Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Creature from the Pit: Part One (1979)

Tom Baker: Doctor Who

Photos 

Quotes 

• Doctor Who : [looking down into a dark mine shaft]  What's this?

  Lady Adrasta : We call it - The Pit.

  Doctor Who : Ah, you have such a way with words.

• Doctor Who : 'Stands to reason.' Stupid expression. 'Stands to reason.' Why doesn't it 'lie down' to reason? Much easier to reason lying down.

• Doctor Who : [saved from vicious, animated plant life]  Did you get those things off me?

  Huntsman : Yes.

  Doctor Who : Thank you, very much.

  Huntsman : [to his guards]  Kill him.

  Doctor Who : What? And just as we were all getting on so well?

  Huntsman : [again to his guards]  Kill him!

  Doctor Who : Look, I... I don't want to stand on protocol or anything like that, but couldn't you at least do the done thing and take me to your leader?

  Karela : Wait!

  Doctor Who : Wait!

  [to Karela] 

  Doctor Who : Are you in charge here?

  Karela : I am.

  Doctor Who : Thank you very much. You saved my life and I'm the Doctor. What are these things?

  Karela : Wolfweeds.

  Doctor Who : Weeds? What, plant weeds?

  Karela : Of course. Specially grown in the Lady Adrasta's nurseries.

  Doctor Who : Good Lord! If I were you I'd introduce her to geraniums before it's too late.

• Doctor Who : [breaking from the subject of the eggshell]  Lady Adrasta, I'd like to talk to you about these things but at the moment I'm much more concerned about Romana.

  Lady Adrasta : Ah, yes. Madam Korela told me. Your commander.

  Doctor Who : No, no, she's not my commander. She's my companion.

  Lady Adrasta : [oily]  Of course. I couldn't see a man of your obvious talents in a subordinate position.

  Doctor Who : [working it out]  You couldn't see a man of my obvious talents in a subor... Oh, no. Of course n...

  [smiling] 

  Doctor Who : No, you're very kind.

  Lady Adrasta : Yes, aren't I.

• Lady Adrasta : Doren, I saw no mention in your paper that the shell was alive.

  Doran : It can't be, my Lady. It's impossible. We detected nothing.

  Lady Adrasta : [indicating the Doctor]  But this man did!

  Doran : He's... He's mistaken.

  Doctor Who : Well, be to fair, I did have a couple of gadgets that he probably didn't, like a teaspoon and an open mind.