Doctor Who - Third Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver with Sound FX

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As there was no TARDIS around to fire out a replacement, she had to take matters into her own hands. This model served the Tenth Doctor too, but when it was severely damaged soon after his regeneration, it was time for a major change! It is plastic but it still is brilliant, just hoping that more classic sonic screwdrivers are on the way.

TV: The Sea Devils, Robot, Destiny of the Daleks) He often used it to either detect or interfere with circuitry and technology overall. This version of the screwdriver also appears, although never officially announced, to have a flashlight setting, as the Doctor is seen to have it emitting a continuous glow while not uttering the classic sonic noise. In " Doomsday" (2006), the Doctor states that the sonic screwdriver does not kill, wound or maim; however, it is sometimes brandished in a threatening manner, such as in " The Christmas Invasion" (2005), " The Impossible Planet" (2006), " The Runaway Bride" (2006), " The Lazarus Experiment" (2007), " The Day of the Doctor" (2013), and The Infinite Quest (2007). Russell T Davies once mentioned that he would never make the sonic screwdriver the solution to an episode.The novel Dreams of Empire by Justin Richards, set after The Ice Warriors and before Fury from the Deep, features the Second Doctor using the device to break through a concrete wall. The upper half is a rectangular light grid that, when switched on, has four different functions: green light with low-pitched sound, blue light with high-pitched sound, green lights that pulse with a pulsing sound, and a blue light chasing pattern with a pulsing sound. In the final story of season 15, The Invasion of Time, the Fourth Doctor conceded, "Not even the sonic screwdriver can get me out of this one.

Throughout the programme, there have been many different versions of the sonic screwdriver, as with subsequent Doctors the design of it was changed. In "Smith and Jones", the sonic screwdriver burns out after the Doctor uses it to amplify the radiation output of a hospital X-ray machine. The Third Doctor's sonic screwdriver is a modified prop from the Gerry Anderson film Thunderbirds Are Go, where it appeared as a screwdriver of the non-sonic variety.

He also gives one to River Song in " The Husbands of River Song" which is then used by the Tenth Doctor to save her life in " Forest of the Dead". 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.

Over the course of the next two years, the props were continually repaired and modified, with some additions being a new thumb slider design and different colours of wires used in the clear channel when extended. It also is capable of causing chemical reactions that allow the Doctor to turn eyeglass lenses black like sunglasses and causing cut barbed wire to regenerate (setting 2428B). I may even paint over it to make it unique for ME as the Doctor (ever played dress-up to a convention of sorts? The Twelfth Doctor had the final version of this model, and decided he was over sonic screwdrivers altogether! Later, in " The Witch's Familiar", he unveils that the sunglasses are actually a wearable version of the screwdriver, claiming that he is "over" screwdrivers: "They spoil the line of your jacket.For a while, it looked like he really meant it – he even got into the wearable tech trend by creating a pair of sonic sunglasses with similar functions as a replacement. The Doctor's Time Lady companion Romana constructed a sonic screwdriver of her own similar to the Doctor's. Despite them trying to keep it quiet from the Doctor, he was well aware of the project by his seventh incarnation. Davros is shown to have kept the screwdriver in his possession ever since, and the Doctor tells Clara that he no longer has a screwdriver. 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.

Eric Saward later explained in a 2005 DVD interview [5] that this was done on the instructions of producer John Nathan-Turner. In " Closing Time" (2011), ringed energy beams are seen emitted from the device, giving it a more weapon-like appearance, particularly when used to disable a weakened Cyberman at a distance. The Doctor first uses it in "The Husbands of River Song" (although he also employs the sonic sunglasses earlier in the episode). The Eleventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver is larger than its predecessor; it has a green light and metal claws that extend with a flick of the wrist.The Virgin Missing Adventures novel Venusian Lullaby established that the First Doctor had a sonic screwdriver. There is technology the sonic is unable to interface with, such as wood, or the isomorphic controls seen in "A Christmas Carol".