The Doctor Who Thread

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

That last sentence describes half the people on here.

Only half?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Only half?

Yeah, the other half are just nerdy.

[Susan Foreman]

Personally, I wear my anorak with pride

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

Nightmare Of Eden – Part 1

Romana: I don't think we should interfere.
The Doctor: Interfere? Of course we should interfere. Always do what you're best at, that's what I say

Nightmare Of Eden – Part 2

Fisk: Names and dates of birth. Come on, come on.
Romana: Romana.
Fisk: Romana who?
The Doctor: Will you please listen? Someone aboard this ship is smuggling drugs.
Costa: Name and date of birth.
The Doctor: Well how would I know? I don't even know who he is yet.
Costa: Your name and date of birth.
The Doctor: Oh, well, I'm called the Doctor. Date of birth difficult to remember. Sometime quite soon, I think.
Fisk: I would advise you not to play the fool with us.

Nightmare Of Eden – Part 3

Costa: What's happening? What are those things?
Rigg: They're a sort of judgment on us all.
Costa: What? I'll have you shot for this, Captain. (He uses the intercom.) Bridge here. Emergency. The passengers on pallet sixty seven are under attack. All armed crewmembers proceed to pallet sixty seven immediately! (to Rigg) I shall be charging you with gross neglect of duty. The passengers should be your first concern, yet I find you drunkenly looking on as they are attacked and killed! Well?
Rigg: They're only economy class. What's all the fuss about?

The Nightmare Of Eden – Part 4

The Doctor: Quick, switch it off! (Romana switches off the CET machine.) Phew. Well done, Romana.
Fisk: Well, Doctor?
Stott: What now?
(The Doctor takes his own pulse.)
The Doctor: Romana, you've got two minutes fifty eight seconds to rebuild this machine.
Romana: What, this?
The Doctor: Yes.
Romana: CET?
The Doctor: Yes!
Romana: Are you joking?
The Doctor: Do I look as if I'm joking? Well?
Romana: Well, I'll need a screwdriver.

[Demoncrat]

Watched the features Can You Hear The Earth Scream and the UNIT Story Pt1 on Inferno as I hadn't perused them before apparently. Both quite informative.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Andrew Skilleter's artwork for the 1985 Target book The Mind of Evil.

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Horns Of Nimon – Part 1

The Doctor: These engines have seen better days.
Co-Pilot: This is a battleship of the First Skonnon Empire. It will soon be replaced.
The Doctor: Well, the sooner the better. It's a right hodge-podge up there. Very old engines patched up with new equipment, a lot of it not really compatible.
Romana: Sounds like the Tardis.
The Doctor: Yes.
Co-Pilot: Can you make it work?
The Doctor: The odd thing is, the new equipment seems to be the product of an entirely different technology.
Co-Pilot: Can you make it work?
The Doctor: Have to noticed how people's intellectual curiosity declines sharply the moment they start waving guns about?
Co-Pilot: Can you make it work?
The Doctor: Yes. Oh yes, I can make it work. The question is, can we generate power soon enough to take the ship to escape velocity before we fall into a black hole with an event horizon.
Co-Pilot: A what?
The Doctor: Shush. You just hold the gun steady. Don't tax your mind.

The Horns Of Nimon – Part 2

Romana: So what is this Nimon?
Teka: The great god of Skonnos. They say he's a terrible creature with awesome powers.
Seth: If we don't pay tribute, the Nimon will destroy us.
Romana: Sounds like an insecure personality to me.
Seth: He lives in the power complex.
Romana: That fits.
Seth: Anyone who enters never returns, except the one called Soldeed.
Romana: Soldeed?
Seth: Well, yes. The great scientist and engineer of Skonnos. It is he who built the complex for the Nimon.
Teka: They say he's the only scientist left on Skonnos.
Romana: Really? Why is that?
Seth: The great Civil War. Only the army survived.
Romana: That sounds like a well-organised war.

The Horns Of Nimon – Part 3

Seth: Oh, dead end!
Teka: We'll never find our way out, even if there is one.
Romana: There must be. Soldeed can come and go.
Teka: Won't be long before the Nimon finds us and kills us.
(Footsteps.
Seth: He's coming. Give me the blaster, quick!
Romana: It's no use. It had no effect on the Nimon.
The Doctor: Hello. What are you doing skulking down here.
Teka: It's a dead end.
The Doctor: Oh yes, of course, yes.
Romana: What about the way you've just come?
The Doctor: Oh, I don't know. You call this a maze? It's a cheat!
Romana: Shush!
The Doctor: Well, the walls keep changing.
Romana: There must be some sort of
The Doctor: Just a minute. I saw this place from above just before I landed. It reminded me of something.
Romana: What?
The Doctor: I can't think what.
Teka: If the Nimon comes along, we're trapped.
The Doctor: No, no, no. He'll be too busy repairing his furnace.
Seth: Furnace?
Teka: What's that for, burning the bodies?
The Doctor: No, no, he has another use for those altogether.
Romana: Sustenance.
The Doctor: Yes.

The Horns Of Nimon – Part 4

Nimon: Leave those controls.
The Doctor: Ah, hello there. I was just
Nimon: Stand aside.
Nimon 2: Kill him. But not yet. We need to know who he is and what he is doing here.
The Doctor: Well, really, I was just standing admiring the view.
Nimon 2: Silence. Later you will be questioned, tortured and killed.
The Doctor: Well I hope you get it in the right order.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

A classic publicity still for the 1966 story The Celestial Toymaker. Featuring Michael Gough as the Toymaker and William Hartnell as the Doctor.

I wonder what happened to Gough's arm?

[Susan Foreman]

Doctor Who over the years: Episode quotes

The Leisure Hive – Part 1

Romana: I don't think much of this Earth idea of recreation. Why can't we do something constructive?
K9: Sea bathing recommended. A traditional Earth exercise, mistress.
Romana: Well, go on, then. You exercise. Fetch! (Romana throws a beach ball down the shingle slope and walks away. K9 obeys the order to fetch then ball, which has rolled into the sea. Romana turns round.) K9! (She runs down the beach. Too late. K9 reaches the water and goes Bang! Fire and smoke come out of his back.) K9!
(Romana trudges back up the shingle slope carrying the now defunct K9 and dumps it on the Doctor's lap.)
The Doctor: Ow!
Romana: Look what you've done.
The Doctor: What have I done?
Romana: You've got the century wrong, you've got the season wrong and you've got K9's sea-water defences wrong.
The Doctor: Well, I can't get everything right.
Romana: Just something would be a help.
The Doctor: One must always accept the unexpected.

The Leisure Hive – Part 2

(The Doctor's smiling face is on the sphere.)
The Doctor: Handsome fellow, isn't he? One of your tachyon images. It'll disappear soon, look. (And it does.) See?
Pangol: How did you get out?
The Doctor: Through a hole in the back.
Pangol: But there isn't one.
The Doctor: There is now.
(His sonic screwdriver is rather bent.)

The Leisure Hive – Part 3

The Doctor: I'm sick of being old. There must be some way of reversing the process.
Romana: Temporal asymmetry. We'll have to get back to the Generator. Your condition's unstable.
The Doctor: Pangol's very young.
Romana: Pangol?
The Doctor: Yes. And everyone else is old, except Pangol. And he runs the Generator. When you were fitting the Schrodinger oscillator, did you notice there were two baryon shields?
Romana: Mmm. Why two, I wonder?
The Doctor: I don't know. I didn't have time to look. Five hundred years goes by so rapidly.

The Leisure Hive – Part 4

The Doctor: I think we're redundant here. Let's go.
Romana: The Randomiser.
The Doctor: What about it?
Romana: Well, we can't just leave it here.
The Doctor: Why not? I don't like not knowing where we're going to turn up next.
Romana: Neither does the Black Guardian. That is the point of the thing. The Black Guardian's a real threat.
The Doctor: Some galactic hobo with ideas above his station. The cosmos is full of them. Anyway, there's been enough randomising on this job.
Romana: Job? It was meant to be a holiday.
The Doctor: Well then, I'm going to be very glad to get back to work. And I'm missing K9

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Dalek from Resolution (2019)