Silver was a light shade of grey named after the substance. [source needed]
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 First Doctor wore a silver scarf, (TV: An Unearthly Child) right up to his death after the 1986 Cyberman Invasion of Earth. (TV: The Tenth Planet, Twice Upon A Time)
The Fourth Doctor wore silver gloves when he met Magnus Greel in London during 1892. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
After his clothes were ruined by a Xaranti, (PROSE: Deep Blue) the Fifth Doctor wore a silver grey overcoat with peaked lapels and a scarlet trim. (TV: The Awakening-The Caves of Androzani) His successor, the Sixth Doctor, wore the silver overcoat during his first hours; (TV: The Caves of Androzani) before changing for his patchwork frock coat. (TV: The Twin Dilemma)
The Seventh Doctor wore a silver safari jacket. (TV: Time and the Rani-The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)
The Eighth Doctor wore a double breasted waistcoat of silver paisley with a shawl collar and a gold fob watch after his regeneration and during the Regeneration Operation; (TV: Doctor Who) and when helping his past and future incarnations to defeat a fleet of Mark VIII Daleks and save Gallifrey during the end of the Last Great Time War, (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
The Eleventh Doctor wore a silver and ebony pinstripe shirt when meeting Professor Alec Palmer and his assistant Emma Grayling on Caliburn House during 1974, (TV: Hide)
The Fourteenth Doctor wore a charcoal and silver tweed tie from the Thirteenth Doctor's death. (TV: The Power of the Doctor) It was passed to the Fifteenth Doctor upon bi-generation. (TV: The Giggle)
Martha Jones wore a silver mini-dress under her battleship grey jacket when she meets Jack Harkness and Chantho well as Professor Yana, a human form of the War Master; (TV: Utopia) and when she learns Harold Saxon is the new Master. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
Donna Noble wore a silver top during the 2009 Sontaran invasion of Earth. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky)
Tara Mishra wore a silver t-shirt when she met the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler. (COMIC: The Bidding War)
Audacity Montague wore a silver scarf during a Christmas adventure with the Eighth Doctor and Charlie Pollard. (AUDIO: Twenty-Four Doors in December-Winter of the Demon)
Doctor Ogron wore a copy of the Eighth Doctor's double-breasted waistcoat of silver paisley-brocade. (AUDIO: Planet of the Ogrons)
Jamie McCrimmon wore a silver cravat when he reunited with Zoe Heriot in the Memory TARDIS. (TV: The Mind Robber)
Harriet Jones wore a silver grey jumper when she sacrificed herself to bring the Tenth Doctor to where the New Dalek Empire hid Earth during the Planetary Relocation Incident. (TV: The Stolen Earth)
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 were 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 during his Survival Stratagem, (TV: Survival) during his dark sports with the Determinant, (GAME: Destiny of the Doctor) and during his alliance with Adam Mitchell. (COMIC: Cat and Mouse)
The Toymaker had a silver collar on his Chinese Mandarin outfit. (PROSE: The Celestial Toymaker)
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)
C'rizz wears a silver grey hoodie when he meets Sontarans including General Ignatius Antias Salutio and Commander Caecilius Crassus Procullus round Giant's Causeway during 55 BC. (AUDIO: The Battle of Giant's Causeway)
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 and Ashley Carter wore silver gilets when dreaming they were scientists on the North Pole during Christmas Eve because of dream crabs. (TV: Last Christmas)
Ursula Blake wore a silver cardigan up to being absorbed by the Absorbaloff. (TV: Love and Monsters)
Popplewick, the Valeyard's human persona, wore a silver cravat. (TV: The Ultimate Foe)
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".