Doctor Who (TV Series)

An Unearthly Child (1963)

William Hartnell: Dr. Who

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• The Doctor : We are not of this race. We are not of this earth. Susan and I are wanderers in the fourth dimension of space and time, cut off from our own people by distances beyond the reach of your most advanced science.

• The Doctor : [to Ian]  You still think it's all an illusion?

  Ian Chesterton : I know that free movement in time and space is a scientific dream I don't expect to find solved in a junkyard.

  The Doctor : Your arrogance is nearly as great as your ignorance.

• The Doctor : This doesn't roll along on wheels, you know.

  Barbara Wright : You mean, it moves?

  Susan Foreman : The TARDIS can go anywhere.

  Barbara Wright : TARDIS? I don't understand you, Susan.

  Susan Foreman : Well, I made up the name TARDIS from the intials: Time And Relative Dimension In Space. I had thought you'd both understand when you saw the different dimensions inside from those outside.

• The Doctor : You don't understand, so you find excuses. Illusions, indeed? You say you can't fit an enormous building into one of your smaller sitting rooms?

  Ian Chesterton : No.

  The Doctor : But you've discovered television, haven't you?

  Ian Chesterton : Yes.

  The Doctor : Then by showing an enormous building on your television screen, you can do what seemed impossible, couldn't you?

  Ian Chesterton : Well, yes, but I still don't know...

  The Doctor : Not quite clear, is it? I can see by your face that youre not certain. You don't understand. And I knew you wouldn't! Never mind.

• The Doctor : Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the fourth dimension? Have you?... to be exiles? Susan and I are cut off from our own planet, without friends or protection. But one day we shall get back. Yes, one day. One day.

• Ian Chesterton : Let me get this straight. A thing that looks like a police box, standing in a junkyard, it can move anywhere in time and space?

  Susan Foreman : Yes.

  The Doctor : Quite so.

  Ian Chesterton : But that's ridiculous!

• The Doctor : [the Doctor's first line]  What are you doing here?

• The Doctor : I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it.

• Ian Chesterton : And, frankly, I don't understand your attitude.

  The Doctor : Yours leaves a lot to be desired.

• Ian Chesterton : But that's ridiculous.

  Susan Foreman : Why won't they believe us?

  Barbara Wright : How can we?

  The Doctor : Now, now, don't get exasperated, Susan. Remember the Red Indian. When he saw the first steam train, his savage mind thought it an illusion, too.

  Ian Chesterton : You're treating us like children.

  The Doctor : Am I? The children of my civilisation would be insulted.