Dear Dr Who experts...

[Ben Evans]

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 :)
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> On 8 October 2014 19:55:34 Gareth Harper <spansh+london at gmail.com> wrote:
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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).
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_the_Daleks
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>> "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."
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>> The BBC's website seems to imply it's "always been that way".
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>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/remembrancedaleks/detail.shtml
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>> "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
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>> 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.)"
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>> 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.
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>> Gareth
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>> On 8 October 2014 11:19, Nicholas Clark <nick at ccl4.org> wrote:
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>> > Dear Dr Who experts (I'm sure that there are many here)...
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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
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>> > 1) Am I remembering this correctly?
>> > 2) If so, is a clip of this online somewhere, in an easily linkable
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>> > 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.
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>> > 3) Is there a representative clip of this online?
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>> > Nicholas Clark
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>> > * please don't post links to places that would make Auntie upset.
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