Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Creature from the Pit: Part One (1979)

Myra Frances: Adrasta

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 : [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.