Dear Dr Who experts...

[Moray Jones]

You're all making a very common error - it's not Dr Who, it's Mr Who.

I remember it from Trivial Pursuit. Or was that something to do with Star
Trek...can never remember.

On 9 October 2014 09:17, Mark Keating <m.keating at shadowcat.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
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