The following is a list of appearances of the Doctor's sonic screwdriver.

Television Edit

Doctor Who Edit

Season 5 Edit

• Fury from the Deep (introduction; introduction of Mark I)

Season 6 Edit

• The Dominators
• The War Games

Season 7 Edit

• Inferno (possible introduction of Mark II)

Season 8 Edit

• Colony in Space (definite introduction of Mark II)

Season 9 Edit

• The Sea Devils
• The Mutants

Season 10 Edit

• The Three Doctors
• Carnival of Monsters
• Frontier in Space (Mark III introduced)
• Planet of the Daleks
• The Green Death

Season 11 Edit

• Death to the Daleks
• The Monster of Peladon
• Planet of the Spiders

Season 12 Edit

• Robot
• The Ark in Space
• The Sontaran Experiment
• Genesis of the Daleks
• Revenge of the Cybermen

Season 13 Edit

• Terror of the Zygons
• Planet of Evil
• Pyramids of Mars
• The Android Invasion

Season 14 Edit

• The Hand of Fear
• The Face of Evil
• The Robots of Death

Season 15 Edit

• Image of the Fendahl
• The Sun Makers
• Underworld
• The Invasion of Time

Season 16 Edit

• The Ribos Operation
• The Pirate Planet
• The Stones of Blood
• The Armageddon Factor

Season 17 Edit

• Destiny of the Daleks
• City of Death
• Nightmare of Eden
• The Horns of Nimon

Season 18 Edit

• The Leisure Hive
• Full Circle
• The Keeper of Traken

Season 19 Edit

• Castrovalva
• Kinda
• Four to Doomsday
• The Visitation (Mark III destroyed)

Television movie Edit

• Doctor Who (Mark IV introduced)

Series 1 Edit

• Rose (Mark V introduced)
• The End of the World
• Aliens of London / World War Three
• The Long Game
• Father's Day
• The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances
• Boom Town
• Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways

Series 2 Edit

• The Christmas Invasion
• New Earth
• Tooth and Claw
• School Reunion
• The Girl in the Fireplace
• Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel
• The Idiot's Lantern
• The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit
• Love & Monsters
• Fear Her
• Army of Ghosts / Doomsday

Series 3 Edit

• The Runaway Bride
• Smith and Jones (destruction of MKV, introduction of MKVI)
• Gridlock
• Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks
• The Lazarus Experiment
• 42
• Human Nature
• Utopia / The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords

Series 4 Edit

• Time Crash
• Voyage of the Damned
• Partners in Crime
• The Fires of Pompeii
• Planet of the Ood
• The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky
• The Doctor's Daughter
• Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead (introduction of MK?)
• Midnight
• Turn Left
• Journey's End
• The Next Doctor
• Planet of the Dead
• The Waters of Mars
• The End of Time

Series 5 Edit

• The Eleventh Hour (destruction of MKVI, introduction of MKVII)
• The Beast Below
• Victory of the Daleks
• The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone
• The Vampires of Venice
• Amy's Choice
• The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood
• Vincent and the Doctor
• The Lodger
• The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang

Series 6 Edit

• A Christmas Carol (division of MKVII)
• The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon (MKVII repaired)
• The Curse of the Black Spot
• The Doctor's Wife
• The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People (duplicate screwdriver destroyed)
• A Good Man Goes to War/Let's Kill Hitler (introduction of sonic cane)
• Night Terrors
• The Girl Who Waited (introduction of sonic probe)
• The God Complex
• Closing Time
• The Wedding of River Song

Series 7 Edit

• The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
• Asylum of the Daleks
• Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• A Town Called Mercy
• The Power of Three
• The Angels Take Manhattan
• The Snowmen
• The Bells of Saint John
• The Rings of Akhaten
• Cold War
• Hide
• Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
• The Crimson Horror

The Sarah Jane Adventures Edit

Series 3 Edit

• The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (MKVI)

Series 4 Edit

• Death of the Doctor (flashback; archive footage; MKII)

Prose Edit

Novels Edit

Virgin New Adventures Edit

• The Pit
• Lungbarrow (The Doctor is given Romana's)
• The Dying Days

Virgin Missing Adventures Edit

• Venusian Lullaby (prototype)
• The Eye of the Giant
• The Scales of Injustice

BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures Edit

• The Bodysnatchers
• War of the Daleks
• Alien Bodies
• Kursaal
• Dreamstone Moon
• Seeing I
• Vanderdeken's Children
• The Janus Conjunction
• The Fall of Yquatine
• EarthWorld
• Eater of Wasps
• The Year of Intelligent Tigers
• The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
• Trading Futures
• The Tomorrow Windows
• The Deadstone Memorial
• To the Slaughter

BBC Past Doctor Adventures Edit

• The Murder Game
• Dreams of Empire
• The Final Sanction
• Heart of TARDIS
• Catastrophea

BBC New Series Adventures Edit

• The Clockwise Man
• The Monsters Inside
• Winner Takes All
• The Stone Rose
• The Nightmare of Black Island
• Forever Autumn
• Peacemaker
• Ghosts of India
• Shining Darkness
• Judgement of the Judoon
• The Slitheen Excursion

Short fiction Edit

BBC Online Fiction Edit

• The War of Art

Short Trips Edit

• DS Al Fine
• From Little Acorns
• Osskah (first appearance of Mark V)
• The Sorrows of Vienna

Puffin E-shorts Edit

• The Nameless City

Video games Edit

Doctor Who: The Adventure Games Edit

• City of the Daleks
• Blood of the Cybermen
• TARDIS
• Shadows of the Vashta Nerada

Audio Edit

BBC Audio Edit

Earth and Beyond Edit

• Bounty

Serpent Crest Edit

• Survivors in Space

Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories Edit

• Cuddlesome
• Storm Warning
• Sword of Orion
• Minuet in Hell
• Invaders from Mars
• Embrace the Darkness
• The Time of the Daleks
• Neverland
• Scaredy Cat
• Absolution
• The Girl Who Never Was
• Kingdom of Silver
• The Company of Friends
• The Doomsday Quatrain
• The Silver Turk
• The Witch from the Well
• Army of Death

Big Finish Companion Chronicles Edit

• Solitaire
• Echoes of Grey
• Shadow of the Past
• The Rings of Ikiria

Webcast Audio Edit

• Shada

The New Eighth Doctor Adventures Edit

• Human Resources
• Dead London
• Max Warp
• Brave New Town
• Grand Theft Cosmos
• The Zygon Who Fell to Earth
• Orbis
• The Eight Truths
• Worldwide Web
• Death in Blackpool
• Situation Vacant
• Deimos
• The Resurrection of Mars

Fourth Doctor Adventures Edit

• Energy of the Daleks

Short Trips Edit

• A True Gentleman

Big Finish Special Releases Edit

• Love and War
• Dark Eyes

• The Great War
• Fugitives
• Tangled Web

BBC New Series Adventures Edit

• The Hounds of Artemis
• The Gemini Contagion
• The Eye of the Jungle

Comics Edit

Radio Times comic stories Edit

• Dreadnought

Doctor Who Magazine Edit

• The Flood
• Supernature
• The Golden Ones
• The Child of Time
• The Broken Man

IDW Publishing Edit

• Ground Control
• The Forgotten
• Assimilation2

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