In the Big Finish audio drama Pier Pressure, Evelyn Smythe mentions that although the Sixth Doctor didn't possess a sonic screwdriver, he fondly remembered it as his "door key". The Sixth Doctor uses his fingernails as a stand-in for the screwdriver as an escape method in The Nowhere Place.

The Fourteenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver is available now | Doctor Who". www.doctorwho.tv . Retrieved 7 August 2023. After the loss of the previous sonic screwdriver, the TARDIS gifted the Eleventh Doctor with a new model. Differing radically from the last, with its extendable "claws" and green crystalline emitter resembling the inner structure of the TARDIS's new time rotor, it also had copper plating similar to the new control room. ( TV: The Eleventh Hour) A psychic interface allowed its user to point it at a target and think of the function they wanted. ( TV: Let's Kill Hitler, Death in Heaven) Having been mentioned to be more than sonic, ( TV: Night Terrors) this screwdriver also shot beams of green energy in the shape of sonic waves. ( TV: Day of the Moon, Closing Time, The Time of the Doctor) By at least the time of the Doctor's thirteenth regeneration, it had a voice-activation feature, which the Doctor forgot about when he needed it. ( TV: Deep Breath) It had a charge that could last centuries; it once lasted 300 years before the Doctor could charge it in the TARDIS. ( TV: The Time of the Doctor)

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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) A replacement sonic used by the Tenth Doctor after overloading the former model. ( TV: Human Nature)

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)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) 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) 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)

The sonic screwdriver was capable of amplifying various forms of energy beams. ( TV: The Beast Below) It could also be used to amplify signals ( TV: The Time of Angels, PROSE: Let it Snow) and other sonic devices. ( TV: The Girl Who Waited) The sonic screwdriver was mainly used to amplify soundwaves and was occasionally used as a microphone. ( TV: A Christmas Carol, The God Complex) It could also create loud noises to draw attention or distract opponents. ( TV: The God Complex, A Town Called Mercy) The Twelfth Doctor also used it to create a field of localised gravity ( TV: In the Forest of the Night) and an acoustic corridor with a 50 foot range. ( TV: The Magician's Apprentice)In the Doctor Who TV Movie (1996) and " The Night of the Doctor" (2013), the Seventh (TVM), Eighth (both), & the War Doctor ("The Night of the Doctor") were seen to have a new sonic screwdriver with a telescopic mechanism: similar to its predecessors but with subtle differences such as a gold/brass band on the handle, a flat base and a red emitter tip. History [ edit ] 1968–1982 and 1996 [ edit ] The first sonic screwdriver from Season 6, Episode 3 of The War Games (1969) Allowing the Doctor to hear people talking, even if they are several yards away and surrounded by loud noises ("The Magician's Apprentice").