Doctor Who (TV Series)

Escape Switch (1966)

Peter Purves: Steven Taylor

Quotes 

• Steven : If you try any more of your funny business, I'll exterminate you myself!

  The Meddling Monk : [acting injured innocence]  Funny business? Me?

• [first lines] 

  Steven : [Steven shouts]  Doctor! Doctor! Doctor? Doctor!

  [he turns to Sara] 

  Steven : No Doctor!

  Sara : [sees the TARDIS]  Perhaps he's inside.

  Steven : [They try to open the TARDIS door but it is still locked]  Doctor! Doctor!

  Sara : [Sara sees something behind them. She calls to Steven]  Steven... Look!

  [Steven turns and looks. A bandaged hand has opened the lid of the coffin and is moving about. The coffin lid fully opens and a near fully bandaged person rises. He spots Sara and Steven and starts trying to talk, but the bandages muffle the sound] 

  Steven : He is trying to say something.

  [Sara and Steven move over to the mummy and start to unravel the bandages. When all of the bandages have been removed from the face they see that it is the Meddling Monk] 

  The Meddling Monk : Well, thank goodness for that!

• [last lines] 

  Dr. Who : There we are. That's finished. It's a pity we haven't got a more reliable way of testing it. Well...

  Sara : Well, come on, I thought you said that it's was finished.

  Dr. Who : Oh yes, it is finished my dear. But...

  Steven : Oh, come on, Doctor. We haven't got time for "buts"! This is our only hope.

  Dr. Who : Yes, you realize, of course, we're taking a terrible chance.

  Steven : Then you can save your breath. We've got to try it!

  Dr. Who : [the Doctor grasps his lapels and turns away]  Very well, my boy. Pull the main switch!

  [Steven halts for a moment and then pulls the lever. The sound of take-off can be heard but then a massive explosion flings them to the floor...]