Doctor Who (TV Series)

Terror of the Autons: Episode One (1971)

Jon Pertwee: Doctor Who

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• [the lab apparatus the Doctor is working on catches fire, so Jo puts it out with a fire extinguisher] 

  Doctor Who : You've ruined it!

  Jo Grant : But your bench was on fire.

  Doctor Who : Three months delicate work and now look at it, you ham-fisted bun vendor!

• Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart : You've been agitating for a new assistant ever since Miss Shaw went back to Cambridge.

  Doctor Who : Liz was a highly qualified scientist. I want someone with the same qualifications.

  Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart : Nonsense. What you need, Doctor, as Miss Shaw herself so often remarked, is someone to pass you your test tubes and to tell you how brilliant you are. Miss Grant will fulfil that function admirably.

• Time Lord : I came to warn you. An old acquaintance has arrived on this planet.

  Doctor Who : Oh, one of our people?

  Time Lord : The Master.

  Doctor Who : That jackanapes! All he ever does is cause trouble.

• Doctor Who : [singing]  I don't want to set the world on fire,

  [Explosion. The TARDIS is filled with smoke and The Doctor exits the TARDIS coughing] 

• Doctor Who : Look, I said I don't want any tea today, thank you.

  Jo Grant : I'm not the tea lady.

  Doctor Who : Then what the blazes are you doing in here? Don't you know this area is strictly out of bounds to everybody except the tea lady and the Brigadier's personal staff?

  Jo Grant : I'm your new assistant.

  Doctor Who : Oh, no.

• Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart : This, er, this device of his, is it very powerful?

  Doctor Who : Oh, I should say roughly equal to a 15 megaton bomb.

  Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart : Really? Well, the research boys'll be glad to get their hands on this.

  Doctor Who : Too late, Brigadier, I've boiled out the contents. The weapons that you have on Earth are quite nasty enough as it is.