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

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The Third Doctor's era introduced adversaries including the Autons, the Master, Omega, the Sontarans, the Silurians and the Sea Devils. The Daleks returned after a five-year absence about halfway through Pertwee's run. The Third Doctor was the only one from the classic series not to have a story featuring the Cybermen (although they were seen briefly in The Mind of Evil [8] and Carnival of Monsters), [9] but he did eventually encounter them during The Five Doctors. 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.) Overloading a light bulb, creating a blinding light, to act as a distraction to escape the Angels. ( TV: The Angels Take Manhattan) The War Doctor also used a modified version of this sonic during the Time War, but had swapped the emitter head for a more simple light-up one. the war doctor TARDIS connections

Doctor Who – River Song's Sonic Screwdriver – Artisan Master Series". QMx. Archived from the original on 21 April 2016 . Retrieved 12 May 2016.In the series 6 episode " Let's Kill Hitler", the Doctor has a sonic cane which appears to have the same functions as the sonic screwdriver. 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 sonic screwdriver could interact with multiple forms of technology and control them. ( TV: Rose, et al.) It was able to activate, disable or destroy electronic devices, including lifts, ( TV: Rose, World War Three) computers, ( TV: The End of the World, etc.) cameras, ( TV: Bad Wolf, The Sound of Drums) cash machines, ( TV: The Long Game, The Runaway Bride) mobile phones ( TV: The Runaway Bride, etc.) and holograms. ( TV: Forest of the Dead) It could also perform these functions on multiple devices within a local area at once. ( TV: The Eleventh Hour) The Doctor has used other sonic devices similar to the sonic screwdriver, including the "door handle" of Inferno ( Liz Shaw having one of her own) and a pen-sized white noise generator in Four to Doomsday. Retaining ineffectiveness against wood, it also didn't work against Peg Dolls ( TV: Night Terrors) or the Wooden King and Queen. ( TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe) The Doctor considered it embarrassing and said that "I need to invent a setting for wood." ( TV: Night Terrors) In similar situations, he yelled at it in panic; "Aliens made of wood, you know this was always going to happen!", "Yes, I know it's wood. Get over it!" ( TV: The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe) Though aware of this flaw, he was still able to successfully bluff a Wooden Cyberman into destroying itself. ( TV: The Time of the Doctor) He also once defended this weakness, saying "Oi! Don't diss the sonic!" ( TV: The Hungry Earth) At some point it had an anti-freeze setting. ( TV: The Snowmen) This screwdriver was also shown to have a "red setting", ( TV: Cold War) similar to River's sonic screwdriver. As per Thread:133842, there is a sonic in the Doctor's possession by the time of his travels with Benny in the NAs. Info needs to be added from these sources, as well as numerous Big Finish audio dramas.

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During his imprisonment by INC on Ha'olam, the Eighth Doctor's sonic screwdriver was confiscated. After his escape, he briefly used a replacement screwdriver resembling a slender metal rod with a crystal at its tip. ( PROSE: Seeing I) The War Doctor's sonic screwdriver prop was created by modifying a Fourth Doctor's sonic screwdriver replica toy. The toy version of the new series design (made by Character Options Ltd.) was slightly larger than the on screen version to accommodate a working sound chip. It also includes an ultraviolet light and changeable invisible ink nib for viewing messages written in the ultraviolet ink. To send a signal through to Amy's communicator to help guide her through a forest. ( TV: Flesh and Stone)

The sonic screwdriver was introduced in 1968 in the story Fury from the Deep, and used twice more ( The Dominators and The War Games) during the Second Doctor's tenure. It became a popular tool for the Third Doctor and Fourth Doctor. It was written out of the series in 1982 due to the limitations it caused when writing for the show. It then featured briefly in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie, before making a full return in the 2005 continuation of the series. Seemingly adding an extra layer of super-dense water vapour to keep the Ice Governess "trapped for the moment" ( TV: The Snowmen)Using the appropriate sonic frequency, the Fourth Doctor used it to return himself, Ernestina Stott and later, his scarf, to normal size. ( AUDIO: The Dead Shoes)

In FX Mode a long button press makes the Sonic buzz and lights the tip for as long as the button is pressed. Pressing the button and doing gestures does not send any IR codes. 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. In Practice, Control or Quiet Control Mode, a triple press where you hold the last press for 3 seconds makes the Sonic go into Programming Mode (note a single short press exits Programming Mode)The Magician's Apprentice" (2015) shows that the sonic screwdriver can create "an acoustic corridor" so that the Twelfth Doctor can communicate with a boy trapped in an extraterrestrial mine field. However, when the Doctor discovers that the boy is actually a young Davros, he abandons the boy, leaving the screwdriver behind, though it is revealed that he did save young Davros after all. 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. By that time, the screwdriver had been withered and damaged by time and was seemingly useless. Quadrigger Stoyn possessed a sonic screwdriver in his workcase aboard the Doctor's TARDIS, which he had been working on shortly before the First Doctor stole the ship. ( AUDIO: The Beginning) On occasion, the Doctor used it to either disarm explosive weapons ( PROSE: Cold Fusion) or to detonate them. ( TV: The Sea Devils, Robot, Destiny of the Daleks) He often used it to either detect or interfere with circuitry and technology overall. ( TV: Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks, The Sontaran Experiment, The Ark in Space, The Sontaran Experiment, The Sontaran Experiment, etc.) This section possibly contains original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ( January 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) The Wand Company released a universal remote control styled on the Eleventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver on 3 August 2012. [18] [19] Due to consumer demand, a Tenth Doctor version was released on 31 October 2013. [20] [21] An updated, extending version of the Eleventh Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver, named the Twelfth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver Universal Remote Control, was released on 8 July 2015, to replace the older version, which is no longer produced. [22]