Throughout this week, Hypable is celebrating the sharp dialogue of Doctor Who by compiling a series of Top 10 favourite quotes list. We kick off the week’s proceedings with the best quotes from the Classic-era companions!
After being around for nearly 50 years, Doctor Who obviously has a very rich heritage of characters, creatures and costumes – but perhaps the unsung hero of the show’s impact on popular culture is the rich and witty dialogue that has graced our screens since 1963. The variety of settings, and broad range of characters enable the show to deliver everything from stirring battle speeches to hilarious one-liners. Boasting some of the world’s best catchphrases, heartbreaking farewells, and uniquely named planets, Doctor Who has had a surprisingly strong impact on modern literature for something that is primaily seen on “The Idiots’ Lantern.” In fact, the show has even seen the words “TARDIS” and “Dalek” enter the Oxford Dictionary!
With all that in mind, there was far too large a wealth of material for us to whittle down the best quotes of Who to just 10. So instead, Hypable’s Doctor Who writers Laura Byrne Cristiano and Harri Sargeant will be celebrating the quirky, moving and hilarious words of the Doctor and company in a series of four lists. Over the coming days, we’ll select our 10 favourite quotes from the Classic-era Companions, Classic-era Doctor, Revival-era Companions and Revival-era Doctor – and then round the week off with YOUR favourites!
If you have any suggestions, drop them in the comments below or tweet us @WhoHype – you can even send an email to whohype@hypable.com if you have a lot to say! Your submissions can be from any character in the series (although not any spin-offs, they will get their own list in the future!) and can be of any length. Make sure you have your submissions in by Thursday, and check back on Friday to see if your suggestions made the cut!
Kicking off the week in style, today is the turn of Classic-era companions. Check out our 10 favourite quotes from the likes of Sarah Jane, The Brigadier, Adric and more.
Tegan
The Caves of Androzani, Part 4
“What was it you always told me, Doctor? Brave heart?”
Adric
State of Decay, Part 4
“You said yourself you’re on the menu. If it’s a choice between
that and joining the diners, I mean, there’s no sense in TWO of us
getting the chop.”
Tegan
Mawdryn Undead, Part 2
“I hate those transmat things. Like traveling in a food mixer
and just as dangerous. I’d be afraid of coming out puréed.”
Ace
Dragonfire, Part 3
“It’s just… I don’t feel properly dressed without a couple of cans of nitro.”
The Brigadier
Terror of the Zygons, Part 4
“Er, well, a fifty foot monster can’t swim up the Thames and attack a large building without some people noticing. But you know what politicians are like.”
Adric
Full Circle, Part 2
“Or we could just look out through the door.”
Sarah Jane Smith
The Ark in Space, Part 1
“Harry, call me ‘old girl’ again, and I’ll spit in your eye.”
Nyssa and Adric
The Visitation, Part 4
Nyssa: “No, Adric. You move this ship and we could finish up anywhere.”
Adric: “And if we don’t, the Doctor and Tegan could finish up dead.”
The Brigadier
Terror of the Autons, Part 1
“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.”
Sarah Jane Smith
The Hand of Fear, Part 2
“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 BEING. Oh, I want a bath. I want my hair washed. I just want to feel HUMAN again.
What do you make of our list? Are there any quotes we missed out? Share your favorite in the comments below, and you could appear in Friday’s fan list!