Oct
27
Doctor Who – Original Theme Music Video
ByDescription: This is a video of the 1963 Theme. From the Beginings Set. Posted to encourage people to buy the DVD’s.
Description: This is a video of the 1963 Theme. From the Beginings Set. Posted to encourage people to buy the DVD’s.
25 Comments
October 27th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
I know there has been experimentation on electronic music from the early 1900’s, and this theme is a milestone in history. Kraftwerk didn’t started making pop electronic music until 1971 aprox.!! Pure Genius
October 27th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Great visuals, fantastic music. Utterly hypnotic. Not just good by 1963 standards…good by any artistic standards.
October 27th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
It doesn’t _quite_ work. Davidson throws it out – The Doctor’s apparent ages don’t follow a linear progression.
October 27th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
No, It’s from 1963. They were using cutting edge tech.
October 27th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
It was indeed 1963, before the availability of commercial synthesizers.
The original 1963 theme was created by cutting and splicing segments of anologue tape, using recordings of plucked strings, white noise and waveforms of test-tone oscillators. Pure genius
October 27th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
1963 had synthesizers that could do this? Are you sure? You might mean 1973.
October 27th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Exactly!!
October 27th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Long live Doctor Who good luck Matt Smith as the 11th Doctor.
October 27th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Simply the finest piece of electronic music ever recorded. Stunning in it’s simplicity. The fact that it’s nearly 50 years old is jaw dropping.
October 27th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
I love 60s sci-fi, it’s like an lsd trip in black and white. Who needs drugs, when you have art like this!
October 27th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
The greatest TV theme ever written….no question !
October 27th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Here’s my nomination for a brilliant Doctor:
Barack Obama! Wouldn’t that be fantarstick?
Sidekicks Pink and Ricky Gervais.
October 27th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
not just younger, but “darker and edgier” as well, like everyone on TV it seems. It’s rather noticeable in the remakes of old series. Kirk went from 40 to 20-ish, the whole Galactica crew is 15 years younger and, like you said, the Doctor went from 58 to 26.
I blame my generation and the next
October 27th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
next they’l get that harry plopper guy to play him
October 27th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
aaaaaaayyyy
pussssaaaaay
October 27th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Anyone ever notice how the Doctor keeps getting younger and younger and younger? The next doctor is another almost 10 years younger actor… next up a teen-age Doctor, then baby Doctor, and who knows, maybe they’ll one-up that and make a pre-birth Doctor too. Why stop at hiring younger actors to play him, when you can go for the mommy market and hire The Mother of the Doctor. Mother of all Doctors. Who? No. WTF.
October 27th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
What is that, I have seen classic doctor who, but there was other, more short song, by the way -nice version)
October 27th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
very xD
October 27th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
1:51 “lol!”
October 27th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
I just love the music!!!
I’m only 17 and yet I love Doctor Who. The old and the new series, plus the radio collections. Though my favourite Doctor will always be Peter Davison.
October 27th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Classic Who stuff. I grew up first with Tom Baker. Then I didn’t think I’ll ever see the Hartnell or Troughton shows. But then, one day, I saw this black and white beginning and the one cop walking around in the IM Foreman lot. I nearly shit my pants. (I was a freshman in high school when I saw Hartnell for the first time). Great stuff. I love both old and new Who. Though Tom Baker still remains my favorite.
October 28th, 2009 at 12:09 am
yeah Muse – Uprising!!!! just kidding, sounds like it though
October 28th, 2009 at 12:43 am
im trippin./.. i ate some good shrooms
October 28th, 2009 at 12:58 am
check out my vid for “Doctor Who pre-regeneration cliff hanger preview 2010″..awsome
October 28th, 2009 at 1:51 am
I’ve heard that a lot…