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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 p...@oneandoneis2.com wrote: Real daleks don't climb stairs, they level the building :) On 8 October 2014 19:55:34 Gareth Harper spansh+lon...@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 n...@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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Doesn't the plot of one of the 1960s films hinge on the Daleks not being able to levitate though? Bit inconsistent. Are the films not considered canonical? On 8 October 2014 16:27, David Dorward da...@dorward.me.uk wrote: On 8 Oct 2014, at 11:19, Nicholas Clark wrote: 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? It was a ventilation shaft (I think), in the old Kaled Bunker on Skaro. The episode was part of Destiny of the Daleks. 2) If so, is a clip of this online somewhere, in an easily linkable form? * I can't find one. 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. First seen in Remembrance of the Daleks. 3) Is there a representative clip of this online? Looks like someone pointed a camcorder at a TV so the quality is dodgy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1J3InFpGtQ -- David Dorward http://dorward.co.uk/
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I think I meant this film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Who_and_the_Daleks On 8 October 2014 21:11, Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote: Doesn't the plot of one of the 1960s films hinge on the Daleks not being able to levitate though? Bit inconsistent. Are the films not considered canonical? On 8 October 2014 16:27, David Dorward da...@dorward.me.uk wrote: On 8 Oct 2014, at 11:19, Nicholas Clark wrote: 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? It was a ventilation shaft (I think), in the old Kaled Bunker on Skaro. The episode was part of Destiny of the Daleks. 2) If so, is a clip of this online somewhere, in an easily linkable form? * I can't find one. 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. First seen in Remembrance of the Daleks. 3) Is there a representative clip of this online? Looks like someone pointed a camcorder at a TV so the quality is dodgy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1J3InFpGtQ -- David Dorward http://dorward.co.uk/
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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.keat...@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 p...@oneandoneis2.com wrote: Real daleks don't climb stairs, they level the building :) On 8 October 2014 19:55:34 Gareth Harper spansh+lon...@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 n...@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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On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 09:11:05PM +0200, Joel Bernstein wrote: Are the films not considered canonical? Even for a show so utterly free of consistency as _Doctor Who_, the films are not considered canonical.
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Doesn't the plot of one of the 1960s films hinge on the Daleks not being able to levitate though? Bit inconsistent. Are the films not considered canonical? No. (The wikipedia article itself says The film was not intended to form part of the ongoing storylines of the television series. and e.g. Peter Cushing's Doctor wasn't in the line-up of all 12 doctors in the 50th anniversary special.) Sam -- Website: http://www.illuminated.co.uk/
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Dr Who, the famous neurologist who specialises in the study of amnesia? On 9 October 2014 14:02, Moray Jones moray.jo...@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.keat...@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 p...@oneandoneis2.com wrote: Real daleks don't climb stairs, they level the building :) On 8 October 2014 19:55:34 Gareth Harper spansh+lon...@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 n...@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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From: Joel Bernstein wrote: I think I meant this film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Who_and_the_Daleks Bernard Cribbins was the heroic lead in the sequel - which, AFAIK, makes him the only major character actor to appear in both the parallel universe of the Cushing movies and the main TV reality. More obscure actors did as well apparently: Philip Madoc/Eileen Way/Kenneth Watson/Robert Jewell anyone? And slightly more on topic: Peter Hawkins and David Graham who voiced various daleks.
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On 08/10/14 20:11, Joel Bernstein wrote: Are the films not considered canonical? The two films aren't canonical. They are loose remakes of the first two Dalek stories from the TV series. With Peter Cushing playing a human inventor called Doctor Who. Dave...
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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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On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 11:19:04AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: 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? Apart from the TARDIS and the ceiling bit. It's in _Destiny of the Daleks_, part two. See http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_5j.htm : From the shaft hole in the side of the wall, the Doctor pulls up his scarf as the Daleks come to the room, If you're supposed to be the superior race of the universe, why don't you try climbing after us. Bye bye. 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. First done at the end of part one of _Remembrance of the Daleks_. R
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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? * Can't help with these... while I started watching during the Tom Baker era, I just don't remember TV episodes that far back :-). 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? Here, I can at least give you a title and number, though I have no links to clips. The best episode for this would be the 6th Eccleston episode (season 1 of the re-booted series), Dalek. There's a scene where a security guard is being pursued by the Dalek into a stairwell, and mocks the Dalek for not being able to climb stairs. Spoiler alert: She dies. But that's the scene you would want, as I think it's the only time you actually see/hear a Dalek say LEVITATE. Randy -- Randy J. Ray Sunnyvale, CA http://www.dereferenced.com rj...@blackperl.com twitter.com/rjray Silicon Valley Scale Modelers: http://www.svsm.org
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Quoting Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org: 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? * This rings a bell. But I'm not 100% convinced that it was a) the Daleks or b) in the TARDIS. I'll try to prise the details loose from my memory. 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? The Daleks were often shown flying in 1960s comic strips. They were first shown levitating in the TV Show in the cliffhanger at the end of episode 1 of Remembrance of the Daleks in 1988. The episode you're probably thinking of is Dalek from 2005. The Dalek in that flies quite a lot. YouTube might have clips. I'm afraid I don't have time to search. Dave...
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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 n...@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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On 8 Oct 2014, at 11:19, Nicholas Clark wrote: 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? It was a ventilation shaft (I think), in the old Kaled Bunker on Skaro. The episode was part of Destiny of the Daleks. 2) If so, is a clip of this online somewhere, in an easily linkable form? * I can't find one. 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. First seen in Remembrance of the Daleks. 3) Is there a representative clip of this online? Looks like someone pointed a camcorder at a TV so the quality is dodgy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1J3InFpGtQ -- David Dorward http://dorward.co.uk/
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On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: 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. IIRC correctly we first saw a Dalek fly in Rememberance of the Daleks: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Remembrance_of_the_Daleks_(TV_story) Cheers -- Matt
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The hatch isn't in the TARDIS ceiling, but it's from Destiny of the Daleks towards the end of episode 2. I don't have a link, but there might be one. In 'Dalek' (6th story of season 1 of the new series), a Dalek says 'elevate' and then does so. Don't know of a linkable clip, but there might be one. They routinely hover in later stories. Note that a Dalek hovers up stairs at the end of episode 1 of Remembrance of the Daleks, and rises with the aid of an anti-gravity disc in episode 4 of Planet of the Daleks. It's strongly implied that stairs aren't actually a problem for them in other stories - e.g. The Chase, where one appears on the upper deck of a boat where the only sensible way for it to have got there is hovering up stairs. Hope this helps. Am at work, so less able to track down clips. On 8 October 2014 11:19:04 BST, Nicholas Clark n...@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. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 11:19:04AM +0100, Nicholas Clark 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? Almost. It's not the TARDIS, it's an airshaft on Skaro. It's in Destiny of the Daleks. 2) If so, is a clip of this online somewhere, in an easily linkable form? * That, I Don't know. 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. If memory serves, they could deal with things like stairs in earlier days, but by Destiny, it had become received wisdom that they couldn't. Also, far be it from script editor Douglas Adams to pass up a quick joke. By Remembrance of the Daleks, they were doing stairs again. It's rather more impressive since the 2005 series. 3) Is there a representative clip of this online? Probably, but maybe not in a way that would please Auntie. dha -- David H. Adler - d...@panix.com - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too many, and the best of us are washed away.- G'Kar
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They'd figured out the stairs thing in Rememberence of the Daleks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfoYrCBea74 here is a 5 second version of the story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBkzlcpBJ-I
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Real daleks don't climb stairs, they level the building :) On 8 October 2014 19:55:34 Gareth Harper spansh+lon...@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 n...@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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Now there's a T-shirt waiting to happen. On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Dominic Humphries p...@oneandoneis2.com wrote: Real daleks don't climb stairs, they level the building :) On 8 October 2014 19:55:34 Gareth Harper spansh+lon...@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 n...@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.
