The Tenth Doctor found a ventilation shaft in Area 51. Observing that "there's always a ventilation shaft", he claimed that there was always a way out of them, "apart from in Star Wars, of course." (TV: Dreamland [+]Loading...["Dreamland (TV story)"])
Heidi Maputo once used the saying "when the xenomorph hits the ventilation shafts". (PROSE: Genius Loci [+]Loading...["Genius Loci (novel)"])
Jack Harkness climbed through two miles of ventilation shafts aboard the Crucible. (TV: Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])
Rose Tyler referred to the maintenance tunnels in Sanctuary Base 6 as ventilation shafts. John Jefferson, while appreciating the reference, explained that there was no ventilation and no air, having been designed for machines and not life forms. (TV: The Satan Pit [+]Loading...["The Satan Pit (TV story)"])
Aboard the Game Station, the Daleks travelled in hover position between floors using the ventilation shafts. (TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"])
When the Masters of Dorada conquered Dorada and enslaved the native Doradans to work in underground factories, some of them took refuge in the factories' ventilation shafts; those who were born there were immune to the Masters' control. (PROSE: The Dream Masters [+]Loading...["The Dream Masters (short story)"])
An unspecified incarnation of the Doctor had no plans in his Five Hundred Year Diary one day, and so decided to study ventilation shafts. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen (novelisation)"])
The Ninth Doctor described Emma as "a girl more exciting than an escape up a ventilation shaft." (TV: The Curse of Fatal Death [+]Loading...["The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)"])