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Burnt orange

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Burnt orange, (TV: Gridlock [+]Loading...["Gridlock (TV story)"]) or burned orange was a colour. (TV: "A Desperate Venture" [+]Part of The Sensorites, Loading...{"namedpart":"A Desperate Venture","1":"The Sensorites (TV story)"})

Burnt orange was a paint colour, in the 1960s hardware shops would have called it "Arabian Sunset". Barbara Wright used such a colour on the walls of the scullery in her small flat in Kensal Rise. (PROSE: Byzantium! [+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"])

Explosions appeared as burned orange. (PROSE: To the Slaughter [+]Loading...["To the Slaughter (novel)"])

Atmosphere[[edit] | [edit source]]

The sky of Gallifrey was burnt orange. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell [+]Loading...["The Ancestor Cell (novel)"])

At night, the sky of Susan Foreman's home planet was a burnt orange; (TV: "A Desperate Venture" [+]Part of The Sensorites, Loading...{"namedpart":"A Desperate Venture","1":"The Sensorites (TV story)"}, PROSE: The Sensorites [+]Loading...["The Sensorites (TV story)"]) Gallifrey was described almost in exactly the same way by the Tenth Doctor many years later. (TV: Gridlock [+]Loading...["Gridlock (TV story)"])

As London burned on 2 September 1666 the sky appeared burnt orange. (PROSE: The Republican's Story [+]Loading...["The Republican's Story (short story)"])

The sky in Manhattan in 1970 sometimes had splashes of crimson and burnt orange. (PROSE: The Devil Goblins from Neptune [+]Loading...["The Devil Goblins from Neptune (novel)"])

Clothing[[edit] | [edit source]]

Iris Wildthyme gave her companion Thomas Daley an antique burnt orange silk dressing gown after a month of travelling together. (PROSE: Verdigris [+]Loading...["Verdigris (novel)"])

Martez, a mad scientist from Red Rocket Rising, wore a burnt orange shirt when possessing the body of Asha Gryvern. (AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Blood of the Daleks (audio story)"])

As the Bruce Master prepared to take the Eighth Doctor's lives via the Eye of Harmony he dressed in a long black velvet cloak, the cloak had a high collar of burnt orange at the back and was piped with a burnt orange. (PROSE: The Novel of the Film [+]Loading...["The Novel of the Film (novelisation)"])

Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

On a Shev planet the pastured were burned orange. (PROSE: The Misadventure of Mark Thorne [+]Loading...["The Misadventure of Mark Thorne (short story)"])

Speaking with Anji Kapoor the Eighth Doctor recalled a planet where the night sky was burnt orange and the trees were of silver, due to his amnesiac state he couldn't place that this was Gallifrey. (PROSE: Earthworld [+]Loading...["Earthworld (novel)"])

Set had domes which glowed burnt orange in the sunlight in the 27th century. (PROSE: Digital Dreams [+]Loading...["Digital Dreams (novel)"])

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

Zygon flesh was burnt orange. (PROSE: Sting of the Zygons [+]Loading...["Sting of the Zygons (novel)"])

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