Dr Who River Song's Future Sonic Screwdriver Toy

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While trapped on Apalapucia for thirty-six years, Amy Pond cobbled together a sonic device from various pieces of technology, but insisted upon calling it a sonic probe. She later conceded that it was a "sonic screwdriver". ( TV: The Girl Who Waited)

River Song and Willdar arrived on a mysterious planetoid to find the 'Dacha', but they also found various portraits of the Third , Ninth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctors, along with two TARDISes. They soon discovered that the planet was also inhabited by Silurians, and that it was danger from an "exploding asteroid". The Silurians asked River for help, using Willdar as a bargaining chip, but she refused, claiming not to be the "saves everyone" type. Forced to run, River stated that "she hate[d] it when it [was] easy". ( COMIC: The Lost Dimension) When Clara and the Doctor arrived at a gravestone bearing River's name in Trenzalore, Clara again saw the echo of River, which guided her. She also explained to Clara about her death and what the Doctor did for her, and later saved the Doctor's friends by giving in to the Great Intelligence's demands and opening the Doctor's tomb by saying his name. River was put on trial for the Doctor's alleged murder and pleaded not guilty, saying that she had killed him to save the universe. However, she was found guilty ( AUDIO: Whodunnit?) and sentenced to twelve thousand consecutive life sentences in the Stormcage Containment Facility in the 52nd century. ( TV: Flesh and Stone, The Pandorica Opens) She served the sentence to make the Silence believe him dead, but often escaped to spend time with her husband before returning to her cell. They started on her very first night in the prison, when he paid a visit to bring her to Calderon Beta and explained to her the purpose of their diaries. ( HOMEVID: First Night, Last Night) River became well-known for her countless escapes; it was believed that no prison could hold her for long. ( AUDIO: The Bekdel Test) Reassembling the TARDIS after it has used its Hostile Action Dispersal System to avoid destruction by the Daleks ("The Witch's Familiar"). The unlicensed fan fiction novel Time's Champion speculates that the Sixth Doctor has re-built the sonic screwdriver. [ citation needed] He used a similar device in The Nightmare Fair, a script which was never produced for television but has been adapted twice.In the video game Daleks (published for operating systems of the early 1980s), the Doctor can use the sonic screwdriver to teleport and to defend himself against the Daleks. She and the Doctor had a fight causing the Doctor to spend a month sulking with sea otters. ( TV: The Caretaker) River indicated that she stole the TARDIS many times and returned it before the Doctor ever noticed, usually using her own key, or in at least one occasion, the hidden spare TARDIS key, to "borrow" the timeship. ( TV: The Husbands of River Song; AUDIO: Whodunnit?) Upon learning that a Hanovari woman was attempting to kidnap Princess Myrahla of Ozkozania, River infiltrated the Galactic Heritage rendezvous by posing as a delegate from Gallifrey: Romana. His deception attracted the attention of the interested party, who sent Leela to investigate. River involved the savage in her attempt to rescue the princess. The two succeeded, but discovered the Hanovari was also trying to save the princess, who was to be sacrificed to keep the peace on Ozkozania.The three of them then travelled to the planet and discovered that the princess was actually a girl of the people who had been kidnapped and forced to participate in saving the life of her twin sister. Their actions led to the downfall of the Royal Magnificat's regime and a new civil war, but River and Leela were able to take the twins away into the future of the planet, guaranteeing them a happy life. ( AUDIO: Emancipation)

River was known as " the child of the TARDIS" and the time machine had taken a particular liking to her and taught her how to fly her. River was a very fast learner, becoming skilled at flying the TARDIS in a remarkably short time and she was able to control the time machine even more proficiently than the Doctor, despite the fact that the Doctor had been flying the TARDIS for centuries. ( TV: The Big Bang, The Impossible Astronaut, Let's Kill Hitler) She indicated at one point she was so good at it, she stole and returned the TARDIS multiple times before the Doctor even noticed it was gone. ( TV: The Husbands of River Song) In her third incarnation, River described herself as glamorous with exceptional hair, ( AUDIO: Someone I Once Knew) hair that Brooke and Strax both described as being "big". Though Strax mistook it for a "gigantic head". ( TV: The Name of the Doctor, AUDIO: My Dinner with Andrew) The Sixth Doctor said that she had a noble brow, clear gaze and a face "beaming with a vast intelligence" and the Seventh Doctor called her attractive. ( AUDIO: The Eye of the Storm) River herself stated shortly after her regeneration that she believed her new body was suited to wearing jodhpurs. ( TV: Let's Kill Hitler) Trying to hide from the Discordia, and not wanting to involve the Doctor, River Song ask a dying Franz Kafka to create a story. She borrowed the Tardis and use it and a dream weaver to be kept in Kafka’s dream. Melody Malone finds herself in a castle, with an assortment of strange companions, all detectives to solve a mistery. But guests are being murdered, one by one, until one of then, inspector Dantey, reveal being a Discordia General hunting River Song, trying to kill her in the dream. At the last moment, the dream is stopped by the Fourth Dodtor that came to retrieve his Tardis and rescue River. ( AUDIO: Whodunnit?) Erasing alien encoding inside people's brains by having them don the glasses for a few minutes ("Before the Flood"). Arriving on the “planet of the rain gods”, the Doctor and River were set to be sacrificed by the natives until the Doctor successfully petitioned to the rain gods themselves for rain. ( HOMEVID: Rain Gods)The Doctor, throughout many of their lives, possessed a sonic screwdriver. They originally used a basic model in their first ( PROSE: Venusian Lullaby) and second incarnations, ( TV: Fury from the Deep) before upgrading in their third. ( TV: The Sea Devils) However, according to one account, the First Doctor was unfamiliar with the sonic screwdriver when he met the Twelfth Doctor. ( TV: Twice Upon a Time) Similarly the accounts depicting the Doctor's life as the Timeless Child prior to their first incarnation showed at least one of them as being unfamiliar with the sonic screwdriver and dismissive of it. ( TV: Fugitive of the Judoon) The Doctor continued to use the model introduced during his third incarnation until it was destroyed in their fifth by a Terileptil leader. ( TV: The Visitation) It wasn't until they were in their seventh incarnation before they began to use a screwdriver again, taking on various different models throughout the years. ( TV: Doctor Who, Rose, The Eleventh Hour, Hell Bent, The Woman Who Fell to Earth) River met Anne Travers, who offered her assistance. During this time Anne saw her vortex manipulator. ( PROSE: Pure History) Sonic screwdriver • Sonic wrench • Sonic prodder • Sonic lance • Sonic suitcase • Sonic stake • Sonic toothbrush • Sonic earmuffs • Sonic cane • Sonic spoon • Sonic sunglasses In " Smith and Jones", Martha Jones sarcastically asks if he's got a "laser spanner" as well as a sonic screwdriver, which he apparently did until it was stolen by Emmeline Pankhurst, described by the Doctor as a "cheeky woman". In the production notes of DWM 441, Steven Moffat said that River and the Doctor's picnic at Asgard was with the Tenth Doctor. Jenny Colgan changed this to the Eleventh Doctor for her short story Picnic at Asgard with Moffat's permission.