"I drifted through the time vortex, longing to hear any semblance of a voice belonging to even my greatest foe...but there was nothing in that great void of solitude, Doctor...nothing but the sound of millions of 80s nerds playing "Doctor in Distress," over and over, wearing out millions of record needles, outlasting the age of the grandest stars, transcending the lives of every alien planetary system's black holes. I begged for the destruction of the oceans of vinyl, but they only transferred the infernal tune to compact discs. I implored the celestial gods of distant worlds to smite the optical music discs, but the cruel piece was merely uploaded to iTunes. Now, the forsaken dark scape of UA-cam is the source of my torment. I realized I could not escape. And after I'd listened to the song so many times I couldn't stop singing it, I had no choice but to share it to my Facebook page in order to pass on the judgment to other unfortunate inhabitants of my plane of torture. "
I didn't think you could get worse than the original edit. I was sorely mistaken. "Where's that Doctor over there? The police box takes him everywhere." Fucking gold, top marks, Ian.
There's a decent synthpop song hidden in here somewhere. Yes it really drops the ball with the vocal work and the lyrics, which admittedly kill it somewhat. But as an actual tune, it's kind of alright.
Hah. I do that with some of the Keith and Orville tunes as well. The 80s is a minefield of bad music. People say that they love the decade musically, but it's very telling that it's the same couple of dozen songs everyone goes to and plays ad nauseum. Goodness me there was a lot of naff shite made back then that no radio DJ would touch with a barge pole.
Never heard this before and my instant reaction was "Did they do this on roller skates while dressed as trains?" Checking the dates I'm further convinced that this was indeed inspired - if that's the right word - by Starlight Express. It just screams Cheap Knockoff from start to finish.
@@kellydclear "All my lives I have battled power-mad conspirators, I should've stayed here. The oldest civilisation in the universe: Degenerate, Decadent and Rotten to the core. 18 million years of absolute power. *That* is what it takes to be *truly* corrupt!"
Being a dedicated Dr Who viewer since I was 6. I have seen every episode of Dr Who as my PBS station showed current Dr Who episodes and another played the older seasons. I discovered this song years ago and now I can’t get enough of it!
I have this exact vinyl, I can't ever play it again....... never. (played it once ... eck) Jokes aside .... Looking to find it online, it's never appeared, probably for a good reason .... thanks for bringing this online for the first time! Both full and instrumental mixes. I wonder if there is more stuff that hasn't been found online, especially rare stuff like this.
Could this possibly be the greatest of all songs ever written & performed, ever, in the entire history of the human race?... Naaaaahhh! But it was worth a shot, though! 😁
USA For Africa: Let's get a bunch of top pop stars to record a song to help starving children in Africa. Who Cares: Let's get a bunch of TV stars to sing a song complaining that a TV show is going on hiatus for too long.
"Each screaming girl hoped / That a Yeti wouldn't shoot her." I've never understood the fetishization of the worst aspects of Doctor Who...why do people continue to refer affectionately to, even almost celebrate them? I saw a video from a fairly recent con where attendees who had mentioned they wanted to be a companion one day were told to grab their ankle and scream for the Doctor...plus the way Susan was made to sprain her ankle in The Five Doctors for no other reason than to reference how it happened in her previous stories (except the show's moved on a bit, and the actress was twenty years older)...it's an aspect of the fandom that really kind of disturbs me.
Well, you have to be able to acknowledge the corny aspects of the show even if it's a show you love. I don't think that people are referring to them "affectionately" so much as they are just acknowledging the cheese and having a good laugh about it. Same reason you probably looked up this video.
@@LoopyYTPlus It's not the cheese that I mind - I do enjoy that, as you suggested! It's rather the sexist stereotypes of the past and the way people sometimes seem to encourage them that bother me.
@@eclecticdog2k901 I mean, that's just part of the cheese, you need to take into account the era that the old stuff was made in. I don't see anyone in the fandom actively encouraging it, as opposed to laughing at it.
There's always been a bit of a problem with this in classic Doctor Who. Watching that clip show from the early 90s which was broadcast before the airing of Planet of the Daleks still annoys me today. Having that talking faceless thing called "the anorak" with a Brummie accent and showing all the shittiest clips of classic. It was so stupid and felt like they were putting a boot into the fans that were still interested 4 years after the cancellation.
This tune isn't much different from most of what was played on MTV at the time. I find it hard to understand all the hatred of it. Sure, it's not great but I have heard far worse.
And now we’ve got another hiatus starting on New Year’s Day. Yep we won’t get new Doctor Who until 2020. The show is definitely in distress judging by this last season. I hope the writing improves. I don’t think it will but a guy can dream.
Moonfall777 It’s sad but after a slight improvement in series 10 and the exit of Moffat, I hoped the show would go in a better direction with a new show runner. Boy was I wrong.
It's already too late for them to act on our feedback, the scripts were essentially being finalised during series 11... So we are waiting another year for the same series with no improvements... If there's a year off you need to bring doctor who back with something new, something that's going to get the audience back, not the same writing with no development... I just hope they've at least done something with Yaz, in my opinion the character was bland, generic and the acting was cardboard.
18 months is too long to wait, Bring back The Doctor, don't hesitate. 18 months is too long to wait, Bring back The Doctor, don't hesitateIt was a cold wet night in November 22 years ago, There was a police box in a junkyard We didn't know where it would go, An old man took two teachers Into time and space, It started off a legend That no other could replace. Chorus Doctor in distress, Let's all answer his S.O.S., Doctor in distress, Bring him back now, we won't take less. Where's The Doctor? Over there the police box takes him everywhere oh, ho!! Bring him backThere were evil metal creatures, Who tried to Exterminate!! Inside each of their casings Was a bubbling lump of hate, We met cybernetic humans With no feelings at all, Warriors of the ice Who stood over seven feet tall. Chorus (repeat)Bring him back now, we won't take less, If we stop his travels he'll be in a mess, The galaxy will fall to evil once more, With nightmarish monsters fighting a war. Chorus (repeat)Solo18 months is too long to wait, Bring back The Doctor, don't hesitate 18 months is too long to wait, Bring back The Doctor, don't hesitate 18 months is too long to wait, Bring back The Doctor, don't hesitate 18 months is too long to wait, Bring back The Doctor, don't hesitateNo, no, no, no, no!! Bring back The Doctor..... bring back The Doctor.....We've learned to accept six doctors With companions at their side, When they were faced with dangers They didn't run, they didn't hide, There was a Brigadier and a Master and a canine computer, Each screaming girl just hoped That a Yeti wouldn't shoot her. Chorus (repeat)Bring him back now, we won't take less, If we stop his travels he'll be in a mess, The galaxy will fall to evil once more, With nightmarish monsters fighting a war. Chorus (repeat x2)
No it started back in the eighties when the BBC actually were trying to assassinate the show losers like you overreacted over bad riding just do what they did to the dr having a human mother ignore it
All these people are currently recording a follow up version asking the BBC to put the current garbage starring Jodie Whittaker out of its misery. “Cancel it now and please say yes!” Called Doctor in this Dress.
Me: yo pass the aux cord
Them: You better not play any trash
Me:
"I drifted through the time vortex, longing to hear any semblance of a voice belonging to even my greatest foe...but there was nothing in that great void of solitude, Doctor...nothing but the sound of millions of 80s nerds playing "Doctor in Distress," over and over, wearing out millions of record needles, outlasting the age of the grandest stars, transcending the lives of every alien planetary system's black holes. I begged for the destruction of the oceans of vinyl, but they only transferred the infernal tune to compact discs. I implored the celestial gods of distant worlds to smite the optical music discs, but the cruel piece was merely uploaded to iTunes. Now, the forsaken dark scape of UA-cam is the source of my torment. I realized I could not escape. And after I'd listened to the song so many times I couldn't stop singing it, I had no choice but to share it to my Facebook page in order to pass on the judgment to other unfortunate inhabitants of my plane of torture. "
It's even weirder to think about when you realize that Hans fucking Zimmer played the keyboard for this song.
For real?
Yep. Hard to believe, I know. But it's linked on the wikipedia page for this song and there's plenty of articles out there about it too.
Wait what?!
I thought Twitter was joking!
No way.
"Bring him back now, we won't take less... If we lose him, that would be bad, I guess."
🤣🤣🤣
I didn't think you could get worse than the original edit.
I was sorely mistaken. "Where's that Doctor over there? The police box takes him everywhere." Fucking gold, top marks, Ian.
Dimmeh Looming wherever this song goes you follow
Nice to see one of my favourite whotubers is a fan of this godawful masterpiece
All we need is Capaldi, Tennant, and Smith and their companions to sing this with Colin Baker. I would buy it
Remember when waiting 18 months between seasons _wasn’t_ the norm?
Remember when Doctor Who didn’t have high production value and film abroad and use lots on time-consuming visual effects?
@@OnyxConflict Remember when Doctor Who had good stories, characters and writing
@@TheRealUnkn0wn_289 remember when pip and Jane Baker were considered "good writers"?
Remember when we weren't forced to stay inside and we could actually have some fun?
@@CoalDiamondandhisawesomeness Pip and Jane are better writers than 90% of nWho's staff including all 3 showrunners.
Bring it back for the 60th anniversary
This is Doctor Who’s answer to the Star Wars Holiday Special.
Not really. The Holiday Special is bad because it's boring, whereas this song is at least a funny kind of bad.
Surely the Children's in need special, "Dimension's in Time", is the Doctor Who's answer to the Star Wars Holiday Special.
@@HOTD108_ the holiday special has jefferson starship.
agreed that thing is terrible
There's a decent synthpop song hidden in here somewhere. Yes it really drops the ball with the vocal work and the lyrics, which admittedly kill it somewhat. But as an actual tune, it's kind of alright.
Parts of it remind me of New Order.
Yeah, I think the chorus and music are legitimately good
Listen to the instrumental. It's really catchy and well produced! But as for this...thing...oh dear.....
Guilty confession: I sort of enjoy listening to this.
Don’t worry, I like the way it sounds too 👍
It has ❤
You are ender arrest
Me too
Same my bf gonna hate me for it 😂
Me: These lyrics are bad.
*chorus comes on*
Me: DOCTOR IN DISTRESS, LET'S ALL ANSWER HIS S.O.S.
There's an extended version?!? You mean we have to hear *more* of it?!?!
I love it
@@jimcat68 Yeah, me too
i mean, all messiness aside, the song is rather catchy
@@magicamadeye *Y E S S !*
shoot me dead
this song made me regenerate ❤️
This is a fucking awful masterpiece of beauty I cherish
Now this is real music
My soul has left my body
And his has entered my body
"I don't want to go" -me listening to this song.
Play this whenever someone says how much better music used to be 30 years ago.
Now that's not fair man. Music today is SHIT.
Hah. I do that with some of the Keith and Orville tunes as well.
The 80s is a minefield of bad music. People say that they love the decade musically, but it's very telling that it's the same couple of dozen songs everyone goes to and plays ad nauseum. Goodness me there was a lot of naff shite made back then that no radio DJ would touch with a barge pole.
tbh i still like this a lot better than a lot of songs today
@@randymeddings6182 it all depends on where you look
I mean you'd be proving them right
18 Months IS too long to wait....
Never heard this before and my instant reaction was "Did they do this on roller skates while dressed as trains?" Checking the dates I'm further convinced that this was indeed inspired - if that's the right word - by Starlight Express. It just screams Cheap Knockoff from start to finish.
This song is so wonderfully bad it always makes me smile
Still rather listen to this than the master explaining the timeless child
I'd rather this song was the entire Timeless Child storyline. "18 million years of absolute power is too long to wait."
Yep... I hope Davies listens to Chibnall
(Chibnall has begged Davies to ignore it)
@@kellydclear "All my lives I have battled power-mad conspirators, I should've stayed here. The oldest civilisation in the universe: Degenerate, Decadent and Rotten to the core. 18 million years of absolute power. *That* is what it takes to be *truly* corrupt!"
Honestly, Doctor Who was just a whole bundle of contradictions before the timeless child, what’s one more contradiction?
Ehhh…it’s a different kind of pain. I still think in a way this shit is worse.
How did you get this series 11 theme so early?
Time Travel
Being a dedicated Dr Who viewer since I was 6. I have seen every episode of Dr Who as my PBS station showed current Dr Who episodes and another played the older seasons. I discovered this song years ago and now I can’t get enough of it!
Oh dear God
My favorite part is when Nicholas Courtney just knows that this is a steaming pile and doesn't bother singing.
Petition for someone to remake this. Not me, I'm not even a Doctor Who fan.
believe it or not, Hans Zimmer played the music for this !
@@andygozzo72 I thought it was Warren cann
I have this exact vinyl, I can't ever play it again....... never. (played it once ... eck)
Jokes aside .... Looking to find it online, it's never appeared, probably for a good reason .... thanks for bringing this online for the first time! Both full and instrumental mixes. I wonder if there is more stuff that hasn't been found online, especially rare stuff like this.
No matter how bad people say it is, I simply can't hate it, it is so catchy. Lol
I just stumbled on this video by accident.I think it is very special and I really love it.
Special? As in "special needs", "special school" etc.
6 minutes??
That's a lot of distress.
2:04 Que Colin Baker singing.
And there goes my faith in humanity. BTW, Nicholas Courtney was in this.
Truly a moment of time
I downloaded this and played it full blast on my car stereo while driving to work. The looks I received: 😡🤢😄😄😆😆😳😳😳😳🤢🙄😱😱😭😒😒😒😬😬
"Profits from sales of this record go to Cancer Relief" - joke's on them, there were no profits :D
If anything it made cancer rates go up
This song saved the show for a little while but the evil BBC kept trying to kill it
Cancer Relief *lost* money from this record.
While Doctor Who in the UK was off Star Trek in the US really thrived.
I cant believe this is on here. I was there and sung on it. Still got the waiver from the record company. :) :) :)
The waver is so you cant sue for cruelty?
legend
You're a legend for singing on this abomination but at the same tike you should sue Ian Levine for cruel and unusual punishment for creating this
Their band name doesn't help with this cheesefest.
i want to go to a cheesefest
Could this possibly be the greatest of all songs ever written & performed, ever, in the entire history of the human race?... Naaaaahhh! But it was worth a shot, though! 😁
There was a reason it wasnt online... >.
Mostly Michael Grade
@@robertgardiner2251 yep
Please can u reupload the radiophonic workshop videoof there live performance, yours was the only good sounding one i could find
Oh man, I would quickly get into that TARDIS and get the hell outta there ASAP
Bring him back now we won't take less.
I love this so much
USA For Africa: Let's get a bunch of top pop stars to record a song to help starving children in Africa.
Who Cares: Let's get a bunch of TV stars to sing a song complaining that a TV show is going on hiatus for too long.
But profits from sales of this record go to Cancer Relief.
@@ignaciocue What profits?
@@Forow64 The profits from sales of this record.
@@ignaciocue The record never made any profits. I was just making a joke around that.
What a bloody embarrassment
I love this song.
this version was a long play single before download music was born
This song did so poorly the Cancer Fund the song’s sales were meant to benefit *lost* money.
They even got Nicholas Courtney 😂😂
A day after my bday this was posted! Thanks mate!
I like this song
reason the song slaps is coz hans zimmer worked on it
I'd like to email this to Chris Chibnall. Anyone got his addy?
This is so bad, it's good. I can't stop laughing 😆😂🤣
Holy shit my human
oh no
Please iTunes put that song in there.
Somebody needs to do a lyrics video for karaoke purposes. For once we can only improve on the original
looms server anthem
Warren Cann, drummer of Ultravox, make the drum machine programming.
This ain't no "Vienna".
It hurts me that frazer Hines and Elizabeth sladen aren’t in this :,(
Lis Sladen had better sense than to be associated with this embarrassment.
@@jimcat68 Did Nick Courtney have 'better sense?'
its all for the best
This came from the same plane of existence as the 4kids one piece rap.
Wait, theres a one-piece what now?
@@technotrapper behold...
ua-cam.com/video/RSe8D2wfGKI/v-deo.html
@@technotrapper yo-ho-ho, he took a bite of gum-gum!
Oh the cry of the hiatus, oh nooooo!
........................ Ok Doctor In Distress
lol
Who Aid '85
So that was a song? I like it!
Just who sung which line in that tune?
"Each screaming girl hoped / That a Yeti wouldn't shoot her."
I've never understood the fetishization of the worst aspects of Doctor Who...why do people continue to refer affectionately to, even almost celebrate them? I saw a video from a fairly recent con where attendees who had mentioned they wanted to be a companion one day were told to grab their ankle and scream for the Doctor...plus the way Susan was made to sprain her ankle in The Five Doctors for no other reason than to reference how it happened in her previous stories (except the show's moved on a bit, and the actress was twenty years older)...it's an aspect of the fandom that really kind of disturbs me.
Well, you have to be able to acknowledge the corny aspects of the show even if it's a show you love. I don't think that people are referring to them "affectionately" so much as they are just acknowledging the cheese and having a good laugh about it. Same reason you probably looked up this video.
@@LoopyYTPlus It's not the cheese that I mind - I do enjoy that, as you suggested! It's rather the sexist stereotypes of the past and the way people sometimes seem to encourage them that bother me.
@@eclecticdog2k901 I mean, that's just part of the cheese, you need to take into account the era that the old stuff was made in. I don't see anyone in the fandom actively encouraging it, as opposed to laughing at it.
There's always been a bit of a problem with this in classic Doctor Who.
Watching that clip show from the early 90s which was broadcast before the airing of Planet of the Daleks still annoys me today. Having that talking faceless thing called "the anorak" with a Brummie accent and showing all the shittiest clips of classic. It was so stupid and felt like they were putting a boot into the fans that were still interested 4 years after the cancellation.
Why would the Yeti use a gun in the first place?
This tune isn't much different from most of what was played on MTV at the time. I find it hard to understand all the hatred of it. Sure, it's not great but I have heard far worse.
You've heard records sung worse than this? Worse than the "singing" Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant did here?
If the episode Turn left was made in the late 80s- I don't think the BBC would've cancelled doctor who
No we had to remembrance of the darlex and they still cancelled it
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Is this like Englands version of "We Are The World" ?
It was inspired by Live Aid.
nah, that was Do They Know It's Christmas?
@@jend80 ah yes, thank god
And now we’ve got another hiatus starting on New Year’s Day. Yep we won’t get new Doctor Who until 2020. The show is definitely in distress judging by this last season. I hope the writing improves. I don’t think it will but a guy can dream.
Moonfall777 It’s sad but after a slight improvement in series 10 and the exit of Moffat, I hoped the show would go in a better direction with a new show runner. Boy was I wrong.
Moonfall777 Time will tell.
It's already too late for them to act on our feedback, the scripts were essentially being finalised during series 11...
So we are waiting another year for the same series with no improvements...
If there's a year off you need to bring doctor who back with something new, something that's going to get the audience back, not the same writing with no development...
I just hope they've at least done something with Yaz, in my opinion the character was bland, generic and the acting was cardboard.
Cynical Who couldn’t agree more.
Doctor In Distress!
So what's the lyrics?
18 months is too long to wait,
Bring back The Doctor, don't hesitate.
18 months is too long to wait,
Bring back The Doctor, don't hesitateIt was a cold wet night in November
22 years ago,
There was a police box in a junkyard
We didn't know where it would go,
An old man took two teachers
Into time and space,
It started off a legend
That no other could replace. Chorus
Doctor in distress,
Let's all answer his S.O.S.,
Doctor in distress,
Bring him back now,
we won't take less. Where's The Doctor?
Over there
the police box takes him
everywhere
oh, ho!!
Bring him backThere were evil metal creatures,
Who tried to Exterminate!!
Inside each of their casings
Was a bubbling lump of hate,
We met cybernetic humans
With no feelings at all,
Warriors of the ice
Who stood over seven feet tall. Chorus (repeat)Bring him back now,
we won't take less,
If we stop his travels
he'll be in a mess,
The galaxy will fall
to evil once more,
With nightmarish monsters
fighting a war. Chorus (repeat)Solo18 months is too long to wait,
Bring back The Doctor, don't hesitate
18 months is too long to wait,
Bring back The Doctor, don't hesitate
18 months is too long to wait,
Bring back The Doctor, don't hesitate
18 months is too long to wait,
Bring back The Doctor, don't hesitateNo, no, no, no, no!!
Bring back The Doctor.....
bring back The Doctor.....We've learned to accept six doctors
With companions at their side,
When they were faced with dangers
They didn't run, they didn't hide,
There was a Brigadier and a Master
and a canine computer,
Each screaming girl just hoped
That a Yeti wouldn't shoot her. Chorus (repeat)Bring him back now,
we won't take less,
If we stop his travels
he'll be in a mess,
The galaxy will fall
to evil once more,
With nightmarish monsters
fighting a war. Chorus (repeat x2)
Bring him back now, we won't take less,
If we lose him, that would be bad, I guess
I don’t get why this song is bad, it’s got that 80s Cheese! But I love it
netflix
Satanic Ritual
Bit rude to satanists
I don't think its that bad
I was born in the right generation…
I am just going to say that looms are cannon ok
This is worse than getting the Mind Probe
The 13th Doctor's theme song after the timeless children!
Things could be worse, The Doctor could be turned woke by Disney instead.
unnecessary comment. please keep your toxic reactionary opinions off my channel.
Freedom of speech, deal with it.
one of those voices almost sounded like either Louise Jamieson or the late Mary Tamm
Neither were involved.
@@thefonzkiss Huzzah :)
App they asked a number of old faces to come in on it, but none of them (apart from Courtney) did. Sladen certainly, as she has mentioned it.
remember when people would watch doctor who and enjoy it instead of bitching about it online
Never. Even in the classic era the fandom are assholes.
This > series 11 & 12
Oh hello
I’ve not seen you in ages
chris chibnall has left the chat
Should make a new version because of what chibnall has done to the show now
I'm guessing the distress started with Chinball? "Who" needs to retcon everything this usurper has done.
No it started back in the eighties when the BBC actually were trying to assassinate the show losers like you overreacted over bad riding just do what they did to the dr having a human mother ignore it
All these people are currently recording a follow up version asking the BBC to put the current garbage starring Jodie Whittaker out of its misery. “Cancel it now and please say yes!” Called Doctor in this Dress.
Because they're bunch of virgin pussies who are overreacting I don't seem to grasp the concept that we can just ignore it like him being half-human
crap