The Great Mouse Detective Quotes

The Great Mouse Detective is a TV show that debuted in 1970 . The Great Mouse Detective ended its run in 1970.

It features Burny Mattinson as producer, and Henry Mancini in charge of musical score.

The Great Mouse Detective is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Great Mouse Detective is 74 minutes long. The Great Mouse Detective is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

The cast includes: Vincent Price as Ratigan, Susanne Pollatschek as Olivia Flaversham, Susanne Pollatschek as Hiram Flaversham, Barrie Ingham as Bartholomew, Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, and Laurie Main as Dr. Watson.

The Great Mouse Detective Quotes

Vincent Price as Ratigan

• (Dr. Dawson) "You're -- despicable."
• (Vincent Price) "Hehe -- Yes."

• (Vincent Price) "Item 96: A heavy tax shall be levied against all parasites and spongers, such as the elderly, the infirm, and especially little children."

• (Vincent Price) "Oh, Felicia, my precious, my baby. Did daddy's little honey-bunny enjoy her tasty treat?"

• (Vincent Price) "My friends, we are about to embark on the most odious, the most evil, the most diabolical scheme of my illustrious career. A crime to top all crimes, a crime that will live in infamy."
• (Vincent Price) "Tomorrow evening, our beloved monarch celebrates her Diamond Jubilee. And with the enthusiastic help of our good friend, Mr. Flaversham --"
• (Vincent Price) "-- it promises to be a night she'll never forget."
• (Vincent Price) "Her last night, and my first as supreme ruler of all mousedom."

• (Vincent Price) "I've won."
• (Basil) "On the contrary. The game's not over yet."

• (Vincent Price) "Bravo. Bravo. A marvelous performance. Although I was expecting you fifteen minutes earlier. Trouble with the chemistry set, old boy?"

• (Vincent Price) "Thank you, thank you. But it hasn't all been champagne and caviar. I've had my share of adversity, thanks to that miserable, second-rate detective, Basil of Baker Street."
• (Unnamed) "Boo."
• (Vincent Price) "For years, that insufferable pipsqueak has interfered with my plans, and I haven't had a moment's peace of mind."
• (Unnamed) "Aaw --"
• (Vincent Price) "But all that's in the past. This time, nothing, not even Basil, can stand in my way. All will bow before me."

• (Fidget) "We have to lighten the load."
• (Vincent Price) "Oh, you want to lighten the load? Excellent idea."
• (Fidget) "No. Not me. Wait, I can't fly. I can't fly."

• (Vincent Price) "You don't know what a delightful dilemma it was, trying to decide on the most appropriate method for your demise. Oh, I had so many ingenious ideas I didn't know which to choose. So I decided to use them all. Marvelous, isn't it? But, here, let me show you how it works. Picture this. First, a sprightly tune I've recorded especially for you. As the song plays, the cord tightens, and when the song ends, the metal ball is released, rolling along its merry way until --"
• (Vincent Price) "Snap."
• (Vincent Price) "Boom."
• (Vincent Price) "Twang."
• (Vincent Price) "Thunk."
• (Vincent Price) "Splat. And so ends the short, undistinguished career of Basil of Baker Street."

• (Vincent Price) "Fidget, you delightful little maniac. You've provided me with a singular opportunity. Poor Basil. Oh, he's in for a little surprise."

• (Vincent Price) "Oh, my dear Bartholomew. I'm afraid that you've gone and upset me. You know what happens when someone upsets me."

• (Dr. Dawson) "You fiend."
• (Vincent Price) "Sorry, chubby. You should have chosen your friends more carefully."

• (Basil) "Ratigan, so help me, I'll see you behind bars yet."
• (Vincent Price) "You fool."
• (Vincent Price) "Isn't it clear to you? The superior mind has triumphed. I've won."

Susanne Pollatschek as Hiram Flaversham

• (Basil) "Now, Toby, sit."
• (Basil) "Toby -- sit."
• (Susanne Pollatschek) "Sit, Toby."
• (Basil) "Good boy --"

• (Susanne Pollatschek) "Goodbye, Basil."
• (Susanne Pollatschek) "I -- I'll never forget you."
• (Basil) "Nor I you, Miss -- Miss Flangerhanger."
• (Dr. Dawson) "Whatever."

• (Susanne Pollatschek) "You can do what you want with me. I won't be a part of this-this -- this evil any longer."
• (Vincent Price) "Oh, very well, if that is your decision."
• (Vincent Price) "Oh, by the way, I'm taking the liberty of having your daughter brought here."
• (Susanne Pollatschek) "O -- Olivia?"
• (Vincent Price) "Yes. I would spend many a sleepless night if anything unfortunate were to befall her."
• (Susanne Pollatschek) "You -- Y-You wouldn't."
• (Vincent Price) "Finish it, Flaversham."

• (Susanne Pollatschek) "You know, Daddy, this is my very best birthday."
• (Susanne Pollatschek) "Ah, but I haven't given you your present yet."

• (Susanne Pollatschek) "Now will you please listen to me? My daddy's gone, and I'm all alone."
• (Basil) "Young lady, this is a most inopportune time."
• (Basil) "Surely your mother knows where he is."
• (Susanne Pollatschek) "I -- I don't have a mother."
• (Basil) "Well, um -- then perhaps -- See here. I simply have no time for lost fathers."
• (Susanne Pollatschek) "I didn't lose him. He was taken by a bat."
• (Basil) "Did you say -- bat?"
• (Susanne Pollatschek) "Yes."
• (Basil) "Did he have a crippled wing?"
• (Susanne Pollatschek) "I don't know, but he had a peg leg."
• (Basil) "Ha."
• (Dr. Dawson) "I say, do you know him?"
• (Basil) "Know him? That bat, one Fidget by name, is in the employ of the very fiend that was the target of my experiment. The horror of my every waking moment. The nefarious Professor Ratigan."
• (Dr. Dawson) "Ratigan?"
• (Basil) "He's a genius, Dawson. A genius twisted for evil. The Napoleon of crime."
• (Dr. Dawson) "As bad as all that, eh?"
• (Basil) "Worse. For years I've tried to capture him, and I've come close, so very close, but each time he's narrowly evaded my grasp. Not a corner of London is safe while Ratigan is at large. There's no evil scheme he wouldn't concoct. No depravity he wouldn't commit. Who knows what dastardly scheme that villian may be plotting even as we speak."

Barrie Ingham as Bartholomew

• (Unnamed) "Oh Ratigan, oh Ratigan / You're tops, and that's that / To Ratigan, to Ratigan --"
• (Barrie Ingham) "To Ratigan, the world's greatest rat. Hic."
• (Vincent Price) "What was that?"
• (Barrie Ingham) "Hic."
• (Vincent Price) "What did you call me?"
• (Unnamed) "Oh, he didn't mean it, Professor."
• (Unnamed) "It -- it was just a slip of the tongue."
• (Vincent Price) "I am not a rat."
• (Unnamed) "Course you're not."
• (Thug Guard) "You're a mouse."
• (Unnamed) "Yeah, a-a big mouse."
• (Vincent Price) "Silence."

Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes

• (Basil Rathbone) "I observe that there is a good deal of German music on the program. It is quite introspective, and I want to introspect."
• (Laurie Main) "But, Holmes, that music is so frightfully dull."

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