Basement A basement or cellar was an underground room in a building . Vicki , after leaving the First Doctor to live in ancient Troy with Troilus , kept a Phoenix cinder in a burning oil lamp in the basement of a temple . She discovered over time that it was sentient and telepathic . Vicki often visited the creature , as she felt that they were both alone and needed someone to talk to . ( AUDIO : " Frostfire " ) Lupton opened a connection to Metebelis III in the basement of a Buddhist meditation centre . This enabled the Eight Legs to come to Earth to get the blue crystal from the Third Doctor . ( TV : " Planet of the Spiders " ) The 16th century fragment of Scaroth , Captain Tancredi , had Leonardo da Vinci paint six extra copies of the Mona Lisa . He then had them sealed in a secret cellar room in a house in Paris so they would be available to his 20th century fragment . ( TV : " City of Death " ) On 17th century Earth , a stranded group of escaped Terileptil prison ers hid in the cellar of a manor house . ( TV : " The Visitation " ) Chessene , Shockeye and Major Varl seized a Spanish hacienda and killed its owner , Doña Arana . This allowed Dastari to set up his operating theatre from Space Station Camera in the basement of the hacienda undisturbed . ( TV : " The Two Doctors " ) After Matheson Catcher found the Seventh Doctor ' s amaranth , it turned his cellar into an unTARDIS . ( PROSE : " Christmas on a Rational Planet " ) Haygoth kept a body - print machine with the human Trevor inside it in Patricia Ryder ' s cellar . ( AUDIO : " The Zygon Who Fell to Earth " ) The Ninth Doctor first met Rose Tyler in the basement of Henrik ' s , where he saved her from a group of Auton s which had been made to look like shop window mannequins . ( TV : " Rose " ) When the TARDIS landed in the basement of Wester Drumlins , some Weeping Angel s transported the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones to 1969 . They then tried to get into the TARDIS to feed on its time energy , but Sally Sparrow took the TARDIS key from them whilst they were quantum lock ed . ( TV : " Blink " ) After a Weeping Angel sent Rory Williams back in time to 1938 , Julius Grayle had him locked in his basement with a group of baby Weeping Angels . Instead of transporting him through time again , though , they moved him physically to Winter Quay . ( TV : " The Angels Take Manhattan " ) Following his regeneration , the Twelfth Doctor encountered a group of 51st century robot s that had crashed in a timeship in Earth ' s past millions of years before . They had been harvesting body parts to repair themselves . By the 19th century , they were using the basement of a restaurant beneath which their ship was buried to carry out their activities . ( TV : " Deep Breath " ) Ianto Jones kept his partially Cyber - converted girlfriend Lisa Hallett in the Torchwood Three basement whilst he tried to figure out how to make her human again . ( TV : " Cyberwoman " ) The International Gallery of London took possession of a collection of Giuseppe di Cattivo ' s works in Victorian times , including his painting " The Abomination " . They stored it in their basement vaults until the early 21st century , when it came to life and was then destroyed by K9 . ( TV : " Mona Lisa ' s Revenge " ) Irving Braxiatel said that his father had a cellar full of Draconian brandy . ( AUDIO : " Everybody Loves Irving " ) On Espero , Princess Sensimi kept a night beast in the cellar of the palace . ( PROSE : " Halflife " )