Dear Dr Who experts...

[Schmoo]

Dr Who, the famous neurologist who specialises in the study of amnesia?

On 9 October 2014 14:02, Moray Jones <moray.jones at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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