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6th most-quoted character in Doctor Who: in 98 of its 1,966 quotes
Most scenes with: Ian Chesterton (15), Steven Taylor (14), Dodo Chaplet (6)

Scenes with First Doctor 65

Well, Doctor? Will this planet explode?

DThe Doctor

The Rills were quite right.

We've got to get off the planet.

DThe Doctor

Yes, if the Drahvins let us go.

We've got to make that sure they do.

DThe Doctor

They need our help with the Rills! Why do you think they've held Vicki back?

Okay, but we've got to get off here somehow!

DThe Doctor

It's imperative that we leave at once.

Why is that that? The Drahvins did say fourteen dawns.

DThe Doctor

Two dawns! Tomorrow is the last day this planet will ever see.

DThe Doctor

We're going to help you and Maaga and the rest of them to get to the Rill spaceship. We wish to save lives, not to destroy them.

DCDrahvin Clone (1)

Maaga does not trust you. I do not trust you.

Listen, we have captured these machines. They do anything we tell them now. Watch. Come forward. Stop. Go back. Stop.

[Unconvinced, the Drahvin turns and fires at the Chumbley. Horrified, Vicki wrestles the gun away her.]

DThe Doctor

Now, madam! Listen to me!

DCDrahvin Clone (1)

Kill me now. I have failed my duty.

DThe Doctor

Nonsense. Let us stop this thought of killing anyone. Now, madam, back to your spaceship. Back please.

Go on. Hurry.

DThe Doctor

Well, I think with all eternity to choose from, I did rather well to get us back to Earth.

I'm very glad you're pleased with yourself. I suppose I should be grateful for standing here, trussed like a chicken, ready to have me throat cut.

OOdysseus

No one mentioned cutting throats.

Strange god, you being me peace.

DThe Doctor

I don't know what Vicki has advised you..

...Oh, the Priestess Cressida told me that all would be well. And I knew it was to come.

DThe Doctor

What was to come my dear?

That I was to die.

DThe Doctor

My dear child, you're not dead. That's nonsense. Hmm?

But this is not Troy. This is not even the world. This is the journey through the beyond. Thankyou.

DThe Doctor

Yes, yes, yes, as you wish, child.

DThe Doctor

Now, remember, Katarina. You must call me Doctor.

Oh, as you wish, Doc.

DThe Doctor

I am not a Doc. And I am not a god. Oh, my dear Vicki, I hope you'll be all right! I shall miss you, child.

DThe Doctor

[yelling at Steven] These are Daleks! Now you listen to me, young man, I am in charge of this situation...

Sir! Will you shut up? At least that's stopped you arguing.

DThe Doctor

Well, upon my soul!

Now look here, I don't care what happens to you, but I've got to warn Earth!

DThe Doctor

Yes, and you will have to do far more than that! If the Daleks are doing something drastic, then we have to stop the Daleks! Now will you shut up, sir? Hmm?

KKirksen

[to Katarina] Stop that or you're dead!

I can't sacrifice everything for the sake of that one girl!

Listen! Without us you wouldn't have got off Kembel at all, and nothing would be worth bothering about!

All right, so we all go back together. But without me, I doubt that you would have got this far either.

Yes, all right, but I won't let you hurt Katarina. We'll head back for Kembel as the Doctor says on the way, we may find a way to get her out of there.

KKirksen

You won't!

[Katarina reaches for the airlock switch] No, not that one! Katarina!

[Katarina opens the airlock. Katarina and Kirksen are swept into space to their deaths]

Katarina! [softly] Too late. She pressed the wrong button, Doctor.

DThe Doctor

She may have wanted to, dear boy. She wanted to save our lives.

[awkwardly] It... must have been quick.

DThe Doctor

I hope she's reached her Place of Perfection.

Yes, but not that way.

DThe Doctor

She didn't understand. She couldn't understand. She wanted to save our lives. And perhaps the lives of all the other beings of the Solar System. I hope she's found her Perfection. Oh, how I shall always remember her as one of the Daughters of the Gods. Yes, as one of the Daughters of the Gods.

(The scene where they broke the fourth wall)

DThe Doctor

Here's a toast, a happy Christmas to all of us.

The same to you, Doctor, Sara.

DThe Doctor

And incidentally, a happy Christmas to all of you at home!

Sara, where have you been?

SSara

I don't know. But a strange man kept telling me to take my clothes off.

DThe Doctor

Now, come along. We must go back to the TARDIS. This is a madhouse. It's all full of Arabs. Come along.

[After the Time Destructor has wiped out all life on the planet Kembel, including Sara and the Daleks]

Let's go, Doctor. I've seen enough of this place.

DThe Doctor

[a little happy] Well, my boy, we finally rid this planet of Daleks!

[Steven is upset that the Doctor is celebrating their victory, as he thinks about the three companions killed in this story, in a slightly crying and slightly angry tone] What about Bret? Katarina?... Sara.

DThe Doctor

[the Doctor thinks while Steven goes back on board the TARDIS] What a waste. What a terrible waste.

[Without another word he turns and boards the TARDIS and with its usual sound the TARDIS leaves Kembel]

The girl! The girl who was with me! If you'd brought her with us she needn't have died. But no, you had to leave her there to be slaughtered.

DDoctor

Well, it is possible of course she didn't die, and I was right to leave her.

Possible? Look, how possible? That girl was already hunted by the Catholic guards. If they killed ten thousand how did they spare her? You don't know, do you? You can't say for certain that you weren't responsible for that girl's death.

DDoctor

I was not responsible.

Oh, no. You just sent her back to her aunt's house where the guards were waiting to catch her. I tell you this much, Doctor, wherever this machine of yours lands next, I'm getting off. If your researches have so little regard for human life, then I want no part of it.

S3 E5 The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
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DThe Doctor

Yes, you do, my dear. Now you take care of them because you never know when we might use them. Now, I suggest we take a last look round and we'll get you off to bed.

Oh, you're not going to send me home, are you?

DThe Doctor

Home? Ho, ho! What an idea. I couldn't send you home even if I wanted to.

Oh, that's all right, then. I think I'm beginning to enjoy this space travel or whatever it is

DThe Doctor

No, no, no, dear boy. All this is a spaceship!

A spaceship?

DThe Doctor

Yes, exactly!

Hey, Doctor? If this is a spaceship what are they?

A group of Monoids appear and circle them]

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