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 sonic screwdriver is unable to open a "deadlock seal", used as a plot device to prevent an easy solution. TV: Frontier in Space) However, the Doctor had a spare aboard the TARDIS, which he made use of in the Dalek base on Spiridon. Exceptions include Robot (which was the last story to be produced by Barry Letts), where it was again used to detonate mines, and as a "miniature sonic lance" [note 1] to cut out a lock. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive.

The name implies that it operates through the use of sound waves to exert physical forces on objects remotely. OK, so that did end up stranding the Doctor, Yaz, Ryan and Graham in the middle of deep space, but there’s no doubt that the sonic screwdriver will help them to fix everything again. In the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Alien Bodies, the Time Lord Homunculette has a sonic monkey wrench.It is shown to hack, disable, activate, and otherwise control technology from almost everything, allowing it to remotely control almost any machinery, mechanisms, and computers it is applied to, allowing it to open locks, detonate explosives, remotely activate electronics, override most systems, activate computers, and cause some energy weapons to burst into flames or sparks. The playable characters form this premium pack represented almost every model of sonic screwdriver encountered in the DWU. The Doctor was devastated by the loss of his trusty tool – “I feel like you’ve just killed an old friend,” he said.

Underground Toys have released the War Doctor's sonic screwdriver; titled "The Other Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver", it was released in the UK in November/December 2013 [23] [ better source needed] and in the US January 2014.Also in that episode, the sonic screwdriver gets split into two pieces, one of which ends up inside a flying shark. It was destroyed by a Dalek in part seven of the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip "Liberation of the Daleks" while in the Fourteenth Doctor's possession. Mostly, though, he used it to open doors – he definitely wasn’t the kind of Doctor who liked being told where he could and couldn’t go! This iteration of the sonic screwdriver glows throughout its body with an orange light when activated. A model of sonic screwdriver, going through multiple modifications, was used by the Third, Fourth and Fifth Doctors.