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The Quotable Doctor Who: v. 1: A Cosmic and Comic Collection of Biographical Quotes About the World's Favourite Time Lord (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Quotable Doctor Who: v. 1"THE QUOTABLE DOCTOR WHO - Dr Who Quotes: Volume One" is a fully comprehensive collection of 2000 thematic quotations about the world's longest-running sci-fi television show "Doctor Who" ... and the time-travelling Time Lord himself, The Doctor. This deeply-researched and well-presented compendium covers all eleven TV incarnations of the Doctor since 1963 - both character and actor - William Hart...
Full description- Publisher: Blue Eyed Books
- Published: 10 November 2010
- Format: Paperback 250 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Television | Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers | Dictionaries Of Quotations
- ISBN 13: 9781907338151 ISBN 10: 1907338152
- Sales rank: 429,595
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The TARDIS of Quotes Books
With over 2000 quotations about Doctor Who (the character and TV show), this first volume of Dr Who quotes definitely lives up to its TARDIS-like billing.
THE QUOTABLE DOCTOR WHO - Dr Who Quotes: Volume One is a fully comprehensive collection of 2000 thematic quotations about the world's longest-running sci-fi television show "Doctor Who" ... and the time-travelling Time Lord himself, The Doctor.
This deeply-researched and well-presented compendium covers all eleven TV incarnations of the Doctor since 1963 - both character and actor - William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant & Matt Smith, as well as other Film and TV Doctors: Peter Cushing & William Hurndall.
"The Quotable Doctor Who" includes comments and quotes about all The Doctor's regular companions (from Sarah Jane Smith to Rose Tyler to Amy Pond) as well as 'one-off' companions plus Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and UNIT.
There are also special sections on the TARDIS, the Sonic Screwdriver, Regeneration, Science Fiction, Behind the Sofa, Special Effects, Music, Fashion, Sex, Technobabble, Female Doctors, the three Doctor Who movies and the TV spin-offs such as K-9 & Company, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Further sections include comparing "Doctor Who" to "Star Trek", James Bond, Sherlock Holmes and other Film / TV shows and characters.
Volume One includes 2000 quotes about The Doctor and his Doctor's Companions.
To be published on 7th Dec 2010
Volume Two includes quotes about the Doctor's Enemies, Monsters & Minor Characters.
To be published in Sept. 2011
Volume Three & Four includes quotes about the individual TV episodes (comments from cast & crew, and reviews and views from fans & critics) split between Classic Who (63-89) and New Series (05-11).
To be published in Sept. 2011
SAMPLE QUOTATIONS from VOLUME ONE
On the global appeal of the show - "Because it's the best idea ever invented in the history of the world!"
Russell T. Davies on BBC Wales Today (2004)
"I love this show as much as ever. It has not diminished as I feared it would. I can still catch a Jon Pertwee repeat on UK Gold and be happy as a Zygon."
Russell T. Davies (2005)
"I hadn't understood the beauty of sci-fi before Dr Who came into my world."
Billie Piper, Growing Pains (2006)
"Doctor Who has to be proper Doctor Who scary. There is nothing scarier than watching Doctor Who as a child. Scarier than Tomb of the Cybermen or Terror of the Autons? Are you mad? No, those are truly terrifying."
Steven Moffat (2010)
"Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science-fiction. At best, Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic, about this wonderful man in this big blue box, who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there?s a problem."
Neil Gaiman (2010)
"The cliché about Doctor Who - that it had us 'hiding behind the sofa' - is more telling in its tone than its questionable factuality. It connotes nostalgia, and a pleasurable mixture of fright and fascination - but above all it connotes domesticity. It united fear and soft furnishings in the British mind."
Sam Leith in The Daily Telegraph (2008)
"The Doctor needn't remain forever sexless - it can't be easy, after all, when your fellow traveller is wearing leopardskins. But in an age as sexually obsessed as ours, a hero who'd rather be knobbling Daleks than knocking off his leggy companions is surely to be welcomed."
Brian Logan in The Guardian (2003)
"Timelords can only have 13 bodies, but I'm sure when they get to that they can find some storyline where he falls in a vat of replenishing cream or something."
David Tennant (2005)
On the Doctor's increasing political-awareness - "Doctor Who is a genius, a man of the universe ... Since when did he acquire the blinkered values of a bearded Sixties sociology lecturer?"
James Delingpole in The Spectator (2008)
"There has, by the way, always been a question mark over the sexuality of Doctor Who himself - even though in William Hartnell's days playing the role there was a reference to him having a grand daughter - but that is, of course, quite another matter."
'Mandrake' in The Daily Telegraph (2009)
"In chronological order, then, we've had: William Hartnell (who played the Doctor as a harried academic), Patrick Troughton (a pratfall-prone tramp), Jon Pertwee (a flouncing dandy in frock-coat and frills), Tom Baker (the nation's official favourite; a brilliantly booming wag), Peter Davison (a panting schoolboy), Colin Baker (a massive sod) and, finally, Sylvester McCoy (a lisping ninny whose profoundly irritating habit of suddenly BELLOWING for absolutely no REASON WHATSOEVER was at least partly responsible for the BBC tugging the chain after 26 years of dogged but ultimately quite silly service). Oh, and Paul McGann, whose sole outing makes him the George Lazenby of the Who franchise and therefore of no use to anyone at all."
Sarah Dempster in The Guardian (2005)
On The Doctors getting younger - "What is odd is that the companions have remained pretty much the same nubile, up-for-it age. They began as children out with a cranky magical uncle of a sort that was common in Edwardian children?s books, but have now ended up with an intergalactic blind date."
A.A. Gill in The Times (2010)
"The closest thing the Doctor had to superpowers was a hi-tech screwdriver, and in place of muscle-hugging Lycra and cape he had tweed and a woolly scarf. The TARDIS may have been impressively roomy but it would still only be a changing room for Superman."
Steve Tomkins in Third Way (2006)
"I always imagine that the Doctor must be starving after a regeneration - that kind of transformation must use up lots of bodily resources. He should need, like, a really big steak or two, at least, after that. But no: He always has to run off and save the universe without so much as a ham sandwich to get him by."
MaryAnn Johanson on FlickFilosopher.com (2010)
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