Dear Dr Who experts...

[Mark Keating]

Hi Nicholas,

IIRC the hatch isn't in the Tardis ceiling, but in an underground 
chamber of Skaro. I think you might mean the episodes Destiny of the 
Daleks in Season 17:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/destinydaleks/

Tom didn't do many Dalek stories, but he does climb up his scarf to 
escape the daleks and throw a one-liner quip at them.

Regards

Mark

He calls down to them
On 09/10/2014 01:28, Ben Evans wrote:
> Now there's a T-shirt waiting to happen.
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Dominic Humphries <perl at oneandoneis2.com> wrote:
>> Real daleks don't climb stairs, they level the building :)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8 October 2014 19:55:34 Gareth Harper <spansh+london at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It's not just the more recent episodes (depending on your definition of
>>> "recent"), the Daleks could levitate during my childhood era (80s-90s).
>>>
>>> I'm sure I remember an episode from the Sylvester McCoy era where the
>>> Daleks were chasing him and to evade them he simply ran up some stairs and
>>> then the daleks levitated after him.  A quick google shows that the
>>> episode
>>> was called "remembrance of the daleks" unfortunately I don't have the time
>>> to wade through the many youtube clips to try and view it.
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_the_Daleks
>>>
>>> "In the cliffhanger to the first episode, a Dalek levitates up stairs. The
>>> sequence was intended to put to rest a joke about the inability of the
>>> monsters to do so."
>>>
>>> The BBC's website seems to imply it's "always been that way".
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/remembrancedaleks/detail.shtml
>>>
>>> "This story reveals for the first time that the Daleks are capable of
>>> ascending stairs. (Although this is the first time that a Dalek is
>>> actually
>>> seen to ascend a flight of stairs, there is a scene in season two's The
>>> Chase: Journey into Terror in which such an occurrence is clearly implied;
>>> and season twenty-two's Revelation of the Daleks shows that both the
>>> Daleks
>>> and Davros are capable of hovering above the ground.)"
>>>
>>> According to wikipedia, season 2 was ~1965.  I can't help you with the Tom
>>> Baker question though, it's a tiny bit before my time.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Gareth
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8 October 2014 11:19, Nicholas Clark <nick at ccl4.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Dr Who experts (I'm sure that there are many here)...
>>>>
>>>> IIRC there's a scene in an episode of Dr Who (in Tom Baker's time) where
>>>> the Doctor escapes by climbing up through a hatch in the TARDIS ceiling,
>>>> calling down a one liner to the Daleks stuck below just before he closes
>>>> it
>>>>
>>>> 1) Am I remembering this correctly?
>>>> 2) If so, is a clip of this online somewhere, in an easily linkable
>>>> form? *
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Further, my understanding is that in the more recent episodes, the
>>>> Daleks
>>>> have figured out how to overcome their previous inability to cope with
>>>> stairs, ladders, etc, uttering "levitate" before doing exactly that.
>>>>
>>>> 3) Is there a representative clip of this online?
>>>>
>>>> Nicholas Clark
>>>>
>>>> * please don't post links to places that would make Auntie upset.
>>>>
>>
>>