ALPHA: Doctor?

DOCTOR: Alpha Centauri.

ALPHA: It is! It's the Doctor!

DOCTOR: Alpha Centauri, my dear fellow, what a very well-timed entrance.

ALPHA: It's like a miracle, Doctor. All these years and you haven't changed a bit.

DOCTOR: Neither have you, my dear fellow. A touch of grey around the tentacles perhaps, but still the same old Alpha.

SARAH: Well, it's going to be rather difficult to explain but I think he was referring to Women's Lib.

THALIRA: And what's that?

SARAH: Women's liberation, your Majesty. On Earth it means well, very briefly, it means that we women don't let men push us around.

THALIRA: It's not like that on Peladon. The ruler is always a man. I was only crowned because my father had no son. It's Ortron who holds the real power.

SARAH: Well, only if you let him. You've just got to stand up for yourself.

THALIRA: It would be different if I was a man. But I'm only a girl.

SARAH: Now just a minute. There's nothing only about being a girl, your Majesty. Never mind why they made you a Queen, the fact is you are the Queen, so just you jolly well let them know it.

THALIRA: Ambassador, we take it that these aliens are known to you?

ALPHA: Er, not the er, female? Not the female, your Majesty. Still, she's of no importance. But this is most certainly the Doctor. A good friend of your father, and of Peladon.