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  1. A quotation from Robert Holmes

    THE DOCTOR: Oh, I always like to do the unexpected. Takes people by surprise.

    Robert Holmes (1926-1986) British television screenwriter
    Doctor Who (1963), 23×01 “The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet,” Part 1 (1985-01-05)

    More about this quote: wist.info/holmes-robert/80842/

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  2. A quotation from Robert Holmes

    JO GRANT: Doctor, stop being childish.
    THE DOCTOR: What’s wrong with being childish? I like being childish.

    Robert Holmes (1926-1986) British television screenwriter
    Doctor Who (1963), 08×01 “Terror of the Autons,” Part 3 (1971-01-16)

    More about this quote: wist.info/holmes-robert/80575/

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  3. A quotation from Robert Holmes

       THE DOCTOR: A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting.

    Robert Holmes (1926-1986) British television screenwriter
    Doctor Who (1963), 11×01 “The Time Warrior,” Part 1 (1973-12-15)

    More about this quote: wist.info/holmes-robert/80483/

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  4. I am yet to read the book, but I'll interested to see if he covers #DouglasAdams. Early Adams seems to me a perfect example, with his "the last sane man in the world" outlook, lampshaded by the character Wonko The Sane.

    Like Python and #RobertHolmes, many of his observations came from satirising the white, male Oxbridge BBC from within.

    I wonder if his later work was a reaction to this, with better female characters and a clinically depressed humanism which was almost Vonnegut-like in tone.