Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Underwater Menace: Episode 1 (1967)

Michael Craze: Ben

Quotes 

• Jamie McCrimmon : [the TARDIS lands]  That wasn't too bad. Let's go outside, Doctor.

  Ben Jackson : Yeah, Come on, Jamie, you and me first. We never know, you know.

  Jamie McCrimmon : What?

  Ben Jackson : We don't know what could be waiting for us out there, do we? Come on, Doctor, open up.

  The Doctor : Yes, I don't see why not. It looks alright to me.

  [the doors open] 

  The Doctor : Wait!

  [the others stop in their tracks] 

  The Doctor : ... For me. Ha-ha-ha...

• [first lines] 

  Jamie McCrimmon : [upon entering the TARDIS for the first time, he looks around him. The central column rises and falls]  What's this?

  The Doctor : You'll find out.

  [operates the controls] 

  Jamie McCrimmon : Ah, I don't think I want to.

  Ben Jackson : It's a machine, my old haggis; it's taken you away from Scotland forever.

  Jamie McCrimmon : Where to?

  Ben Jackson : Ah, well, that as the Doctor would say, that is in the lap of the gods. We never know.

  Jamie McCrimmon : Ah, you'd not be leading me on now, would you? It's a fact; you don't know where we're going?

  Polly Wright : Quite true, and what's more we don't even know what year it will be either.

  Jamie McCrimmon : Och, now, I don't believe it.

  The Doctor : "Nae man can tether time nor tide" - Robert Burns.

  Jamie McCrimmon : Hey? Who's Robert Burns?

  The Doctor : Oh, I should have remembered.

  Polly Wright : What?

  The Doctor : Well to Jamie, it's seventeen forty six. Robert Burns wasn't born until seventeen fifty nine.

  Ben Jackson : It's all complicated, isn't it?

  Jamie McCrimmon : What's happening now?

  The Doctor : We're just beginning to land. Hold tight, everyone.

  Jamie McCrimmon : Land?

  Polly Wright : Don't be scared, Jamie, it's alright, really.

  Ben Jackson : I get a sort of queer feeling. See, we never know what we're going to find, do we?

  The Doctor : Ah that's the fun. Stand by, here we go.

  Polly Wright : Please let it be Chelsea nineteen sixty six.

  Ben Jackson : Hope it's the Daleks, I don't think.

  The Doctor : Prehistoric monsters...