In The Woman Who Fell to Earth, the Doctor constructed a new sonic screwdriver in a Sheffield workshop.
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Her bespoke sonic screwdriver is made from melted spoons. In fact, she refers to it as a sonic Swiss Army knife, made out of Sheffield steel. Her sonic screwdriver does not include a knife, however because “only idiots carry knives.”
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Sheffield, England, where the episode is set, has a long history of industrial steel works, tool making and the production of knives. There is even a multi-function tool made by a company called Sheffield Tools.
This isn’t the first time the Doctor has employed a spoon an episode of Doctor Who. The seventh Doctor played the spoons as a musical instrument in Time and the Rani and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
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Spoons were a recurring theme for Twelfth Doctor, who famously used a spoon in his fight against Robin Hood’s sword in Robot of Sherwood and favoured soup while under duress in Heaven Sent and Hell Bent.
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Certainly spoons will continue to be featured in Doctor Who. After all, a Doctor has to eat.