Lift A lift was a device used to vertically transport people or goods between the levels of a building . On Earth . 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 " ) In 1958 , the Tenth Doctor , Cassie and Jimmy tried and failed to escape the Dreamland base through a lift . ( TV : " Dreamland " ) Mr Thompson was terrified of lifts , having read stories about people who had been killed or injured in lift accident s . He and Joanne were attacked by Saric Warder in a lift in their workplace . ( PROSE : " Trapped ! " ) In 2005 , the Ninth Doctor and Rose used a lift to escape from the attacking Auton s in Henrik ' s . ( TV : " Rose " ) In 2006 , the Ninth Doctor used a lift to escape from the Metropolitan Police Service members that had him at gunpoint . ( TV : " World War Three " ) Lifts were used in Henry van Statten ' s alien museum . ( TV : " Dalek " ) The Torchwood Three hub had an invisible lift to travel from the hub to the surface at Roald Dahl Plass . ( TV : " Everything Changes " ) 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 " ) In 2007 , the Tenth Doctor , Donna and Lance discovered the lift in H . C . Clements led to an abandoned Torchwood base not on the building ' s schematics . ( TV : " The Runaway Bride " ) In 2008 , Sarah Jane Smith escaped from being killed by Mrs Wormwood ' s people from inside a lift . ( TV : " Invasion of the Bane " ) The Tenza George was frightened by the sound of lifts . He used one to send Amy and Rory to his dollhouse . ( TV : " Night Terrors " ) A broken lift in Colchester was used as a teleport site to the crashed Cyber Ship . ( TV : " Closing Time " ) 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 , were both captured by 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 " ) Bill Potts thought the TARDIS was a lift . ( TV : " The Pilot " ) Sometime in the 21st century , 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 floors 173 and 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 " ) On other worlds . The lifts at New New York Hospital on New Earth disinfected their occupants , as the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler discovered , much to the latter ' s dismay . Lady Cassandra and Chip took over the lift for Cassandra to take over Rose ' s body . Later , the Doctor and Cassandra used the disinfectant spray to cure the new human s . ( TV : " New Earth " ) In the Dalek City on Skaro , the First Doctor , Ian , Barbara and 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 " ) 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 " ) Around the 42nd century , Sanctuary Base 6 had a lift , dubbed " the capsule " , built to retrieve a power source from the centre of Krop Tor . ( TV : " The Impossible Planet " ) Lifts connected the five floors of the Alpha Sphere in the Eutermes zone . ( AUDIO : " The Creed of the Kromon " ) Spaceships and space stations . Around the 27th century , when the stairwells on the " Empress " collapsed following a bombing , Benny Summerfield and Grand Marshall Sstac took a malfunctioning lift to the 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 tenth floor . ( AUDIO : " The Dance of the Dead " ) In 200 , 000 , the Editor of Satellite Five granted the Ninth Doctor and Rose access to the five hundredth floor to trap them . ( TV : " The Long Game " ) The Eleventh Doctor ' s TARDIS had a lift leading to at least three floors . ( GAME : " TARDIS " )