There’s something that doesn’t make sense. Let’s go and poke it with a stick.

We teleported,” Issie finishes. “Like in Star Trek or Harry Potter, sort of. No! Like in Dr. Who in that episode with the Sontarans and the brilliant human boy, or really any Dr. Who ever...

He was in love with Eve and ran around like some kind of inter dimensional Dr. Who with a sonic screw loose.

I dunno about you, but I’ve always fancied knocking off early for a quiet night in with Call The Midwife. Do you get that here, sir?””No,” I told him. For some reason a smile was...

Eighth Doctor: I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.

The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name?Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks. The Doctor: But what do I call you?Idris: I think you call me… Sexy? The Doctor: [embarrassed] Only when we’re...

I don’t think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the “jelly men” were going...

Donna to the policewoman: Don’t you touch this car!The Doctor watching: She’s not changed.Wilfred: Oh. There he is. Shawn Temple. They’re engaged. Getting married in the Spring.The Doctor: Another wedding.Wilfred: Yeah.The Doctor: Hold on, she’s...

There was a goblin, or a trickster or a warrior. A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. Nothing could stop it or...

Amy Pond: ‘I thought… well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.’The Doctor: ‘Amy Pond, there’s something you better understand about me, ’cause it’s important and one day your life...

In a very real way, television is the new mythos. It defines the world, reinterprets it. The seasons do not change because Persephone goes underground. They change because new episodes air, because sweeps week demands...

He was… wearing a tasselled velvet nightcap that I [Amy] noticed the Doctor eyeing up. If Boris didn’t watch out, that’d go missing and we’d never hear the end of ‘Nightcaps are cool.

Doctor: ‘I am not a hero.”Robin Hood: ‘Well, neither am I, but if we both keep pretending to be, perhaps others will be heroes in our name. Perhaps we will both be stories and may...

I raised an alluring eyebrow. Alluringly.

Don’t play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I’m the Doctor, and you’re in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up.

Rose: My mum’s here.The Doctor: Oh, that’s just what I need! Don’t you dare make this place domestic!Mickey Smith: You ruined my life, Doctor. [the Doctor turns and looks at him, irritated] They thought she...

I’m not impossible,just a bit unlikely

I’m hard to get rid of.” He smiled. All Tegan’s suspicions about the boy came flooding back. “So it seems,” she replied icily.

Rose: Look at you, beaming away like you’re Father Christmas!The Doctor: Who says I’m not, red-bicycle-when-you-were-twelve?Rose: [shocked] What?The Doctor: And everybody lives, Rose! Everybody lives! I need more days like this! Go on, ask me...

They were in love with him because he was a prince and a faerie and magical and you were supposed to love princes and faeries and magic people. They loved him the way they’d loved...

Maria?… She’s been writing all this down? Oh, bless her…’ He leafed on through the pile. ‘Although that’s not how that happened… and no, she’s wrong, bowties are cool.

The TARDIS can look like whatever it wants.

He had on – oh wow, he was wearing that outfit again. The one he’d lost in the prison. ‘Hang about,’ Sam managed.‘How’d you get –’‘I made a little side trip,’ said the Doctor. ‘There’s...

Creatures from another world, only statues when you see them. Lonely Assassins, that’s what they used to be called. No one quite knows where they came from, but they’re as old as the Universe, or...

The Doctor: [hologram, speaking towards the console] This is Emergency Programme One. Rose, now listen, this is important. If this message is activated, then it can only mean one thing: we must be in danger,...

He’d actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: ‘Come to the Cabaret!

The Doctor: I’ve seen bigger.Clara: Really?The Doctor: Are you joking? It’s massive!

It’s a funny thing about stories. It doesn’t feel like you make them up, more like you find them. You type and type and you know you haven’t got it yet, because somewhere out there,...

In 900 years of time and space, I’ve never met someone who wasn’t important before.

[Amy] pulled a face. ‘Honestly, when you grow up you’ll learn you may as well try herding cats as keeping men in one place,’ she told me solemnly, which I vowed to remember.

Cut! Go again.”And again, and again, and again. Finally, after the fourth of fifth take I yelled down the hill to the director: “This isn’t a fucking marathon! If we’re going to go again, tell...

Lewis Carroll. He was an odd one. Real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Completely denied having anything to do with the Alice books. Daft as a brush. You’d have liked him!

Amy: This time can we… lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can’t beat that!

Wow,” said Henry. “Awesome. And I’ll help you with you know who.””Who?” Justin said again”Talking about Dr. Who, J. You know how we nerds love our Who.””Who? How did you two get on Who? We...

Donna: You really believe in all that stuff, don’t you?Wilfred Mott (Bernard Cribbins): It’s all over the place these days. If I wait here long enough…Donna: I don’t suppose you’ve seen a little blue box.Wilfred:...

Chairs are useful

The Doctor: Doctor Song, you’ve got that face on again.River: What face?The Doctor: The “He’s hot when he’s clever” face.River: This is my normal face.The Doctor: Yes it is.River: Oh, shut up.The Doctor: Not a...

Rebuild your world, rebuild your race, rebuild your empire. Rebuild it all. But make sure you rebuild your ideals too. Rebuild the principles that made you a great and honorable galactic power in the first...

I’ve lost the TARDIS as well.’I [Amy] was outraged. Considering my husband was dying and we were stranded in the past, the Doctor seemed fairly calm about things. ‘Someone’s nicked it!”Not so much, no.’ The...

I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.

I don’t often need rescuing, but it’s nice when it goes well and doesn’t involve great heights.

I don’t know. I can’t tell the future I just work there.

The Doctor: Rose… before I go, I just want to tell you: you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? [Pause] So was I![The TARDIS lights up with energy as the Doctor regenerates...

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don’t alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be uncomfortable if you...

The bemused Brigadier shook his head. “You and that TARDIS.

Angel Bob: Doctor? Excuse me, hello, Doctor? Angel Bob here, sir. The Doctor: Ah, there you are, Angel Bob. How’s life? Sorry, bad subject. Angel Bob: The Angels are wondering what you hope to achieve....

He could wear hats. He could wear an assortment of hats of different shapes and styles. Boater hats, cowboy hats, bowler hats. The list went on. Pork-pie hats, bucket hats, trillbies and panamas. Top hats,...

Don’t worry, I’m shielding you. When we crashed here and it first attacked me, I was caught with my mental trousers down. Not anymore. Psychic force field’s intact. Belts and braces. Braces, by the way,...

With how you were reacting to that glamour, I’ll have to keep an eye on you. Otherwise the next time I see you, you’ll probably have a Doctor Who tramp stamp.For one awkward second, I...

LEELA: ‘To be, or not to be, that is the question.’ That is a very stupid question!THE DOCTOR: It’s Shakespeare.LEELA: And that is a very stupid name. You do not shake a spear, you throw...