Dick Turpin (TV Series)
The Elixir of Life (1980)
Richard O'Sullivan: Dick Turpin
Quotes
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Abby : You've seen the last of your swag and I'm a ruined woman.
Dick Turpin : Well, that's common knowledge, isn't it?
Swiftnick : Yeah, and half the men in the district take credit for it as well.
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Swiftnick : [Dr. Mandragola is gazing into the 'Eye of Solomon'] Can you see what's happened to Harry?
Dr. Mandragola : I see... a man! A happy man.
Swiftnick : Doesn't sound like Harry. What's he look like?
Dr. Mandragola : The vision is... indistinct.
Dick Turpin : Had he got a beard?
Dr. Mandragola : A beard...
Dick Turpin : Yes, a big, bushy beard, about this long.
Dr. Mandragola : Yes, yes! He wears such a beard.
Dick Turpin : In that case, it must be a false beard, cause Harry doesn't wear one.
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Dick Turpin : [Dick has taken a gulp of Dr. Mandragola's Elixer of Live] Oh yes.
Swiftnick : What is it?
Dick Turpin : Well, north of the border it's called many names: Aqua Vitae, Usque Baugh, but down south, it's know as Whiskey. Your health.
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Abby : Behold: The Amazing Dr. Mandragola!
[Turpin enters dressed as Mandragola with Swiftnick as his assistant, Daft Jamie]
Dick Turpin : [Swiftnick bangs his cymbals together] From the black deserts of Bagdad...
[Swiftnick bangs his cymbals together]
Dick Turpin : ... to the wind swept plains of Moskovy...
[Swiftnick bangs his cymbals together]
Dick Turpin : ... to the ghost ridden swamps... of eh... that lonely, nameless region.
[Swiftnick bangs his cymbals together]
Dick Turpin : ... come I hither to present my powers at your feet.