Terrahawks

Terrahawks is a British science fiction series created by Gerry Anderson and Christopher Burr, which ran from 1983 to 1986. The show focused on the battles between a elite defence force based in South America and an army of alien monsters on Mars, led by the android Zelda.

Expect the Unexpected part one

 * [first line of the show]
 * Zelda: Planet Mars... A small step for us, but a large step towards mankind...


 * Narrator: When's a house not a house? When it's the White House. One thousand feet below the surface: The Battlehawk. Flagship of the Terrahawks, an elite fighting force ready to engage the invaders from Mars....


 * Lieutenant Hiro: [to his flowers] Hi, Erica! My, how you've grown. Nice to see you, Lantana. Why Cassandra, you look beautiful. [to 101] You've obviously been talking to them, just like I told you.
 * Space Sergeant 101: Yes sir.
 * Hiro: You know something, 101? Doctor Ninestein's theory is that my plants flourish because of the artificial gravity up here. And when I explain to him it's because I talk to them, do you know what he says?
 * 101: You're a nut?
 * Hiro: Exactry.


 * Captain Mary Falconer: Sergeant Major, I want a hundred of your men to be boarded immediately.
 * Sergeant Major Zero: Yes Captain. ...You don't really think of us as men, do you?
 * Doctor 'Tiger' Ninestein: Oh, for space sake, Zero, not now...


 * [after Hawkwing has destroyed Zelda's ship]
 * Ninestein: Fantastic, Katie, just fantastic! Mind you, in my opinion, you left the breakaway dangerously late.
 *  Captain Kate Kestrel: That had to be the most exciting moment of my life! And I don't take chances. My reflexes are faster than yours. Don't forget, I'm younger.
 * Ninestein: True. But then I'm wiser.
 * Lieutenant Hawkeye: And I'm scared sick! But then I never was a good passenger.

Expect the Unexpected part two

 * [following 13's funeral]
 * 35: Sergeant Major? I don't understand. I mean, when we get back, they'll make another number 13, won't they?
 * Zero: You know your trouble, 35? You've got no heart.


 * Zero: I could save Mary. And the Doctor. But I will not disobey an order. I will not disobey an order. I definitely will not disobey an order! ...Oh, heck I won't.

Thunder Roar

 * Ninestein: Flaming thunderbolts!
 * Zero: Oh! Didn't expect you, sir...
 * Ninestein: What do you think you're playing at, Zero?
 * Zero: I was playing your video game.
 * Ninestein: Get out of there! [Zero quickly returns to his usual perch]
 * Mary: What's all the commotion?
 * Ninestein: I come in here and what do I find? Zero's playing my game!
 * Mary: That's not so terrible. What did you score, Sergeant Major?
 * Zero: 820, ma'am. And I hadn't finished...
 * Ninestein: What?! That's higher than...!
 * Mary: Higher than your best ever score, Tiger?
 * Ninestein: 820?! I don't believe it.
 * Mary: He can't lie. He's only a machine with limited intelligence. Isn't that what you always say?
 * Ninestein: Well.... What I meant to say was....was..... Flaming thunderbolts...!


 * Sram: So... You are Ninestein. Leader of the despicable Terrahawks. Protectors of the inhuman human race.
 * Tiger Ninestein: Did Zelda send you?
 * Sram: Zelda leads the fight for survival. Survival of all that isn't human.
 * Ninestein: Let me look at your wounds.
 * Sram: No! ...I am dying. My strength is failing....but you will die with me, Ninestein!


 * Ninestein: Don't fuss, Mary, I'm fine. And thanks for getting me out of there.
 * Mary: The Sergeant Major did the hard part. He was very brave, don't you agree?
 * Ninestein: Were you afraid, Zero?
 * Zero: No sir. Not at all.
 * Ninestein: Well, to be courageous, first you've gotta be afraid. It's a very human attribute.
 * Zero: To be brave...you have to be...afraid?


 * Ninestein: Zelda reclaims her own.
 * Mary: It's really scary...
 * Zero: Sir. I'm pleased to say I'm now scared. Does it mean I'm now brave?
 * Ninestein: No, it doesn't.
 * Zero: To be brave, you have be scared... And now that I'm scared, I'm not brave... The whole thing is totally beyond my comprehension!!

Happy Madeday

 * MOID: I wear many faces, but have none of my own.

Thunder Path

 * Zero: That stuff's hard. Almost as hard as Ninestein's heart.


 * Zero: And that, Dix Hewitt, is how we are gonna destroy the bridge.
 * 18: Sacre bleu, you expect us to fire ourselves out of zis?
 * Zero: Exactly, lad. You increase to maximum mass and go like space fire.
 * 18: C'est impossible. No man would do zis.
 * Zero: That is where you are wrong. You never heard of them human cannonballs?
 * 18: Ze humans? They do zis? Hm. Zen I, numeral Dix-Huit, I am ready.
 * Zero: Right, Dix-Wit, get in the pipe.

Ma's Monsters

 * Cy-Star: Zelda, you must listen to me!
 * Zelda: What is it?
 * Cy-Star: My news!
 * Zelda: Very well. Tell us if you must.
 * Cy-Star: Well... I am going to have....a baby!
 * Zelda: [drops tray of glasses] What...did....you say...?
 * Cy-Star: I'm going to have a baby! Isn't it wonderful?
 * Yung-Star: A baby?! [giggles while clapping gleefully]
 * Zelda: A BABY?!

Two for the Price of One

 * Yung-Star: What will it be?
 * Zelda: What will what be, you slobbering simpleton?
 * Yung-Star The baby, of course. Will it be a boy or a girl?
 * Zelda: We are androids. Cy-Star can decide what it will be.
 * Yung-Star: Have you decided, Cy-Star?
 * Cy-Star: Yes.
 * Yung-Star: Well?
 * Cy-Star: Well what?
 * Yung-Star: Is it a boy or a girl?
 * Cy-Star: Not going to tell you.
 * Yung-Star: [grumbles]
 * Zelda: Stop that! All this need not concern you, Yung-Star. You're a man. Although I sometimes have my doubts about that. [laughs with Cy-Star]
 * Yung-Star: Women. Huh!