Stairs

A Dalek ascends the stairs to attack the Doctor. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)

The Eleventh Doctor used regeneration energy to heal River Song's hand whilst sat on the stairs in Julius Grayle's house in 1938. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan)

During the Shoreditch Incident of 1963, the Seventh Doctor used the stairs to escape the Coal Hill cellar. Making pursuit, an Imperial Dalek elevated up the stairs. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)

At GeoComTex in 2012, a Dalek named "Metaltron" seemingly found itself at an impasse when faced with a flight of stairs that Rose Tyler, Adam Mitchell and De Maggio had ascended, with Adam mocking its plight. The Dalek, however, soon began to elevate up the stairs, leaving De Maggio to cover Rose and Adam's escape at the cost of her life. (TV: Dalek)

When his aid was sought out by the Golden Emperor, the Tenth Doctor joked that staircases were "the true enemy of the Daleks." (COMIC: Defender of the Daleks)

Behind the scenes

• 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.