Teleportation Teleportation was a form of matter transmission and could be either a process of physical / psychological will or a technological one . Supernatural teleportation . The Kitling s and those affected by the Cheetah World could teleport from their home to hunt , and then return through what was a physical ( or possibly psychological or instinctual ) process . The ability could also be transferred as Ace , Midge , the Master and the Seventh Doctor all acquired the ability . It was not permanent in the majority of those who were affected . ( TV : " Survival " ) The Eight Legs of Metebelis III could also teleport , both themselves and the human s that they hung onto , most likely through the psychic link that was developed between the Eight Legs and the human . ( TV : " Planet of the Spiders " ) Unicorn s were capable of teleportation . ( PROSE : " Unnatural History " ) Working together , the members of the Sisterhood of Karn were able to perform a teleportation , thanks to their psychic power s . ( TV : " The Brain of Morbius " ) Technological teleportation . Many species and civilisations had teleportation technology . In general , a signal was needed for the teleport to work . The signal needed to be broadcast close to the person or item being teleported . The signal could also be reworked to teleport a person back after they had teleported away . ( TV : " The End of the World " , " Boom Town " ) Teleportation , when power was low , could result in an incomplete transfer , causing part of units to fail to materialise . ( PROSE : " The Pirate Loop " ) Teleportation tended to leave behind an energy residue and a distinctive tang in the air . ( PROSE : " Something in the Water " ) A technology common to many species was transmat . ( TV : " The Ark in Space " onwards ) Human teleportation . In 1942 , Professor Pierre Vedrun , having been forced to conduct teleportation experiments for the Nazi s , invented a device which could also transport people through time as well as space . It was destroyed in an RAF air raid . ( COMIC : " Timebenders " ) In the 1970s , Stuart Hyde and Ruth Ingram developed teleportation technology with the TOMTIT device . ( TV : " The Time Monster " ) In the early 21st century , Project Indigo was created . It was reverse - engineered from Sontaran technology . ( TV : " The Stolen Earth " ) In the mid - 21st century , the T - Mat system was developed . ( TV : " The Seeds of Death " ) In the aftermath of the invasion and the Thousand Day War , the T - Mat network was replaced by the Interstitial Mass Transit System . ( PROSE : " Transit " ) The Disinfectodroid s created by Acme Industries teleported trash to another planet . ( COMIC : " The Germ War " ) In the 51st century , Father Octavian and his clerics had teleportation devices that created an effect similar to that of a whirlwind when the teleport was in use . ( TV : " The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone " ) The Clockwork Droid s of the same era also used a short - range teleporter ( TV : " The Girl in the Fireplace " ) The Time Agency vortex manipulator also had teleportation capabilities . ( TV : " The Sound of Drums " ) Before the year 5 billion , long - range teleportation was forbidden under Peace treaty 5 . 4 / cup / 16 . Despite this , Lady Cassandra O ' Brien possessed one . ( TV : " The End of the World " ) Other species . Other than time - space travel , Time Lord s could use a simple teleportation technology , called transduct . For example , they used it to move the Doctor ' s TARDIS from outside the Capitol to the museum of Citadel . ( TV : " The Deadly Assassin " ) Transmat was in their availability too . ( TV : " The Five Doctors ( TV story ) " ) The planet Sto ( or at least Max Capricorn Cruiseliners ) had a form of teleportation . Its range was at least enough to teleport from a ship in orbit to the Earth ' s surface . It used bracelets , which could detect whether any mishap had befallen the wearer , and could signal the system to hold the molecules of the wearer in stasis as a safety feature . The wearer could then be brought back to the ship , provided that their pattern had been stored in the buffers . ( TV : " Voyage of the Damned " ) Sontaran s had to use pods for dematerialisation and rematerialisation . ( TV : " The Sontaran Stratagem " / " The Poison Sky " ) The Arbitans used travel dial s to travel around Marinus . ( TV : " The Keys of Marinus " ) The 456 appeared on Earth in a pillar of fire , allowing them to teleport into a specially made tank within a building . This same pillar of fire was used to remove the remains of the 456 ambassador . ( TV : " " , " " ) The Raxacoricofallapatorian s had teleportation technology . The Slitheen - Blathereen family linked theirs to their spaceship and their bracelets . ( TV : " The Gift " ) The Vinvocci also had teleporters hooked up to their wristwatches . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) Rammzi used a teleport to travel the universe , searching for the best restaurants . ( COMIC : " Fried Death " ) The Sycorax had teleport technology . ( TV : " The Christmas Invasion " ) The Linkton s could teleport across truly vast , inter - galactic distances . Their technology required gold for power . They once attempted to invade Victorian era London with it , but were repelled by the Fourth Doctor and Leela . ( PROSE : " The Living Wax " ) The Cybermen had a teleportation device connected to their ship inside a shop in Colchester . ( TV : " Closing Time " ) The Dalek s had a method of teleportation which they called Emergency temporal shift . Interestingly it appeared that only members of the Cult of Skaro were able to use this ability . ( TV : " Doomsday , Evolution of the Daleks " ) The Daleks had a teleport in the Dalek Asylum that only has enough power for one travel to somewhere in close range . The Eleventh Doctor , Amy Pond , and Rory Williams use it to travel from the exploding asylum to the TARDIS in the Parliament of the Daleks . ( TV : " Asylum of the Daleks " ) The Silurian Ark also had a teleportation system , which was later controlled by Solomon . The Eleventh Doctor , Rory , and Brian Williams were teleported to a part of the ship resembling a beach . ( TV : " Dinosaurs on a Spaceship " ) Kahler cyborg s were out - fitted with short - ranged teleporters . When used , the cyborg seemed to fade away in the pattern of heat waves before reappearing in the same manner . ( TV : " A Town Called Mercy " ) While working on a device that would detect Spillager s , the Fifth Doctor accidentally teleported Nyssa to 1963 Switzerland . ( AUDIO : " Winter for the Adept " ) The Fleshkind had pendants which allowed them to teleport , these pendants seemed to have a considerably long range as Miss Myers was able to use one to transport herself from the Fleshkind homeworld in the eye of the Tornado Nebula to Earth . ( TV : " Sky " )