Bronze
Bronze was a type of metal. (PROSE: The Mutation of Time [+]Loading...["The Mutation of Time (novelisation)"])
Copper was alloyed into bronze to prevent corrosion. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)"])
There was a 78 per cent likelihood that a carbon cycle land-based sapient species would develop ceramic technology before bronze working. (PROSE: Genius Loci [+]Loading...["Genius Loci (novel)"])
Bronze could be polished to the point that it served as a mirror in Mesopotamia in 2700 BC, and in 120 Rome. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)"], The Stone Rose [+]Loading...["The Stone Rose (novel)"])
On Venedel in 2600 the culture there had a burnished bronze throne set atop a dais. (PROSE: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Gods of the Underworld [+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Gods of the Underworld (novel)"])
Plastic could be a bronze colour in 2609. (PROSE: Predating the Predators [+]Loading...["Predating the Predators (short story)"])
When Rose Tyler was at Jericho Street Junior School under 7s gymnastics she got a bronze medal in the 1990s. (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"])
Leonard de Vries used a bronze bowl to contain blood for his the Cailleach sacrifices. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood (novelisation)"])
Candlesticks could be made out of bronze. (PROSE: Where Angels Fear [+]Loading...["Where Angels Fear (novel)"])
Coins could be bronze, one plaudit pieces were bronze. (PROSE: Demontage [+]Loading...["Demontage (novel)"])
In Silver's palace in the far future on Hope he had rough grass that was bronze in appearance. (PROSE: Hope [+]Loading...["Hope (novel)"])
George Litefoot thought that the time cabinet was made of lacquered bronze, but the Fourth Doctor recognised that it was actually made of fused molecules. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang [+]Loading...["The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)"])
Architectural
Australia House in London had a frontage of steel columns and bronze horses. (PROSE: The English Way of Death [+]Loading...["The English Way of Death (novel)"])
The Det-Sen Monastery had an ornately carved bronze bell, bronze lamps throughout, and massive bronze doors in 1935. PROSE: Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen (novelisation)"])
The headquarters of International Electromatix was a tall slim tower of steel and glass with a huge bronze plaque above the entrance, with a symbolic zig-zag spark gripped in a giant fist in the 20th century. (PROSE: The Invasion [+]Loading...["The Invasion (novelisation)"])
The council chambers on Gallifrey were bronze. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"])
The Sacred Flame on Karn was protected by bronze gates or door. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius (novelisation)"], TV: The Brain of Morbius [+]Loading...["The Brain of Morbius (TV story)"])
In Omega's anti-matter palace the walls were of bronze. (PROSE: The Three Doctors [+]Loading...["The Three Doctors (novelisation)"])
The Doctor's TARDIS during his eighth incarnation had many surfaces covered in polished wood and bronze. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Loading...["The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)"])
In the Doctor's TARDIS there was a huge old-fashioned bath waist-high with little bronze animal legs. (PROSE: Seeing I [+]Loading...["Seeing I (novel)"])
Colour
Bronze could also refer to a colour. When the sun was just setting it turned everything into colours of golds, bronzes and coppers. (PROSE: Came to Believe [+]Loading...["Came to Believe (short story)"])
Hair could be described as bronze in colour. (PROSE: The Illuminated Man [+]Loading...["The Illuminated Man (short story)"])
Cultural
Skin burnt under the sun, causing human's skin to take on a bronze appearance. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)"]) To get a sun tan or be "bronzed" was seen as healthy in some 20th century societies. (AUDIO: Wreck of the Titan [+]Loading...["Wreck of the Titan (audio story)"], The Crusades [+]Loading...["The Crusades (novelisation)"], )
Ian Chesterton considered Temmosus to be "very bronzed" when he saw him enter the Daleks' city on Skaro. (PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks [+]Loading...["Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)"])
Clothing
Donna Noble wore a dress with bronze metallic decoration when she and the Tenth Doctor arrived in 1926 on 8 December. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp [+]Loading...["The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)"])
In the 51st century rich bronze garments denoted the highest executive rank of the Sirius Conglomerate located on Androzani Major. (PROSE: The Caves of Andronzani [+]Loading...["The Caves of Andronzani (novelisation)"])
Bronze shoulder plates was part of Draconian clothing. (AUDIO: Paper Cuts [+]Loading...["Paper Cuts (audio story)"])
The Seventh Doctor wore an ebony and bronze herringbone tie up to his death. (TV: Doctor Who)
The Eighth Doctor wore a bronze pin on his battleship grey cravat after his regeneration. (TV: Doctor Who [+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"]) He also wore a single-breasted waistcoat of bronze brocade with a gold fob watch during the Last Great Time War; right up to his fall on Karn. (TV: The Night of the Doctor)
The War Doctor spent his first days in his predecessor's bronze waistcoat. (TV: The Night of the Doctor; AUDIO: Light the Flame; WC: Doctors Assemble!) He also wore a bronze scarf when helping Voord. (COMIC: Four Doctors)
The Tenth Doctor wore a wood brown tie with semi-random floral design of cornflower blue flowers and bronze foliage when he helped to foil the 1562/2013 Zygon Invasion of Earth and when he revisited the Fall of Gallifrey.. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
Yasmin Khan wore a cravat of bronze tartan during the year 1904, the 2021 Sontaran Invasion of Earth, and the Flux. (TV: Survivors of the Flux, The Vanquishers)
Jo Grant wore a bronze mini-dress with yellow stripes when she and the Third Doctor pursued the Master during his Minoan Manoeuvre. (TV: The Time Monster)
Liz Shaw wore a bronze coat and mini dress during her first adventure with the Third Doctor and UNIT; as well as during Black Thursday, the first time the Nestene Consciousness and its Autons invaded Earth. (TV: Spearhead from Space)
Emma Grayling wore a bronze brown shirt on 1974. (TV: Hide)
Ruby Sunday wore a bronze miniskirt when she met Kate Stewart in the 2025 of a parallel timeline. (TV: 73 Yards)
John Riddell, an Edwardian hunter, wore a bronze bandana when he met Queen Nefertiti and helped rescue dinosaurs on a Silurian Ark during 2367. (TV: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)
In his Sixth Doctor form, the Curator wore a single-breasted waistcoat of amber and bronze brocade with a fob watch. (AUDIO: The Artist at the End of Time)
Oscar Botcherby wore an ascot tie of bronze paisley when he and Anita met the Sixth Doctor, Peri Brown and Jamie McCrimmon after seeing Sontaran Group Marshal Stike's scoutship flyover. (TV: The Two Doctors)
Peri Brown wore a bronaze waistcoat when posing as Percy Blakeney's wife. (AUDIO: Plight of the Pimpernel)
Lieutenant Harry Sullivan, a doctor from UNIT, wore an ivory and bronze pinstripe shirt when posing as a member of the Ministry of Defence to question the National Institute for Advanced Scientific Research. (TV: Robot)
Professor Rachel Jensen wore a bronze blouse when she helped the Seventh Doctor during the Hand of Omega Incident. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
Wrack, the leader of the Eternals on the Buccaneer, wore a bronze brocade vest. (TV: Enlightenment)
Theodore Maxtible wore a bronze cravat during the Dalek Empire's Operation Human Factor. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks)
The Valeyard wore a copy of the Eighth Doctor's bronze waistcoat. (AUDIO: The War Valeyard)
Daleks
- Main article: Bronze Dalek
Though constructed from Dalekanium, the casings of Dalek drones of the several Dalek conflicts, most notably during the Last Great Time War and beyond were associated with bronze; a Dalek on ancient Earth became known as the "Bronze God". (AUDIO: Living History [+]Loading...["Living History (audio story)"], PROSE: Engines of War [+]Loading...["Engines of War (novel)"]) Notable individuals include Dal, (AUDIO: Echoes of War) the Metaltron, (TV: Dalek) the Dalek Emperor, (TV: The Parting of the Ways) a revived Dalek in 2007, (PROSE: I Am a Dalek) the Cult of Skaro except Dalek Sec, (TV: Army of Ghosts-Evolution of the Daleks) Davros's Vault Daleks, (TV: The Stolen Earth|Journey's End) some Special Weapons Daleks which served the New Dalek Paradigm, (AUDIO: Victory of the Doctor) Rusty, (TV: Into the Dalek-Twice Upon A Time) the Death Squad Daleks including their Commander during the Security Drone Incident, (TV: Revolution of the Daleks) the Dalek Executioners in the ELF Storage Incident, (TV: Eve of the Daleks) and some Daleks including a Commander who helped the Spy Master in his master plan. (TV: The Power of the Doctor)
Sculptures
Statues could be made out of bronze. (PROSE: Losing Track of Time [+]Loading...["Losing Track of Time (short story)"], Flashpoint [+]Loading...["Flashpoint (short story)"])
In the Chou dynasty bronze figurines were constructed of animals like a a crouching tiger. (PROSE: Falling from Xi'an [+]Loading...["Falling from Xi'an (short story)"]
The Zhou dynasty constructed bronze drinking flagons. (PROSE: The Ice Garden [+]Loading...["The Ice Garden (short story)"])
Weaponry
In Egypt circa 2200 BC soldiers used bronze daggers. (PROSE: The Mutation of Time [+]Loading...["The Mutation of Time (novelisation)"])
Coyn owned a bronze dagger and axe. (PROSE: The People's Temple [+]Loading...["The People's Temple (short story)"])
Hippopotamus guards wore bronze armour with rope to keep them standing when asleep, which kept them standing even as they slept. (WC: The Secret of Novice Hame [+]Loading...["The Secret of Novice Hame (webcast)"])
