The Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - behind the scenes of The Poisoned Sky

As I've discussed previously, I'm helping a collector who has acquired loads of mobile phones used in Doctor Who.

Today's edition - The Poisoned Sky.

As the Sontarans choke the Earth, the Doctor and UNIT battle to keep both Martha and Donna alive.

A large plot point is Evil Clone Martha stealing a UNIT PDA and using it to HACK THE MAINFRAME.

At various times she prevents missiles being launched:

And disrupts UNIT's abilities to defeat the Sontaran menace:

That original PDA is now in the hands of Collectors Props Wales after they bought it from the BBC studios where, no doubt, it has languished in a cupboard for a dozen years. After finding a charging cable, the owner was kind enough to send me these photos of some of the media saved on the device:

It's interesting to see that the display seen on TV was designed to be animated, rather than static.

There are also some pictures on there which don't appear to have been used in the episode (do correct me if I'm wrong).

Some of the graphics are quite different from what's shown on screen. I assume they mocked-up various graphics and went with whatever looked best.

The phones are available to buy on eBay but do contact them directly if the phone you want isn't yet available.