Oct 5, 2016 · A long running joke in the playground was that the Daleks were incapable of navigating a flight of stairs. In ‘Destiny of the Daleks’ the Doctor even mocked their inability to …

Oct 30, 2020 · One distinctive moment from the 2005 episode Dalek was when the metallic pepper pot faced its greatest enemy: stairs. It had long been a joke that the evilest race in the universe was rather...

Two of the first things Aaronovitch thought of when creating the story was the 1963 setting and a Dalek climbing up stairs. He decided to reveal the Daleks in the middle of the first episode instead of as its cliffhanger, and then have a Dalek levitating up stairs to surprise viewers. [9]

Trapped in a bunker surrounded by Humans, a lone Dalek flies up a flight of stairs chasing after Rose.

In response to this, a character escaping up a flight of stairs in the 2005 story "Dalek" mocked the Dalek as "defeated by a flight of stairs", and was shocked when the Dalek began to hover up the stairs after uttering the phrase "Elevate!", in a similar manner to "Exterminate!" [33]

In the video game The Last Dalek, based on the events of Dalek, stairs appear as obstacles in Geocomtex, which the Metaltron overcomes by equipping an anti-gravity device. In a unaired Hamlet Cigars advert, a Dalek is faced with stairs and cannot climb them, prompting the Dalek to smoke a Hamlet.

As a Dalek charges on The Doctor, he is locked in by a Dalek agent - and the Dalek starts to levitate up the stairs, chanting his extermination... ...more. This is from "Remembrance of the...

Oct 28, 2007 · In the resolution to this legendary cliffhanger, the Dalek decides to keep shrieking "exterminate" towards its mortal enemy as it slowly hovers up the stairs - instead of actually …

Due to their gliding motion, earlier models of Dalek were baffled by stairs, which made them easy to overcome under the right circumstances. One time the Fourth Doctor and his companions escaped from Dalek pursuers by climbing into a ceiling duct.

For the levitating Dalek, a scaffolding was built over the stairs, and the Dalek prop was placed in a tray that was hoisted up by a rail-mounted trolley. The Imperial Daleks were built with bigger wheels that would roll easier on location.