Doctor Who (TV Series)

Voyage of the Damned (2007)

Clive Swift: Mr Copper

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• Mr. Copper : I shall be taking you to Old London town in the country of UK, ruled over by Good King Wenceslas. Now human beings worship the great god Santa, a creature with fearsome claws and his wife Mary. And every Christmas Eve, the people of UK go to war with the country of Turkey. They then eat the Turkey people for Christmas dinner, like savages!

• Mr. Copper : [regarding Rickston]  Of all the people to survive, he's not the one you would have chosen, is it? But if you could choose, Doctor, if you could decide who lives and who dies... that would make you a monster.

• Mr. Copper : So Great Britain is part of Europe, and just across the British channel you've got Great France and Great Germany?

  The Doctor : It's just France and Germany. Only Britain is Great.

• The Doctor : I'm going to seal us in

  Mr. Copper : Leaving us trapped, wouldn't you say?

  The Doctor : Never say trapped, just... inconveniently circumstanced.

• Mr. Copper : But if the planet's waking up, can't we signal them? They could send up a rocket or something.

  The Doctor : They don't have spaceships.

  Mr. Copper : No, I've read about it. They have shuffles. Space shuffles.

  The Doctor : Mr. Copper, this degree in Earthonomics, where is it from?

  Mr. Copper : Honestly?

  The Doctor : Just between us.

  Mr. Copper : Mrs. Golightly's Happy Travelling University and Dry Cleaners.