Danger Mouse (TV Series)

DM on the Orient Express (1986)

Terry Scott: Penfold

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Quotes 

• Danger Mouse : Look, who's at the back of this racket?

  Foreman : I'm not at liberty to say, sir.

  [turns round, revealing a company name on the back of his jacket] 

  Foreman : Right, get ready to haul that concrete!

  Danger Mouse : [reading the logo on the jacket]  Greenback Construction company. Aha, so that's who's at the jack of this bucket. Eh, back of this jacket, racket. I should have known.

  Penfold : Well I told you to read the script.

• Penfold : [climbing out of a canal]  Cor, oof, aw. Rotten old fish. What am I gonna tell the Chief? Where am I gonna find the Chief? I suppose I should have read the script too.

• Penfold : Chief, isn't the Orient Express that train where people disappear and get, get you know, cor, you know...

  Danger Mouse : Penfold, you've been watching too many films about secret agents.

• Penfold : Have I got time to buy the Assistant's Secret Agents Weekly, DM? I haven't got anything to read.

• Isambard Sinclair, narrator : [narrating]  And so the Orient Express thunders on. Crossing from... ehm... Eh, the, the brown bit to, to, the, eh, eh, pink bit.

  Danger Mouse : Look at that shade of pink,

  [takes a deep breath] 

  Danger Mouse : It's breathtaking. Isn't it exciting, Penfold?

  Penfold : [reading Chuckles Weekly]  Not half, Chief. Sidney the Spider's at it again, hah!

• Penfold : I'm going to stretch my legs, Chief.

  Danger Mouse : Alright, shorty.

  [chortles at his little joke] 

  Penfold : [looks at DM, then slowly closes the door]  I do hope he's alright.

• Danger Mouse : [DM and Penfold are tied to the sails of a windmill]  Lovely day for a sail.

  Penfold : Pardon?

  Danger Mouse : Never mind. Just hang on and I'll get us out of this.

  Penfold : Hang on? Ooh, do I have a choice?

• Colonel K : Some department I never heard of coughed up for tickets... for a train... Orient Express.

  Danger Mouse : I beg your pardon, Colonel?

  Colonel K : Tickets for the Orient Express at your hotel.

  Penfold : What's the Orient Express doing at our hotel, Colonel?

  Colonel K : I don't know, Penfold. Are you staying at the station?

  Danger Mouse : [extremely long-suffering]  I don't think I can take much more...