The Day the Earth Caught Fire Quotes

The Day the Earth Caught Fire is a TV show that appeared on TV in 1970 . The Day the Earth Caught Fire completed its run in 1970.

It features Val Guest as producer, Stanley Black in charge of musical score, and Harry Waxman as head of cinematography.

Each episode of The Day the Earth Caught Fire is 98 minutes long. The Day the Earth Caught Fire is distributed by British Lion Films (UK).

The cast includes: Edward Judd as Peter Stenning, Leo McKern as Bill Maguire, Austin Trevor as Sir John Kelly, and Janet Munro as Jeannie Craig.

The Day the Earth Caught Fire Quotes

Leo McKern as Bill Maguire

• (Leo McKern) "What am I supposed to do with these protest letters?"
• (Leo McKern) "Thank you very much but there are seventeen hundred of them."

• (Unnamed) "I don't care a tinker's damn about this eclipse of the sun as such; the evening papers will cane it, it'll be dead by tomorrow morning. But what I do care about is why there was an eclipse of the sun ten days before it was due. Bill, this is your department."
• (Leo McKern) "I don't know why everybody regards me as Nostradamus. Your guess is as good as mine."
• (Unnamed) "Yes, but I don't want guesses, I want facts. Try someone on top. Sir John Kelly --"
• (Leo McKern) "Stenning got in to see Kelly."
• (Edward Judd) "He had twenty-eight armed guards around him."
• (Unnamed) "Yes, but what did he say?"
• (Edward Judd) "He wouldn't even say "Good night" in case it was taken as an official comment on the future of mankind."

• (Leo McKern) "It's the kid, isn't it?"
• (Edward Judd) "You ought to see the way they're bringing him up, Bill. It'll be the right prep school next. And then the right boarding school. And by the time they finish with him, he'll be a right bowler-hatted, who's-for-tennis, toffee-nosed gent, but he won't be MY son."
• (Leo McKern) "Oh, I don't know. That bad blood of yours is bound to come out."

• (Leo McKern) "They've shifted the tilt of the earth. The stupid, crazy, irresponsible bastards. They've finally done it."

• (Leo McKern) "There's a chap in Leeds says he can extract water from the atmosphere. Oh, as you were, he's been certified."

Edward Judd as Peter Stenning

• (Edward Judd) "Look, just tell Mr. Holroyd."
• (Edward Judd) "This girl's a bigger threat than radiation."
• (Janet Munro) "I heard that remark."

• (Edward Judd) "Hello, Pat."
• (Unnamed) "Well."
• (Edward Judd) "It's a bit better than Picture Post, isn't it?"
• (Unnamed) "Stenning, what the hell do you want?"
• (Edward Judd) "A quote on sun-spots."
• (Unnamed) "Sun-spots?"
• (Edward Judd) "Look, just tell me that the static, the monsoon, the compass trouble, and the terrible shows we get on television are all caused by sun-spots, and that the sun-spots are caused by bigger bomb experiments, and I'll leave you in peace."
• (Unnamed) "Well, there usually is a bit of extra sun-spot activity this time of year, old boy, but I don't think it has much to do with anything."
• (Edward Judd) "But there could be some connection. Oh, come on, say "Yes," what harm could it do you?"
• (Unnamed) "Look, Stenning, it's nice to see you again, but I'm afraid I'm up to my neck, old boy."
• (Unnamed) "All right, Miss Johnson, take this to the Typing Pool and have it mimeographed immediately."
• (Unnamed) "I see you're still a bit of a liberty-taker --"
• (Edward Judd) "Well, give me something, Pat, I've got to get a story out of this."
• (Unnamed) "Sorry, can't oblige, old boy."
• (Edward Judd) "But why not? It's a perfectly routine, harmless, silly-season story."
• (Unnamed) "Look, Peter. You've no right to be here --"
• (Edward Judd) "Well, it is, isn't it? Well, just tell me: yes or no?"
• (Edward Judd) "I don't have to tell you anything, Stenning. You aren't in a special position that entitles you to a first break on anything that comes into this office."
• (Edward Judd) "You mean something has come in."

• (Edward Judd) "Anything you can split I can split better."

• (Edward Judd) "Listen, your job is to pass messages on, when you're asked."
• (Janet Munro) "My job is to do what I'm told by the people who gave me the job, and anyway, this isn't my job; I'm from the Pool."
• (Edward Judd) "Well, then why don't you dive back in and drown?"

• (Edward Judd) "Alcoholics of the press, unite."

• (Edward Judd) "So Man has sown the wind; and reaped the whirlwind. Perhaps in the next few hours, there will be no remembrance of the past, and no hope for the future that might have been. All the works of Man will be consumed in the great fire out of which he was created. But perhaps at the heart of the burning light into which he has thrust his world, there is a heart that cares more for him, than he has ever cared for himself. And if there is a future for Man; insensitive as he is, proud and defiant in his pursuit of power; let him resolve to live it lovingly; for he knows well how to do so. Then he may say once more: Truly the light is sweet; and what a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the Sun."

• (Edward Judd) "Well, Billy boy, they got me doing your homework. Five hundred words on sun-spots."
• (Leo McKern) "Have you seen the figures on some of these Earth tremors?"
• (Edward Judd) "It's another planet trying to contact us."
• (Edward Judd) "This is Earth. Are you receiving me? Are you receiving me? You are?"
• (Edward Judd) "Well get knotted."

Austin Trevor as Sir John Kelly

• (Austin Trevor) "When one considers the Moon is 240,000 miles away and the Sun ninety-three million, it is an extraordinary thing that astronomers can tell with such a degree of accuracy what their movements will be many years ahead."
• (Leo McKern) "Now, what does that mean?"
• (Edward Judd) "It means he doesn't know what it's all about."

• (Austin Trevor) "As I am sure most of you will know, a solar eclipse occurs as a result of the interposition of the Moon between the Earth and the Sun."
• (Leo McKern) "And that, children, is how the little bunny rabbit got his fluffy white tail."

Janet Munro as Jeannie Craig

• (Janet Munro) "You look as if you're used to carrying children."
• (Edward Judd) "My doctor says I have the perfect figure for it."

• (Janet Munro) "Oh, hullo. Have you come to fix this?"
• (Edward Judd) "Well, I hadn't, but for you, why not?"
• (Janet Munro) "Oh, I'm sorry, they'd said they'd send someone. Can I help you? Nearly everyone's gone home."
• (Edward Judd) "Yeah, I'd like a copy of tonight's official line-ups."
• (Janet Munro) "Tonight's what?"
• (Edward Judd) "Uh, the official releases."
• (Janet Munro) "Oh. Those are all a bit smudged, a bit over-inky, I'll get you a clean one. We're in a terrible state here. What with holidays and flu, we're all doing everyone else's job."
• (Edward Judd) "It happens to the best of us."
• (Janet Munro) "Success."
• (Janet Munro) "No smudges."
• (Edward Judd) "This is all I get, sweetie?"
• (Janet Munro) "That's all you get."
• (Edward Judd) "You wouldn't like a drink with me, or a lift home?"
• (Janet Munro) "Just for my record, I'd like your name."
• (Edward Judd) "Peter Stenning. Just for my record, I'd like yours."
• (Janet Munro) "Peter Stenning?"
• (Edward Judd) "Yes."
• (Janet Munro) "Express?"
• (Edward Judd) "Oh, you've heard of me."
• (Janet Munro) "Oh, yes. And if you're Peter Stenning, that's not all you get."
• (Edward Judd) "Oh, great, great."
• (Janet Munro) "You get this too, sweetie."
• (Janet Munro) "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to dive back into the Pool."

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