Silver (colour)

Silver was a light shade of grey named after the substance.

On Susan Foreman's home planet, there were trees with silver leaves. (TV: The Sensorites, PROSE: The Sensorites) The Tenth Doctor later mentioned that Gallifrey had trees with silver leaves. (TV: Gridlock)

Members of Gallifrey's Dromeian Chapter wore silver robes. (PROSE: Lungburrow) Morbius, wore one of their robes, suggestive he was one of them, during his third incarnation. (AUDIO: The Vengeance of Morbius)

The Eighth Doctor wore a double breasted waistcoat of silver paisley-brocade after his regeneration. (TV: Doctor Who)

The Seventh Doctor wore a silver safari jacket. (TV: Time and the Rani-The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)

Donna Noble wore a silver top during the 2009 Sontaran invasion of Earth. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem|The Poison Sky)

Davros, creator of the Daleks, had a black chair which acts as his life support; similar to a Dalek's base but black with silver sense globes. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks, Destiny of the Daleks, Resurrection of the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks, The Stolen Earth|Journey's End, The Magician's Apprentice|The Witch's Familiar; AUDIO: Davros, The Dalek Defence, The Triumph of Davros) Similar chairs were owned by three parallel counterparts: one who met a parallel Doctor and Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge Stewart, (AUDIO: Masters of War) one who met the Dalek Time Strategist from N-Space, (AUDIO: Palindrone|Restoration of the Daleks), and one who helped the Warrior find the Key to Time. (AUDIO: The Key To Key To Time)

Some Daleks had silver casings with blue sense globes including Type I Daleks , (TV: The Daleks; AUDIO: The Return to Skaro), Type II Daleks (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth; AUDIO: Masters of Earth), Type III Daleks (TV: The Chase-The Evil of the Daleks), Type V Daleks, (TV: Death to the Daleks) Dalek Scientists, (PROSE: War of the Daleks) the Dalek Prime during its time as Emperor, (TV: The Evil of the Daleks) Many Black Daleks had silver panels and sense globes. (COMIC: Duel of the Daleks, TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Chase, The Dalek's Master Plan, Resurrection of the Daleks, Remembrance of the Daleks; PROSE: The Dalek Project)The Emperor's Personal Guard were silver with black domes. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks, Asylum of the Daleks, The Magician's Apprentice|The Witch's Familiar) The Dalek Scientist of the Dalek Time Squad had a casing mostly silver apart from its dome, panels and globes which be red. The Dalek Prime Strategist had a silver casing similar to the Type one variety. (PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times) During the Last Great Time War, the Type VIII Daleks of the Eternity Circle were silver with blue domes and globes. (PROSE: Engines of War) The saucer commander of Dalek Earthforce was silver apart from its dome and some of its panels which were black. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)

The Cybermen were silver in colour; such as CyberMondans, (TV: The Tenth Planet; AUDIO: Spare Parts), CyberTelosians, (TV: The Moonbase) the CyberFaction, (TV: The Wheel in Space, The Invasion) CyberNomads, (TV: Revenge of the Cybermen) CyberNeomorphs, (TV: Earthshock) CyberIsomorphs, (TV: Silver Nemesis) Cybusmen, (TV: Rise of the Cybermen|The Age of Steel-The Next Doctor) Cyber-Legions, (TV: A Good Man Goes to War-Ascension of the Cybermen) and Cyber Warriors; (TV: Ascension of the Cybermen) apart from black Cyberguards. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen)

The Sontarans wore silver helmets and pauldrons with their black space armour. (TV: The Time Warrior, The Sontaran Experiment, The Invasion of Time, The Two Doctors, War of the Sontarans, Survivors of the Flux|The Vanquishers; AUDIO: The Sontarans, Heroes of Sontar, The Five Companions, The First Sontarans, Terror of the Sontarans; COMIC: The Betrothal of Sontar)

The Tremas Master wore a silver waistcoat when he met the Seventh Doctor, Ace and the Cheetah People. (TV: Survival)

Josiah wore a silver cravat as part of his Victorian outfit. (TV: Ghost Light)

The Chief Clown wore a silver harlequin outfit. (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)

Lisa Deranne wore silver trousers when she and her crew met Sontarans including Commander Steg and Lieutenant Vorn. (HOMEVID: Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans)

Shona McCullough wore a silver thermal vest when dreaming she was a scientists on the North Pole during Christmas Eve because of a dream crab. (TV: Last Christmas)

The Saurians had silver scales. (PROSE: Lords of the Galaxy)

Dals had silver hair. (PROSE: The Last of the Dals)

Silver was a common colour for duct tape. (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth)

Instead of the typical silver, the Cyberon drug produced by the Cyberwolf Abigail was green. (PROSE: A Worthy Successor)

Behind the scenes

• James Johnson rendered a Time War-era Dalek Commander model which was featured on the cover of Gallifrey: War Room 1: Allegiance, sporting a black and silver livery reminiscent of the earlier Battle Computer unit seen in the Shoreditch Incident. Ahead of release, Johnson released a closer look at his designs, also clarifying that the accompanying text wasn't in any way official, and that he added it "just for fun".