Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV Series)

Time of the Hawk (1981)

Wilfrid Hyde-White: Dr. Goodfellow

Quotes 

• Twiki : Crichton, you are ordered to the bridge at once.

  Crichton : I have asked you on several occasions, Twiki, not to give me orders. You are not a human.

  Twiki : But I was...

  Admiral Efram Asimov : [impatiently]  You listen to me, kettle belly: this is Admiral Asimov. You get up here to the bridge now!

  Crichton : Oh, very well, Admiral. By robotic law conceived by some distant and overweening ancestor of yours, also named Asimov, I am obliged to obey your commands. However, this is an appalling inconvenience.

  Admiral Efram Asimov : Move!

  Crichton : I am en route. Anger is a destructive emotion, by which robots fortunately are not afflicted.

  Admiral Efram Asimov : Goodfellow, you built that irritating pile of junk. Can't you build some respect for authority into him?

  Dr. Goodfellow : I'm afraid not, Admiral. It appears that Crichton doesn't believe I constructed him.

  Admiral Efram Asimov : He doesn't what?

  Dr. Goodfellow : [chuckles]  He finds it inconceivable that anything human had a hand in his creation.

  Admiral Efram Asimov : I don't think I believe what I'm hearing.

  Dr. Goodfellow : Well, his life span is virtually unlimited; his factual knowledge far exceeds that of any of us; and he is, I'm afraid, just a trifle contemptuous of human frailties, to which he's not subject.

  [Buck snickers] 

  Admiral Efram Asimov : [scowls]  You find that funny, Rogers?

  Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers : Sorry, Admiral.

  Admiral Efram Asimov : Now look here, Goodfellow, if that ridiculous lamppost doesn't believe that humans made him, who, in the name of Theseus does he think did?

  Dr. Goodfellow : Well, he hasn't quite decided that yet. But his speculations are, to say the least, provocative.

  Admiral Efram Asimov : [sarcastically]  I'll just bet they are.

  [Crichton appears on the bridge] 

  Crichton : [clears his throat]  Crichton is here.

  Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers : [sarcastically]  Hallelujah.

• Capt. William 'Buck' Rogers : Twiki tells me you've been "banking" Crichton, Doctor.

  Dr. Goodfellow : Crichton? Yes. A truly remarkable robot, I tell you.

  Colonel Wilma Deering : That's the understatement of the century.

  Dr. Goodfellow : Century? No, no. Not century, Colonel - millennium. Do you know he's absorbed an entire millennium in the last three days? And he's extraordinarily attuned to the unusual. Do you know what he said to me this morning? He told me that the tongue - listen to this - The tongue of a blue whale can weight as much as a full-grown elephant.

  Colonel Wilma Deering : Oh, come, Doctor. That's a little hard to believe.

  Dr. Goodfellow : Difficult to swallow, you mean?