Doctor Who (TV Series)
The Faceless Ones: Episode 4 (1967)
Colin Gordon: Commandant
Quotes
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[last lines]
Jean Rock : Negative report from Air Sea Rescue, Sir.
Commandant : But with two aircraft ditching there must be some signs of wreckage.
Dr. Who : [gently] Why do you think the Chameleon plane crashed into the sea?
Commandant : Because it disappeared off our radar screen!
Dr. Who : But it stood still first!
Commandant : Because it must have collided with the RAF plane and dropped like a stone.
Dr. Who : Why do you think that?
Commandant : [snatches a note pad from his desk and draws a big circle, bisected by a horizontal line] You see, when a plane on that radar appears to stand still, it is in point of fact dropping straight down.
Dr. Who : What about straight up?
Commandant : [wearily] Oh my dear Doctor! To get above our radar umbrella like that it'd have to climb vertically until it was a hundred miles high. The darned thing would be in outer space.
Dr. Who : Exactly!