Mauve was a light shade of purple.[source needed]
The mauve alert was a common distress signal. Humans used red alerts instead, which led to some confusion. (TV: The Empty Child [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 1 (BBC One, 2005).)
Rose Tyler wore an asymmetrical, patchwork blouse with mauve among its colours. (TV: New Earth [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 2 (BBC One, 2006).. AUDIO: Infamy of the Zaross, The Sword of the Chevalier)
Martha Jones wore a dress of dark mauve chiffon when she met Lazarus. (TV: The Lazarus Experiment [+]Stephen Greenhorn, Doctor Who series 3 (BBC One, 2007).) She also wore a lighter mauve tank top when Aaron Copley tried to inject a Mayfly into her. (TV: Reset)
The Tenth Doctor wore a burgundy herringbone tie with mauve floral pictures when he met Martha Jones during the Royal Hope Incident, (TV: Smith and Jones) during the 2009 Sontaran Invasion of Earth. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem|The Poison Sky) and when helping the Bannerman Road Gang defy the Trickster. (TV: The Wedding Of Sarah Jane Smith)
Sarah Jane Smith wore mauve trousers when she and the Fourth Doctor met Morbius, Solon, Condo, and the Sisterhood of Karn. (TV: The Brain of Morbius)
Donna Noble wore a mauve cardigan when she and the Tenth Doctor met River Song and some Vashta Nerada. (TV: Silence in the Library [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 4 (BBC One, 2008)./Forest of the Dead [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 4 (BBC One, 2008).)
Tegan wore a mauve skirt with her suit. (TV: Logopolis [+]Christopher H. Bidmead, Doctor Who season 18 (BBC1, 1981).-Time Flight)
The Eighth Doctor wore mauve trousers when he first met Stacy Townsend during an encounter with Cybermen on the Dreadnought. (COMIC: Dreadnought)
The Fifteenth Doctor wore a striped cardigan in rust orange, tangerine, sapphire blue, and mauve. (PROSE: "Heroes of Time" [+]Part of Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse, Simon Guerrier, Una McCormack and Jonathan Morris, BBC Books (2023).; TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2023 (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)
Jo Grant wore a mauve sweater with burgundy stripes when she and the Third Doctor went to Uxarieus in 2472. (TV: Colony in Space)
The xXltttxtolxtol pods that were sent through the Cardiff Space-Time Rift were marked with mauve, implying they were toxic. In truth, the xXltttxtolxtol just didn't want Torchwood Three to open them. (PROSE: Risk Assessment)
When Charley Pollard described Chief Steward Weeks' nose as being "redder than Mr Lenin's pyjamas", the Eighth Doctor disputed they were red; he claimed that they were a "sort of mauve" when the Doctor took a train with Lenin from Switzerland to Petrograd. (AUDIO: Storm Warning)
In an alternate timeline in which the First Doctor spent three months on Urbinia, his friend, Professor Feedlam discovered a new "little bit green and a little bit black" colour which the Doctor saw as "a sort of mauve". (AUDIO: Daughter of the Gods)