Opera glasses
Opera glasses were a unique kind of glasses similar to binoculars, used to view an opera from theatre seats which were far away from the stage.
Grace Holloway used a pair of opera glasses during a performance on the night of December 30, 1999, until she was called to perform surgery at Walker General Hospital. (TV: Doctor Who [+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"])
The Eighth Doctor used a pair of opera glasses on Earth in the Third Glorious Empire. He remarked to Tania Bell that he had last worn the jacket he took them from at La Scala in 1831 or 1832. (AUDIO: Dead Time [+]Loading...["Dead Time (audio story)"])
The Ninth Doctor had acquired a set of opera lens. He used them as a magnification device to survey a bombing site near Limehouse Green where a Chula ambulance had crashed. (TV: The Empty Child [+]Loading...["The Empty Child (TV story)"])