Silver (colour)
Silver was a light shade of grey, which shared its name with the substance.[source needed]
On Susan Foreman's home planet, there were trees with silver leaves. (TV: The Sensorites [+]Loading...["The Sensorites (TV story)"], PROSE: The Sensorites [+]Loading...["The Sensorites (novelisation)"]) The Tenth Doctor later mentioned that Gallifrey had trees with silver leaves. (TV: Gridlock [+]Loading...["Gridlock (TV story)"])
Members of Gallifrey's Dromeian Chapter wore silver robes. (PROSE: Lungbarrow [+]Loading...["Lungbarrow (novel)"]) Morbius, wore one of their robes, suggestive he was one of them, during his third incarnation. (AUDIO: The Vengeance of Morbius [+]Loading...["The Vengeance of Morbius (audio story)"])
The Cybermen were silver in colour, such as CyberMondans, (TV: The Tenth Planet [+]Loading...["The Tenth Planet (TV story)"], AUDIO: Spare Parts [+]Loading...["Spare Parts (audio story)"]) CyberTelosians, (TV: The Moonbase [+]Loading...["The Moonbase (TV story)"]) the CyberFaction, (TV: The Wheel in Space [+]Loading...["The Wheel in Space (TV story)"], The Invasion [+]Loading...["The Invasion (TV story)"]) CyberNomads, (TV: Revenge of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)"]) CyberNeomorphs, (TV: Earthshock [+]Loading...["Earthshock (TV story)"]) CyberIsomorphs, (TV: Silver Nemesis [+]Loading...["Silver Nemesis (TV story)"]) Cybusmen, (TV: Rise of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)"], The Age of Steel [+]Loading...["The Age of Steel (TV story)"]-The Next Doctor [+]Loading...["The Next Doctor (TV story)"]) Cyber Legions (TV: A Good Man Goes to War [+]Loading...["A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)"]-Ascension of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)"]) and Cyber-Warriors, (TV: Ascension of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Ascension of the Cybermen (TV story)"]) apart from black Cyberguards. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)"])
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 [+]Loading...["Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)"], Destiny of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)"], AUDIO: Davros [+]Loading...["Davros (audio story)"], The Dalek Defence [+]Loading...["The Dalek Defence (audio story)"], etc.) Similar chairs were owned by three parallel counterparts: one who met a parallel Doctor and Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, (AUDIO: Masters of War [+]Loading...["Masters of War (audio story)"]) one who met the Dalek Time Strategist from N-Space, (AUDIO: Palindrome [+]Loading...["Palindrome (audio story)"], Restoration of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Restoration of the Daleks (audio story)"]) and one who helped the Warrior find the Key to Time. (AUDIO: The Key To Key To Time [+]Loading...["The Key To Key To Time (audio story)"])
Some Daleks had silver casings with blue sense globes, including Type I Daleks, (TV: The Daleks [+]Loading...["The Daleks (TV story)"], AUDIO: Return to Skaro [+]Loading...["Return to Skaro (audio story)"]) Type II Daleks, (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth [+]Loading...["The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)"], AUDIO: Masters of Earth [+]Loading...["Masters of Earth (audio story)"]) Type III Daleks, (TV: The Chase [+]Loading...["The Chase (TV story)"]-The Evil of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)"]) Type V Daleks, (TV: Death to the Daleks [+]Loading...["Death to the Daleks (TV story)"]) Dalek Scientists, (PROSE: War of the Daleks [+]Loading...["War of the Daleks (novel)"]) and the Dalek Prime during its time as Emperor within its Type I casing. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)"]) Many Black Daleks had silver panels and sense globes. (COMIC: Duel of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Duel of the Daleks (comic story)"], TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth [+]Loading...["The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)"], The Chase [+]Loading...["The Chase (TV story)"], PROSE: The Dalek Project [+]Loading...["The Dalek Project (comic story)"], etc.) The Emperor's Personal Guard were silver with black domes. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)"], Asylum of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)"], The Magician's Apprentice [+]Loading...["The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)"], The Witch's Familiar [+]Loading...["The Witch's Familiar (TV story)"]) The Dalek Scientist of the Dalek Time Squad had a mostly silver casing apart from its dome, panels and globes which were red. The Dalek Prime Strategist had a silver casing similar to the Type I variety. (PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times [+]Loading...["The Guide to the Dark Times (short story)"]) 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 [+]Loading...["Engines of War (novel)"]) 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 [+]Loading...["The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)"])
The Sontarans wore silver helmets and pauldrons with their black space armour. (TV: The Time Warrior [+]Loading...["The Time Warrior (TV story)"], The Sontaran Experiment [+]Loading...["The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)"], AUDIO: The Sontarans [+]Loading...["The Sontarans (audio story)"], COMIC: The Betrothal of Sontar [+]Loading...["The Betrothal of Sontar (comic story)"], etc.)
Sarah Jane Smith wore a silver grey parka when facing Gideon Munro, Morgane Kaditch, and the Keeper in Nikita Base in Antarctica during 2006. (AUDIO: Snow Blind [+]Loading...["Snow Blind (audio story)"])
The First Doctor wore a silver scarf, (TV: An Unearthly Child [+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"], etc.) right up to his death after the 1986 Cyberman Invasion of Earth. (TV: The Tenth Planet [+]Loading...["The Tenth Planet (TV story)"], Twice Upon a Time [+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"])
The Fourth Doctor wore silver gloves as part of his detective outfit. (PROSE: Nanomorphosis [+]Loading...["Nanomorphosis (short story)"], Evolution [+]Loading...["Evolution (novel)"], AUDIO: The Merfolk Murders [+]Loading...["The Merfolk Murders (audio story)"], COMIC: Gaze of the Medusa [+]Loading...["Gaze of the Medusa (comic story)"], TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang [+]Loading...["The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)"])
After his clothes were ruined by a Xaranti, (PROSE: Deep Blue [+]Loading...["Deep Blue (novel)"]) the Fifth Doctor wore a silver grey overcoat with peaked lapels and a scarlet trim. (TV: The Awakening [+]Loading...["The Awakening (TV story)"]-The Caves of Androzani [+]Loading...["The Caves of Androzani (TV story)"]) His successor, the Sixth Doctor, wore the silver overcoat during his first hours, (TV: The Caves of Androzani [+]Loading...["The Caves of Androzani (TV story)"]) before changing for his patchwork frock coat. (TV: The Twin Dilemma [+]Loading...["The Twin Dilemma (TV story)"])
The Seventh Doctor wore a single-breasted, silver, cotton blazer, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (TV story)"]) most notably: when ending the Paradise Towers Massacre, (TV: Paradise Towers [+]Loading...["Paradise Towers (TV story)"]) when protecting Delta from Bannermen, (TV: Delta and the Bannermen [+]Loading...["Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)"]) when meeting Ace, (TV: Dragonfire [+]Loading...["Dragonfire (TV story)"]) when foiling Davros's Imperial Daleks and the Supreme's Renegade Daleks during the Hand of Omega Incident, (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"]) when resisting Helen A and the Kandyman, (TV: The Happiness Patrol [+]Loading...["The Happiness Patrol (TV story)"]) when keeping the Nemesis from Isomorph Cybermen and Neo-Nazis as well as Peinforte during the 1988 Cyberman Invasion of Earth. (TV: Silver Nemesis [+]Loading...["Silver Nemesis (TV story)"]) when dealing with Sontarans and Rutans, (PROSE: Shakedown [+]Loading...["Shakedown (novelisation)"]) and when freeing the Psychic Circus from the Gods of Ragnarok. (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Loading...["The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)"])
The Eighth Doctor wore a double breasted silver paisley waistcoat with a shawl collar and a gold fob watch after his regeneration and during the Regeneration Operation, (TV: Doctor Who [+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"]) when helping to foil the Early Cyberfaction including a Cyber-Leader during 2503, (AUDIO: Sword of Orion [+]Loading...["Sword of Orion (audio story)"]) when meeting Daleks including a Supreme and Mariah Learman in New Britain during the 2050s, (AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The Time of the Daleks (audio story)"]) when facing Zagreus, (AUDIO: Neverland [+]Loading...["Neverland (audio story)"]-The Next Life [+]Loading...["The Next Life (audio story)"]) when meeting Dalek Emperor Davros, (AUDIO: Terror Firma [+]Loading...["Terror Firma (audio story)"]) when reuniting with Susan Campbell and meeting Alex Campbell, (AUDIO: An Earthly Child [+]Loading...["An Earthly Child (audio story)"]) when visiting the Great Exhibition during 1851, (AUDIO: Other Lives [+]Loading...["Other Lives (audio story)"]) when forced away from Charlotte Pollard by the Early Cyberfaction including a Cyber-Planner round Singapore in 2007, (AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was [+]Loading...["The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)"]) when first meeting Lucie Miller, during a fight between Mark IV Daleks including a Supreme and Mutant Daleks under Martez, (AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Blood of the Daleks (audio story)"]) during a war between Hulbert Logistics including Todd Hulbert and the Early Cyberfaction including a Cyber-Leader on Lonsis during 2006, (AUDIO: Human Resources [+]Loading...["Human Resources (audio story)"]) when facing the Nestene Consciousness and Autons in 2008, (AUDIO: Brave New Town [+]Loading...["Brave New Town (audio story)"]) when foiling Snabb's campaign for power, (AUDIO: The Skull of Sobek [+]Loading...["The Skull of Sobek (audio story)"]) when defying Morbius in a new form, (AUDIO: Sisters of the Flame [+]Loading...["Sisters of the Flame (audio story)"], The Vengeance of Morbius [+]Loading...["The Vengeance of Morbius (audio story)"]) when confronting Alex Marlowe and some Krynoids, (AUDIO: Hothouse [+]Loading...["Hothouse (audio story)"]) when facing Wirrn, (AUDIO: Wirrn Dawn [+]Loading...["Wirrn Dawn (audio story)"]) when facing giant spiders from Metebelis III, (AUDIO: The Eight Truths [+]Loading...["The Eight Truths (audio story)"], Worldwide Web [+]Loading...["Worldwide Web (audio story)"]) 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 [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) when meeting Ice Warriors including Ice Lord Slaadek and the Monk, (AUDIO: Deimos [+]Loading...["Deimos (audio story)"], The Resurrection of Mars [+]Loading...["The Resurrection of Mars (audio story)"]) during the 2180s Dalek invasion of Earth, (AUDIO: Lucie Miller [+]Loading...["Lucie Miller (audio story)"], To the Death [+]Loading...["To the Death (audio story)"]) and when he first meets Molly O'Sullivan. (AUDIO: The Great War [+]Loading...["The Great War (audio story)"])
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 [+]Loading...["Hide (TV story)"])
Martha Jones wore a silver mini-dress under her battleship grey jacket when she met Jack Harkness and Chantho well as Professor Yana, a human form of the War Master, (TV: Utopia [+]Loading...["Utopia (TV story)"]) and when she learnt Harold Saxon was the new Master. (TV: The Sound of Drums [+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)"])
Donna Noble wore a silver top during the 2009 Sontaran invasion of Earth. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem [+]Loading...["The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)"], The Poison Sky [+]Loading...["The Poison Sky (TV story)"])
Tara Mishra wore a silver t-shirt when she met the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler. (COMIC: The Bidding War [+]Loading...["The Bidding War (comic story)"])
Audacity Montague wore a silver scarf during a Christmas adventure with the Eighth Doctor and Charlie Pollard. (AUDIO: Twenty-Four Doors in December [+]Loading...["Twenty-Four Doors in December (audio story)"]-Winter of the Demon [+]Loading...["Winter of the Demon (audio story)"])
Doctor Ogron wore a copy of the Eighth Doctor's double-breasted waistcoat of silver paisley-brocade. (AUDIO: Planet of the Ogrons [+]Loading...["Planet of the Ogrons (audio story)"])
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson wore a gold and silver dress when she met the Tenth Doctor in the 1700s during her adulthood. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"])
Jamie McCrimmon wore a silver cravat when he reunited with Zoe Heriot in the Memory TARDIS. (TV: The Mind Robber [+]Loading...["The Mind Robber (TotT TV story)"])
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 [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"])
The Fourteenth Doctor wore a charcoal and silver knit tie from the Thirteenth Doctor's death. (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"]) It was passed to the Fifteenth Doctor upon bi-generation, (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) who soon wore a silver tie during a visit to London in 1963. (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])
Peri Brown wore silver trousers when she met a Dalek Supreme and the Watchers of the Law on Omnia, (AUDIO: Emissary of the Daleks) and when she met Drathro in London during 2,000,000 AD. (TV: The Mysterious Planet [+])
The Tremas Master wore a silver waistcoat during his Survival Stratagem, (TV: Survival [+]Loading...["Survival (TV story)"]) during his dark sports with the Determinant, (GAME: Destiny of the Doctors [+]Loading...["Destiny of the Doctors (video game)"]) and during his alliance with Adam Mitchell. (COMIC: Cat and Mouse [+]Loading...["Cat and Mouse (comic story)"])
The Toymaker had a silver collar on his Chinese Mandarin outfit. (PROSE: The Celestial Toymaker [+]Loading...["The Celestial Toymaker (novelisation)"])
Josiah wore a silver cravat as part of his Victorian outfit. (TV: Ghost Light [+]Loading...["Ghost Light (TV story)"])
The Chief clown wore a silver harlequin outfit. (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Loading...["The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)"])
Tanizaki wore a necktie done in eggplant and silver stripes when Ianto Jones brought him to help Lisa Hallett, his partially cyber-converted girlfriend. (TV: Cyberwoman)
C'rizz wore a silver grey hoodie when he met Sontarans including General Ignatius Antias Salutio and Commander Caecilius Crassus Procullus around the Giant's Causeway in 55 BC. (AUDIO: The Battle of Giant's Causeway [+]Loading...["The Battle of Giant's Causeway (audio story)"])
Lisa Deranne wore silver trousers when she and her crew met Sontarans including Commander Steg and Lieutenant Vorn. (HOMEVID: Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans [+]Loading...["Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans (home video)"])
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 [+]Loading...["Last Christmas (TV story)"])
Ursula Blake wore a silver cardigan up to being absorbed by the Absorbaloff. (TV: Love & Monsters [+]Loading...["Love & Monsters (TV story)"])
Popplewick, the Valeyard's human persona, wore a silver cravat. (TV: The Ultimate Foe [+]Loading...["The Ultimate Foe (TV story)"])
The Saurians had silver scales. (PROSE: Lords of the Galaxy [+]Loading...["Lords of the Galaxy (short story)"])
Dals had silver hair. (PROSE: The Last of the Dals [+]Loading...["The Last of the Dals (short story)"])
Silver was a common colour for duct tape. (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth [+]Loading...["The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)"])
Instead of the typical silver, the Cyberon drug produced by the Cyberwolf Abigail was green. (PROSE: A Worthy Successor [+]Loading...["A Worthy Successor (short story)"])
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".