Fawlty Towers TV - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 2005 - Yes Prime Minister TV - The Young Ones TV - Edgar Allan Poe - Alexander Pope - William Shakespeare - Rab C Nesbitt TV - Midnight Cowboy 1969 - John 10:9 - The Royle Family TV - House on Haunted Hill 1959 - Michio Kaku - Howard Wilkinson - The Damned United 2009 - Spike Milligan - Ray Donovan TV -
I’m afraid the dining-room door’s disappeared. Fawlty Towers s1e2: The Builders, Basil to Major, BBC 1975
I hate locked doors in the house. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958 starring Paul Newman & Elizabeth Taylor & Burl Ives & Judith Anderson & Jack Carson & Madeleine Sherwood & Larry Gates & Vaughn Taylor, director Richard Brooks, Big Moma
Ghastly, isn’t it? All the doors in this spaceship have been programmed to have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close for you again with the knowledge of a job well done. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 2005 starring Martin Freeman & Sam Rockwell & Mos Def & Zooey Deschanel & Bill Nighy & Warwick Davis & Anna Chanccellor & John Malkovich & Kelly Macdonald et al, director Garth Jennings; see also novel Douglas Adams
Open this door! ... You’ll pay for this! Open the bloody door! Yes, Prime Minister s1e4: The Key, Sir Humphrey to Bernard, BBC 1986
There’s someone at the door, Neil … The Young Ones: Bored ***** Vyvyan, BBC 1982
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, 1845
Shut, shut the door, good John! Fatigued I said,
Tie up the knocker, say I’m sick, I’m dead,
The dog-star rages! Alexander Pope, An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, 1735
Here’s a knocking, indeed! If a man were porter of hell-gate he should have old turning the key. Knock, knock, knock! Who’s there i’ the name of Beelzebub? Here’s a farmer that hanged himself on the expectation of plenty. William Shakespeare, Macbeth II iii 1
The door creaked open; the door slammed shut. Rab C Nesbitt, Country, BBC 1992
The front door. I don’t care. I prefer it that way. To keep the punks and the creeps out of here. Midnight Cowboy 1969 starring John Voigt & Dustin Hoffman & Sylvia Miles & John McGiver & Brenda Vaccaro & Barnard Hughes & Ruth White & Jennifer Salt & Viva & Bo Balaban & Tina Scala et al, director John Schlesinger
I am the door. John 10:9
Get that door, will you, Anthony. The Royle Family s2e1: Pregnancy, Jim, BBC 1999
Once the doors are locked there’s no way out. House on Haunted Hill 1959 starring Vincent Price & Carolyn Craig & Elisha Cook & Carol Ohmart & Alan Marshal & Julie Mitchum & Richard Long et al, director William Castle
But one day if somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great great great great granddaughter coming from the future going backwards in time to meet her illustrious ancestor – don’t slam the door. Professor Michio Kaku
As one door closes, another one shuts. Howard Wilkinson
This door has got to be fit for Don Revie to walk through. The Damned United 2009 starring Michael Sheen & Timothy Spall & Maurice Roeves & Elizabeth Carling & Oliver Stokes & Ryan Day & Peter Quinn & Colm Meaney & Henry Goodman & Jim Broadbent, director Tom Hooper, Clough to cleaners
Woman inside house: Well what is it?
Man outside house: It’s a door-knocker. Spike Milligan sketch
Lock the door. Nobody gets in or out. Don’t call anybody. Don’t touch anything. Don’t fucking move, you understand? Do you understand? Ray Donovan s6e2: Staten Island II, Ray to woman murderer, Showtime 2018