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Brown

Brown was a colour. (PROSE: Sky Pirates! [+]Loading...["Sky Pirates! (novel)"]) Brown could be the colour of many objects including paper, manure, wool and leather. (AUDIO: The Broken Crown [+]Loading...["The Broken Crown (audio story)"], PROSE: The Earwig Archipelago [+]Loading...["The Earwig Archipelago (short story)"], Testament [+]Loading...["Testament (short story)"], Gazing Void [+]Loading...["Gazing Void (short story)"])

Soil and earth was brown. (PROSE: Mentioning the War [+]Loading...["Mentioning the War (short story)"]) Mud was also brown. (PROSE: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Gods of the Underworld [+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Gods of the Underworld (novel)"])

On Gallifrey when the Doctor was younger there were rocks coloured red, brown, purple and gold. (TV: The Time Monster [+]Loading...["The Time Monster (TV story)"])

Martian dust seen up close was not red, but a grey-brown powder. (PROSE: Dust [+]Loading...["Dust (short story)"])

Suitcases could be made out of brown leather. (PROSE: Nuclear Time [+]Loading...["Nuclear Time (novel)"])

The Fifth Doctor had a brown satchel in the TARDIS workshop. (AUDIO: Spare Parts [+]Loading...["Spare Parts (audio story)"])

When Cybermen died on the freighter[which?] oily smoke and thick brown fluid erupted from its chest. (PROSE: Earthshock [+]Loading...["Earthshock (novelisation)"])

In the 19th century chemicals were stored in brown bottles. (PROSE: Ghost Light [+]Loading...["Ghost Light (novelisation)"])

Architecture[[edit] | [edit source]]

Houses in San Francisco in 2002 were pained in purple, blue and brown. (PROSE: Unnatural History [+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"])

Carpet could be a brown colour. (PROSE: The Age of Ambition [+]Loading...["The Age of Ambition (short story)"])

Paint could be brown. (PROSE: Spookasem [+]Loading...["Spookasem (short story)"])

Floors were made from brown wood. (PROSE: The Cabinet of Light [+]Loading...["The Cabinet of Light (novel)"])

Biology[[edit] | [edit source]]

When blood dried it took on a brown appearance. (PROSE: Mission to the Unknown [+]Loading...["Mission to the Unknown (novelisation)"])

When changing into a Wirrn grub the body took on a greeny-brown appearance. (PROSE: Placebo Effect [+]Loading...["Placebo Effect (novel)"])

Sunburn or sun tanning could result in someone appearing more brown than they previously were. (TV: The Caretaker [+]Loading...["The Caretaker (TV story)"])

Some individuals had brown eyes. These included Nadienne Douel, (PROSE: Toy Soldiers [+]Loading...["Toy Soldiers (novel)"]) Mary Shelley, (AUDIO: The Silver Turk [+]Loading...["The Silver Turk (audio story)"]) Marnal, (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles [+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"]) Jane McKillen and Dale Hicks. (TV: Fear Her [+]Loading...["Fear Her (TV story)"]) Leela's eyes were originally brown until she witnessed the laser destruction of the Rutan ship in 1902, after which their colour changed to blue. (TV: Horror of Fang Rock [+]Loading...["Horror of Fang Rock (TV story)"])

Sarah Jane Smith described the Uvodni, Uvlavad Kudlak, as having a "brownish" face in the mid-2000s (TV: Warriors of Kudlak [+]Loading...["Warriors of Kudlak (TV story)"])

Numerous incarnations of the Doctor had brown coloured hair. Among them were younger incarnations of the First Doctor, and the War Doctor. (COMICVortex Butterflies [+]Loading...["Vortex Butterflies (comic story)"]), TV: The Night of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Night of the Doctor (TV story)"])

Other incarnations of the Doctor with brown hair included the curly-haired Fourth Doctor, (TV: Planet of the Spiders [+]Loading...["Planet of the Spiders (TV story)"]) as well as the Seventh, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (TV story)"]) Eighth, (TV: Doctor Who [+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"]) Ninth, (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"]) Tenth, (TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"]) Eleventh, (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"]) and Fourteenth Doctors. (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"])

Many who travelled with the Doctor also had brown hair. These included Jack Harkness, (TV: The Empty Child [+]Loading...["The Empty Child (TV story)"]) Peri Brown, (TV: Planet of Fire [+]Loading...["Planet of Fire (TV story)"]) Clara Oswald, (TV: The Bells of Saint John [+]Loading...["The Bells of Saint John (TV story)"]) Sarah Jane Smith, (TV: The Time Warrior [+]Loading...["The Time Warrior (TV story)"]) and Rory Williams. (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])

Botany[[edit] | [edit source]]

In drought, grass burned brown. (PROSE: The Awakening [+]Loading...["The Awakening (novelisation)"])

Cliff Jones' powdered fungus was brown. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Green Death [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Green Death (novelisation)"])

Tobacco was brown. (PROSE: The Book of the Still [+]Loading...["The Book of the Still (novel)"])

Clothing[[edit] | [edit source]]

Leather boots could be brown. (PROSE: Ghost Devices [+]Loading...["Ghost Devices (novel)"])

Many members of UNIT wore dark brown berets in the 1970s. (TV: The Ambassadors of Death [+]Loading...["The Ambassadors of Death (TV story)"], Inferno [+]Loading...["Inferno (TV story)"])

Brown loafers were available in 1981. (PROSE: Nuclear Time [+]Loading...["Nuclear Time (novel)"])

In 2006 brown plastic sunglasses were available. (PROSE: The Mother Road [+]Loading...["The Mother Road (short story)"])

On Moonbase Laika in 2070 everyone wore brown one piece overalls. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Cybermen (novelisation)"])

Individuals' clothing history[[edit] | [edit source]]

Charlotte Pollard wore a dark brown leather peacoat with peaked lapels when she 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)"])

Vicki Pallister wore a brown doublet during the 1605 Gunpowder Plot against the British Houses of Parliament. (PROSE: The Plotters [+]Loading...["The Plotters (novel)"])

Richard Maynarde, a 17th century man from Windsor, wore a brown leather jerkin in 1638, and also during his trip to the 20th century where he helped to foil the 1988 Cyberman Invasion of Earth. (TV: Silver Nemesis [+]Loading...["Silver Nemesis (TV story)"])

Redvers Fenn-Cooper, a Victorian hunter and member of the Royal Geographical Society, wore a brown waistcoat in Gabriel Chase in 1883. (TV: Ghost Light [+]Loading...["Ghost Light (TV story)"])

The Half-Face Man wore a single-breasted, black, moleskin waistcoat with a brown trim and a fob watch in the 1890s. (TV: Deep Breath [+]Loading...["Deep Breath (TV story)"])

Yasmin Khan wore brown boots during 1904, the 2021 Sontaran Invasion of Earth, and the Flux. (TV: Survivors of the Flux [+]Loading...["Survivors of the Flux (TV story)"], The Vanquishers [+]Loading...["The Vanquishers (TV story)"])

Franz Kafka was wearing a double-breasted blazer of dark brown and white pinstripe when he helped River Song work out a mystery in Vienna and 107 Baker Street in the 1920s. (AUDIO: Whodunnit? [+]Loading...["Whodunnit? (audio story)"]) River Song was wearing a brown fedora at this time, (AUDIO: Whodunnit? [+]Loading...["Whodunnit? (audio story)"]) and also during an adventure in New York in 1938. TV: The Angels Take Manhattan [+]Loading...["The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)"])

Bertie Potts wore a double-breasted, tan, tweed frock coat with brown overchecks in 1924. (AUDIO: The Boundless Sea [+]Loading...["The Boundless Sea (audio story)"], etc.)

 
The Toymaker wearing a brown leather apron. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])

The Toymaker wore a brown leather apron in Soho in 1925. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])

Victoria Waterfield wore brown knickerbockers when she first met the Great Intelligence and some Robot Yeti on Tibet during 1935, (TV: The Abominable Snowmen [+]Loading...["The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)"]) and when she met Ice Warriors on Brittanicus Base. (TV: The Ice Warriors [+]Loading...["The Ice Warriors (TV story)"])

Mels Zucker was wearing a mini-dress with dark brown patterning when she threatened the Eleventh Doctor into his TARDIS and forced him to take her to 1938 to attempt to kill Adolf Hitler. Hitler instead shot her, and she regenerated into River Song, who remained in the dress for a short while. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler [+]Loading...["Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)"])

Emily Morris wore a brown satchel in World War II. (TV: Lost in Time [+]Loading...["Lost in Time (TV story)"])

Amy Pond wore brown cowboy boots beginning in 1941. (TV: Victory of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Victory of the Daleks (TV story)"], The Hungry Earth [+]Loading...["The Hungry Earth (TV story)"], GAME: City of the Daleks [+]Loading...["City of the Daleks (video game)"], Blood of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Blood of the Cybermen (video game)"], et al.)

Amy also wore a dark brown bomber jacket during the Ironside Incident leading to the rise of the New Dalek Paradigm in 1941, (TV: Victory of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Victory of the Daleks (TV story)"]) when she met a Dalek Emperor of the Paradigm, (GAME: City of the Daleks [+]Loading...["City of the Daleks (video game)"]) during her first encounter with Cybermen from a Cyber Legion, (GAME: Blood of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Blood of the Cybermen (video game)"]) when she released the Entity, (GAME: TARDIS [+]Loading...["TARDIS (video game)"]) and during her first encounter with Vashta Nerada. (GAME: Shadows of the Vashta Nerada [+]Loading...["Shadows of the Vashta Nerada (video game)"])  

Artie Berger, a piano musician, wore a brown trenchcoat and brown fedora when helping to capture a sound monster in 1946. (AUDIO: Fright Motif [+]Loading...["Fright Motif (audio story)"])

Harvey Parson, a pawn of the Imperial Daleks, wore a brown peacoat when he questioned Sergeant Mike Smith on where the Renegade Dalek's base was during the Shoreditch Incident in 1963. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"])

Mike Smith wore a brown leather bomber jacket with a fur lining up to his death during the Shoreditch Incident. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"])

Liz Shaw wore a dark brown leather trenchcoat when she met Sylvia in the 1970s. (AUDIO: Intelligence for War [+]Loading...["Intelligence for War (audio story)"])

When she was at Space Control in 1973, Liz Shaw was wearing a brown wool dress and sleeveless cardigan. (PROSE: The Ambassadors of Death [+]Loading...["The Ambassadors of Death (novelisation)"])

In the 1970s, when Jo Grant arrived with the Third Doctor at Stangmoor Prison, she was wearing a brown leather trouser suit and a brown leather jacket. (PROSE: The Mind of Evil [+]Loading...["The Mind of Evil (novelisation)"], TV: The Mind of Evil [+]Loading...["The Mind of Evil (TV story)"])

 
Sarah Jane Smith in her wood brown leather jacket. (TV: School Reunion [+]Loading...["School Reunion (TV story)"])

Sarah Jane Smith wore a brown blazer when she sneaked aboard the Doctor's TARDIS. (TV: The Time Warrior [+]Loading...["The Time Warrior (TV story)"], Invasion of the Dinosaurs [+]Loading...["Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)"]) She wore a brown trenchcoat when she encountered a Gorgon and Bea Nelson-Stanley in the mid-2000s. (TV: Eye of the Gorgon [+]Loading...["Eye of the Gorgon (TV story)"]) She wore a brown leather jacket when she helped the Tenth Doctor, Rose Tyler, and Mickey Smith to defeat Krillitanes in 2007. (TV: School Reunion [+]Loading...["School Reunion (TV story)"]) She wore a dark brown waistcoat when she helped to defeat Davros and the New Dalek Empire's master plan in 2009. (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"], Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) She was wearing a brown leather jacket when she met the Eleventh Doctor, Jo Jones, Santiago Jones, some Groske, and the Claw Shansheeth of the 15th Funeral Fleet in 2010. (TV: Death of the Doctor [+]Loading...["Death of the Doctor (TV story)"])

Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart wore a single-breasted, brown, leather peacoat with a wool lining during his first encounter with Rutans in the 1970s. (AUDIO: The Children of the Future [+]Loading...["The Children of the Future (audio story)"])

Emma Grayling wore brown ankle boots in 1974. (TV: Hide [+]Loading...["Hide (TV story)"])

Professor Chronotis wore a dark brown waistcoat in 1979. (TV: Shada [+]Loading...["Shada (TV story)"])

Li Shou Yuing was wearing brown shorts when she met the Seventh Doctor and Ace during their encounter with Morgaine and the Destroyer in 1997. (TV: Battlefield [+]Loading...["Battlefield (TV story)"])

Lucifer wore a brown parka and black hat in the 21st century. (WC: Mission: Find Lilith [+]Loading...["Mission: Find Lilith (webcast)"])

Toshiko Sato wore a single-breasted, brown, leather trenchcoat when helping Tommy Brockless, (TV: To the Last Man [+]Loading...["To the Last Man (TV story)"]) and when she died in the mid-2000s. (TV: Exit Wounds [+]Loading...["Exit Wounds (TV story)"])

John Ellis was wearing a dark brown fedora when he arrived in the mid-2000s. (TV: Out of Time [+]Loading...["Out of Time (TV story)"])

Alice Guppy and Emily Holroyd wore brown leather gloves in the mid-2000s. (TV: Fragments [+]Loading...["Fragments (TV story)"])  

Wilfred Mott wore a dark brown jumper with a v-neck collar during the Planetary Relocation Incident in 2009. (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"], Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"])

Ruby Sunday wore brown boots when confronting Roger ap Gwilliam in 2046. (TV: 73 Yards [+]Loading...["73 Yards (TV story)"])

Jo Grant wore dark brown trousers in 2472 when on Uxarieus and on Spiridon in 2540. (TV: Colony in Space [+]Loading...["Colony in Space (TV story)"], Planet of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Planet of the Daleks (TV story)"])

Jo Grant was wearing an asymmetrical, brown and red tartan jacket during the Spiridon Incident in 2540. (TV: Planet of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Planet of the Daleks (TV story)"])

Bernice Summerfield's travelling clothes in 2594 included a tough brown shirt, industrial-strength jeans, a leather jacket, laced-up boots, a white hat and a banged up leather satchel. (PROSE: Walking to Babylon [+]Loading...["Walking to Babylon (novel)"])

Jenny Flint wore dark brown leather gloves and brown boots during the Battle of Demons Run in the 52nd century (TV: A Good Man Goes to War [+]Loading...["A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)"])

Last Great Time War[[edit] | [edit source]]

Ace wore a brown leather safari jacket during her encounter with Mark VII Daleks on the Obscura during the Last Great Time War. (AUDIO: Soldier Obscura [+]Loading...["Soldier Obscura (audio story)"])

The War Master wore a dark brown and black tartan Inverness cape during his encounter with Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, and James Moriarty in the Land of Fiction. (AUDIO: The Adventure of the Deceased Doctor [+]Loading...["The Adventure of the Deceased Doctor (audio story)"])

The War Master wore a single-breasted, brown, tweed blazer when joining forces with Bernice Summerfield and Captain John Hart. (AUDIO: The War Master [+]Loading...["The War Master (audio story)"])

The Valeyard wore copies of the Eighth Doctor's brown boots and light brown leather gaiters. (AUDIO: The War Valeyard [+]Loading...["The War Valeyard (audio story)"])

Undated[[edit] | [edit source]]

Damon and Talor wore brown robes on Gallifrey. (PROSE: Arc of Infinity [+]Loading...["Arc of Infinity (novelisation)"])

Wrack, an Eternal on the Buccaneer, wore brown breeches. (TV: Enlightenment [+]Loading...["Enlightenment (TV story)"])

The Doctor's clothing[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Third Doctor wore a brown paisley cravat during the Master's Daemonic Deception in the 1970s. (TV: The Dæmons [+]Loading...["The Dæmons (TV story)"])

The Fourth Doctor was wearing a brown trenchcoat when Harry Sullivan caused the TARDIS to arrive on Nerva in 16087, and continued to wear it when they transmatted to Earth's surface where they found Field Major Styre, whereupon Harry Sullivan defeated the Sontaran's ship's system and the Doctor caused the Sontaran's invasion to be cancelled. (TV: The Ark in Space [+]Loading...["The Ark in Space (TV story)"], The Sontaran Experiment [+]Loading...["The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)"])

 
Fourth Doctor wearing his coat, in a Scottish wood. (TV: Terror of the Zygons [+]Loading...["Terror of the Zygons (TV story)"])

The Fourth Doctor wore a double-breasted, brown velvet, frock coat during his encounter with Zygons during their gambit with a Skarasen in the 1970s. (TV: Terror of the Zygons [+]Loading...["Terror of the Zygons (TV story)"])

He continued to wear this coat following departing Earth, when he was on Zeta Minor confronting the Anti-matter creature in 37166. (TV: Planet of Evil [+]Loading...["Planet of Evil (TV story)"]) He was wearing it when the TARDIS fell into the Mandragora Helix and subsequently travelled to San Martino in 1492. (TV: The Masque of Mandragora [+]Loading...["The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)"]) When the TARDIS was diverted to Earth in 1911 by Sutekh's influence he was wearing this same coat. (TV: Pyramids of Mars [+]Loading...["Pyramids of Mars (TV story)"]) He left this coat in his TARDIS as a distraction following being summoned to Gallifrey. (TV: The Hand of Fear [+]Loading...["The Hand of Fear (TV story)"], The Deadly Assassin [+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"])

The Fourth Doctor was wearing a dark brown velvet frock coat when he met Leela on Mordee in the far future. (TV: The Face of Evil [+]Loading...["The Face of Evil (TV story)"]

When his TARDIS was dragged into a Relative Continuum Displacement Zone by Dr Fendelman's time scanner and they travelled to Earth, the Doctor was wearing this same coat. (TV: Image of the Fendahl [+]Loading...["Image of the Fendahl (TV story)"]) When the TARDIS arrived on Pluto in Megropolis One, and when they he and Leela arrived on the R1C and faced the Oracle he was also wearing this coat. (TV: The Sun Makers [+]Loading...["The Sun Makers (TV story)"], Underworld [+]Loading...["Underworld (TV story)"])

Then when he was contacted by the Vardans about invading Gallifrey, he was wearing this coat, and even after being made Lord President of Gallifrey continued to wear the Sash of Rassilon under this coat, and through the Sontaran Special Space Service's invasion of Gallifrey. (TV: The Invasion of Time [+]Loading...["The Invasion of Time (TV story)"])

Whilst constructing a new K9 and when he was summoned by the White Guardian to seek out the Key to Time he was wearing this coat, and was wearing it when introduced to Romana I. (TV: The Ribos Operation [+]Loading...["The Ribos Operation (TV story)"]) He continued to wear it through following the tracer to Zanak in 1978, their confrontation with Cessair of Diplos, and their confrontation with Grendel of Gracht on Tara. (TV: The Pirate Planet [+]Loading...["The Pirate Planet (TV story)"], The Stones of Blood [+]Loading...["The Stones of Blood (TV story)"], The Androids of Tara [+]Loading...["The Androids of Tara (TV story)"])

Just before their arrival at Gabriel Chase in 1883 the Seventh Doctor had been wearing his dark brown jacket, busy jumper, loud check trousers and paisley scarf for a month. (PROSE: Ghost Light [+]Loading...["Ghost Light (novelisation)"], TV: Ghost Light [+]Loading...["Ghost Light (TV story)"]) He had been wearing this jacket when he had received a signal in his TARDIS, bringing him to Carbury in 1997, assisting UNIT and Ancelyn to stop Morgaine and the Destroyer. (TV: Battlefield [+]Loading...["Battlefield (TV story)"]) When he faced Fenric in 1943 he was wearing this jacket, (TV: The Curse of Fenric [+]Loading...["The Curse of Fenric (TV story)"]) when he foiled the Tremas Master's Survival Stratagem, (TV: Survival [+]Loading...["Survival (TV story)"]) and when he destroyed six war fleets of the Kla-Shi-Kel, and when assiting Group Captain Gilmore with Markarians (COMIC: The Armageddon Gambit [+]Loading...["The Armageddon Gambit (comic story)"], Operation Volcano [+]Loading...["Operation Volcano (comic story)"])

The Seventh Doctor also wore a dark brown jacket when assisting his other incarnations during an interaction with a Type 1 TARDIS, (COMIC: The Lost Dimension [+]Loading...["The Lost Dimension (comic story)"]) when River Song and his sixth incarnation to defeat Golden Futures and Sperovores in London in 1703, (AUDIO: The Eye of the Storm [+]Loading...["The Eye of the Storm (audio story)"]) when foiling the First Rani's plan to trap him and his past incarnations as well as his past companions, (TV: Dimensions in Time [+]Loading...["Dimensions in Time (TV story)"]) and when resisting Death to save the Decayed Master inside John Smith, (AUDIO: Master [+]Loading...["Master (audio story)"])

Before arriving in Mesopotamia in 2700 BC the Seventh Doctor was wearing, according to Ace's observations, scruffy shoes, baggy trousers, a floppy coat of some unsavoury brown hue, a badly knotted paisley tie and a sweater adorned with question marks. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)"])

Aiming for the Festival of Britain in 1951 but arriving an alternate universe the Seventh Doctor was wearing shabby brown checked trousers, a brown sports jacket with a garish fair-isle pullover beneath, and a jaunty straw hat. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)"])

Arriving on Hogsumm in 2680, the Seventh Doctor was wearing checked trousers, a well cut dark brown jacket that struggled to conceal a garish yellow sweater peppered with red question marks. (PROSE: The Highest Science [+]Loading...["The Highest Science (novel)"])

Arriving on Belial in the 2150s, the Seventh Doctor was wearing a brown corduroy jacket, gaudy pullover, tartan trousers and Panama hat. (PROSE: Lucifer Rising [+]Loading...["Lucifer Rising (novel)"])

When the Seventh Doctor was on Antikon he was wearing a light brown jacket and red waistcoat along with a battered hat. (AUDIO: The Death Collectors [+]Loading...["The Death Collectors (audio story)"])

When he was reunited with Ace in the Memory TARDIS he was wearing a brown jacket. (TV: The Curse of Fenric [+]Loading...["The Curse of Fenric (TotT TV story)"])

The Eighth Doctor wore brown boots and light brown leather gaiters (COMIC: The Pictures of Josephine Day [+]Loading...["The Pictures of Josephine Day (comic story)"], A Matter of Life and Death [+]Loading...["A Matter of Life and Death (comic story)"], The Lost Dimension [+]Loading...["The Lost Dimension (comic story)"]) right up to his regeneration on Karn during the Last Great Time War. (TV: The Night of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Night of the Doctor (TV story)"])

The Eighth Doctor wore and carried with him a brown satchel over his shoulder. (AUDIO: Fugitives [+]Loading...["Fugitives (audio story)"], The Eleven [+]Loading...["The Eleven (audio story)"])

The War Doctor wore the Eighth Doctor's boots for a time. (TV: The Night of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Night of the Doctor (TV story)"], AUDIO: Light the Flame [+]Loading...["Light the Flame (audio story)"], WC: Doctors Assemble! [+]Loading...["Doctors Assemble! (webcast)"])

 
The War Doctor had brown hair when he was younger. (COMIC: The Clockwise War [+]Loading...["The Clockwise War (comic story)"])

He had a brown jacket. (PROSE: Engines of War [+]Loading...["Engines of War (novel)"])

He wore a brown and white ikat scarf during the Last Great Time War. (AUDIO: Lion Hearts [+]Loading...["Lion Hearts (audio story)"], Consequences [+]Loading...["Consequences (TWDB audio story)"], Rewind [+]Loading...["Rewind (audio story)"], The Hybrid's Choice [+]Loading...["The Hybrid's Choice (audio story)"])

He also wore a double-breasted brown leather trenchcoat with peaked lapels when working with Alice Obiefune and the Child Master. (COMIC: First Rule [+]Loading...["First Rule (comic story)"], The Organ Grinder [+]Loading...["The Organ Grinder (comic story)"], Kill God [+]Loading...["Kill God (comic story)"], etc.)

The War Doctor wore light brown leather gaiters and a brown, double-breasted trenchcoat when he, Fey and the Sisterhood of Karn fought Mark VIII Daleks and the Morlontoa of the Seventh Sky on the Dorian Nexus. (COMIC: The Clockwise War [+]Loading...["The Clockwise War (comic story)"])

He was also wearing a brown leather trenchcoat with peaked lapels when he and Petrella escaped a Mark VIII Dalek ambush led by a Type E Supreme Dalek. (COMIC: Ambush [+]Loading...["Ambush (comic story)"])

The War Doctor wore a double-breasted trenchcoat of dark brown leather during much of the Last Great Time War, including when he and Rejoice dealt with Mark VIII Daleks including a Prime and Taalyens on Keska. (AUDIO: The Innocent [+]Loading...["The Innocent (audio story)"]) During his campaign on Neverwhen, when stopping Lara Zannis, working with General Fesk of the Eighth Sontaran Battle Fleet in his campaign to use the Dalek Time Strategist and Ollistra's war incarnation as hostages, and when working with the Voord. (AUDIO: The Neverwhen [+]Loading...["The Neverwhen (audio story)"], The Shadow Vortex [+]Loading...["The Shadow Vortex (audio story)"], The Eternity Cage [+]Loading...["The Eternity Cage (audio story)"], COMIC: Four Doctors [+]Loading...["Four Doctors (comic story)"]) He continued to wear this coat during Heleyna's betrayal, and his encounter with Schandel and a Dalek Taskforce Commander and the Assault on Ruta III (AUDIO: Eye of Harmony [+]Loading...["Eye of Harmony (audio story)"], Pretty Lies [+]Loading...["Pretty Lies (audio story)"], In Name Only [+]Loading...["In Name Only (audio story)"])

He was wearing this coat when he was reunited with Leela, (AUDIO: The Lady of Obsidian [+]Loading...["The Lady of Obsidian (audio story)"]) and continued to wear it during Battle for the Tantalus Eye, (PROSE: Engines of War [+]Loading...["Engines of War (novel)"]) through to his regeneration after the 1562/2013 Zygon Invasion of Earth and the Fall of Gallifrey. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])

One of the two main suits the Tenth Doctor wore was dark brown with blue pinstripes. (TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"]) He also wore a brown tie with bold swirly woven design in blue paired with his brown coat. He wore it until and through his regeneration. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace [+]Loading...["The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)"], The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])

He wore a dark brown tie with a subtle flower woven pattern after the 2006 Sycorax Invasion of Earth. (TV: The Christmas Invasion [+]Loading...["The Christmas Invasion (TV story)"])

He was wearing a brown and blue tie with a woven geometric pattern during his reunion with the Face of Boe and Cassandra on New Earth, (TV: New Earth [+]Loading...["New Earth (TV story)"]) during his first encounter with Cybus Cybermen, (TV: Rise of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)"]) while dealing with Graske, (GAME: Attack of the Graske [+]Loading...["Attack of the Graske (video game)"]) during his farewell to Rose Tyler after the Battle of Canary Wharf, (TV: Doomsday [+]Loading...["Doomsday (TV story)"]) during his first encounter with Donna Noble and his showdown with an Empress of the Racnoss, (TV: The Runaway Bride [+]Loading...["The Runaway Bride (TV story)"]) and when he and Donna were in 1926 assisting Agatha Christie with foiling a rogue human-Vespiform hybrid known as Reverend Arnold Golightly. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp [+]Loading...["The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)"]) He finally also wore it during and after foiling President Rassilon's End of Time gambit. (TV: The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])

He wore a dark brown birds-eye weave tie with brown circles in a diagonal grid when he re-met Sarah Jane Smith in 2007. (TV: School Reunion [+]Loading...["School Reunion (TV story)"])

He was wearing a brown tie with a stylised blue and brown peacock-eye motif in a honeycomb grid when he helped Elton Pope and encountered the Abzorbaloff, (TV: Love & Monsters [+]Loading...["Love & Monsters (TV story)"]) and during the Battle of Canary Wharf at Torchwood One. (TV: Army of Ghosts [+]Loading...["Army of Ghosts (TV story)"], Doomsday [+]Loading...["Doomsday (TV story)"]) During much of his travels with Martha Jones after the Royal Hope incident, he was wearing this tie. (TV: Smith and Jones [+]Loading...["Smith and Jones (TV story)"], etc.) He wore his this tie when he and Donna were in Pompeii in 79, (TV: The Fires of Pompeii [+]Loading...["The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)"]) when he and Donna Noble encountered a Time Beetle from the Trickster's Brigade, (TV: Turn Left [+]Loading...["Turn Left (TV story)"]) during the Planetary Relocation Incident involving Davros and the New Dalek Empire as well as his siphoned regeneration which spawned the Meta-Crisis Doctor, (TV: The Stolen Earth [+]Loading...["The Stolen Earth (TV story)"], Journey's End [+]Loading...["Journey's End (TV story)"]) and when he met Christina de Souza and space stingrays. (TV: Planet of the Dead [+]Loading...["Planet of the Dead (TV story)"])

He wore a light brown tie with a repeating s-shaped woven motif when he encountered the Wire. (TV: The Idiot's Lantern [+]Loading...["The Idiot's Lantern (TV story)"])

He wore a brown tie with semi-random floral design of 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 [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])

During his retirement to the Victorian era, the Eleventh Doctor wore brown leather ankle boots. (TV: The Great Detective [+]Loading...["The Great Detective (TV story)"], The Snowmen [+]Loading...["The Snowmen (TV story)"]) He also wore them during his travels with Valarie Lockwood. (AUDIO: The Inheritance [+]Loading...["The Inheritance (audio story)"], etc.) Eventually, he took to wearing them during the Siege of Trenzalore. (TV: The Time of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Time of the Doctor (TV story)"])

The Thirteenth Doctor wore a brown apron when she made her sonic screwdriver in Sheffield in 2018. (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth [+]Loading...["The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)"])

The Fifteenth Doctor wore a brown tweed overcoat and trousers with black overchecks and notched lapels whilst out and about in 2023. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) He was also wearing it when he assisted the residents' escape from Finetime. (TV: Dot and Bubble [+]Loading...["Dot and Bubble (TV story)"])

The Fifteenth Doctor was wearing a deep red and dark brown tartan kilt when he and Ruby arrived in 19th century Copenhagen. (COMIC: The Hans of Fear [+]Loading...["The Hans of Fear (comic story)"])

The Warrior, a parallel version of the Doctor's fifth incarnation who looked similar to the Sixth Doctor, wore a double-breasted, dark brown, leather trenchcoat similar to that of the War Doctor. (AUDIO: Aftershocks [+]Loading...["Aftershocks (audio story)"])

The Dream Lord wore a dark brown fedora when he taunted the Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, and Rory Williams during the beginning of the Eknodine assault. (TV: Amy's Choice [+]Loading...["Amy's Choice (TV story)"])

John Smith, a clone of the Tenth Doctor who became the husband of Rose Tyler and father of Mia, wore a brown shirt. (COMIC: Empire of the Wolf [+]Loading...["Empire of the Wolf (comic story)"])

The Curator, a future incarnation of the Doctor who resembled an older Fourth Doctor, wore brown trousers during his meeting with the Eleventh Doctor after the Fall of Gallifrey in 2013. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) The Curator also wore dark brown pinstripe trousers, with the stripes done in tan, (AUDIO: Crossed Lines [+]Loading...["Crossed Lines (audio story)"]) or cyan. (AUDIO: The Artist at the End of Time [+]Loading...["The Artist at the End of Time (audio story)"])

Cultutral[[edit] | [edit source]]

In Through the Eye of Eternity, the Brown Eye of Eternity only appeared once, in the 1996 episode "Miss Hiroshima". (PROSE: The Book of the War [+]Loading...["The Book of the War (novel)"])

Luke Smith wondered why the Mona Lisa was so special, describing it as "just brown". (TV: Mona Lisa's Revenge [+]Loading...["Mona Lisa's Revenge (TV story)"])

Foods and beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

Sugar could be brown. (PROSE: The Astronomer's Apprentice [+]Loading...["The Astronomer's Apprentice (short story)"])

Foods[[edit] | [edit source]]

Gumblejack, according to the Sixth Doctor, were some of the finest fish in the galaxy once cleaned, skinned and quickly pan fried in their own juices till golden brown. (TV: The Two Doctors [+]Loading...["The Two Doctors (TV story)"])

A Cadbury's Flake was a brown, flaky food stuff. (PROSE: Iris and Irregularity [+]Loading...["Iris and Irregularity (short story)"])

On board the fake colony ships in the 1970s brown bread and water was served to Sarah Jane Smith to "cleanse [her] body of toxic things". (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion (novelisation)"])

Apple flesh browned once cut or eaten. (PROSE: Hope [+]Loading...["Hope (novel)"])

According to Griffin in 2018, if chicken was cooked and browned too soon it would become tough. (TV: The Enemy of the World [+]Loading...["The Enemy of the World (TV story)"])

Beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

Turlough described tea as a "brown liquid", which he quite enjoyed. (TV: The Awakening [+]Loading...["The Awakening (TV story)"])

Ale was brown. (PROSE: The Ghost's Story [+]Loading...["The Ghost's Story (short story)"])

 
Tea in a tea cup. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])

Coffee was brown. (PROSE: Deceit [+]Loading...["Deceit (novel)"])

Caffy in the city of Hope was a brown liquid. (PROSE: Hope [+]Loading...["Hope (novel)"])

CaraMelocha Cha-Cha Chiller was a brown coffee-based drink available in the early-21st century in Indiana. (PROSE: The Schoolboy's Story [+]Loading...["The Schoolboy's Story (short story)"])

Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Surrey's countryside appeared green and brown in the 1970s. (PROSE: The Paradise of Death [+]Loading...["The Paradise of Death (novelisation)"])

At night Dartmoor had a purple-brown landscape. (PROSE: Project Valhalla [+]Loading...["Project Valhalla (novel)"])

The moon's surface was grey-brown. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)"])

Mensvat Esc-Dalek was located in the ash-brown foothills of the mountains on Skaro. (PROSE: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)"])

The sky at night on Dust was a dirty greyish brown. (PROSE: Interference - Book Two [+]Loading...["Interference - Book Two (novel)"])

Paper[[edit] | [edit source]]

Brown paper was used for packaging and wrapping up items in the 19th century and 20th century. (AUDIO: Year of the Pig [+]Loading...["Year of the Pig (audio story)"], PROSE: Nuclear Time [+]Loading...["Nuclear Time (novel)"])

Brown paper and vinegar was used as a treatment for many ills in the 19th century. (AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was [+]Loading...["The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)"])

Manilla envelopes were brown. (PROSE: The Faceless Ones [+]Loading...["The Faceless Ones (novelisation)"])

Science[[edit] | [edit source]]

When the metal virus was thrown by the Fourth Doctor over K1's foot a rusty brown stain began to form all over the robot's foot before spreading and crumbling away into a rusty brown dust. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Giant Robot [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Giant Robot (novelisation)"])

On Metebelis III, the Third Doctor discovered some brown crystals that looked like brown quartz which could deaden the blue crystals' effects. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders (novelisation)"])

A "brown-out" was a dip in the power provided to an electricity grid. (PROSE: Still Lives [+]Loading...["Still Lives (short story)"])

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

Tactires, the parasitic insectoids of Callufrax Minor, had brown eyes. (COMIC: The Forgotten [+]Loading...["The Forgotten (comic story)"])

Several species had brown fur, including, Tetraps of Tetrapyriarbus. (PROSE: Time and the Rani [+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (novelisation)"])

The bear-like Ursines also had brown fur. (PROSE: Mean Streets [+]Loading...["Mean Streets (novel)"])

Rats on Earth had brown fur. (PROSE: Attack of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Attack of the Cybermen (novelisation)"])

Pigeons were grey and brown. (PROSE: Warlock [+]Loading...["Warlock (novel)"])

Vehicles[[edit] | [edit source]]

Wolseley 1500s came in brown. (PROSE: The Taint [+]Loading...["The Taint (novel)"])

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