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==== The sonic screwdriver ====
First used by the Second Doctor in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S5/E06 Fury From the Deep|Fury from the Deep]]", this has now become an iconic item carried by the Doctor and has had at least seven different versions to date, not counting future ones. Basically a fancy tube with a light in prop form, it has [[Green Lantern Ring|a wide variety of functions]] including opening ''most'' locked doors, accessing computer information and actually being a screwdriver. What it ''doesn't'' do is [[Doctor Who/Recap/
=== The TARDIS ===
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{{quote|''"[[The Watson|Doctor, what is it?]]"''}}
The Doctor is rarely alone in his travels. For the purposes of [[Exposition]] and for [[Audience Surrogate|someone the audience can identify with]], he has had a large number of companions (''mostly'' non-romantic, though Fanfic disagrees). In the show's very early days, he just traveled with his granddaughter and two of her high school teachers—who, in the very first episode, he actually kidnapped in a [[He Knows Too Much]] scenario. The idea was that the companions would be the "point-of-view" characters for the audience at home, in contrast to the mysterious, anti-heroic Doctor. Even as the Doctor became more identifiable and less of a curmudgeon, the companion remains the human element to tie him down, especially post-revival. They also give him someone to talk to. In ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S14/E03 The Deadly Assassin|The Deadly Assassin]]'', the lone serial without a companion (other than ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S3/E02 Missiontothe Unknown|Mission to the Unknown]]'', which didn't feature the Doctor, and ''The Doctor The Widow And The Wardrobe'', which featured substitutes) the writers found it difficult to explain what he was thinking. In-universe, he claims that he's "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E01 The Eleventh Hour|lonely]]", while others have [[Doctor Who/Recap/
Companions are predominantly human, [[Parent Service|young, female, and attractive]]. In the early episodes there would also be a companion who was young, male, and heroic. Sometimes they are humanoid aliens, or, famously, a robot dog. They have joined and left the TARDIS for various reasons. The Doctor reserves the right to kick a companion out of the TARDIS for bad behaviour (''The Long Game'' is the only episode in which he has done it so far), or to take on a new companion even over the objections of present companions. Classic Series companions tended to have few or no ties to their homes (and often lose such ties, like in ''The Evil of the Daleks''), and—anniversary specials aside—did not cross paths with the Doctor after leaving the TARDIS.<ref>unless the companion in question is Sarah Jane Smith, who did indeed return in the RTD era episode "School Reunion" and was a mite ticked about being ignored for thirty years</ref> [[Russell T. Davies|RTD era]] companions don't divide their lives as neatly: they continue to interact with their families while away with the Doctor, and with the Doctor before, after or between their travels with him. [[Steven Moffat|SM era]] companions are like the Classic Who companions.
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