The Second Doctor's slim penlight prop from The War Games has been identified as a EverReady model no. 1980 (1968-70 version). [2] Scanning objects to understand their components and properties. ( TV: Kerblam!, The Witchfinders, The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos)

The Eighth Doctor had resumed using this model by the end of his life during the Last Great Time War. It was the second and final model the Doctor used thus far that bore an emitter-ring head. ( TV: The Night of the Doctor) The Eighth Doctor's other choice of a diode-tipped model would become the standard for his later incarnations. ( TV: The Day of the Doctor, Rose, The Christmas Invasion, The Eleventh Hour, Deep Breath) In a possible future stemming from the Eighth Doctor, ( PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows) the "listless-looking" Ninth Doctor carried a sonic screwdriver with "three settings", which the Thirteenth Doctor continued to use. ( TV: The Curse of Fatal Death) In a another reality, ( PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows) the "pale aristocrat" Ninth Doctor also used a sonic screwdriver. ( TV: Scream of the Shalka)At one point during his travels with Bill Potts, the Twelfth Doctor had a version of this sonic design in the colour scheme of his second sonic screwdriver. ( COMIC: Tulpa) Signalling and summoning the TARDIS. ( TV: The Ghost Monument, COMIC: A New Beginning, TV: The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos) 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) 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.

The Third Doctor's sonic screwdriver is a modified prop from the Thunderbirds film Thunderbirds Are Go, where it appeared as a screwdriver of the non-sonic variety. When Century 21 Productions was closed, the prop, among others, was sold off to the BBC. [4]

Where can I buy a Tenth Doctor’s Sonic Screwdriver universal remote?

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

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.Scanning the melted Ice Governess to make sure she was gone and draining through the carpet. ( TV: The Snowmen) The sonic screwdriver could transmit signals, ( TV: Evolution of the Daleks) tune into, create and control broadcast channels, ( TV: The Poison Sky, The Eleventh Hour) and re-establish connections, even over different time-frames. ( TV: The Girl in the Fireplace) It could also grant mobile phones the ability to call across time and space. ( TV: The End of the World, 42, etc.) Throughout the programme, there have been many different versions of the sonic screwdriver, as with subsequent Doctors the design of it was changed. It has also been destroyed on a number of occasions, thus leading to the introduction of the next model. Not all iterations of the Doctor have used the sonic screwdriver on screen; the Fifth Doctor in fact opted not to replace his after it was destroyed in " The Visitation".

Multiple versions of this model were kept in the Twelfth Doctor's office at St Luke's University. His companion Nardole made use of one in a war zone where the Daleks and Movellans skirmished. ( TV: The Pilot) In "Silence in the Library", Professor River Song possesses a slightly bulkier sonic screwdriver, which she claims the Doctor gave to her in his future. The Doctor mentioned that he does not give his screwdriver to anyone. In the following episode, Professor Song mentions that her screwdriver is augmented with a "red setting" and "dampers". It also contains a hidden neural relay linked to River Song, saving her at the episode's conclusion—the purpose for which the future Doctor gave Professor Song the device. A toy version is available. It was revealed in " The Husbands of River Song" that it was the Twelfth Doctor who gave it to River.

Increasing the voltage of the lights at Coal Hill Academy to break the solid form of Corakinus and the Shadow Kin ( TV: For Tonight We Might Die) Reversing and erasing the command programmes of the Vardy microbots, causing them to forget their original directives. ( TV: Smile) 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.) 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. Overloading/imploding a Cybermat; unfortunately wiping its memory in the process. ( TV: Closing Time)