The Twelfth Doctor loses his sonic screwdriver to the creator of the Daleks, Davros, after lending it to him when he was a child. A redesigned sonic screwdriver appears in the new series, with a blue light in addition to the sound effect. The Doctor Who Site also participates in various other affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commission on products purchased through our links. A metal version of the sonic screwdriver produced by Wow Stuff mounts a functional set of changeable flat and Phillips heads under a removable cover as well as providing light and sound effects. Matt Smith used the Eleventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver to turn on the Christmas Lights in Cardiff in November 2010.

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This section may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. What attracted me to it, aside from my love of all things Doctor Who, was the heavily obvious steampunk influence. Narvin had a sonic screwdriver made, based on the Doctor's design, after seeing its utility when carried by the Doctor. Reassembling the TARDIS after it has used its Hostile Action Dispersal System to avoid destruction by the Daleks ("The Witch's Familiar"). It was used thereafter by the Second Doctor as a multi-purpose tool, with occasional variations in appearance over the course of the series.

When Kazran Sardick was confused as to what to do when it looked like Abigail Pettigrew was about to kiss him, the Eleventh Doctor told Kazran to trust him and kiss Abigail, as "it's this, or go to your room and design a new kind of screwdriver. Despite this, QMx still have released no information on their own in-house replica of this particular prop, as well as any of the other replicas they are producing. This replica has become highly sought-after among fans, as to date it is the only official replica released. In " Greeks Bearing Gifts" a replica of the Doctor's sonic screwdriver can be seen on Toshiko Sato's desk.

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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. More importantly, each mid-section had to incorporate a switch of some sort, most of these were undertaken using a small threaded screw, washers and a spring, all attached to a top cover of similar, but slightly varying design, in keeping with the individual sonic.While it was different individual model, for all intents and purposes the War Doctor's sonic was the same as the Eleventh Doctor's some 400 years later. 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.