SatNav

Used by:	Drivers

A SatNav was a navigational device, used in 21st century. (TV: Spyfall)

The Sixth Doctor claimed to have as acute a sense of directional hearing as a bat with a SatNav. (AUDIO: Absolute Power)

In 2020, south-east of Little Earlham, a SatNav in an MI6 car was taken into control by Kasaavin. It killed its driver with a laser blast and tried to kill the Thirteenth Doctor, Yasmin Khan, Ryan Sinclair and Graham O'Brien. (TV: Spyfall)

Time Lord technology such as the Doctor's TARDIS also had navigational technology referred to as a temporal SatNav. In 1958, the Tenth Doctor told Lord Azlok that while the TARDIS had a few trillion light-years "on the clock", the chameleon circuit didn't work, and the temporal SatNav was "always on the blink", it "has got the meanest sound system in the universe". (TV: Dreamland)

The Fifteenth Doctor fixed Anita Benn's SatNav while staying at the Sandringham Hotel for a year from Christmas Eve 2024 to 2025. She, however, complained that it still would not take her where she wanted to go, but he argued that it took her to where she needed to go. (TV: Joy to the World ^[+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who Christmas Special 2024 (BBC One and Disney+, 2024).)

Behind the scenes

The script for Dreamland, seen on the BBC Writers Script Gallery, uses the term generically and not as a proper noun for a brand. The script uses the spelling sat-nav, while the BBC iPlayer subtitles spell it as sat nav, without a hyphen.