The sonic screwdriver also affected alive beings: the Third Doctor used it to cure Henry VIII of his cataracts, ( PROSE: Hiccup in Time) distract giant maggots, ( TV: The Green Death) break a hypnotic trance ( TV: Death to the Daleks) and overload the brains of Space Greyhounds. ( COMIC: The Forgotten) 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 Wand Company and BBC Worldwide Unveil The Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver Universal Remote Control". 11 July 2012. Archived from the original on 20 April 2013 . Retrieved 12 July 2012. The toy version of the new series design (made by Character Options Ltd.) was slightly larger than the on screen version to accommodate a working sound chip. It also includes an ultraviolet light and changeable invisible ink nib for viewing messages written in the ultraviolet ink. The Twelfth Doctor had the final version of this model, and decided he was over sonic screwdrivers altogether! the twelfth doctor dons his sonic specs in the zygon invasion.

Overloading a light bulb, creating a blinding light, to act as a distraction to escape the Angels. ( TV: The Angels Take Manhattan) 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 – Artisan Master Series". QMx. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016 . Retrieved 12 May 2016. The Virgin Missing Adventures novel Venusian Lullaby established that the First Doctor had a sonic screwdriver.

Malankar, Nikhil (28 March 2017). "Sonic Screwdriver: 50 Uses of This Device From Doctor Who". Tell Me Nothing. Archived from the original on 9 August 2017 . Retrieved 9 August 2017. The Twelfth Doctor loses his sonic screwdriver to the creator of the Daleks, Davros, after lending it to him when he was a child. In the last episode of Series 9, the Doctor received a new sonic screwdriver from the TARDIS in place of the temporary sonic sunglasses.One wheelchair-bound Doctor postdating their fifteenth incarnation used a sonic screwdriver. ( PROSE: Rose [+] Russell T Davies, adapted from Rose ( Russell T Davies), Target novelisations ( Target Books, 2018). Edition: 2023 Illustrated Edition.) The Sonic Screwdriver URC’s light-up blue tip is made from a blue, self-coloured, injection moulded acrylic. The prop emitter dome was made in clear acrylic painted blue on the inside. Although the colour is a close match to the prop, during its time on screen, the prop’s paint degraded and by the end of filming, had a very patchy appearance. Emitter head This screwdriver would later be temporarily inherited by the Fourteenth Doctor, who would make use of it at the Dalek Dome, until its destruction at the hands of the Supreme Dalek. ( COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks)

The Sonic Screwdriver comes in a moulded-foam lined protective instrument case, which also houses the charging cable, manual and die cast metal display stand. a b c d "Series 8 Sonic Devices for Paternoster Gang Revealed". doctorwhotv.co.uk. 19 December 2013 . Retrieved 21 December 2013. Jamming motion-sensitive sensors long enough for the Doctor and his companions to get to safety. ( AUDIO: Scaredy Cat)In contrast with Nathan-Turner's attitude that the sonic screwdriver should not be used as a cure-all, the new production team gave it even more functionality than previous versions. Some of the uses in the new series include: repairing electronic equipment; re-attaching materials such as barbed wire; detecting, intercepting and sending signals; remotely operating the TARDIS; burning, cutting, or igniting substances; fusing metal; scanning and identifying substances; amplifying or augmenting sound; modifying mobile phones to enable "universal roaming"; disabling alien disguises; resonating concrete; reversing teleportation of another entity. It is sometimes used to disassemble robotic enemies or turn other objects into weapons; healing cuts and wounds. In " The Parting of the Ways" (2005) and " Utopia" (2007), it is used to operate the TARDIS controls remotely; when the Doctor attempts to counteract the Master's theft of the TARDIS, it is used to limit the TARDIS' destination. In " Doomsday" (2006), the Doctor states that the sonic screwdriver does not kill, wound or maim; however, it is sometimes brandished in a threatening manner, such as in " The Christmas Invasion" (2005), " The Impossible Planet" (2006), " The Runaway Bride" (2006), " The Lazarus Experiment" (2007), " The Day of the Doctor" (2013), and The Infinite Quest (2007). In " World War Three" (2005), when confronted by a group of Slitheen, the Doctor threatens to "triplicate the flammability" of a bottle of port wine with the sonic screwdriver, though one of the Slitheen realises he is bluffing. In " Closing Time" (2011), ringed energy beams are seen emitted from the device, giving it a more weapon-like appearance, particularly when used to disable a weakened Cyberman at a distance. The sonic screwdriver could interact with multiple forms of technology and control them. ( TV: Rose, et al.) It was able to activate, disable or destroy electronic devices, including lifts, ( TV: Rose, World War Three) computers, ( TV: The End of the World, etc.) cameras, ( TV: Bad Wolf, The Sound of Drums) cash machines, ( TV: The Long Game, The Runaway Bride) mobile phones ( TV: The Runaway Bride, etc.) and holograms. ( TV: Forest of the Dead) It could also perform these functions on multiple devices within a local area at once. ( TV: The Eleventh Hour) For the Time Lord Victorious event, concept art was made of the Tenth Doctor screwdriver, modified with parts bearing Gallifreyan text. It would then feature in The Edge of Time videogame's Time Lord Victorious DLC as an item to receive to complete the DLC's level, and implicitly appear in the novel All Flesh Is Grass when the Tenth Doctor hastily repairs his sonic screwdriver with bits of his Time Lord regalia. A version of this screwdriver was kept in the Twelfth Doctor's office at St Luke's University. ( TV: The Pilot) Activating lights projectors. ( TV: Oxygen, World Enough and Time) Likewise, it could also turn them off. ( TV: Extremis)

When the Eleventh Doctor met the Tenth Doctor in England, 1562, upon the latter realising that the former was a future incarnation of himself, they both got out their sonic screwdrivers. The Eleventh Doctor immediately showed off how much bigger his was, to which the Tenth Doctor claimed that his future incarnation was compensating, remarking that " regeneration, it's a lottery." ( TV: The Day of the Doctor) see list Memorable moment Another memorable moment One more memorable moment Behind the scenes video About the Doctor The TARDIS • Sonic screwdriver Name • Aliases • Age • SpeciesComparing it to a Swiss Army knife, but without the knife, the Doctor explained that it functioned not only as a screwdriver, but as a scanner and a tin opener, and it could be used for diagnostics. ( TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth) Each model used the same software. Essentially, the sonic screwdriver in use by the War Doctor was the same as that in the Eleventh Doctor's possession, some 400 years later. ( TV: The Day of the Doctor) The Magician's Apprentice" (2015) shows that the sonic screwdriver can create "an acoustic corridor" so that the Twelfth Doctor can communicate with a boy trapped in an extraterrestrial mine field. However, when the Doctor discovers that the boy is actually a young Davros, he abandons the boy, leaving the screwdriver behind, though it is revealed that he did save young Davros after all. Davros is shown to have kept the screwdriver in his possession ever since, and the Doctor tells Clara that he no longer has a screwdriver. By that time, the screwdriver had been withered and damaged by time and was seemingly useless. Used to help with rewiring the TARDIS; he told Lilly it was because the light in his "wardrobe" wasn't working, claiming it was the reason he dressed as he did. ( TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe) In the series 6 episode " Let's Kill Hitler", the Doctor has a sonic cane which appears to have the same functions as the sonic screwdriver.