Dick Turpin (TV Series)
Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure: Part 4 (1981)
Richard O'Sullivan: Dick Turpin
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Quotes
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Ignatius Slake : Well, let's get on with the proceedings. Your name?
Dick Turpin : Alexander the Great.
Ignatius Slake : [angrily] I hold you in contempt! Alexander is dust, dust... Do you think I'm mad? Or perhaps you're mad, Mr. Alexander.
Dick Turpin : Perhaps I am, my lord.
Ignatius Slake : [singsong voice] Perhaps won't do, perhaps ain't good enough, perhaps won't save you.
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Ignatius Slake : Question number one: how do you catch a cold?
Dick Turpin : Eh, I trap sneezes in a kerchief and use them as bait.
Ignatius Slake : That's a good reply. How long is a piece of cheese?
Dick Turpin : How long is it where, my lord?
Ignatius Slake : Where, what?
Dick Turpin : I find mountain cheese lasts much longer than stilton.
Ignatius Slake : Careful, Mr. Alexander. How do you cure a ham?
Dick Turpin : [laughs nervously] Oh my lord, I think you're trying to trick me. eh, ah, I would cure a ham if he were alive, but alas, poor nose sunday's passed all physic.
Ignatius Slake : He has indeed, yes, he has indeed.
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Dick Turpin : I, Ignatius Slake sentence you, Alexander the false, to the running.
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Dick Turpin : My thanks, Isaac. No doubt we'll meet you again.
Isaac Rag : Oh, it's inevitable, captain, diabolically inevitable.
Jane Harding : Good bye, Isaac, and eh,
[pats the horse he 'borrowed' for her]
Jane Harding : thanks.
Isaac Rag : Goodbye, little white duck!
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Dick Turpin : Ladies, if you will - If you will listen to me for a moment, then I am all yours.
Mrs. Buskin : Oh! All of us, he must be Hercules!