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| {{wikipediainfo}} | | {{merge|Lift.|It's literally a different word for it.}} |
| {{first pic|The lift's broken.jpg|[[Melanie Bush|Mel]] and [[Pex]] find themselves trapped in a lift. ([[TV]]: ''[[Paradise Towers (TV story)|Paradise Towers]]'')}} | | '''"{{PAGENAME}}"''' was the [[Kang]]s' word for "[[elevator]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Paradise Towers (TV story)|Paradise Towers]]'') |
| A '''lift''', sometimes called an '''elevator''', was a device used to vertically transport people or goods between the levels of a building. Lifts consisted of a carriage which moved up and down inside a lift shaft. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sick Building (novel)|Sick Building]]'')
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| == On Earth ==
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| In [[Carthage]] in [[BC#2nd millenium B.C.|1164 BC]], [[Vicki Pallister]] lamented that lifts would not be invented for several thousand years. She once tried to describe the general concept to her husband [[Troilus]] but he did not understand it. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Frostfire (audio story)|Frostfire]]'')
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| In [[1930]], [[Martha Jones]] attached a long pole at the top of the [[Empire State Building]] to a lift. She used this to allow the gamma strike from a [[solar flare]] to fry the approaching [[pig slave]]s inside the lift. ([[TV]]: ''[[Evolution of the Daleks (TV story)|Evolution of the Daleks]]'')
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| In [[1958]], the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Cassie Rice|Cassie]] and [[Jimmy Stalkingwolf|Jimmy]] tried and failed to escape the [[Area 51|Dreamland]] base through a lift. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland]]'')
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| [[Mr Thompson]] was terrified of lifts, having read stories about people who had been killed or injured in [[lift accident]]s. He and [[Joanne (Trapped!)|Joanne]] were attacked by [[Saric Warder]] in a lift in their workplace. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Trapped! (ST short story)|Trapped!]]'')
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| In [[1999]], [[Simon Cooper (Have You Seen This Man?)|Simon Cooper]] waited for a lift down to the [[platform]] of [[Mornington Crescent]] [[Mornington Crescent tube station|underground station]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Have You Seen This Man? (short story)|Have You Seen This Man?]]'')
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| In the early [[2000s]], the [[Ninth Doctor]] was near a lift in [[Debenhams, Sheffield|a Debenhams]] in [[Sheffield]] when he asked [[Lizzie (Have You Seen This Man?)|Lizzie]] for directions to the [[Sheffield Winter Garden|Winter Gardens]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Have You Seen This Man? (short story)|Have You Seen This Man?]]'')
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| In [[March]] [[2005]], the Ninth Doctor and [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] used a lift to escape from the attacking [[Auton]]s in [[Henrik's]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'')
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| In March [[2006]], the Ninth Doctor used a lift in [[10 Downing Street]] to escape from the [[Metropolitan Police Service]] members that had him at gunpoint. Elsewhere, "[[Jocrassa Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen|Joseph Green]]" and "[[Asquith Slitheen|R. Asquith]]" took a lift. [[Fart]]ing, "Green" complained that he was "[[poison]]ed by the [[gas exchange]]" and was convinced by his [[brother]] to remove his [[human]] [[skin suit]] as the two [[Slitheen]] proceeded to [[hunt]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[World War Three (TV story)|World War Three]]'')
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| Lifts were used in [[Henry van Statten]]'s [[the Vault (Dalek)|Vault]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dalek (TV story)|Dalek]]'')
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| By the second half of the [[20th century]], lifts allowed tourists to get to the upper floors of the [[Eiffel Tower]] without using the stairs. Though they briefly considered [[flying]] instead, [[Romana II]] and the [[Fourth Doctor]] employed such a lift during their holiday in [[Paris]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'')
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| In the [[2000s]],{{note|Episodes 1-10 of the [[Series 1 (Torchwood)|first series]] of ''[[Torchwood (series)|Torchwood]]'' are set anywhere from [[2006]]-[[2009]] as a result of [[Aliens of London dating controversy|conflicting evidence]] shown in the episodes ''[[Ghost Machine (TV story)|Ghost Machine]]'', ''[[Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)|Greeks Bearing Gifts]]'', ''[[Random Shoes (TV story)|Random Shoes]]'', ''[[To the Last Man (TV story)|To the Last Man]]'', ''[[Reset (TV story)|Reset]]'', ''[[Adrift (TV story)|Adrift]]'', ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'', ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'', and ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]''. As episode 10, ''[[Out of Time (TV story)|Out of Time]]'', is set at the end of [[December]], this means that episodes 11-13 are almost certainly set the year after episodes 1-10.}} the [[Torchwood Three]] hub had an [[invisible lift]] to travel from the hub to the surface at [[Roald Dahl Plass]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]'')
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| [[Basement unit 4b]], located beneath the old [[library (Love & Monsters)|library]] on [[Maccateer Street]], was accessible via a lift which [[LINDA]] used to meet up in [[2007]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Love & Monsters (TV story)|Love & Monsters]]'')
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| In 2007, when the [[Tenth Doctor]] ordered everyone to run up to the top floor of [[Torchwood Tower]] to see what the [[Dalek]]s were doing, [[Jake Simmonds]] suggested they could take the lift instead. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
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| In 2007, the Tenth Doctor, [[Donna Noble|Donna]] and [[Lance Bennett|Lance]] discovered the lift in [[H.C. Clements]] led to an abandoned [[Torchwood Institute|Torchwood]] base not on the building's schematics. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'')
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| In the 2000s,{{note|No on screen date is given for the first two series of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', outside of ''[[The Day of the Clown (TV story)|The Day of the Clown]]'' from the [[Series 2 (SJA)|second series]] being set shortly after [[9 October]] in an undisclosed year. While [[Donna Noble]]'s present from the [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|fourth series]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' is set around the same time as the [[Series 1 (SJA)|first series]] of ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'', and ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'' from the second series of ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'' is explicitly described as being set a year after ''[[Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (TV story)|Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?]]'' from the first series, ''Doctor Who''{{'}}s fourth series is [[Aliens of London dating controversy|not consistently dated]], with [[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'', and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[SOS (audio story)|SOS]]'' setting the present of the 13 regular episodes in [[2008]] (heavily implied by [[TV]]: ''[[The Star Beast (TV story)|The Star Beast]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[The Giggle (TV story)|The Giggle]]'' as well), and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos (novel)|Beautiful Chaos]]'' setting them in about [[April]] to [[June]] [[2009]].}} [[Sarah Jane Smith]] escaped from being killed by [[Wormwood (Invasion of the Bane)|Mrs Wormwood]]'s people from inside a lift. ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Bane (TV story)|Invasion of the Bane]]'')
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| By [[2011]], [[George Thompson|George]] — who was actually a [[Tenza]] — was frightened by the sound of the lift in [[Rowbarton Estate|the estate where he lived]]. [[Lift accident|He accidentally]] sent [[Amy Pond|Amy]] and [[Rory Williams|Rory]] to [[George Thompson's dolls house|the dolls house]] in [[George Thompson's cupboard|his cupboard]] that had become a [[psychic]] repository for his [[fear]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Night Terrors (TV story)|Night Terrors]]'') George had been afraid of the noise of the lift for a least a year prior, albeit not the lift itself as he knew it was merely a [[box]] that smelled of [[wee]], as he thought the noise was a creature, perhaps a [[dragon]] or a [[monster]], living in the walls like the [[Basilisk|snake]] from ''[[Harry Potter]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[My Special Book (short story)|My Special Book]]'')
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| A broken lift in [[Colchester]] was used as a teleport site to the crashed [[Cyber-ship]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'')
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| At some point in the [[21st century]], a wormhole portal was hidden in a lift in a [[London]] hospital. It led to the [[Shakri ship]]. Rory and his father, [[Brian Williams (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)|Brian Williams]], were both captured by [[Orderlies (The Power of Three)|orderlies]] and taken through the portal. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] and Amy later discovered in portal in the lift and travelled through it as well. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Power of Three (TV story)|The Power of Three]]'')
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| [[Bill Potts]] initially thought [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] was a lift. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'')
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| Sometime in the 21st century, [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] and [[Pex]] used a lift in [[Paradise Towers]] to try to get to [[floor 304]]. However, the [[cleaner]]s overrode the controls and had the lift alternate between [[floor 173|floors 173]] and [[floor 174|174]]. Pex kicked the controls and the lift plummeted to the [[basement]]. There, they managed to get it working again and made it to floor 304. ([[TV]]: ''[[Paradise Towers (TV story)|Paradise Towers]]'')
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| {{video|The Doctor Is In! - Doctor Who - New Earth - BBC|thumb|The [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Cassandra O'Brien]] ride down a lift shaft. ([[TV]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'')}}
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| == On other worlds ==
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| [[New New York lift|The lifts]] at [[New New York Hospital]] on [[New Earth (New Earth)|New Earth]] were voice-activated and disinfected their occupants, as the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler discovered, much to the latter's dismay. [[Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17|Lady Cassandra]] and [[Chip]] overrode the lift for Cassandra to take over Rose's body down in the basement. Later, the Doctor and Cassandra used the lift's disinfectant spray to cure the [[New human (New Earth)|new humans]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[New Earth (TV story)|New Earth]]'')
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| [[File:Skaro lift.jpg|thumb|[[Dalek City]] lift. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'')]]
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| [[File:Doctor Susan Barbara in Dalek lift.jpg|thumb|left|[[First Doctor]], [[Susan Foreman]] and [[Barbara Wright]] in Dalek city lift. ([[TV]]: "[[The Ambush]]")]]
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| In the [[Dalek City]] on [[Skaro]], the [[First Doctor]], [[Ian Chesterton|Ian]], [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]] and [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] escaped from their imprisonment by the [[Dalek]]s in a lift. They threw a sculpture down the shaft to destroy the lift and the pursuing Daleks. ([[TV]]: "[[The Ambush]]")
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| The lifts inside [[Kaalann]] on Skaro were broken down before the Daleks returned to the planet with the [[Eye of Time]] and rebuilt their race. This was undone when the Eleventh Doctor and Amy travelled through the Eye and stopped the Daleks before they could harness the Eye. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'')
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| Around the [[42nd century]], [[Sanctuary Base 6]] had a lift, dubbed "[[Capsule (The Impossible Planet)|the capsule]]", built to retrieve a power source from the centre of [[Krop Tor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Impossible Planet (TV story)|The Impossible Planet]]'')
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| Lifts connected the five floors of the [[Alpha Sphere]] in the [[Eutermes]] zone. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Creed of the Kromon (audio story)|The Creed of the Kromon]]'')
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| The lift inside the [[Dreamhome]] on [[Tiermann's World]] travelled from the roof of the building down to Level -40. The lift, like all other technology, was controlled by the Dreamhome's central, [[Sentience|sentient]] [[computer]], the [[Domovoi]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sick Building (novel)|Sick Building]]'')
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| == Spaceships and space stations ==
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| Around the [[27th century]], when the stairwells on the ''[[Empress (The Dance of the Dead)|Empress]]'' collapsed following a bombing, [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny Summerfield]] and [[Grand Marshall]] [[Virgo Ssabar Sstac|Sstac]] took a malfunctioning lift to the [[floor 9|ninth floor]]. Inside, Benny and Sstac experienced memories of the [[Kolgarian]] delegates, [[Musjarna]] and [[Asnarbi]]. When they came to, they climbed the maintenance ladder in the shaft to the [[Floor 10|tenth floor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Dance of the Dead (audio story)|The Dance of the Dead]]'')
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| ''[[The Demeter]]'', an [[Earth Alliance]] [[cruiser]] during the [[Cyberon War]], was equipped with [[turbo lift]]s between ducks. However, it still had emergency ladders that could be used in case the power supply was too depleted for the lifts to work. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Curse of the Cyberons (audio story)|Curse of the Cyberons]]'')
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| In [[200000|200,000]], [[the Editor]] of [[Satellite Five]] granted the Ninth Doctor and Rose access to [[Floor 500|the five hundredth floor]] to trap them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Long Game (TV story)|The Long Game]]'')
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| The [[Eleventh Doctor]]'s [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] had [[TARDIS lift|a lift]] leading to [[Floor 1|at least]] [[Floor 2|three]] [[Floor 3|floors]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[TARDIS (video game)|TARDIS]]'')
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| == Footnotes ==
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| === Notes ===
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