Doctor Who
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Companions of The Doctor : Jack Harkness · Martha Jones · Donna Noble · Amy Pond · River Song · Rose Tyler · Rory Williams
Doctor Who is a long-running television program produced by the BBC about a mysterious time-travelling adventurer known only as "The Doctor", a Time Lord from the planet of Gallifrey, who explores time and space with various companions (primarily human females) in his TARDIS. It is currently the longest-running science-fiction series broadcast on television, spanning twenty-six years on its original run, and the role of the Doctor on television has been played by eleven actors. As a complete list of quotations from all eras of the show is too large to be contained on one page, this article has been split into subarticles, with quotations organised by which actor was portraying the Doctor at the time the episode was originally broadcast.
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[edit] Quotations about the programme
- Alphabetized by author
- Because it's the best idea ever invented in the history of the world!
- Russell T. Davies, responding to the question, "Why do you think people love Doctor Who so much?" on BBC Wales Today (20 July 2004)
- Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist drivel; Star Trek can turn your brains to puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!
- Harlan Ellison, recalling an address to science-fiction fans, in his Introduction to Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang (1977) by Terrance Dicks, p. vii
- It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.
- Craig Ferguson, in a comedic musical tribute to Doctor Who made in November 2010, which was not aired for legal reasons, but "leaked" to the internet, and finally aired with legal clearance on The Late Late Show (6 January 2011)
- I don't know what it's like to be God — obviously …until that very first moment when you get to sit down and type the words in your script: INTERIOR. TARDIS. … Suddenly I got a very good idea of what it must feel like. I went: "I'm writing it now this scene in the Tardis. I'm writing it!" And that was amazing, it was wonderful.
- Neil Gaiman, on writing the script for the episode The Doctor's Wife (originally titled House of Nothing), as quoted in "Neil Gaiman reveals power of writing Doctor Who" by Tim Masters at BBC News (24 May 2010)
- Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction … At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem.
- Neil Gaiman, as quoted in "Neil Gaiman reveals power of writing Doctor Who" by Tim Masters at BBC News (24 May 2010)
- He's just really unlikely as a hero — which makes him so brilliant, I think, because he's like this mad professor.
- Karen Gillan, in Doctor Who Rewind (2011) by BBC America
- When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run forever. 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.
- Steven Moffat, head writer and executive producer since 2008, in lines written for River Song, in Forest of the Dead [4.9] (7 June 2008)
- What would be the point of having this job if I didn't get to make up some of the maddest possible scenes I've ever had in my head since I was a kid? For him to stand there and take the mickey out of all those monsters — is just hugely exciting.
- Steven Moffat, on The Doctor confronting his enemies in The Pandorica Opens, in an interview in Doctor Who Rewind (2011) by BBC America
- Demons run when a good man goes to war.
Night will fall and drown the sun
when a good man goes to war.Friendship dies and true love lies —
Night will fall and the dark will rise
when a good man goes to war.- Steven Moffat, in lines written for River Song, describing the battle of Demon's Run, in A Good Man Goes To War [6.7] (4 June 2011)
- This was exactly you. All this, all of it. You make them so afraid. When you began, all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe, did you ever think you’d become this? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name? "Doctor" – the word for healer, and wise man, throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word "doctor" means "mighty warrior". How far you’ve come. And now they’ve taken a child. The child of your best friends. And they’re going to turn her into a weapon, just to bring you down. And all this, my love … in fear of you.
- Steven Moffat, in lines written for River Song, in A Good Man Goes To War [6.7] (4 June 2011)
- He's this sort of harborer of good and fun and madness, and he's the cleverest man in the universe — and the silliest man in the universe.
- Matt Smith, in Doctor Who Rewind (2011) by BBC America
- The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.
- Here in two flat sentences are the best things I can say about our field [science fiction] on American television: Dr. Who is sometimes aired. Sometimes Battlestar Galactica is not.
- Gene Wolfe, Aussiecon Two (43rd World Science Fiction Convention) Guest of Honor speech (August 1985), as published in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992)
[edit] The Doctor
The Doctor is the main character of the show. Although bearing remarkably human-like features, he is in fact one of the Gallifreyan Time Lords — a mysterious race who have mastered time travel. The Doctor occasionally regenerates into a new form, allowing a new actor to step into the role. For clarity's sake, quotes from the show are listed by Doctor on the following subpages.
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[edit] Companions
[edit] Villains
[edit] Writers
- See also the WIkipedia List of Doctor Who writers for authors who have written episodes of Doctor Who
[edit] Actors
- See also the Wikipedia List of Doctor Who cast members for actors for whom pages could be created here.
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