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Classic Who S17 • Serial 6

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ROMANA: Oh, I do love the spring. All the leaves, the colours.

DOCTOR: It's October.

ROMANA: I thought that you said we were coming here for May week.

DOCTOR: I did. May week's in June.

ROMANA: I'm confused.

DOCTOR: So was the TARDIS.

ROMANA: Oh, I do love the autumn. All the leaves, the colours.

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DOCTOR: Well, at least with something as simple as a punt nothing can go wrong. No coordinates, no dimensional stabilisers, nothing. Just the water, a punt, a strong pair of hands and the pole.

(Whereupon the pole gets stuck in the mud of the riverbed and the Doctor has to let it go. They drift on under a bridge.)

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SHIP: Dead men do not require oxygen.

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SKAGRA: Take over the universe? How childish. Who could possibly want to take over the universe?

DOCTOR: Exactly. That's what I keep telling people. It's a troublesome place, difficult to administer. And as a piece of real estate, it's worthless, because by definition there'd be no one to sell it to.

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CHRONOTIS: More tea, my dear?

ROMANA: Lovely. Two lumps, no sugar.

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DOCTOR: Clever jink that, don't you think? I made them think I was trying to get to the TARDIS.

PARSONS: What were you trying to do?

DOCTOR: Get to the TARDIS.

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PARSONS: No, well, er, look, I hope I'm not taking up any of your valuable-

CHRONOTIS: Time? Oh no. When you get to my age, you'll find that time doesn't matter too much. Not that I expect you'll get to my age.

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DOCTOR: Well, when I was on the river I heard a strange babble of inhuman voices, didn't you, Romana?

ROMANA: Yes.

CHRONOTIS: Oh, undergraduates talking to each other, I expect. I've trying to have it banned.

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