The Doctor's TARDIS holds a neutron star in place with a gravity tractor beam. (TV: The Creature from the Pit [+]David Fisher, Doctor Who season 17 (BBC1, 1979).)
A tractor beam, also known as an anti-gravity beam (PROSE: A Big Hand for the Doctor [+]Eoin Colfer, Puffin eshort (Puffin Books, 2013).) was a beam of energy projected from a vessel or device which could tether and pull another object.
Gallifreyan technology[]
The Doctor's TARDIS[]
The Fourth Doctor used his TARDIS' gravity tractor beam to hold a neutron star still while Erato used his ship to weave a protective shell around it. In the process, the tractor beam burned out, (TV: The Creature from the Pit [+]David Fisher, Doctor Who season 17 (BBC1, 1979).) remaining inoperative into at least the Doctor's eighth incarnation. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Simon Bucher-Jones and Mark Clapham, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).)
It had been repaired by the Doctor's tenth incarnation when he used it to save the Sanctuary Base 6 rocket from a black hole. (TV: The Satan Pit [+]Matt Jones, Doctor Who series 2 (BBC One, 2006).)
The Doctor's TARDIS could create a smaller tractor beam with the help of the Saxon Master's laser screwdriver. (GAME: TARDIS [+]James Moran, Phil Ford and Sean Millard, The Adventure Games (BBC Wales Interactive, 2010).)
The Doctor's TARDIS also had an anti-gravity spiral that had similar properties to a tractor beam. (TV: Delta and the Bannermen [+]Malcolm Kohll, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).)
Others[]
The Time Lord Azmael intended to employ a tractor beam to move two minor planets in the same orbit of the planet Jaconda, previously under his protection. The Sixth Doctor made him change his mind, by pointing out the consequences. (TV: The Twin Dilemma [+]Anthony Steven, Doctor Who season 21 (BBC1, 1984).)
The Doctor was sent a psychic signal by his future self to fly to Lakertya as a means of encountering an unknown source of radiation which would force him to regenerate and remove the influence of the Nathemus in his mind that he was at the time unaware of and prevent a plot set in motion by the Valeyard from succeeding in the long run. His TARDIS was attacked by the First Rani with focused laser beams, which turned out to be the source of the radiation. She then caught the TARDIS in a tractor beam and made it land on Lakertya. (AUDIO: The Brink of Death [+]Nicholas Briggs, The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure (Big Finish Productions, 2015)., TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).)
In another timeline, she attacked the TARDIS during the end of the Doctor's encounter with a pan-dimensional being that had caused him to slowly perish and had not used irradiated lasers. (PROSE: Spiral Scratch [+]Gary Russell, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2005).)
Other occurrences[]
During the Last Great Time War, a Dalek ship caught the mining ship Tempest in a tractor beam. (AUDIO: A Thing of Guile [+]Phil Mulryne, Infernal Devices (The War Doctor, Big Finish Productions, 2016).) In the final days of the war, the Eternity Circle of the Daleks caught the Doctor's TARDIS in the proximity of the Tantalus Eye with a tractor beam. (PROSE: Engines of War [+]George Mann, BBC New Series tie-in novels (BBC Books, 2014).) Following the conflict, the Twelfth Doctor crossed paths with a Dalek harvest ship at Gosligi's Branch that used its tractor beam to abduct children. (COMIC: Harvest of the Daleks [+]Richard Dinnick, The Many Lives of Doctor Who (Titan Publishing Group, 2018).)
Chula warships, such as the one stolen by Jack Harkness, possessed a tractor beam. (TV: The Empty Child [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005)./The Doctor Dances [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005).)
A Sontaran ship, captured in an alternative Death Zone on Gallifrey, was provided with a tractor beam. (AUDIO: The Five Companions [+]Eddie Robson, Bonus Releases (Big Finish Productions, 2011).)
K9 Mark 2 possessed a tractor beam which could pull an object as large as an adolescent humanoid, (TV: Fear Itself [+]Everett DeRoche and Graeme Farmer, K9 series 1 (2010).) he could also use it to absorb microscopic objects. (TV: Black Hunger [+]Chris Roache, K9 series 1 (2010).)
Soul Pirates used tractor beams to abduct people, particularly children, to harvest them for parts. (PROSE: A Big Hand for the Doctor [+]Eoin Colfer, Puffin eshort (Puffin Books, 2013).)
The Judoon deployed a tractor beam to abduct the Fugitive Doctor's TARDIS. (TV: Fugitive of the Judoon [+]Vinay Patel and Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who series 12 (BBC One, 2020).)
After stumbling onto an multiversal incursion caused by a white hole, the Doctor's TARDIS was caught in between two tractor beams, one fired by alternate reality Quarks and the other by Krotons from yet another universe. (COMIC: The Lost Dimension [+]George Mann, et al., Titan summer events (Titan Comics, 2017).)
