Doctor Who (TV Series)

The Web Planet (1965)

Jacqueline Hill: Barbara Wright

Quotes 

• Barbara Wright : Vicki? Here, take these. You'll feel much better.

  [hands Vicki a sedative] 

  Vicki : What is it?

  Barbara Wright : Oh, it's just something to make you sleep.

  Vicki : May I see the container?

  [Barbara hands her the container] 

  Barbara Wright : Any aches or pains?

  Vicki : No, I didn't hurt myself. My ears still sting a bit, but that's all.

  Barbara Wright : Well, have you decided yet whether to take the prescribed dose?

  Vicki : It looks a bit medieval.

  Barbara Wright : What do you mean?

  Vicki : Well, you wouldn't like it if I tried to stick leeches all over you, would you? And I mean, it boils down to the same thing. They might have taken these in your time, but that doesn't mean...

  Barbara Wright : Now, wait a minute. You can't blame my generation for everything, and those pills belong to the Doctor.

  Vicki : He must've picked them up on his travels then, 'cause I've never seen Aspirin before.

• Barbara Wright : Oh, so you studied medicine at school, did you.

  Vicki : Yes, of course, I did. Didn't you teach it?

  Barbara Wright : No. We worked upwards from the three R's.

  Vicki : Hmm?

  Barbara Wright : Reading, writing, 'rithmetic.

  Vicki : Oh, it was a nursery school?

  Barbara Wright : It was not!

  Vicki : Oh! I wish I'd gone to your school. We had to take a certificate of education in medicine, physics, chemistry...

  Barbara Wright : Now, wait a minute. How old were you?

  Vicki : Well, I was ten when I took those, and then...

  Barbara Wright : Ten! What did you do in your time? Live in the classroom?

  Vicki : Live in the what?

  Barbara Wright : Classroom.

  [Vicki still looks confused] 

  Barbara Wright : Lecture hall. How long did you study?

  Vicki : Almost an hour a week. We had these machines, you see, and we all...

  Barbara Wright : All right. Now, look, you don't think there's anything wrong with those pills, now do you?

  Vicki : No.

  Barbara Wright : Well, why don't you just pander to my old-fashioned, medieval superstitions and take them for me?

  Vicki : Well...

  Barbara Wright : After all, it would save me having to put make up on and a mask and dance around a fire in order to get rid of evil spirits.

  Vicki : All right.

  Barbara Wright : Good.

• Barbara Wright : Well, it's the things we don't understand that frightens us. I'm sure there is a perfectly simple explanation. I'm just letting my imag...