DOCTOR WHO 10th Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver

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In a comic The Catherine Tate Show sketch, Catherine Tate's teenage character Lauren Cooper accuses her English teacher (played by David Tennant) of being "the Doctor". After much provocation, the teacher uses the sonic screwdriver to transform Lauren into a Rose Tyler action figure.

At least two versions of these screwdrivers were kept in the Twelfth Doctor's office at St Luke's University. ( TV: The Pilot) The sonic sunglasses appears to have the same basic functions as the traditional sonic screwdriver, such as scanning objects, while having features not seen before: Comparing 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) 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) Now that this new sonic screwdriver has been revealed, there’s a specific question that’s popped up in my head: how much will we see of it? Yes, the Fourteenth Doctor will almost certainly have it for the entirety of the 60th anniversary specials, but will that be all we see of it, or Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor keep using it? Remember, in Peter Capaldi’s first season as the Twelfth Doctor, he continued using the sonic screwdriver that Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor had, and it wasn’t until the end of the following season that he finally obtained one of his own from the TARDIS, as he’d been relying on sonic sunglasses for a while. This is quite an intricate piece of craftsmanship to only be shown off in for only three episodes, so my money’s on it staying in the Fifteenth Doctor’s hands, at least for his first season.Best of all, though, was its ability to make free money pour out of cash machines! This model served the Tenth Doctor too, but when it was severely damaged soon after his regeneration, it was time for a major change!

Vastra had a sonic screwdriver that was a gift from the Doctor. She used it to shatter the glass of the Crystal Palace. It had a red tip, and was similar in design to that used by the Doctor's eleventh incarnation. ( COMIC: The Crystal Throne) 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. Ahead of the 50th anniversary special, a mini-episode entitled " The Night of the Doctor" (2013) was produced in which the Eighth Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver twice. The Doctor uses his telescopic screwdriver previously seen in the TV movie, rather than his updated steampunk version which had been used in numerous Big Finish audio dramas. From time to time, the sonic screwdriver needed to be recharged. ( PROSE: The Monsters Inside, COMIC: Bizarre Zero) It was self-repairing and could send out a homing signal to any parts that had been separated. ( TV: A Christmas Carol) One account held that a sonic screwdriver was powered by a type of crystal that was similar to the Metebelis crystals. ( COMIC: The Forgotten)

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For the 50th anniversary special, " The Day of the Doctor" (2013), another version was seen in the hands of John Hurt's War Doctor. The design was similar to the one used by Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor. This time the halo and bullet tip had been removed, replaced by a red light as well as a large red dial added to the base. Character Options released a version of this sonic screwdriver on 23 November 2013 at London's ExCel labelling it "The Other Doctor's Sonic". [9] It was established as a plot point in that episode that the sonic screwdrivers employed by various Doctor incarnations all use the same software, something the War Doctor exploited by running a calculation over a course of several centuries with the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors seeing the calculation completed through their models. It is also directly implied after the fact that the sonic screwdriver has actually been a part of every doctor's retinue, despite its disappearance for doctors six & seven; the Tenth Doctor says to the Gallifreyan high command, as all thirteen doctors are about to change history by saving the planet, that the calculations for doing what's about to be done have been "running all my lives." In addition, when combined, the screwdrivers of the War, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctor could create a sonic force field blast to repel and destroy a Dalek. The Eighth Doctor once commented that he felt undressed without his sonic screwdriver. ( AUDIO: The Sontaran Ordeal) The Doctor has used other sonic devices similar to the sonic screwdriver, including the "door handle" of Inferno ( Liz Shaw having one of her own) and a pen-sized white noise generator in Four to Doomsday.

Chang Lee discovers the sonic screwdriver among the things he stole from the Seventh Doctor. ( TV: Doctor Who) Protecting two versions of Rory Williams from falling victim to the Blinovitch Limitation Effect ( PROSE: Touched by an Angel) 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) The Wand Company released a universal remote control styled on the Eleventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver on 3 August 2012. [18] [19] Due to consumer demand, a Tenth Doctor version was released on 31 October 2013. [20] [21] An updated, extending version of the Eleventh Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver, named the Twelfth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver Universal Remote Control, was released on 8 July 2015, to replace the older version, which is no longer produced. [22]

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When a Thijarian remnant sample overloaded the sonic, for having too many inputs, the Doctor noted that this had never happened before. This was because of the immeasurably high density of this substance, containing the remains of Thijar and all their ancestors. ( TV: Demons of the Punjab) On another occasion, the sonic could calculate such an impossible density, but that "density [blew its] mind". ( TV: The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos) To the Doctor's extreme surprise, her sonic could be rendered inoperative by reconnaissance scout Daleks. ( TV: Resolution) If its way is cleared, the Doctor can summon the sonic screwdriver to her hand. ( TV: Can You Hear Me?) The Tenth Doctor used the sonic screwdriver to strip off pieces of Dalekanium from the Empire State Building, ( TV: Evolution of the Daleks) tint his glasses to turn them into sunglasses, ( TV: Planet of the Dead) and once used it as a soldering iron for perception filters. ( TV: The Sound of Drums) It could also be used to fix hairstyles in place, ( PROSE: Rose and the Snow Window) prevent Mirrorlings from emerging ( COMIC: Mirror Image) and illuminate people. ( COMIC: Warfreekz!)