Doctor Who (TV Series)
An Unearthly Child (1963)
William Russell: Ian Chesterton
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Quotes
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The Doctor : [to Ian] You still think it's all an illusion?
Ian Chesterton : I know that free movement in time and space is a scientific dream I don't expect to find solved in a junkyard.
The Doctor : Your arrogance is nearly as great as your ignorance.
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[On Susan's intelligence]
Barbara Wright : I'm lending her a book on the French Revolution.
Ian Chesterton : What's she going to do? Re-write it?
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The Doctor : You don't understand, so you find excuses. Illusions, indeed? You say you can't fit an enormous building into one of your smaller sitting rooms?
Ian Chesterton : No.
The Doctor : But you've discovered television, haven't you?
Ian Chesterton : Yes.
The Doctor : Then by showing an enormous building on your television screen, you can do what seemed impossible, couldn't you?
Ian Chesterton : Well, yes, but I still don't know...
The Doctor : Not quite clear, is it? I can see by your face that youre not certain. You don't understand. And I knew you wouldn't! Never mind.
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Barbara Wright : [finding the TARDIS] Ian, look at this.
Ian Chesterton : Well, it's a Police Box. What on earth's it doing here? These things are usually on the street.
[feels the TARDIS]
Ian Chesterton : Feel it. Feel it. Do you feel it?
Barbara Wright : It's a faint vibration.
Ian Chesterton : It's alive!
[walks around its circumference]
Ian Chesterton : It's not connected to anything, unless it's through the floor.
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Ian Chesterton : But it was a Police Telephone Box. I walked right round it. Barbara, you saw me.
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Ian Chesterton : Let me get this straight. A thing that looks like a police box, standing in a junkyard, it can move anywhere in time and space?
Susan Foreman : Yes.
The Doctor : Quite so.
Ian Chesterton : But that's ridiculous!
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Ian Chesterton : And, frankly, I don't understand your attitude.
The Doctor : Yours leaves a lot to be desired.
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Ian Chesterton : But that's ridiculous.
Susan Foreman : Why won't they believe us?
Barbara Wright : How can we?
The Doctor : Now, now, don't get exasperated, Susan. Remember the Red Indian. When he saw the first steam train, his savage mind thought it an illusion, too.
Ian Chesterton : You're treating us like children.
The Doctor : Am I? The children of my civilisation would be insulted.
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Ian Chesterton : Who is he? Doctor who?