h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just curious really, whic ones have made you proud to like enjoy Doctor Who throughout the ages? Which stories have stirred powerful rushes within you that this is Doctor Who?

My Own:

1) 'You are caught in a temporal paradox! Styles didn't explode that bomb and start the wars. You did it yourselves!'

(The Third Doctor, Day of the Daleks)

2) 'Van Lyden, what is the capital of Australia? .... 'Van Lyden, how many beans make five? .... Van Lyden? Right, cut it open!'

(The Third Doctor, The Ambassadors of Death)

3) 'To hold in my hand, a capsule that contained such power. To know that life even at such a scale was my choice... to know the tiny pressure of my thumb, enough to break the glass would end everything.... Yes I would do it, that power would set me up above the Gods and through the Daleks I shall have that power!'

(Davros, Genesis of the Daleks)

4) 'By the power of God, by the power of death, I conjur thee and summon thee, arise at my command. Azal! Azal! Azal!'

(The Master, The Daemons)

5) 'We have been colonising other planets, for a thousand million years!'

(Channing, Spearhead from Space)

6) 'The chameleon factor, sometimes called lycanthropy. Oh Leela I've made such a terrible mistake, I thought I locked evil but I've actually locked it in with us!'

(The Fourth Doctor, Horror of Fang Rock)

7) 'They're in Control! They're in Control!'

(Polly, The Macra Terror)

8) 'You will take the Dalek Factor, you will spread through the entire history of Earth!'

(Emperor Dalek, Evil of the Daleks)

9) 'It's the end but the moment has been prepared for...'

(The Fourth Doctor, Logopolis)

10) 'There are some corners of the universe that have bred the most terrible things, things that act against everything we believe in, they must be fought!'

(The Second Doctor, The Moonbase)

10) Doctor: [To Peri] 'Planets come and go. Stars perish. Matter disperses, coalesces, forms into other patterns, other worlds. Nothing can be eternal.' (Colin Baker)

9)Doctor: 'For some people, small, beautiful events is what life is all about!' (Peter Davison)


8)Doctor: 'Once upon a time there were three sisters, and they lived in the bottom of a treacle well. Their names were Olga, Marsha and Irena... Are you listening, Tillie?... I feel disorientated.'
Sarah: 'This is the disorientation centre!'
Doctor: 'That makes sense.' (Tom Baker)

7)Doctor: [To K9, cutting a door] 'A hamster with a blunt penknife could do it quicker!'(Tom Baker)


6)Doctor: [To the Time Lords] 'All these evils I have fought, while you have done nothing but observe! True, I am guilty of interference. Just as you are guilty of failing to use your great powers to help those in need!' (Patrick Troughton)

5)Doctor: 'One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine. Goodbye, my dear. Goodbye, Susan.' (William HArtnel)





4) Doctor: 'There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea's asleep and the rivers dream, people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.' (Sylvester McCoy)


3)Doctor: 'Love has never been known for its rationality.'(Sylvester McCoy)



2)Doctor: 'I know that although the Daleks will create havoc and destruction for millions of years. I know also, that out of their evil, must come something good.'(Tom Baker)





1)Doctor: 'In all my travelling throughout the universe I have battled against evil, against power mad conspirators. I should have stayed here. The oldest civilisation: decadent, degenerate, and rotten to the core. Power mad conspirators, Daleks, Sontarans... Cybermen, they're still in the nursery compared to us. Ten million years of absolute power. That's what it takes to be really corrupt.' (Colin Baker)

nice conversation guys

Golly-my brain is too frazzled to think up 10-but I have to say I love the obvious ones-like Pat's comments about Evil in the corners of the Galaxy and of course the end of Survival.

I really, really, REALLY need a lobotomy...my brains turning to mush....I think it's the ghost of Billy's fluffs... (no offence intended)

That's all right Pamela, how about-

1) 'Don't go near him, don't touch him!'

2) 'If you break through the Earth's crust you'll unleash forces you never knew existed!'

Both from the Primord fest- Inferno.

"pickled in time like gerkins in a jar.It'll drive them insane!"
(the rani)

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh"
(misilaneous companions)