Activating lights projectors. ( TV: Oxygen, World Enough and Time) Likewise, it could also turn them off. ( TV: Extremis) Seemingly adding an extra layer of super-dense water vapour to keep the Ice Governess "trapped for the moment" ( TV: The Snowmen) On occasion, the Doctor used it to either detect, disarm or detonate explosive weapons. ( TV: The Sea Devils, PROSE: Cold Fusion, etc.) He often used it to interact with or disable various forms of circuitry and technology. ( TV: The Mutants, Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks, etc.) The sonic screwdriver could also be used to repair devices ( TV: The Ark in Space, The Sontaran Stratagem, etc.) and perform maintenance on the TARDIS's control console. ( TV: The Hand of Fear) Reversing the Shakri's programming of the cubes to jump-start the hearts of the humans they previously stopped. ( TV: The Power of Three) However, he did not keep this promise, as he used this sonic screwdriver several times afterwards. ( COMIC: Clara Oswald and the School of Death, The Fourth Wall)

Edition of the Fourteenth Doctor’s new sonic device and is available for sale and immediate delivery now.The Eleventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver toy has a total of four sound effects, two of which alternate with every other button press. The third is activated by pressing twice and holding on the third button push. The fourth is activated with three presses and a hold on the fourth push. However, in some models of the toy, over-use of the hidden sound effects causes the sound functions to eventually break, leaving only the LED functional. A rod version of this screwdriver was kept in the Twelfth Doctor's office at St Luke's University. ( TV: The Pilot) This section possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ( January 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) In the 1965 episode Trap of Steel, the Doctor uses an apparently ordinary screwdriver to examine the metal of the Drahvin spaceship and other tasks.

The Fourteenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver is available now | Doctor Who". www.doctorwho.tv . Retrieved 7 August 2023. Creating and controlling a sophisticated hologram of the Doctor through a WiFi system (" Before the Flood"). Creating a force field wave with two (or possibly more) other sonics to physically repel a Dalek (it may have to be the same sonic device at different points in its own time stream)

The sonic screwdriver could create sparks or flames to light candles ( TV: The Girl in the Fireplace) or ignite flammable gasses. ( TV: Evolution of the Daleks, COMIC: The Hunt of Doom) It could also cut through rope, ( TV: The Age of Steel, The Runaway Bride, The Fires of Pompeii) corrode and reconnect thin metal objects, such as barbed wire, ( TV: The Doctor Dances) and shatter glass and ice. ( TV: Army of Ghosts, COMIC: Arctic Eclipse) It could also be used as a conventional screwdriver without touching screws. ( TV: The Doctor's Daughter, Dreamland) Doctor Who Electronic Sonic Screwdriver Collection – Third Doctor". Character Options . Retrieved 12 May 2016. [ permanent dead link] It featured regularly in season 16 during the Key to Time saga. The Doctor's Time Lady companion Romana constructed a sonic screwdriver of her own similar to the Doctor's. It is depicted as being smaller and sleeker than the Doctor's, and he was sufficiently impressed with her design that he attempted to swap screwdrivers with her in The Horns of Nimon (1979–80). By season 18, both script editor Christopher H Bidmead and producer John Nathan-Turner were eager to downplay the device as much as possible. Doctor Who The Day of the Doctor War Doctor Sonic Screwdriver". entertainmentearth.com . Retrieved 28 November 2013. The sonic screwdriver would, in rare occasions, be used as an offensive weapon, firing energy blasts. The Eleventh Doctor used it in this manner to help River Song defeat a group of Silents, defeating at least two of them. ( TV: Day of the Moon) The Twelfth Doctor used the same model of screwdriver to blast a Hyperion, buying himself and others time to escape from it. ( COMIC: The Hyperion Empire) It could also destroy ice creatures when it received the latest update. ( TV: The Snowmen)

This section may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. ( November 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Doctor Who: Eleventh Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver Universal Remote Control". BBC . Retrieved 18 August 2013. In a universe where the Doctor was exiled to Earth in the 1990s rather than the 1970s, the Doctor didn't carry a sonic screwdriver, but he recognized a device similar to it. ( AUDIO: The Emporium at the End)A toy of the Eleventh Doctor's version was seen in "Light Echoes", an edition of "The Sky at Night" broadcast on BBC4 on Wednesday 5th October 2010. The screwdriver was (jokingly) used to scan a part of the LOFAR radio telescope, then under construction in Chilbolton, Hampshire, UK. The Seventh Doctor uses the device in The Harvest and Dreamtime. His companions Ace and Hex use the device in the Doctorless audio drama, The Veiled Leopard. The War Doctor's sonic screwdriver prop was created by modifying a Fourth Doctor's sonic screwdriver replica toy. It could destroy non-living objects or mechanisms or place living creatures in circumstances where they might die if the situation required. ( TV: The Christmas Invasion) The War Doctor claimed that it was a scientific instrument rather than a water pistol, ( TV: The Day of the Doctor) or indeed a magic wand. ( PROSE: The Day of the Doctor) In " Hell Bent", the TARDIS gives the Doctor a brand new sonic screwdriver. The new screwdriver has a TARDIS-blue shaft with gold and silver highlights. The upper half is a rectangular light grid that, when switched on, has four different functions: green light with low-pitched sound, blue light with high-pitched sound, green lights that pulse with a pulsing sound, and a blue light chasing pattern with a pulsing sound. The new sonic screwdriver is meant to represent the TARDIS. The Doctor first uses it in "The Husbands of River Song" (although he also employs the sonic sunglasses earlier in the episode). The new screwdriver has seen use in the spin-off show Class, where the Doctor increases the voltage of flood lights to expel the Shadow Kin and partially close a rift in space-time. He is shown to have working copies of every version of the Sonic Screwdriver ever seen before in a cup on his desk in "The Pilot." Nardole uses the Fifth Doctor's version when sealing bulkhead doors to keep out Daleks later in the episode.