River was known as " the child of the TARDIS" and the time machine had taken a particular liking to her and taught her how to fly her. River was a very fast learner, becoming skilled at flying the TARDIS in a remarkably short time and she was able to control the time machine even more proficiently than the Doctor, despite the fact that the Doctor had been flying the TARDIS for centuries. ( TV: The Big Bang, The Impossible Astronaut, Let's Kill Hitler) She indicated at one point she was so good at it, she stole and returned the TARDIS multiple times before the Doctor even noticed it was gone. ( TV: The Husbands of River Song) The Fourteenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver is available now | Doctor Who". www.doctorwho.tv . Retrieved 7 August 2023. In her third incarnation, River described herself as glamorous with exceptional hair, ( AUDIO: Someone I Once Knew) hair that Brooke and Strax both described as being "big". Though Strax mistook it for a "gigantic head". ( TV: The Name of the Doctor, AUDIO: My Dinner with Andrew) The Sixth Doctor said that she had a noble brow, clear gaze and a face "beaming with a vast intelligence" and the Seventh Doctor called her attractive. ( AUDIO: The Eye of the Storm) River herself stated shortly after her regeneration that she believed her new body was suited to wearing jodhpurs. ( TV: Let's Kill Hitler) Arriving on the “planet of the rain gods”, the Doctor and River were set to be sacrificed by the natives until the Doctor successfully petitioned to the rain gods themselves for rain. ( HOMEVID: Rain Gods) River and the Doctor were repeatedly invited to attend the fish people's annual parties. The Doctor at one point decided to visit one of these gatherings, where they were tied up, dipped in guacamole, and hung upside down over a fire pit. ( COMIC: An Adventure in Brine and Plaice)

It featured regularly in season 16 during the Key to Time saga. The Doctor's Time Lady companion Romana constructed a sonic screwdriver of her own similar to the Doctor's. It is depicted as being smaller and sleeker than the Doctor's, and he was sufficiently impressed with her design that he attempted to swap screwdrivers with her in The Horns of Nimon (1979–80). By season 18, both script editor Christopher H Bidmead and producer John Nathan-Turner were eager to downplay the device as much as possible. River was later pardoned and released from the Stormcage Containment Facility after it was discovered that there was no evidence of the man she had murdered having ever existed. This was due to the Doctor erasing himself from all databases in the universe. ( TV: The Angels Take Manhattan) As a time-travelling archaeologist, River sometimes made money as a mercenary, according to the Time Lords' files. ( AUDIO: Songs of Love)

River loved flirting with people and was constantly hitting on the Doctor, although she also had a tendency to flirt with other people such as prison guards and Hitler's soldiers. She often greeted the Doctor with the words "Hello Sweetie". ( TV: Silence in the Library, Flesh and Stone, The Pandorica Opens, Let's Kill Hitler, The Wedding of River Song) She was also rather vain, believing that her cleavage "could fell an ox at twenty feet". ( TV: The Angels Take Manhattan)

She and the Doctor had a fight causing the Doctor to spend a month sulking with sea otters. ( TV: The Caretaker)

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River Song and Willdar arrived on a mysterious planetoid to find the 'Dacha', but they also found various portraits of the Third , Ninth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctors, along with two TARDISes. They soon discovered that the planet was also inhabited by Silurians, and that it was danger from an "exploding asteroid". The Silurians asked River for help, using Willdar as a bargaining chip, but she refused, claiming not to be the "saves everyone" type. Forced to run, River stated that "she hate[d] it when it [was] easy". ( COMIC: The Lost Dimension) Once, the Doctor even popped a mirror on there to hypnotise an angry beast. Another attachment was handy for reversing the polarity of the neutron flow, which was this Doctor’s go-to plan for dealing with all sorts of problems River is the only companion in the revived series to have more than one episode with her name in the title: The Wedding of River Song and The Husbands of River Song.J. K. Woodward, who worked on the Star Trek crossover Assimilation², released a piece depicting River Song dressed as a Klingon holding a bat'leth. River shared the Doctor's habit of avoiding answering a question by answering a previous question. Like her mother, she was able to follow the Eleventh Doctor's train of thought so well that she could explain it to others. ( TV: The Time of Angels) Using her vortex manipulator, River returned to Demons Run shortly after the conclusion of the Battle of Demons Run, mere minutes after Kovarian had fled with her infant body. As the Doctor angrily confronted her on her refusal to help, River pointed out how his own actions had led to the events of the battle due to making people so afraid of him. As the Doctor demanded to know her real identity, River showed the Doctor his old cot , cluing him in to her parentage and true nature. As the Doctor raced off to locate baby Melody, Amy demanded answers from River. In response, River showed her parents the prayer leaf upon which the name "Melody Pond" became "River Song" in the language of the Gamma Forests and explained that she was their daughter. ( TV: A Good Man Goes to War) This section may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. ( November 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

a b c d "Series 8 Sonic Devices for Paternoster Gang Revealed". doctorwhotv.co.uk. 19 December 2013 . Retrieved 21 December 2013.River was captured by Balthazar Drix and brought to the SS Pollyanna, where she was kept in a cage and "entrusted" to two robot animals, K9 and FE-LINE, for safekeeping. On Drix's instruction, K9 tried to convince River she had been involved in another fight between the Doctor and the Master, and was kept here to heal from a biological weapon she was in touch with. River, however, saw through the lies and convinced FE-LINE to help her get out and find out the truth: Drix had come in possession of the K9-Mark III the Fourth Doctor was sending to Sarah Jane, reprogrammed it and copied it to keep his crew prisoner; River even discovered that the mind inside FE-LINE belonged to Drix's assistant, Maria. River then forced Drix to release Maria from her FE-LINE body, discovered a cure for his condition she did share with her but not with him, then healed K9 and sent him to Earth. She then left, leaving Drix in the same situation he put her: a pet in a cage. ( AUDIO: A Forever Home) The unlicensed fan fiction novel Time's Champion speculates that the Sixth Doctor has re-built the sonic screwdriver. [ citation needed] He used a similar device in The Nightmare Fair, a script which was never produced for television but has been adapted twice. A mistake in The Angels Take Manhattan is that when the Doctor is reading River's book, a line states her eyes are blue. Alex Kingston's eye colour is green.