Third Doctor quotes from Doctor Who

How are you feeling?

Shoes.

My goodness, no. Don't you realise that when I was stranded on this little planet of yours, I had nothing but these clothes that I... Oh, my goodness!

What is it, Doctor?

Well, I've just realised. I don't even own these. I borrowed them from the hospital. And there's that car, too. Yes, you know, I took to that car. It had character.

No, Doctor. That car must be returned to its owner.

Must it? Yes, yes, I suppose it must. Still, there's no reason why you couldn't find me something similar, is there? I mean, it could persuade me to stay, you know.

Oh, very well.

Good. When can we go and choose it?

Not yet. I must arrange for a full set of papers first. By the way, I've just realised. I don't even know your name.

Smith. Doctor John Smith.

But I still don't understand why you stayed down here.

The hibernation mechanism was faulty. It did not function until a new energy source appeared.

The power station at the research centre?

Yes. We are now able to drain off its energy. But soon we shall revive our civilisation, and reclaim the Earth for ourselves.

No, you mustn't! Otherwise there'll be the most terrible war! But if you trust me, I think I can persuade the humans that you are prepared to live with them on this planet in peace.

There is not room for both civilisations.

Oh yes, I think there is. You see, your people are used to living in extreme heat, whereas these areas on Earth are of little interest to man. I believe, with your advanced technology, that you could build cities in parts of the world that man has hitherto completely ignored.

[pauses in thought for a moment] Would your people agree to this?

Well, they're not my people. But I think I could convince them, on the condition that you release those trapped men first.

Those apes have only shown hostility to us!

And you to them! Someone has to make a move, otherwise this whole thing will end up in complete catastrophe.

Well, I'll tell you something that should be of vital interest to you.

And what's that?

That you, Sir, are a NITWIT!

But I don't exist in your world!

(Sarcastically) Then you won't feel the bullets when we shoot you.

This thing actually attacked you?

Jo Grant

It was going to if Mike hadn't shot it. It was horrible.

Seems as though you may be right, Doctor.

I usually am.

Well, it's dead enough now.

Jo, where were you when this thing started moving?

Jo

I was on the telephone.

And what about you, Captain Yates?

I wasn't here, I'd just gone out to, uh, fetch a tin of cocoa.

Yes, well something must have-[pause] Fetch a tin of what?

Cocoa.

Are you trying to tell me that you were going to make cocoa in my lab?!

That was the general idea. I'm sorry, Doctor.

[Looking for the Doctor and Jo who are chased by 2 autons disguised as policemen] Doctor? Miss Grant?

Get down man! Get down!

Look out!

They're Autons! Bullets can't stop them!

Jo Grant

(after the Doctor tells her about the Thunderbolt missile) But what's it got to do with The Master?

Everything. He's hoping to steal it.

Thank you, Brigadier. But do you think for once in your life, you could manage to arrive before the nick of time?!

I'm glad to see you too, Doctor.

Jo

Doctor, I thought the TARDIS was working again?

What gave you that idea?

Jo

Well, being dragged 500 years into the future, for example? I mean, all that business with the miners and the colonists.

My dear Jo, the TARDIS was working then because it was being operated under remote control by the High Council of the Time Lords.

Jo

Well, if it worked for them-

I don't want it to work for them: I want it to work for me. No one's going to turn me into an interplanetary puppet.

Yes, of course, I remember now. [to Jo] Look, don't worry, my dear. I know you're alarmed, but you needn't be.

Yes, well, I think that should do it. Why on Earth I never realised that- Oh no, what are you doing here?

Well, I'm not here, don't worry. Well....That is, in the sense, I am here, but, er....you are not there. It's a bit difficult to explain, really...

This won't do at all. We can't have two of us running about.

Yes, well, don't worry! It will all sort itself... [disappears in a flash of light]

You're a spy!

Am I? Who am I spying for?

I'm asking the questions. I repeat, you're a spy!

That wasn't a question. That was a statement.

Careful, our friends here don't get much fun. [Gestures to the thuggish Ogron security guards.]

Poor fellows. Sorry I can't oblige them at the moment, I'm not in the mood for games.

Mister Trenchard paid me to bring you out here and take you back. You want to go over to the naval base, then you make your own arrangements.

Yes, well, you're probably perfectly right. Look, er, I wonder whether you'd like to go and see what's happening to my young friend? She said she was going to buy some picture postcards. [Holds up a note of the realm]

I don't mind.

I'd go myself, only my bad leg's playing me up a bit. The Crimea, you know.

[Confused] I see. Crimea?

Oh, Gallipoli? El Alamein? Does it really matter?

I reckon not.

Now, are there are more transmitters on this fort?

No, nothing.

Any transistor radios, that sort of thing?

I think so. The crew's quarters. The crew...

Jo Grant

What do you want to do? Listen to Night Ride?

Jo Grant

Those things that attacked us - you said you'd seen something like it before.

Something very similar, certainly. They emerged from some caves in Derbyshire.

Jo Grant

The Silurians, wasn't it? The Brigadier was telling me.

That's a complete misnomer. The chap who discovered them must have got the period wrong. No, properly speaking, they should have been called the "Eocenes".

Jo Grant

That was that race of super-reptiles that had been in hibernation for billions of years, wasn't it?

That's right, and if you want my opinion, there's another of their colony right here beneath us.

Jo Grant

Well, something seems to have woken them up.

Probably the rebuilding of this fort.

Jo Grant

But I thought you said they lived in caves?

Well, this is a different species, completely adapted to life underwater.

Jo Grant

And they've been sinking the ships?

Very likely.

Jo Grant

Why? I mean, why are they so hostile? What have we done to them?

They still think of Earth as their planet, Jo, and they want it back. As far as they're concerned, man is just an ape who got above himself.