Doctor Who Theme 4 - Full Version (1967-1980)
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The longest serving theme to date. With a few tweaks and re-recordings this theme ran, without pause, from series 4 to series 17 and was only abolished because 80s era producer John Nathan-Turner thought it was too out of date. How wrong he was. I swear, if you didn't know that it was made in the 60s you would have no doubt if I told you it was made last week. Anyway, enough ramblings, enjoy!
This is for me the definitive Doctor Who theme arrangement. I know that Delia Derbyshire preferred her original arrangement (1963-67), but I believe she improved tremendously on it here. The reverb on the bassline, coupled with the added electronic "spangles" and famous background "hiss" , made this second arrangement perfect. In my opinion it will NEVER be surpassed. Absolutely love it.
You know this was her first one and the one we here for the first doctor was her second
RIP William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Elisabeth Sladen, Nicholas Courtney, Roy Skelton, Delia Derbyshire, Ron Grainer
There is a definite haunting quality to this music which subscribes to the gothic horror elements started in Patrick Troughton period. The gothic themes reached its height during the Tom Baker period. There is a reason why this theme lasted for so long. It's mesmerizing. Certainly my favorite version of the series' theme.
Don't know if you have questions
Yes, it's definitely still the best and I think it always will be.
There was no gothic elements in the Troughton era
i hate the new scum
Certainly a great variation, but nothing beats the 1986 "Glynn" theme from Trial of a Timelord for me ;)
This haunting melody will always remind me of my mom, Rest In Peace. I would watch this slyly through closed eyes and long eyelashes as she tried to put me to bed when I was about 4 years old. I was enthralled by the show and the music intro and outro. Very special days.
This is the best version of the Doctor Who theme. It is absolutely timeless. It could be used for today's episodes.
The 3rd and 4th Doctor were always my favourites and this is also my favourite theme......the fact that this was their theme is brilliant
ironhidewatson the fourth doctor is my favorite too!!!!
Sir Equinox no
Sir Equinox there is no best, they were all good in their own way. If you mean they're your favourites then I don't mind, I have a favourite too.
ImperialJoe i love the 4th and 5th doctor but I also like the 9th 10th 11th and 12th Doctor
Technically this is the second doctor's theme since he had it first, and he was the only one that didn't have it shortened in the intro, 2 is my favorite doctor by the way
Jon Pertwee was without a doubt the best actor ever to play Doctor Who if you ask me.
You are entitled to your opinion, and I love Jon too - I really do! But I would think twice before calling him a better actor (in terms of dramatic range) than, for instance Patrick Troughton, Peter Davison and a number of 21st century alternatives. But I love Jon all the same.
@@schubertuk What I liked about Jon is how he played against type. Before that he was generally known for comedic performances. He was also an excellent character actor. This allowed him to avoid being typecast, unlike a number of Doctors.
yes!
admittedly I love Troughton more
Its just NOT a genuine Doctor Who theme without the "monster breathing" sound effects in the background. My favorite theme in all of space & time!
While I agree, I always thought that was supposed to be the Tardis engines.
the ending with a noise sound, god
drrob1963 It was not an intentional sound effect. It was caused by the magnetic tape of the theme master copy degrading over time. By 1979/1980 the degradation was so bad it pretty much forced the producers to re-record the theme.
@stephen noonan The stereo mix is a later re-recording/remastering of the origonal theme not the actual master copy. The original master which was made and used for the TV recording was made using open reel to reel tape and was recorded in mono as per the technology made available to the radiophonic workshop at the time, rememberthe funding for the BBC radiophonic workshop was minimal at best. There was little to no point using stereo sound as UK TV was broadcast in mono as standard. Stereo TV didn't even come out in the UK until 1989, pretty much after the classic series ended. It was also very likely they used reused reel to reel tape as well as per the policy of the cash strapped BBC at the time which would add to the deterioration of the sound quality... Furthermore use the evidence of your ears, Compare the sound of the themes from each of the first 4 Doctor's intros, even with the tweeks and edits made to the theme they all used the same master copy because re-recording costs money the producers of Dr Who didn't have in the 70s. Analog tape degrades, the hiss and whoosh which increases over time is a result of that...
The instrumental white noise rhythm track is three pieces of white noise recorded at different frequencies, reverb added, cut to three short lengths, joined together then the tape reversed and dubbed onto the theme tune.
This is by far the best version - gives me goosebumps every time I hear it
The first Classic Doctor Who episode I ever watched was The Invisible Enemy (the debut of K-9).
one of the first i watched was Attack of the Cybermen (explaining why i have a softer spot for it than i probably should)
Robot for me. My dad was having a 4th Doctor marathon and I decided to watch it with him
My first classic DW episode was The five doctors
"Pyramids of Mars" with Tom Baker is the first one I've seen which hooked me right away because I'm a horror fan. Robot mummies, creepy Egyptian gods, the early 1900s. Absolutely good stuff.
Leela is one of my favorite companions
The reason why this is one of my favourite themes is because of the energy it has. For example, compare the very start of it to the very start of the original theme tune, because then you can notice the variety of sounds and 'whooshes' used in this one
P.S. In the actual title sequence I just love how all of the sound is perfectly synced with the visual effects e.g. the random bars splitting up the moment the first 'whooshe' in the sound comes on
Ahh, all those memories of the Fourth Doctor. As Genesis of the Daleks was my first ever episode I very clearly remember this version of the theme. There's just something about it that gives you shivers as a kid.
Honestly better than the ones since. Like how it starts out in a low octave, too.
When this plays at the end of Tomb of the Cybermen while the camera is panning to the mural is scary as heck
I have a few Traditions with Doctor who, one of them is when I get to “Tomb if the Cybermen” to enjoy the extended title sequence test to enjoy this song as much as possible
Ironic that one of the best themes is the one you hear least of due to it being part of many missing episodes.
Yeah- for some reason, when they re-edited it for the Pertwee and Baker episodes, they muffled the heck out of it. Never understood why.
+RassilonTDavros The '70 Pertwee/T. Baker theme sounds muffled because it's a copy of the '67 Troughton theme, which itself is a copy of the original August '63 theme master tape. (Which is a separate mix from the televised '63 Hartnell titles.)
Rather than completely reconstruct the theme each time a new one was commissioned, Delia Derbyshire would make a new copy of the original master tape/'67 theme master tape. Then, she would re-treat the copy to add all of the various sound effects, like the rising "spangles" that play over the intro. Each time this was done, the overall quality of the recording decreased a bit.
It's basically the same thing that happens when you make photocopies of photocopies; each version is slightly less defined/clean than the one that came before.
There's also some editing/mixing techniques used to shorten the theme. For example, the first half of the opening bassline is layered over the second half to create the more condensed lead-in to the theme (two repetitions as opposed to four). Also, there's some added delay and reverb to help segue into the looping outro.
All of that adds up to a less-defined sound, though I don't think it hurts the '70 theme too much. Personally, I think that's the best opening the show ever had.
Gives me chills the best show in British TV history
I don't know what it is about this tune, especially this version, that gets to me, but it draws me in like very few themes do. Really quite a remarkable piece of music, made more incredible by how it was originally created.
Tape, scissors and oscillators :)
Very creative and original - especially for the 60's.
Written by the same guy who did that Tales of the Unexpected theme.
I love this version with that wonderful echo base beat (1.11, love that bit!) it takes me back to when I started watching Doctor Who back in 1971.
That bit weirded me out too when I first heard it ... it is spine chilling... and it only makes it onto a couple of episodes... Spearhead and the Silurians,. Fom Ambassadors on they got it edited to the two versions they found suitable, all the way up to Horns of Nimon
I started watching Doctor Who in 1971 too! One of my earliest recollections was "Mind Of Evil"! The Keller Machine was really creepy!
Man, hyperspace always looks so freaky...
NeoDragonCount **the 4th doc appears**
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Low hanging fruit comment.
I honestly wish that when we finally have Faster Than Light capability travel that Tom Baker’s face just slowly forms and stares into our souls for breaking through space time.
Wrong theme bud
The most iconic piece of music in TV history, I love it.
My big brudda had this on 7' BBC single in the early 70s.
Loved it !!
I think of Jon Pertwee when I hear this version. I also had it as Pye/BBC 7" single RESL 11, wish I still had that.
I think more of Patrick Troughton when I listen to this.
I think more of Tom Baker.
I think of Partick
My dad would watch these throughout the 90s, always brings me back to childhood.
The best tv show theame song ever made in my opinion
The Troughton/Pertwee version with the additional chimes is never in the song collections.
I often like to think of the opening theme as the Doctor's (all of them) lietmotif, if you will. Not only does it represent the many adventures he goes on, but it changes pretty much every time he regenerates. That's just me, though...
It's a very reasonable way of looking at it, and entirely justified when viewing the show from the 1980s since. But the Delia version of the theme was there for the first 16+ years [with very minor tweaks]; and for me - I always feel they made a huge mistake ditching it. Peter Howell's one is good in its own right (albeit without the horror aspect) - but all the rest are pale imitations.
My favorite the from Doctor Who. Tom Baker the best Doctor.
Jorge Luis Valerio Sandoval I think you misspelled. I believe you meant P-a-t-r-I-c-k T-r-o-u-g-h-t-o-n. Patrick Troughton.
+Ltresso12 This theme was also used in Tom Baker's era, but then they changed it to the Peter Howell arrangement in 1980.
havent you noticed with his hair and clothing, Peter Capaldi is kind of like a more modern Jon Pertwee
Jorge Luis Valerio Sandoval there is no best, they were all good in their own way.
Hell yes!! Love this show and the themes......didn't realize there were a few versions. Thanks for sharing them!!
I would like to say in my own opinion that the theme differs enough with it's change in 1971 to be a different theme from then on, but like i said that is my opinion, but i recognise this theme as solely the 2nd doctors, i find during the pertwee years and the Tom baker years it was a different theme with enough changes
They should scrap the silly modernised theme version and bring this more favourable original version back again. I really wish they would!!!!
It's so hauntingly good, and is simply the best out of all of them. :)
+theseus27 the modern dr who theme from 2005 had a prototype which is almost the same as this one
That's cool to know :)
you can listen to it on this guy's channel under the special playlist
That's great!! Many thanks =)
They did go a bit overboard with the modernization. 2005 was the best modern theme.
Coming in here to yell about Delia Derbyshire - look her up, if you don't know who she is! She arranged this piece of music for Ron Grainer. From Wikipedia:
"[it was] one of the first television themes to be created and produced by entirely electronic means. When Grainer first heard it, he was so amazed by her rendering of his theme that he asked: "Did I really write this?", to which Derbyshire replied: "Most of it".[17] Grainer attempted to get her a co-composer credit, but the attempt was prevented by the BBC bureaucracy, which then preferred to keep the members of the workshop anonymous.[18] She would not be credited on-screen for her work until Doctor Who's 50th anniversary special, The Day of the Doctor."
Actually - this is misleading; Delia Derbyshire's superb and original rendition of the theme has very little electronics in it at all - it is a good 95% Musique Concrete, taking found sounds and then using tape manipulation effects (tape loops, reversing, speeding up, slowing down etc). Only a single electronic tone generator and a white noise generator were actually used as input (and then they were repitched by speeding up/slowing down tape loops). This - to me - makes the output even more impressive and explains why so many electronic rehashes come up so short when trying to imitate it. Delia DID do a fully electronic version of the theme (reluctantly, and she hated it) - but it was never officially used (except when accidentally released on one Pertwee episode).
I remember Dr. Demento playing this on his radio show back in July of 1982. One of the more memorable themes in science fiction.
Thank you for posting!
Apologies, this was used from 'The Faceless Ones' onwards. But it was still first broadcast in 1967.
Favourite Classic Who theme, the baseline was improved since the 1st Doctor but then the theme was shortened with the intro changing in the third and fourth doctor's themes.
Actually first 5 serials. The 1963 theme was also used in "The Macra Terror". It really went into use in "The Faceless Ones".
Our Cosmic Hobo ♡
Used as a song for my credits on a school report, GENIUS!!!!!!
I have travelled with the 3rd and 4th doctor and I loved it! Sad I left
Yes I have x
Sarah-Jane Smith you're dead
dalek caan She can be a Cyberman with Missy! ;)
Losplevon Tharlaz didnt think of that.
Well Im not.
This is actually one of the early themes, that was ment to be aired on the 2nd season ( I think ), but it wasn't aired on season 2, and was put on a cupboared or a shelf for storage. Then when it came to recreate a new theme for patrick troughton, it was taken out of storage and redubbed to fit with patricks title sequence, it was thought that the old theme just didn't have the right feel to go with patricks title sequence. That all I've gathered.
Those 8 people who disliked the video are Daleks
12 Daleks now
There are now 14, the others are likely Cybermen or Silurians, Autons would have loved it as it was as synth
etic as they were
Yep
Cece's comics and dolls the daleks can da-LEK my balls 😡
@@jadenn.hernandez7784 💀I'm dead😂
I just love the base echo in this version at 1.11 especially.
50 years since this theme premiered today :D
Delia Derbyshire's version is - aptly and weirdly - truly alien
Imagine hearing this (and I was one who did) in 1967. Out of this world man :)
The latest Dr Who Series - 12 - the theme has returned somewhat to it's strange and haunting, electro-techno roots.
God Bless DD!
My favourite version of the theme song as this was Jon Pertwee’s theme song, and he is my favourite Doctor.
This Sounds Like The 63 Theme But Echoed And Additional Spangles
thats 'cause that what it is 😉
@@andygozzo72 Additionally, we have a little variation in Melody 1.
And That Too
This was basically remixed re-emphased and re-equalised passing the bassnote, the melodyline and dull low note through feedback echo units and overlaying some additional electronic spangles also treated through the feedback echo units.
Favorite Doctor, favorite theme. It's a shame that many of Troughton's episodes were lost, definitely the best in my opinion!
@DarthJedi2005 and you're not the only 'youngsters' realising old stuff is great! I'm a mere 42!
The progress to find all the missing Doctor Who episodes from the eras of William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton are so very slow.
They should bring this back for the 60th anniversary specials in 2023.
i never get the obsession with the middle 8 my favourite has always been the opening section before the main melody kicks in.
I barely remeember wathcing re-runs of the this in mid/late 80's..............but the theme music has, and will always stay with me............really neat theme music, and not to be forgotten..
This was my mother's ringtone for a good while. Love this song.
As far as I am concerned, this is the ONLY Doctor Who theme......PERIOD!!!
I'm Spanish, Lithuanian, Egyptian and Australian and I love Doctor Who!
this is my favorite version of the classic theme.
This theme makes me think of Mainly the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton), and Jamie. 👀
"Come on Jamie, Let's go on an adventure!"
P.S. I don't the Second Doctor says that, but that's my line that comes in my head.
This was made in 1960, is something that I still find hard to believe it sounds so futuristic for 1960.
1963 (with tweaks in 1967) - BUT yes - absolutely!
I would love to hear this played on the glass harmonica!
Derbyshire forever.
+Trenton Bless (Wrestlemania489)
Ron Grainer wrote the music....Grainer forever
I know that.
+Philip Williams You Know What Ron Grainer May Wrote The Theme But Delia Derbyshire Played Instrument So Derbyshire Forever
+Aliisan Tetik She should've been credited in the show.
+RassilonTDavros Agreed
McCoy's first season was weak, but from Ace becoming a full companion the stories got stronger. Season 26 had some of the best stories for a number of years.
I think this is my favorite version of the song.
OK, I'm over 25. This brings back memories of when I used to stay up late as a teenager in the 70's and watching Dr.Who episodes on PBS.
I like the epic sound and feel of the new opening, but it's just not quite the same. It certainly lacks the distinctive "Creepy" and "Mysterious" feel of the original and really not only has that feel become faded from the title sequence but also the show itself. The show is still good mind you, but it just doesn't have the mystery the old show had.
I miss it, but evolution was always a factor and the show must change now and then.
Ironic that a theme song for a show about time travel could be so timeless
@DarthJedi2005 I'm under 25 also, and also can appreciate the awesomeness of this.
What if you add the 1970 and 1973 logos.
The best version of the Doctor Who theme.John Nathan Turner was wrong to ditch it.If only he had kept it right up until 1989.
Absolutely unforgettable.
The BEST UK TV SHOW on PBS and the LONGEST SHOW EVER! since the late 1950's and NOW!
That made me smile!! :-) It started in 1963, not the late 1950s. But I can see how our low TV budgets and lack of colour (until the 1970s) - might give an American the impression the show is older than it actually is... ;-)
@eXAKR You are correct good sir. It's Doctor Whooves theme as well. To me, this beautiful and classic theme is the universal representation of all the incarnations of Doctor Who, including his pony form. :)
OK, I'm over 25. It brings back memories of watching Dr.Who episodes on PBS when I was a teenager in the 70's and .
best doctor who theme. all of you in the commets saying that its good. your right
NOT ANYMORE ME FROM. 3 WEEKS AGO
I dont know now
i looooove original 1st and 2nd doctor theme becouse it is ,like, most iconic
It was actually started by a Canadian, Sydney Newman.
nope, I'm under 25 also, and also can appreciate the awesomeness of this.
This is the best version of the lot with bells on!
My favourite version of the theme.
No need for any DW theme after 1980
Cat getting its teeth brushed sent me here
Wow....So many memories
Patrick Troughton and the Cybermen,scared me to death.Great theme tune.
@EmperorMAD
Completely agree, Verity Lambert R.I.P
@1devo6587
Haven't you seen any Second Doctor stories? He was known as the cosmich hobo or cosmic pixie because of the clothes he wore.
I liked the new revamp tom backer era better but this version is the most iconic classic of them all i arguable will always be remembered as they doctor who theme
J N-T was right. It was out of date. But now it's back in date again. Because wibbly wobbly.
The longest serving and best theme of Doctor Who
im 21 and my gf is 20 and both love doctor who. and Im a giant tom baker doctor fan.
He removed it because it sounded out-of-date AT THE TIME, the 1980's.
However, history has repeated itself and it sounds modern again. If you don't know what I mean, just go ask the Doctor.
Love it to. Love it to. Love it to.
@DarthJedi2005 No worries, you and me both. I assume the little tweeting noises were made by a Moog or something similar? I have an MP3 of the theme without the tweeting noises that I can post if you like.
I ALWAYS ENJOY this music!
2nd doctor begining opeing 1000000000/10
Not really. Apart from the spangles and the echo, it's really the same theme as the full 1963 them - In fact, what they did is they grabbed the 1963 master, added the spangle effects, added echo and re-equalized, and that's basically it.
This is the version of the theme tune I remember from when I first began watching Doctor Who in 1977. XD
THE BEST THEME, NO DOUBT ;)
@DarogaDaae Dude, I'm 15. No one is too young or too old for Doctor Who! And I've watched some newer David Tennant episodes, but I still like the Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker stories more.
I love this one
one of my favaurite theme