Cover
About the Book
About the Authors
Title Page
Introduction
Chapter One: The Doctor
Chapter Two: The Light
Chapter Three: The Darkness
Chapter Four: The Universe
Chapter Five: The Journey
Chapter Six: The Tools
Chapter Seven: The Simple Things
Chapter Eight: The Past
Chapter Nine: The Future
Appendix
Index
Thanks
Copyright
“All of time and space. All things that ever happened or ever will. Where do you want to start?”
From a junkyard in Totter’s Lane to the fields of Trenzalore, the last of the Time Lords has navigated the past, present and future using knowledge gathered from centuries of adventures in space and time. Now the authors of the bestselling Who-Ology have collected the best of that timey-wimey knowledge into one place. Covering themes of home and work, travel and technology, the history of the Earth and the fate of the future – you’ll find a Doctor-y bon mot for every occasion here.
Collecting half a century of quips and quotes, and beautifully illustrated throughout, Wit, Wisdom and Timey-Wimey Stuff is your indispensable guide to life, love, mirth and monsters.
Cavan Scott is co-author, with Mark Wright, of the Sunday Times bestseller, Who-Ology. He has written numerous books, audio dramas and comics strips based on such series as The Sarah Jane Adventures, Skylanders, Judge Dredd and, of course, Doctor Who. He has written about the good Doctor’s adventures in such magazines as SFX and Doctor Who Magazine and regularly appears at Doctor Who conventions around the country.
Mark Wright is a journalist and author and has written many audios, short stories and comic strips featuring new adventures for the Doctor, along with tie-ins to other series such as The Power Rangers and The Sarah Jane Adventures. He is a regular contributor to Doctor Who Magazine.
‘I’m a Time Lord. I’ve been around, you know. Two hearts, respiratory bypass system. I haven’t lived seven hundred and fifty years without learning something…’
THE DOCTOR, THE ROBOTS OF DEATH
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel with the Doctor, have you? To be wanderers in the fourth dimension?
All that running. All those corridors. All those monsters.
They say that travel broadens the mind, in which case the Doctor’s mind must be the broadest of them all. Over a thousand years of rattling around the universe in his big blue box… Imagine all the wisdom he’s gathered in his meanderings, all the lessons he’s learnt.
Perhaps that would be the best part of jumping on board the TARDIS – having the greatest tour guide in all of history. He shows you the big stuff, the galaxies and planets and constellations, but the small things too. The simple things. A pretty painting. A stupid joke. A cup of tea and a jammy dodger. Real life in all its wonder and whimsy.
The good news is that we can travel with the Doctor, and his friends and enemies too. We have been since 23 November 1963. He’s taken us from a junkyard at the end of a lane to the end of time – and back again.
And there are lessons to be found in his adventures too. Some serious. Some silly. Some profound. Some potty. And more fezzes than you’d expect.
In many ways, this has been a nightmarish task. Cherry-picking the Doctor’s best quotes, quips and sayings from over fifty years of adventures? The man never shuts up – and nor do his friends. Long may that continue.
For all this we must thank and pay homage to a select group, because first came the word. We would like to dedicate this compendium to the scriptwriters of Doctor Who; those wits and wise men and women who have toiled late into the night over typewriters and word processors. Across half a century they have put words in the mouths of the Doctor, his companions, friends and enemies. Their desire to tell a rattling good adventure yarn, their quick humour, their outlook on life, the universe and everything, have all given life and sparkle to the words we hear on screen – then taken the rest of the way by those brilliant actors. And let’s not forget the script editors who kept them on the straight and narrow, provided guidance and contributed their own words of wonder. The quality and sheer inventiveness of their work has always set Doctor Who apart from other TV shows, and that is what we are celebrating in the pages of this book.
And the stories keep coming.
Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart once told his daughter that science leads. He said he learnt it from an old friend.
What will the same old friend teach you today? Or tomorrow? Or maybe even yesterday? It’s all a bit timey-wimey, to be honest.
Happy Times and Places!
‘What are you doing here?’
THE FIRST DOCTOR, AN UNEARTHLY CHILD
‘Slower… Slower… Concentrate on one thing. One thing!’
THE SECOND DOCTOR, THE POWER OF THE DALEKS
‘Shoes… Must find my shoes.’
THE THIRD DOCTOR, SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE
‘… typical Sontaran attitude… stop Linx… perverting the course of human history… I tell you, Brigadier, there’s nothing to worry about. The brontosaurus is large and placid… and stupid! If the square on the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares on the other two sides, why is a mouse when it spins? Never did know the answer to that one.’
THE FOURTH DOCTOR, ROBOT
‘I… oh.’
THE FIFTH DOCTOR, CASTROVALVA
‘You were expecting someone else?’
THE SIXTH DOCTOR, THE CAVES OF ANDROZANI
‘Oh no, Mel. Ah, that was a nice nap. Now, down to business.’
THE SEVENTH DOCTOR, TIME AND THE RANI
‘Who am I? Who am I?’
THE EIGHTH DOCTOR, DOCTOR WHO (TV MOVIE)
‘Doctor no more.’
THE WAR DOCTOR, THE NIGHT OF THE DOCTOR
‘Run!’
THE NINTH DOCTOR, ROSE
‘Hello. OK – oh. New teeth. That’s weird. So, where was I? Oh, that’s right. Barcelona.’
THE TENTH DOCTOR, THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
‘Legs. Still got legs, good!! Arms. Hands. Ooh, fingers. Lots of fingers. Ears, yes. Eyes, two. Nose, I’ve had worse. Chin, blimey. Hair. I’m a girl! No. No, I’m not a girl. And still not ginger. And something else. Something important. I’m, I’m, I’m… Crashing! Geronimo!’
THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR, THE END OF TIME
‘Kidneys! I’ve got new kidneys. I don’t like the colour.’
THE TWELFTH DOCTOR, THE TIME OF THE DOCTOR
‘Eh? Doctor who? What’s he talking about?’
THE DOCTOR, AN UNEARTHLY CHILD
‘I’m the Doctor. Well, they call me the Doctor. I don’t know why. I call me the Doctor, too. Still don’t know why.’
THE DOCTOR, THE LODGER
‘You may be a doctor, but I’m the Doctor. The definite article, you might say.’
THE DOCTOR, ROBOT
CLARA: Doctor who?
THE DOCTOR: Oh, dangerous question.
CLARA: What’s wrong with dangerous?
THE SNOWMEN
THE DOCTOR: I help where I can. I will not fight.
OHILA: Because you are ‘the good man’ as you call yourself?
THE DOCTOR: I call myself the Doctor.
OHILA: It’s the same thing in your mind.
THE DOCTOR: I’d like to think so.
THE NIGHT OF THE DOCTOR
ADELAIDE BROOKE: State your name, rank and intention.
THE DOCTOR: The Doctor. Doctor. Fun.
THE WATERS OF MARS
TYRUM: We are grateful to you, human, for saving Voga.
THE DOCTOR: Oh, please, don’t call me human. Just Doctor will do very nicely, thank you.
REVENGE OF THE CYBERMEN
THE DOCTOR: Doctor von Wer, at your service.
SERGEANT: Doctor who?
THE DOCTOR: That’s what I said.
THE HIGHLANDERS
THE DOCTOR: I’m just Lord President of the Supreme Council of Time Lords on Gallifrey.
STOR: Your description fits that of one called Doctor.
THE DOCTOR: Well, that’s not my fault. I’m Lord President, and I’m called ‘sir’.
THE INVASION OF TIME
MADGE: Are you the new caretaker?
THE DOCTOR: Usually called the Doctor. Or the Caretaker or Get Off This Planet. Though, strictly speaking, that probably isn’t a name.
THE DOCTOR, THE WIDOW AND THE WARDROBE
‘Look, three options. One, I let the Star Whale continue in unendurable agony for hundreds more years. Two, I kill everyone on this ship. Three, I murder a beautiful, innocent creature as painlessly as I can. And then I find a new name, because I won’t be the Doctor any more.’
THE DOCTOR, THE BEAST BELOW
‘The name I chose is the Doctor. The name you choose, it’s like a promise you make. He’s the one who broke the promise.’
THE DOCTOR, ON THE WAR DOCTOR, THE NAME OF THE DOCTOR
‘You haven’t seen the last of me. Bad Penny is my middle name. Seriously, the looks I get when I fill in a form…’
THE DOCTOR, THE GOD COMPLEX
‘Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame, whatever the cost.’
THE WAR DOCTOR, THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR
‘You’ve been asking a question, and it’s time someone told you you’ve been getting it wrong. His name, his name is the Doctor. All the name he needs. Everything you need to know about him.’
CLARA, THE TIME OF THE DOCTOR
‘I never lie. Well, hardly ever.’
THE DOCTOR, THE TIME WARRIOR
‘Rule one. The Doctor lies.’
THE DOCTOR, LET’S KILL HITLER
‘I’m the Doctor. I’m a Time Lord. I’m from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I’m nine hundred and three years old. And I’m the man that’s going to save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?’
THE DOCTOR, VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED
LUX: Who is the Doctor?
RIVER: The only story you’ll ever tell, if you survive him.
FOREST OF THE DEAD
‘They call me the Doctor. I am a scientist, an engineer. I’m a builder of things.’
THE DOCTOR, THE AZTECS
‘I’m just a traveller, wandering past. Believe it or not, all I’m after is a quiet life.’
THE DOCTOR, BAD WOLF
‘He saves planets, rescues civilisations, defeats terrible creatures. And runs a lot. Seriously, there’s an outrageous amount of running involved.’
DONNA, THE DOCTOR’S DAUGHTER
EARL: You’re a nice guy, Doctor, but a little weird.
THE DOCTOR: Enough of the little.
THE HAPPINESS PATROL
‘Do you know like we were saying about the Earth revolving? It’s like when you were a kid. The first time they tell you the world’s turning and you just can’t quite believe it because everything looks like it’s standing still. I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, and the entire planet is hurtling round the sun at 67,000 miles an hour, and I can feel it. We’re falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go… That’s who I am.’
THE DOCTOR, ROSE
THE BRIGADIER: Sir, this is the Doctor, our scientific adviser.
GENERAL FINCH: Oh. We’ve been waiting for you, you know. May I ask where you’ve been?
THE DOCTOR: Certainly.
GENERAL FINCH: Well?
THE DOCTOR: You can ask but I don’t guarantee that you’ll get a reply.
INVASION OF THE DINOSAURS
‘He’s like fire and ice and rage. He’s like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun… He’s ancient and forever. He burns at the centre of time and he can see the turn of the universe… And he’s wonderful.’
TIM LATIMER, THE FAMILY OF BLOOD
THE DOCTOR: I’m a Time Lord. A man of science, temperament and passion!
PERI: And a very loud voice.
ATTACK OF THE CYBERMEN
‘I have lived a long life and I have seen a few things. I walked away from the Last Great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords. I saw the birth of the universe and I watched as time ran out, moment by moment, until nothing remained. No time. No space. Just me. I walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a mad man. I’ve watched universes freeze and creations burn. I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe. I have lost things you will never understand. And I know things. Secrets that must never be told. Knowledge that must never be spoken.’
THE DOCTOR, THE RINGS OF AKHATEN
‘Oh, he’s like a rubber ball. He’ll come bouncing out of there soon, full of ideas.’
BARBARA, MARCO POLO
ADELAIDE BROOKE: You the doctor or the janitor?
THE DOCTOR: I don’t know. Sounds like me. The maintenance man of the universe.
THE WATERS OF MARS
‘I’ve got a friend who specialises in trouble. He dives in and usually finds a way.’
IAN, THE ROMANS
‘Some fifty years ago, I knew a man who solved the insoluble by the strangest means. He sees the threads that join the universe together and mends them when they break.’
ZASTOR, MEGLOS
ROSE: I can see everything. All that is, all that was, all that ever could be.
THE DOCTOR: That’s what I see. All the time. And doesn’t it drive you mad?
THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
‘I’m not a human being. I walk in eternity.’
THE DOCTOR, PYRAMIDS OF MARS
‘Whatever you’ve got planned, forget it. I’m the Doctor. I’m nine hundred and four years old. I’m from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I am the Oncoming Storm, the Bringer of Darkness, and… you are basically just a rabbit, aren’t you? OK, carry on. Just a general warning.’
THE DOCTOR, THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR
‘There is so much, so much to see, Amy. Because it goes so fast. I’m not running away from things, I am running to them before they flare and fade for ever.’
THE DOCTOR, THE POWER OF THREE
SARAH: Whatever’s in that Tower, it’s got enormous powers and, well, what can we do against it?
THE DOCTOR: What I’ve always done, Sarah Jane. Improvise.
THE FIVE DOCTORS
‘I never take life. Only when my own is immediately threatened.’
THE DOCTOR, THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH
KLIEG: But, how did you know in the first place?
THE DOCTOR: Oh, I use my own special technique.
KLIEG: Oh really, Doctor? And may we know what that is?
THE DOCTOR: Keeping my eyes open and my mouth shut.
THE TOMB OF THE CYBERMEN
‘He is not a man to side with chaos.’
NEFRED, FULL CIRCLE
‘I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams.’
THE DOCTOR, THE ALMOST PEOPLE
PALMERDALE: Are you in charge here?
THE DOCTOR: No, but I’m full of ideas.
HORROR OF FANG ROCK
‘Oh, I always like to do the unexpected. Takes people by surprise.’
THE DOCTOR, THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD: THE MYSTERIOUS PLANET
‘So is this how it works, Doctor? You never interfere in the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there’s children crying?’
AMY, THE BEAST BELOW
VINCENT: You’re not armed.
THE DOCTOR: I am.
VINCENT: What with?
THE DOCTOR: Overconfidence…and a small screwdriver. I’m absolutely sorted.
VINCENT AND THE DOCTOR
‘I’d better get going. Things to do, worlds to save, swings to swing on.’
THE DOCTOR, THE POWER OF THREE
‘He was the most alive person I ever met.’
SARAH, THE MONSTER OF PELADON
THE DOCTOR: You’re going to fire me at a planet? That’s your plan? I get fired at a planet and expected to fix it.
RORY: In fairness, that is slightly your MO.
ASYLUM OF THE DALEKS
‘I hate being patient. Patience is for wimps. I can’t live like this. Don’t make me. I need to be busy.’
THE DOCTOR, THE POWER OF THREE
‘The Eye of Orion’s restful, if you like restful. I can never really get the hang of restful.’
THE DOCTOR, THE DOCTOR’S WIFE
‘What’s the point in two hearts, if you can’t be a bit forgiving, now and then?’
THE DOCTOR, DAY OF THE MOON
‘I’ve got one of those faces. People never stop blurting out their plans while I’m around.’
THE DOCTOR, THE LODGER
‘Don’t worship me – I’d make a very bad god. You wouldn’t get a day off, for starters.’
THE DOCTOR, BOOM TOWN
THE DOCTOR: I’ll be back for you soon as I can, I promise.
AMY: You always say that.
THE DOCTOR: I always come back.
FLESH AND STONE
‘Something’s interfering with time, Mr Scarman, and time is my business.’
THE DOCTOR, PYRAMIDS OF MARS
CAPTAIN COOK: I wonder you manage to explore anything. Everything seems to alarm you so.
THE DOCTOR: Not everything. I trust my instincts, and you may recall they’re not always wrong.
THE GREATEST SHOW IN THE GALAXY
‘But Doctor, listen to me. Don’t get emotional because that’s when you make mistakes.’
AMY, THE DOCTOR’S WIFE
CRAIG: Has anyone ever told you that you’re a bit weird?
THE DOCTOR: They never really stop.
THE LODGER
‘Doctor, the more you try to convince me that you’re a fool, the more I’m likely to think otherwise.’
THE COUNTESS, CITY OF DEATH
‘Why do I always let my curiosity get the better of me?’
THE DOCTOR, BLACK ORCHID
‘I’m always serious. With days off.’
THE DOCTOR, COLD WAR
THE COUNTESS: My dear, I don’t think he’s as stupid as he seems.
SCARLIONI: My dear, nobody could be as stupid as he seems.
CITY OF DEATH
‘Interfere? Of course we should interfere. Always do what you’re best at, that’s what I say.’
THE DOCTOR, NIGHTMARE OF EDEN
BARBARA: Doctor, I thought we were never going to see you again.
THE DOCTOR: You should know by now, young lady, that you can’t get rid of the old Doctor as easily as that.
THE REIGN OF TERROR
‘The Doctor is not weaponless. He has the greatest weapon of all. Knowledge.’
CAMILLA, STATE OF DECAY
‘The Doctor’s qualified to do almost everything.’
THE BRIGADIER, DOCTOR WHO AND THE SILURIANS
THE DOCTOR: I am the Doctor.
ENLIGHTENMENT: A doctor? Of what?
THE DOCTOR: Of everything.
FOUR TO DOOMSDAY
‘My colleague is a doctor of medicine and I’m a doctor of many things.’
THE DOCTOR, REVENGE OF THE CYBERMEN
‘I’m every kind of scientist.’
THE DOCTOR, COLONY IN SPACE
BORUSA: You make me regret teaching you anything at all.
THE DOCTOR: You taught me nothing. Nothing that instinct couldn’t provide better.
THE INVASION OF TIME
‘I am not a student of human nature. I am a professor of a far wider academy, of which human nature is merely a part.’
THE DOCTOR, THE EVIL OF THE DALEKS
ZONDAL: You do not look like a scientist.
THE DOCTOR: Well, looks aren’t everything, you know.
THE ICE WARRIORS
NEFRED: You understand a great deal, Doctor.
THE DOCTOR: True.
NEFRED: But not everything.
THE DOCTOR: That’s certainly true.
FULL CIRCLE
OVERSEER: I suppose you think you’re very clever.
THE DOCTOR: Well, without any undue modesty, yes!
THE REIGN OF TERROR
‘Your leader will be angry if you kill me. I’m a genius.’
THE DOCTOR, THE SEEDS OF DEATH
IAN: You’re a genius.
THE DOCTOR: Yes, there are very few of us left.
THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH
THE DOCTOR: Jamie, some of the most brilliant scientists in the universe have assembled here to work together in pure research. I don’t want them to know that I’ve arrived.
JAMIE: Why not?
THE DOCTOR: Think of the commotion! They’ll all be scrambling around wanting my autograph.
THE TWO DOCTORS
CANTON: You, sir, are a genius.
THE DOCTOR: It’s a hobby.
THE IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT
SERGEANT: I’m sorry, sir, you’re not allowed in there.
THE DOCTOR: Not allowed? Me? I’m allowed everywhere.
THE FIVE DOCTORS
THE DOCTOR: So you’re just about an expert in everything except the things in your museum. Anything you don’t understand, you lock up.
VAN STATTEN: And you claim greater knowledge?
THE DOCTOR: I don’t need to make claims, I know how good I am.
DALEK
‘I can feel my hair curling, and that means either it’s going to rain or else I’m on to something.’
THE DOCTOR, THE DEADLY ASSASSIN
‘This is magnificent. And I don’t often say that because… well, because of me.’
THE DOCTOR, UTOPIA
ROSE: You think you’re so impressive.
THE DOCTOR: I am so impressive.
ROSE: You wish.
THE END OF THE WORLD
‘Oh, you know, K-9, sometimes I think I’m wasted just rushing around the universe saving planets from destruction. With a talent like mine, I might have been a great slow bowler.’
THE DOCTOR, THE HORNS OF NIMON
‘Well, to be fair, I did have a couple of gadgets which he probably didn’t, like a teaspoon and an open mind.’
THE DOCTOR, THE CREATURE FROM THE PIT
THE DOCTOR: Well, you’d better introduce me.
ROMANA: As what?
THE DOCTOR: Oh, I don’t know, a sort of wise and wonderful person who wants to help. Don’t exaggerate.
THE POWER OF KROLL
THE DOCTOR: I think my idea’s better.
LESTER: What is your idea?
THE DOCTOR: I don’t know yet. That’s the trouble with ideas. They only come a bit at a time.
REVENGE OF THE CYBERMEN
‘This is a situation that requires tact and finesse. Fortunately, I am blessed with both.’
THE DOCTOR, THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD: TERROR OF THE VERVOIDS
‘Look, it’s perfectly understandable. I go zooming around space and time, saving planets, fighting monsters and being well, let’s be honest, pretty sort of marvellous, so naturally now and then people notice me.’
THE DOCTOR, TIME CRASH
IAN: You know, Doctor, sometimes you astound me.
THE DOCTOR: Only sometimes, dear boy?
THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH
‘I have the directional instincts of a homing pigeon.’
THE DOCTOR, THE CHASE
CHASE: What do you do for an encore, Doctor?
THE DOCTOR: I win.
THE SEEDS OF DOOM
‘Well, you can’t expect perfection, you know. Not even from me.’
THE DOCTOR, THE FACE OF EVIL
ROMANA: You are incredible.
THE DOCTOR: Yes, I suppose I am, really. I’ve never given it much thought.
STATE OF DECAY
‘Back when I first started at the very beginning, I was always trying to be old and grumpy and important, like you do when you’re young.’
THE DOCTOR, TIME CRASH
‘There is something new in you, yet something older than the sky itself.’
JOANNA, THE CRUSADE
SHAKESPEARE: How can a man so young have eyes so old?
THE DOCTOR: I do a lot of reading.
THE SHAKESPEARE CODE
THE DOCTOR: I’ve lived for something like seven hundred and fifty years.
SARAH: Oh, you’ll soon be middle aged.
THE DOCTOR: Yes!
PYRAMIDS OF MARS
‘I’m called the Doctor. Date of birth difficult to remember. Sometime quite soon, I think.’
THE DOCTOR, NIGHTMARE OF EDEN
‘I’m afraid I’m much too old to be a pioneer. Although I was once amongst my own people.’
THE DOCTOR, THE DALEKS
‘Oi! Listen, mush. Old eyes, remember? I’ve been around the block a few times. More than a few. They’ve knocked down the blocks I’ve been round and rebuilt them as bigger blocks. Super blocks. And I’ve been round them as well.’
THE DOCTOR, NIGHT TERRORS
‘Can’t remember if I’m lying about my age, that’s how old I am.’
THE DOCTOR, THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR
MICKEY: Is this like normal for you? Is this an average day?
ROSE: Life with the Doctor, Mickey? No more average days.
THE GIRL IN THE FIREPLACE
‘When I say run, run.’
THE DOCTOR, THE EVIL OF THE DALEKS
‘It’s the way it’s always been. The monsters and the Doctor. It seems you cannot have one without the other.’
REINETTE, THE GIRL IN THE FIREPLACE
ROMANA: You nearly got us killed.
THE DOCTOR: If you call that being nearly killed, you haven’t lived yet. Just stay with me and you’ll get a lot nearer.
THE RIBOS OPERATION
‘Trouble seems to follow you, doesn’t it, Doctor?’
THE BRIGADIER, INFERNO
‘I don’t work for anybody. I’m just having fun.’
THE DOCTOR, NIGHTMARE OF EDEN
‘This is my life, Jackie. It’s not fun, it’s not smart. It’s just standing up and making a decision because nobody else will.’
THE DOCTOR, WORLD WAR THREE
THE DOCTOR: The situation’s worse than you imagine.
PERI: It always is.
THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD: THE MYSTERIOUS PLANET
CLARA: Doctor, what are you going to do?
THE DOCTOR: Oh, I don’t know. Talk very fast, hope something good happens, take the credit. That’s generally how it works.
THE TIME OF THE DOCTOR
‘If I knew everything that was going to happen, where would the fun be?’
THE DOCTOR, THE KEEPER OF TRAKEN
‘I mean, this is what he does, Jacks, that Doctor bloke. Every where he goes, death and destruction, and he’s got Rose in the middle of it.’
MICKEY, WORLD WAR THREE
‘Oh, I must be mad. I’m sick of being cold and wet, and hypnotised left right and centre. I’m sick of being shot at, savaged by bug-eyed monsters, never knowing if I’m coming or going or been.’
SARAH, THE HAND OF FEAR
‘As long as he does the job, he can wear what face he likes.’
THE BRIGADIER, THE THREE DOCTORS
‘Wish I’d never met you, Doctor. I was much better off as a coward.’
CAPTAIN JACK HARKNESS, THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
‘Flying the TARDIS was always easy. It was flying the Doctor I never quite mastered.’
TASHA LEM, THE TIME OF THE DOCTOR
‘When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it will never end. But however hard you try, you can’t run for ever. Everybody knows that everybody dies, and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark, if he ever, for one moment, accepts it.’
RIVER SONG, FOREST OF THE DEAD
‘I’d hate to have to live my life by some boring old rulebook like you do.’
THE DOCTOR, PARADISE TOWERS
ROSE: He thought you were brilliant.
DONNA: Don’t be stupid.
ROSE: But you are. It just took the Doctor to show you that, simply by being with him. He did the same to me. To everyone he touches.
TURN LEFT
BRIAN: Go save every world you can find. Who else has that chance? Life will still be here.
THE DOCTOR: You could come, Brian.
BRIAN: Somebody’s got to water the plants.
THE POWER OF THREE
‘You were my life. You know what the most difficult thing was? Coping with what happens next, or with what doesn’t happen next. You took me to the furthest reaches of the galaxy, you showed me supernovas, intergalactic battles, and then you just dropped me back on Earth. How could anything compare to that? … We get a taste of that splendour and then we have to go back.’
SARAH, SCHOOL REUNION
‘It’s life. Just life. That thing that goes on when you’re not there.’
AMY, ASYLUM OF THE DALEKS
AMY: After everything we’ve been through, Doctor. Everything. You can’t just drop me off at my house and say goodbye like we’ve shared a cab.
THE DOCTOR: And what’s the alternative? Me standing over your grave?
THE GOD COMPLEX
‘Our lives won’t run the same. They can’t. One day, soon maybe, you’ll stop. I’ve known for a while.’
THE DOCTOR TO AMY, THE POWER OF THREE
‘Don’t trust him. There’s a sliver of ice in his heart.’
EMMA, HIDE
CLARA: I trust the Doctor.
CAPTAIN: You think he knows what he’s doing?
CLARA: I’m not sure I’d go that far.
NIGHTMARE IN SILVER
‘Oh yes. I’m only his assistant. He’s the one you should be talking to. Or rather, listening to, if you have the stamina.’
ROMANA, THE PIRATE PLANET
HARRIET: Excuse me, people are dead! This is not the time for making jokes.
ROSE: Sorry. You get used to this stuff when you’re friends with him.
HARRIET: Well, that’s a strange friendship.
WORLD WAR THREE
COMMODORE TRAVERS: If I seem to lack gratitude, young woman … it is because on the previous occasion that the Doctor’s path crossed mine I found myself involved in a web of mayhem and intrigue.
THE DOCTOR: Ah, saved your ship though, Commodore.
COMMODORE TRAVERS: Yes, you did, though whether it would have been at risk without your intervention is another matter.
THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD: TERROR OF THE VERVOIDS
‘Don’t listen to me. I never do.’
THE DOCTOR, THE KEEPER OF TRAKEN
VIVIEN: I’m sure the Doctor’s perfectly capable of looking after himself.
ROMANA: I’m not sure I’d entirely agree with that remark.
THE STONES OF BLOOD
‘The Doctor. The man who keeps running, never looking back because he dare not, out of shame. This is my final victory, Doctor. I have shown you yourself.’
DAVROS, JOURNEY’S END