatchable, it isn't, but it's not the classic series at it's best either.
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Old 22nd May 2019, 01:31 PM
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Patrick Troughton, pictured with Bill Oddie, Tom Brooke-Taylor and Grahame Garden, as Doctor Wolfgang Adolfus Ratfink von Petal in a 1972 episode of 'The Goodies' entitled 'The Baddies'


3 years later in 1975, Jon Pertwee appeared on the show as the Welsh Reverend Llewellyn Llewellyn Llewellyn Llewellyn in an episode entitled 'Wacky Wales'

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The Ribos Operation – Part 1
The White Guardian: Doctor, you have been chosen for a vitally important task.
The Doctor: That's very flattering, sir.
The White Guardian: It concerns the Key to Time. You know of the Key to Time?
The Doctor: Well, I've heard a few stories. Old legends, myths, that sort of thing.
The White Guardian: It is no myth.
The Doctor: Sorry, sir.
The White Guardian: The Key to Time is a perfect cube, which maintains the equilibrium of time itself. (A holographic image of a spinning cube appears for illustration, then fades away.) It consists of six segments, and these segments are scattered and hidden throughout the cosmos. When they are assembled into the cube, they create a power which is too dangerous for any being to possess.
The Doctor: Well hidden then, I hope, sir.
The White Guardian: There are times, Doctor, when the forces within the universe upset the balance to such an extent that it becomes necessary to stop everything.
The Doctor: Stop everything?
The White Guardian: For a brief moment only.
The Doctor: Ah.
The White Guardian: Until the balance is restored. Such a moment is rapidly approaching. These segments must be traced and returned to me before it is too late, before the Universe is plunged into eternal chaos.
The Doctor: Eternal chaos?
The White Guardian: Eternal as you understand the term.
The Doctor: Look, I'm sure there must be plenty of other Time Lords who'd be delighted to
The White Guardian: I have chosen you.
The Doctor: Yes, I was afraid you'd say something like that. Ah! You want me to volunteer, isn't that it?
The White Guardian: Precisely.
The Doctor: And if I don't?
The White Guardian: Nothing.
The Doctor: Nothing? You mean nothing will happen to me?
The White Guardian: Nothing at all. Ever.
The Doctor: Ah. What do they look like, these segments? How will I know them?
The White Guardian: They're all disguised.
The Doctor: Yes, I thought they might be.
The White Guardian: They contain the elemental force of the universe. They can be in any shape, form or size.
The Doctor: Then how will I recognise them?
The White Guardian: You will be given a locator.
The Doctor: Thank you.
The White Guardian: And an assistant.
The Doctor: An assistant? Please, sir, on an assignment like this, I'd much rather work alone. In my experience, assistants mean trouble. I have to protect them and show them and teach them and couldn't I just, couldn't I just manage with K9?
The White Guardian: K9 is a mere machine.
The Doctor: He is a very sensitive machine! Sorry, sir.
The White Guardian: You will find your assistant waiting for you in the Tardis.
The Doctor: Very well, sir. If you insist.
The White Guardian: One final thing, Doctor.
The Doctor: Yes?
The White Guardian: I am the White Guardian. In order to maintain the universal balance, there is also a Black Guardian, and he also requires the Key to Time, but for a different purpose. An evil purpose. He must not get it. Doctor, at all costs, you must prevent that.
The Doctor: How am I to prevent that?
The White Guardian: Beware the Black Guardian.
The Doctor: Beware the Black Guardian.
The White Guardian: Beware. Beware.
The Ribos Operation – Part 2
Romana: That thing. What is it?
The Doctor: A Shrivenzale.
Romana: I never imagined. Are there many creatures like that in other worlds?
The Doctor: Millions. Millions! You shouldn't have volunteered if you're scared of a little thing like that.
Romana: I'm not scared, I'm just. Listen!
(There are marching footsteps approaching.)
The Doctor: Let's hide. Hide. The locks.
Romana: We could explain, surely.
The Doctor: Oh, yes, we can explain. Sorry old thing, we're just helping ourselves to your Crown Jewels! They'd have our hands off before you could say Rassilon's Rod.
(The Doctor picks up the locks from the floor under the display case.)*
Romana: (sotto) Rassilon's Rod?
The Ribos Operation – Part 3
Unstoffe: Thank you. Thank you for helping me escape.
Binro: Oh, it was nothing.
Unstoffe: Why'd you do it?
Binro: Well, I know what it's like when every man's hand is against you.
Unstoffe: Binro the Heretic.
Binro: Oh, you heard that. Well, it wasn't much of a heresy, my friend. Just a little thing.
Unstoffe: What?
Binro: Oh, it was many years ago now. Have you ever looked up at the sky at night, and seen those little lights?
Unstoffe: Mmm hmm.
Binro: They are not ice crystals.
Unstoffe: Go on.
Binro: I believe they are suns, just like our own sun. And perhaps each sun has other worlds of its own, just as Ribos is a world. What do you say to that?
Unstoffe: It's an interesting theory.
Binro: What? Hey, a broad-minded man. Perhaps in the north, they are a different people after all. You see, my friend, I have taken measurements of those little lights and of our sun, and I can prove that Ribos moves. It circles our sun, travelling far away and then returning. That's the reason we have our two seasons, Suntime and Icetime.
Unstoffe: Nobody believed you.
Binro: Nah, those blockheads. They prefer to believe that Ribos is some sort of battleground over which the Sun Gods and the Ice Gods fight for supremacy. They said that if I did not publicly recant my belief, the gods would destroy our world.
Unstoffe: And did you?
Binro: In the end. See these hands? Useless for work now. That's why I live here.
Unstoffe: Binro, supposing I were to tell you that everything you've just said is absolutely true. There are other worlds, other suns.
Binro: You believe it too?
Unstoffe: I know it for a fact. You see I come from one of those other worlds.
Binro: You?
Unstoffe: I thought I should tell you, because one day, even here, in the future, men will turn to each other and say, Binro was right.
The Ribos Operation – Part 4
The Doctor: Four o'clock and all's well. Goodbye, Garron!
Garron: Doctor?
The Doctor: Yes?
Garron: Doctor, I still don't understand.
The Doctor: What don't you understand, Garron? Go on, ask me something. What is it don't you understand? Who came first, the chicken or the egg? Go on, ask me something. Ask me something.
Garron: How did you manage to switch the jethrik for the thermite pack without the Graff noticing?
The Doctor: Garron, I would've thought you'd have known that. Sleight of hands.
Garron: Oh.
The Doctor: I was trained by Maskelyne.
Romana: Quite clever, really.
The Doctor: I do dislike faint praise. It was astoundingly clever, wasn't it Garron?
Garron: Indeed it was, Doctor.
The Doctor: Yes.
Garron: Oh, Doctor?
The Doctor: Yes?
Garron: A favour to beg. Do you think I might just handle the jethrik once more? Please? For old time's sake, you know?
The Doctor: All right.
Garron: Oh, it's lovely, isn't it? I'm so reluctant to part with it. (Garron strokes the stone like a pet and turns his back on the Doctor, putting it in his pocket before turning back.) Oh, dear me. Well, there you are, Doctor.
The Doctor: Thank you very much. Goodbye, Garron.
(The Doctor hugs Garron.)
Garron: Oh, goodbye, Doctor.
The Doctor: What's your name?
Unstoffe: Unstoffe.
The Doctor: Goodbye, Unstoffe.
Unstoffe: Goodbye, Doctor.
(The Doctor goes into the Tardis.)
K9: Mistress.
Romana: Come along, K9. Goodbye.
Garron + Unstoffe: Goodbye.
(K9 and Romana enter the Tardis and close the door.)
Unstoffe: Well, that's it, Garron. We'll have to go straight now.
Garron: Oh come, my boy, don't be downhearted. We haven't done too badly.
Unstoffe: Haven't done too badly? We've lost the jethrik, and we've come out of this without a penny.
Garron: Oh, don't forget that there's the Graff's ship stuffed with eighteen years of loot.
Unstoffe: You crafty old (The Tardis dematerialises.) That's a queer takeoff.
Garron: Well, thank goodness he's gone. I was afraid he'd notice.
Unstoffe: Notice? What?
Garron: We haven't lost the jethrik. I switched it for a piece of ordinary stone. Yeah, I did. Look! (Garron takes the stone from his pocket.) He switched it back again. Oh, Unstoffe, is there nobody you can trust these days?
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I'm sure you could nearly quote all of The Ribos Operation, Susan. It's full of great dialogue.
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I'm sure you could nearly quote all of The Ribos Operation, Susan. It's full of great dialogue.
In all honesty, I'm not a big fan of the entire 'Key To Time' series. I find it slow, and the stories drag

Saying that, there are some other sparkling pieces of dialogue during 'The Ribos Operation' such as The Doctor and Romana in the first episode:

The Doctor: I'm so sorry, K9. The holiday's off.
Romana [OC]: Doctor?
Doctor: (sotto) That's the new assistant.
(Tall, brunette, statuesque, aloof, wearing a floorlength white dress fastened only at the waist, and her hair held up by a tiara)
Romana: My name is Romanadvoratnelundar.
The Doctor: I'm so sorry about that. Is there anything we can do?

and

Romana: You're sulking.
The Doctor: I'm not sulking.
Romana: That's ridiculous for somebody as old as you are.
The Doctor: I'm not old. What?
Romana: Seven hundred and fifty nine?
The Doctor: Seven hundred and fifty six. That's not old, that's just mature.
Roman: You've lost count somewhere.
The Doctor: Well, I ought to know my own age.
Romana: Yes, but after the first few centuries, I expect things get a little bit foggy, don't they.

and

The Doctor: Good. Now, pay attention. I'm not anticipating any trouble, but it's as well to be prepared for these things. Ground rules. Rule one, do exactly as I say. Rule two, stick close to me, and Rule three, let me do all the talking. Is that perfectly clear?
Romana: You couldn't make it clearer.
The Doctor: Good. One more thing. Your name.
Romana: What about my name?
The Doctor: It's too long. By the time I've called look out, what's your name?
Romana: Romanadvoratnelundar.
The Doctor: By the time I've called that out, you could be dead. I'll call you Romana.
Romana: I don't like Romana.
The Doctor: It's either Romana or Fred.
Romana: All right, call me Fred.
The Doctor: Good. Come on, Romana

and the 'Scringe Stone' sequence from the second part

Garron: Look at the workmanship. And all done by hand, of course, using the simplest implements. There's a certain honest peasant artistry about these pieces that speaks of the soil, don't you think?
Sholakh: (sotto) Highness?
Graff: (sotto) I've seen it.
Garron: Now, over here
Graff: Wait. This blue stone, it's what we call jethrik, isn't it?
Garron: Oh, I've no idea. Pretty though, whatever it is. Perhaps a Shrieve can tell us something about it. I say, fellow. The blue stone there. Do you know anything about it?
(The Shrieve turns out to be Unstoffe, doing the Mummerset accent. Garron winces at the sound.)
Unstoffe: Oo ar, sir, that I do, that I do. That be what we call scringe stone, sir.
Garron: Scringe stone. Oh, how interesting.
Unstoffe: You hangs a bit o' that around your neck, and you won't never suffer from the scringes no matter how cold it be. You'll just stay as supple and as fresh as a little old babbit in the Suntime, sir, and that be a proven fact.
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