In " Smith and Jones", Martha Jones sarcastically asks if he's got a "laser spanner" as well as a sonic screwdriver, which he apparently did until it was stolen by Emmeline Pankhurst, described by the Doctor as a "cheeky woman". The Second Doctor's slim penlight prop from The War Games has been identified as a EverReady model no. 1980 (1968-70 version). [2] Removing DNA bombs from Graham, Grace, Ryan and Yaz's collarbones and installing them into a Stenza gathering coil. ( TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth) 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) Doctor Who 12th Doctor Sonic Screwdriver Remote To Debut at Comic-Con". Gotham News. Archived from the original on 31 October 2016 . Retrieved 31 October 2016.

In the 1965 episode Trap of Steel, the Doctor uses an apparently ordinary screwdriver to examine the metal of the Drahvin spaceship and other tasks. The sonic screwdriver could also stun various lifeforms, ( TV: Day of the Moon, GAME: The Gunpowder Plot) please a Krafayis, ( TV: Vincent and the Doctor) and overload a star whale's haemo-receptors, causing it to regurgitate. ( TV: The Beast Below) It could also remove dream crabs from victims by electrifying its nerve centres. ( TV: Last Christmas) After analysing the Flesh, the sonic screwdriver was able to determine the difference between humans and gangers and dissolve the latter. ( TV The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People) Using a recently added anti-freeze setting, the Eleventh Doctor was able to melt the Ice Governess, though this did not work later when she reformed. ( TV: The Snowmen) The screwdriver was destroyed by Skaar, leading the Doctor to decide to build a new and more advanced version. ( AUDIO: Wrath of the Ice Warriors) Nonetheless, it was also used by the Eighth Doctor after being destroyed "centuries ago", with the Doctor claiming to his companion Sam Jones that this was possible because "It's a Time Lord tool. Time doesn't work the same way for Time Lord tools." ( PROSE: Alien Bodies)Using energy waves from android weapons to recharge a teleport bracelet. ( TV: The Witch's Familiar)

According to one account, the Doctor got her sonic screwdriver from the planet Argos. ( TV: Untitled [+] The Lily Savage Show ( 1997).) The Seventh Doctor uses the device in The Harvest and Dreamtime. His companions Ace and Hex use the device in the Doctorless audio drama, The Veiled Leopard. In Enemy of the Bane, Mrs Wormwood ( Samantha Bond) possesses a sonic device disguised as a ring called the "Phonic disruptor".Since the War Doctor's sonic screwdriver prop was created by modifying a toy replica, the toy version that was subsequently produced is screen accurate. 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!)

Doctor Who: Eleventh Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver Universal Remote Control". BBC . Retrieved 18 August 2013. 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. Vibrating Molluscari from their shells by duplicating the precise frequency necessary. ( AUDIO: Orbis) We are overwhelmed by the response to the release of its new, exclusive Sonic Screwdriver that went on sale yesterday. The Eighth Doctor once commented that he felt undressed without his sonic screwdriver. ( AUDIO: The Sontaran Ordeal)Having it ready for the 60th anniversary specials, I think is a genuine first in our history with the Doctor Who Brand and once again it’s with huge thanks to all involved that we’ve been able to achieve this.” Creating and controlling a sophisticated hologram of the Doctor through a WiFi system (" Before the Flood").