ECHOES - A DICKENS OF A TIME

DOCTOR: 

Charles Dickens? You're brilliant, you are. 

Completely one hundred percent brilliant. 

I've read them all. "Great Expectations", "Oliver Twist", 

and what's the other one, the one with the ghost? 

DICKENS:

"A Christmas Carol"? 

DOCTOR: 

No, no, no, the one with the trains. "The Signal Man", that's it. 

Terrifying! The best short story ever written. You're a genius. 

DRIVER: 

You want me to get rid of him, sir? 

DICKENS: 

Er, no, I think he can stay. 

DOCTOR: 

Honestly, Charles. Can I call you Charles? I'm such a big fan. 

DICKENS: 

A what? A big what? 

DOCTOR: 

Fan. Number one fan, that's me. 

DICKENS: 

How exactly are you a fan? In what way do you resemble 

a means of 

keeping oneself cool? 

DOCTOR: 

No, it means fanatic, devoted to. 

Mind you, I've got to say, 

that American bit in "Martin Chuzzlewit", what's that about? 

Was that just padding or what? 

I mean, it's rubbish, that bit.

'DOCTOR WHO' - "THE UNQUIET DEAD"

BRIAN LANE:

You're a bit of a fan of Charles Dickens, aren't you?
'NEW TRICKS' - "BODY OF EVIDENCE"

BCnU!