Editing Sonic screwdriver (section)

== Other appearances ==
=== Licensed media ===
==== BBC Books ====
*The [[Past Doctor Adventures]] novel ''The Murder Game'', set after ''The Power of the Daleks'', has the Second Doctor escaping from a locked room with a box-shaped sonic device, in which he muses on the advantages of building a smaller model. 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. Stories with the device used by the Second Doctor before the screwdriver's first on-screen appearance are plausible as the Doctor in that story indicates that the machine "never fails", implying its successful use before that adventure.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}}
*The [[BBC Short Trips|''More Short Trips'']] short story "Special Weapons", set late in season 24, indicates that the Seventh Doctor has a sonic screwdriver.
*The [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel, ''[[Father Time (Doctor Who)|Father Time]]'', features an amnesiac Doctor attempting to recreate the sonic screwdriver with 1980s technology, eventually producing a bulky device nicknamed the "sonic suitcase".
*In the [[New Series Adventures (Doctor Who)|Ninth Doctor Adventures]] novel ''[[The Clockwise Man]]'' the sonic screwdriver is used to cauterise wounds, as a soldering iron, and to stop a clockwork mechanism. In ''[[The Monsters Inside (Doctor Who)|The Monsters Inside]]'' it is used to provide light, but runs out of power in the process. In ''[[Winner Takes All (Doctor Who)|Winner Takes All]]'' the Doctor fails to open a lock with it and concludes that it "hints at alien involvement". It is used to examine electronic [[standing stone]]s in ''[[The Deviant Strain]]''. In ''[[Only Human (Doctor Who)|Only Human]]'' it is used to restrain someone by welding wires to a chair; in the same novel the Doctor informs Quelly that the device contains 29 computers.
*In the Tenth Doctor Adventures novel ''[[The Stone Rose]]'', the sonic screwdriver is used to sedate animals. In ''[[The Nightmare of Black Island]]'' it is used to provide light. In ''[[The Last Dodo]]'' it is used to distract animals, and to liquefy and re-solidify tarmac. In ''[[Peacemaker (Doctor Who)|Peacemaker]]'', it is used to stop bullets and to dismantle guns.

====Big Finish audio dramas====
*In the [[Big Finish Productions|Big Finish]] [[List of Doctor Who audio plays by Big Finish|audio drama]] ''[[Pier Pressure (Doctor Who audio)|Pier Pressure]]'', [[Evelyn Smythe]] mentions that although the Sixth Doctor did not possess a sonic screwdriver, he fondly remembered it as his "door key". The Sixth Doctor uses his fingernails as a stand-in for the screwdriver as an escape method in ''[[The Nowhere Place]]''.
*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 ''[[Sword of Orion]],'' the Eighth Doctor reveals that his sonic screwdriver has a [[flashlight|torch]] built into the handle. In ''[[The Dying Days]]'' he uses the device to reflect the sonic cannon of an [[Ice Warrior]] back at his attacker. In ''[[Blood of the Daleks]]'' he uses it to trace a transmission beam.

====''Doctor Who'' comics====
*In an untitled story by [[Gary Russell]] featured in the first issue of [[IDW Publishing]]'s ''Doctor Who'' comic book (published February 2008), the Tenth Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to destroy a sword and later sacrifices it in order to defeat a [[Sycorax]] hunter. Later, he indicates that he needs time to "grow" a new sonic screwdriver.

====Virgin Adventures====
*The Seventh Doctor regained his sonic screwdriver in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] novels, with its first reappearance in ''[[The Pit (Penswick novel)|The Pit]]''.
*The [[Virgin Missing Adventures]] novel ''[[Venusian Lullaby]]'' established that the [[First Doctor]] had a sonic screwdriver.

===Red Nose Day===
*In the [[Red Nose Day]] special, ''[[Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'', the final regeneration of the Doctor, played by [[Joanna Lumley]], enthusiastically remarks that the sonic screwdriver "has ''three'' settings" when it starts vibrating.
*In a comic ''[[The Catherine Tate Show]]'' sketch, [[Catherine Tate]]'s teenage character [[Lauren Cooper]] accuses her English teacher (played by [[David Tennant]]) of being "the Doctor". After much provocation, the teacher uses the sonic screwdriver to transform Lauren into a [[Rose Tyler]] action figure.

===Unlicensed media===
*The unlicensed [[fan fiction]] novel ''[[Time's Champion]]'' speculates that the Sixth Doctor has re-built the sonic screwdriver.{{Citation needed|date=July 2010}} He used a similar device in ''[[The Nightmare Fair]]'', a script which was never produced for television but has been adapted twice.
*In the video game ''[[Robots (1984 video game)#Other versions|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.

===Public appearances===
*[[Matt Smith (actor)|Matt Smith]] used the Eleventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver to turn on the Christmas Lights in [[Cardiff]] in November 2010. Its appearance was cheered by the crowd. During the Doctor Who panel at San Diego Comic-Con in 2018, Jodie Whittaker produced the new sonic screwdriver, prompting applause from the audience.