The days when you could walk into Toys R Us and the huge displays, with the theme music and figures of your choice are sitting right in front of you! Magic in one word. :)
I can relate to this soooo much! That feeling of having all those amazing figures & sets in front of me is an emotional feeling for me, those were the days! I still have most of those figures to this day, and I don't plan on getting rid of them. Doctor Who for life! Maybe not the newer episodes though! 😂😂😂
Chris Gilbert Oh my god yes. I used to live close to Hendon In North London and i remember those days of walking in with the Huge Toys and displays etc... and Argos and Woolworths selling the play-sets and screwdrivers... Im 20 now but damn... what a childhood!
I love the outro theme from Series 1. It feels so triumphant, especially when its used after the show had the courage to throw "To Be Continued" on screen Murray Gold was such a grace to Doctor Who.
Those Saturday nights as a child with the bit at 0:02 on the cliffhanger as it reads ‘To Be Continued’ below the Doctor Who logo with the blue vortex in the background gave you the most epic feeling!
Personally, that was one of the best middle eights I've ever heard. It's just so... however you describe it. It just gives me goosebumps simply by listening to it. I think what sold it was the background music.
I think it's safe to say that Christopher Eccleston wins the shut the front door first prize of never having the 'middle eight' play at the end of any one of his episodes.
cause remember, government does not want, humanity to move forward and figure everything out , and, to see what they( govt) are, up to. if people figure everything out.... look at how many people THERE ARE A LOT then, theres No Stopping the people , and there will be freedom, and celebration and openness for ALL this, is what govt is afraid of, and this, my friends, is what they want, to prevent.
they own most media outlets, and they have brainwashed SUCCESSFULLY most people,,,to be enslaved and distracted. while their plans, are slowly phased in. as they watch the workers,, and see how the cities move...
When I was 6 ish my brother was obsessed with dr who, and I liked it too. One of my best memories was our whole family being in a tent and me and my brother had to share one of the small rooms of it, and he put the cybermen episode on and he was watching it on his laptop, and I was half asleep but was staying awake to watch it and it was great. I'm 15 now and started watching dr who and have been for about a month, and it's so nostalgic to me. I miss David tennant so much, Matt smith also.
So u were born in 2005 when DOCTOR who came out and I started to watch DOCTOR who David Tennants episodes back in early 2009 and remember watching the end of time on tv was good era of Tennants tho .
@@DOCTORWHOcentral I was 2 I remember my older sister watching doctor who although I was very scared of the racnoss and weeping angel so it put me off for years😭
With all the rumours I can just imagine Jodie regenerating fades to a black screen then David pops up and breaks the 4th wall and says " did you miss me"
Part 0:53 after the next ep was teasered feels perfect. The ep is just over, but the greater adventure is on. When I first heard it I was a bit surprised, because it was not the cliché scifi sound I expected. And that's great, it adds to the series overall impression. It's so joyful, majestic. I even wondered if it's some british melody. xD Don't judge, I'm german, so I couldn't know.
The derbyshire sting followed by the main tune after the preview was over always gave me goosebumps and made me want to watch the next episode. Love this theme!
Also my favourite version. I love that they put the middle eight back in with that booming timpani and the way it leads back into the main theme. It gave it a real sense of epicness and urgency that the next version lacked a little bit.
The bit at 0:55 triggers at the actual credits, I’m pretty sure that part is designed to wake you up because whenever I watch in the evenings and are half asleep at the end that part of the track makes me jump
Ah, the memories of watching what little doctor who we could from BBC America, since we weren't going to pay for an additional app and since reruns were infrequent. The David Tennant era was my first taste of the doctor, and boy was it good enough to hook me.
Love this theme! It gets u even more hyped for part 2 after the amazing cliffhangers in The Impossible Planet, Army of Ghosts, Daleks in Manhattan, Human Nature, Utopia and The Sound of Drums!
lilmattere No, I feel the dooweeeooooo was a different instrument. The one from the 1963 version sounded more like a crystal pad (if that's the instrument's actual name, can't quite remember) than the 2008 one, which sounds more like a sine than anything.
Drakkona123 lilmattere is right, both themes used the same Derbyshire 1963 samples - melody line and bassline in '05-'07 and just the melody line from '07-'10. Presumably they sound different thanks to the different orchestrations underneath. By the way, I'm finding you everywhere! Having a theme binge? ;)
That first downward pitch slide though.. when you’re engrossed in an episode, get to a tense moment like the doctor being held by weeping angels, and then- BOOM! Come back next week!
My favourite version of the closing credits. You could just slot this in any era of Doctor Who and it would just fit, any other version of the theme seem to be a product of their time. This is timeless.
Next Time DALEK: Launch missiles. Exterminate. JACK: We've got incoming! JACK this is it ladies and gentlemen we are at war JACK there's an army about to invade this station LYNDA: Defences have gone offline HOLO-DOCTOR I'm dead or about to die any second with no chance of escape. DOCTOR So tell me. How did you survive the Time War? EMPEROR DALEK They survived through me.
0:00-0:08, 0:34-0:53 What the intro theme from "The Christmas Invasion" to "Time Crash" should've sounded like, but with the interlude extended. Basically, the 2008 theme without the added drums.
This version of the theme is great. My only problems with it are that the orchestra's mixed way too high and mutes the bassline and much of the lead, and the higher instruments (especy the flutes) are used excessively and result in a really cheesy sound sometimes, especially during the middle 8, but also duirng the second part of the main melody, in the second repeat. The Series 1 (pseudo-orchestral) version was more subdued, with only one or two layers of strings, with a slightly dark sound, and this lead somehow to that part sounding more mysterious and eerie (as well as reminiscent of Dominic Glynn's version from 1986, which had a synth strings pad used to roughly the same effect). But here it's just brash, loud, and lacking the appeal and character of the previous version. But otherwise this version's great, and I don't undestand why they didn't make an opening theme for "The Christmas Invasion" or Series 2 using this recording or at least another one from the Series 2 recording sessions.
They did. The theme for the first series (as you alluded to in your comment) was created using purely synthesised orchestral sounds in Murray Gold's studio. During the Series 2 sessions with the orchestra he used the individual arrangements for all the different instruments from the Series 1 theme and rerecorded all the parts like-for-like with the actual orchestra. The result is pretty indistinguishable from the original unless you listen really carefully, but if you play the two back-to-back you can just about tell which one was synthesised and which was orchestrated. This rerecorded version was used from the Christmas Invasion onwards and features on the Series 1 & 2 soundtrack release (as "Doctor Who Theme (TV Version)"). But I agree with you, I've never really understood why they rerecorded the opening theme like-for-like when they did a whole new version of the closing theme. I guess it was because of the inclusion of the middle-8.
Joshua Blackwood Anyway, go read this: dwtheme.com I generally really liked the 2005-2007 closing theme, but there were some things I disliked about it. The opening theme and the closing theme for Series 1 were both created on Murray Gold's computer, using samples and synthesizers mimicking the sounds of orchestra instruments. But for "The Christmas Invasion" onwards both were re-recorded with a real, full orchestra, with the opening theme being almost intact in arrangement and orchestration; the exact same arrangement, just recorded with an actual orchestra. The closing theme, however, was rearranged and re-orchestrated. DarthJedi2005 doesn't understand why this was done; why wasn't the opening theme rearranged as well if it was rerecorded on an orchestra, too.
@DarthJedi2005 I don't know for sure if this has been answered or not, but according to Wikipedia, the Middle 8 is "the section of a song which has a significantly different melody from the rest of the song, usually after the second chorus in a song. Such sections often consist of new chords, but also frequently just alternate between two chords. It is called a middle 8 because it happens in the middle of the song and the length is generally 8 bars."
Correct me if I'm wrong anybody, but my understanding of it is that "middle 8" is a musical term meaning pretty much exactly as it is. It's a middle bit, and it's 8 bars long.
Sounds like a reference one of those My little Pony/Doctor Who crossover stories. Bon-Bon's one of the show's background characters. The fandom's had a pipe interest in Doctor Who ever since they decided one of the characters resembled the Tenth Doctor.
It would've been interesting if we had a one-off opening theme from the recording of this closing theme (kinda like the 2008 theme but without the added drums and guitar). Would've probably worked awesomely with "The Christmas Invasion".
The days when you could walk into Toys R Us and the huge displays, with the theme music and figures of your choice are sitting right in front of you! Magic in one word. :)
Now you can't even walk into Toys R Us
I can relate to this soooo much! That feeling of having all those amazing figures & sets in front of me is an emotional feeling for me, those were the days! I still have most of those figures to this day, and I don't plan on getting rid of them. Doctor Who for life! Maybe not the newer episodes though! 😂😂😂
Chris Gilbert Oh my god yes. I used to live close to Hendon In North London and i remember those days of walking in with the Huge Toys and displays etc... and Argos and Woolworths selling the play-sets and screwdrivers... Im 20 now but damn... what a childhood!
too bad because the Daleks destroyed toys r us
The 2000s were the days right?
I love the outro theme from Series 1. It feels so triumphant, especially when its used after the show had the courage to throw "To Be Continued" on screen
Murray Gold was such a grace to Doctor Who.
This was from Series 2 onwards
Those Saturday nights as a child with the bit at 0:02 on the cliffhanger as it reads ‘To Be Continued’ below the Doctor Who logo with the blue vortex in the background gave you the most epic feeling!
BBC 1 @7PM Sat there as kid fkin glued to the screen!!!
Take me back to those days man
Personally, that was one of the best middle eights I've ever heard. It's just so... however you describe it. It just gives me goosebumps simply by listening to it. I think what sold it was the background music.
I think it's safe to say that Christopher Eccleston wins the shut the front door first prize of never having the 'middle eight' play at the end of any one of his episodes.
The frustration of hearing this at the end of an episode with "TO BE CONTINUED..." and having to wait an ENTIRE WEEK to find out what happened next!
It was even more frustrating when sometimes you had to wait TWO weeks. Thanks ABC.
Especially during 'The Army of Ghosts' cliff hanger!
And not even hear the middle eight!!!
Batman
@@owenhargreaves5584 the stolen earth or the end of time
0:53 that's what I was looking for!
For me, that sound above all others *is* Doctor Who. It's not even in the opening credits, there's just something about it.
Same
the middle 8!
cause remember, government does not want, humanity to move forward and figure everything out , and, to see what they( govt) are, up to.
if people figure everything out....
look at how many people THERE ARE
A LOT
then, theres No Stopping
the people ,
and there will be freedom, and celebration and openness for ALL
this, is what govt is afraid of, and this, my friends, is what they want, to prevent.
they own most media
outlets, and they have brainwashed SUCCESSFULLY
most people,,,to be enslaved and distracted.
while their plans, are slowly phased in.
as they watch the workers,, and see how the cities move...
This is the version I think in my head whenever I see previews for next week's episode -- NO MATTER THE SHOW.
"Next Time... on FRAISER"
"Next Time on MLP: Friendship is Magic..."
oh wait they don't have "next time" thing before the credits so...
doctor crane's gotta use the tardis to go back to 1800's france to find a rare wine
@@MondySpartan 😆🤣😂
Next Time.... on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 😂
'This is Doctor Frasier Crane, I'm listening!'
'EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!'
'I'm sensing some anger issues.'
When I was 6 ish my brother was obsessed with dr who, and I liked it too. One of my best memories was our whole family being in a tent and me and my brother had to share one of the small rooms of it, and he put the cybermen episode on and he was watching it on his laptop, and I was half asleep but was staying awake to watch it and it was great. I'm 15 now and started watching dr who and have been for about a month, and it's so nostalgic to me. I miss David tennant so much, Matt smith also.
So u were born in 2005 when DOCTOR who came out and I started to watch DOCTOR who David Tennants episodes back in early 2009 and remember watching the end of time on tv was good era of Tennants tho .
@@DOCTORWHOcentral I was 2 I remember my older sister watching doctor who although I was very scared of the racnoss and weeping angel so it put me off for years😭
I remember watching david tenet doctor who when I like 5 and being very afraid of the dalek emperor
He's back
The Pit is open....
And I AM FREE!!!.....
I watched that last Saturday!!
@@kingzaynsmyname3634 my favourite 2-parter!
"Next Time..." with this theme still gives me chills
Oh, The NOSTALGIA! :) Takes me back to when I was a kid at Saturday Nights! (Back when Saturday Nights meant something)
@M.H.0903 Good times... I miss the 2000s.
@@crashfan9997 :'(
@@crashfan9997 Same 😔
I still get nostalgic and goosebumps with this theme. Big part it was in my Childhood with Eccleston and Tennant as the Doctors
I love the middle-8 segment... just that sudden upswing into the major key, makes me shiver every time
Best theme version. I miss David Tennant and Billie Piper.
very true
I miss David and catherine tate
Rose was the WORST companion ever
Hazpod Gaming agreed
haha Rory was cool!
This was the theme used for a lot of the cliff hanger episodes, where it would end with "To Be Continued". It always sounded so chilling.
I love this version of the theme much better than the opening
"What this country needs, right now, is a Doctor"
0:28 is my favorite part as it is where "crap goes down".
Arturo Games and what are they CYBERMEN !!!!
@@MR2PROSHOOTER BUT WE SURRENDER
What do you mean?
@@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2 What happens if I refuse?
0:16 this reminds me always of the cybermen I dont know why
Nice Theme!!!
me too ;)
Aiden Myhr :D
It’s like an alternative to our world where everything’s the same but a little bit different!
I think it's played by the same instrument
Gave me massive goosebumps when it teased what happened in the next episode with David tennant
With all the rumours I can just imagine Jodie regenerating fades to a black screen then David pops up and breaks the 4th wall and says " did you miss me"
Or maybe just saying What, What What
BEST CLOSING THEME TO DOCTOR WHO EVER!!! I wished that and the 2008 version of the opening them were kept from Series 5 onwards!
Batme
For some reason, the "hiss" noise at the end always stood out to me when it showed the BBC Wales logo
The middle 8 was beautiful
It feels like we're going through the whole of time and space yipee
I just love that little bit of the original 1963 version you can hear at the end
1:07 my favourite part of this theme
A Man Utd fan that watches Doctor Who too? Awesome.
@@crashfan9997, yep that's awesome.
Batman
@@ahmmedss398 What?
Same
Believe it or not this is my favorite middle 8 ever
Oh I believe it 🙃
Best Closing Theme in the whole show
Part 0:53 after the next ep was teasered feels perfect. The ep is just over, but the greater adventure is on. When I first heard it I was a bit surprised, because it was not the cliché scifi sound I expected. And that's great, it adds to the series overall impression. It's so joyful, majestic. I even wondered if it's some british melody. xD Don't judge, I'm german, so I couldn't know.
The derbyshire sting followed by the main tune after the preview was over always gave me goosebumps and made me want to watch the next episode. Love this theme!
I miss the Davies-Tennant and Moffat-Smith eras. Those seasons were the absolute best in my opinion.
Also my favourite version. I love that they put the middle eight back in with that booming timpani and the way it leads back into the main theme. It gave it a real sense of epicness and urgency that the next version lacked a little bit.
The bit at 0:55 triggers at the actual credits, I’m pretty sure that part is designed to wake you up because whenever I watch in the evenings and are half asleep at the end that part of the track makes me jump
They should have used this on The Parting Of The Ways.
I have no idea but this would somehow fit a tv show based on the Scp universe
Ah, the memories of watching what little doctor who we could from BBC America, since we weren't going to pay for an additional app and since reruns were infrequent. The David Tennant era was my first taste of the doctor, and boy was it good enough to hook me.
RETURN OF THE KING
This is my favorite theme (Until I rewatched series 4 which is my actual favourite now looking back on it now to be honest)
Love this theme! It gets u even more hyped for part 2 after the amazing cliffhangers in The Impossible Planet, Army of Ghosts, Daleks in Manhattan, Human Nature, Utopia and The Sound of Drums!
0:06 can you hear 1st doctor's theme?
Yeah Murray gold used elements (including the bassline) for Series 1-4 :)
lilmattere *1-3
Series 4 went all hardcore on us with that newer theme.
Yeah but he still used the elements from the 1963 theme like the Dooweeoooo and the second melody and such
lilmattere No, I feel the dooweeeooooo was a different instrument. The one from the 1963 version sounded more like a crystal pad (if that's the instrument's actual name, can't quite remember) than the 2008 one, which sounds more like a sine than anything.
Drakkona123
lilmattere is right, both themes used the same Derbyshire 1963 samples - melody line and bassline in '05-'07 and just the melody line from '07-'10. Presumably they sound different thanks to the different orchestrations underneath. By the way, I'm finding you everywhere! Having a theme binge? ;)
This is still my favorite theme. I get so nostalgic listening to this now.
I like how the first part of the theme finishes and then in goes RIGHT into the next theme. :D
0:47 NEXT TIME on DOCTOR WHO.
0:17 reminds me of The series 3 finale
That first downward pitch slide though.. when you’re engrossed in an episode, get to a tense moment like the doctor being held by weeping angels, and then- BOOM! Come back next week!
My favourite version of the closing credits. You could just slot this in any era of Doctor Who and it would just fit, any other version of the theme seem to be a product of their time. This is timeless.
"It's the ood sir, they've gone mad!"
I legit can't remember if that's a quote from 'The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit' or 'Planet of the Ood'
SO EPIC!!!!! It's just the perfect wrap up to a season.
Next Time
DALEK: Launch missiles. Exterminate.
JACK: We've got incoming!
JACK this is it ladies and gentlemen we are at war
JACK there's an army about to invade this station
LYNDA: Defences have gone offline
HOLO-DOCTOR I'm dead or about to die any second with no chance of escape.
DOCTOR So tell me. How did you survive the Time War?
EMPEROR DALEK They survived through me.
Nothing beats the first 10 seconds of this theme.
The drums are nice. Brings the element of classic who back.
It was as if I had travelled across all of time and space to find 0:53... finally! 😂😂😂
The most Iconic series :)
This theme during the coming soon trailer for the 2007 series was an elite pairing.
Oh the nostalgia every time the episode I was watching was over and 8 would go on to the next episode
I barely noticed that the 2nd-4th doctors theme is quitly layered in the background
0:00-0:08, 0:34-0:53 What the intro theme from "The Christmas Invasion" to "Time Crash" should've sounded like, but with the interlude extended.
Basically, the 2008 theme without the added drums.
i like this but the version with the added bass is cool!
2 Slitheen were not amused.
Ha. I get it.
+PixelPowYoshi It's now two slitheen and one Dalek
ya
Tristan Regan the Watermelon It's 2 Slitheen and The Cult of Skaro but Dalek Sec forgot to dislike.
ZeroSuitYoshi It's now 2 Slitheen, 1 Dalek, The Empty Child, 3 Cybermen and 2 Slabs
1:20 I like that they brought that bit back from some of the old themes that first had it.
This is my favorite closing theme.
I hope the introduction of a female Doctor will serve as a fresh start for the show, after years of Moffat, by God we need a reset!
Dimes 4 Crimes yeah they really destroyed the show
Best of all the DW closing themes.
Oh how I wish I was 12 again.
I like how this version is more subtle when it starts, rather than the intensity of the main theme. I like both though.
you hit the nail on the head bud !
why is this somehow better then the opening theme
OMG, THERE IS SO MANY COOL THINGS IN THE NEXT EPISODE !!
I HAVE TO WATCH IT RIGHT NOW !!
That exactly what i thaught when i heard this theme :P
This version of the theme is great. My only problems with it are that the orchestra's mixed way too high and mutes the bassline and much of the lead, and the higher instruments (especy the flutes) are used excessively and result in a really cheesy sound sometimes, especially during the middle 8, but also duirng the second part of the main melody, in the second repeat. The Series 1 (pseudo-orchestral) version was more subdued, with only one or two layers of strings, with a slightly dark sound, and this lead somehow to that part sounding more mysterious and eerie (as well as reminiscent of Dominic Glynn's version from 1986, which had a synth strings pad used to roughly the same effect). But here it's just brash, loud, and lacking the appeal and character of the previous version.
But otherwise this version's great, and I don't undestand why they didn't make an opening theme for "The Christmas Invasion" or Series 2 using this recording or at least another one from the Series 2 recording sessions.
They did. The theme for the first series (as you alluded to in your comment) was created using purely synthesised orchestral sounds in Murray Gold's studio. During the Series 2 sessions with the orchestra he used the individual arrangements for all the different instruments from the Series 1 theme and rerecorded all the parts like-for-like with the actual orchestra. The result is pretty indistinguishable from the original unless you listen really carefully, but if you play the two back-to-back you can just about tell which one was synthesised and which was orchestrated. This rerecorded version was used from the Christmas Invasion onwards and features on the Series 1 & 2 soundtrack release (as "Doctor Who Theme (TV Version)"). But I agree with you, I've never really understood why they rerecorded the opening theme like-for-like when they did a whole new version of the closing theme. I guess it was because of the inclusion of the middle-8.
Joshua Blackwood Go learn some music. It's really tiring to explain all that stuff.
Joshua Blackwood Anyway, go read this: dwtheme.com
I generally really liked the 2005-2007 closing theme, but there were some things I disliked about it.
The opening theme and the closing theme for Series 1 were both created on Murray Gold's computer, using samples and synthesizers mimicking the sounds of orchestra instruments. But for "The Christmas Invasion" onwards both were re-recorded with a real, full orchestra, with the opening theme being almost intact in arrangement and orchestration; the exact same arrangement, just recorded with an actual orchestra. The closing theme, however, was rearranged and re-orchestrated.
DarthJedi2005 doesn't understand why this was done; why wasn't the opening theme rearranged as well if it was rerecorded on an orchestra, too.
hint fans don't give a shit.
iLikeTheUDK What programme did Murray Gold use?
To be continued...
Aidan Stead It’s the future kind!
I miss Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor..
@DarthJedi2005 I don't know for sure if this has been answered or not, but according to Wikipedia, the Middle 8 is "the section of a song which has a significantly different melody from the rest of the song, usually after the second chorus in a song. Such sections often consist of new chords, but also frequently just alternate between two chords. It is called a middle 8 because it happens in the middle of the song and the length is generally 8 bars."
O melhor tema de encerramento da série na minha opinião ❤
If they'd used this theme for Tennant's first 2 years, then that woulda been cool
@escfan2008 it was used in 2005 as well remember the christmas invasion
0:53 to the end is the biggest hit in my opinion
I love the series !!!!!!!! Perfect is !!!!!!!
0:40 sounds like the exact bit matt smith's one was build upon, best bit imo
This is my favorite.
The best closing theme
0.5x sounds epic when running
2005-2007 we miss you
Chills.
Best Middle 8..
Love this one, thanks
LOVE IT TO
If you listen closely at the beginning you can hear the guitar track that was in the opening theme for the 1963 version
Yeah, the (revival) Series one theme contained some classic elements.
Man, the nostalgia…
This theme tune is Sadish version of Doctor Who theme
Correct me if I'm wrong anybody, but my understanding of it is that "middle 8" is a musical term meaning pretty much exactly as it is. It's a middle bit, and it's 8 bars long.
I Love The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales
idk why Mikey is replying to this comment about that but I agree
The middle 8 is epic.
this should have been the 2008 theme
I like this theme it's cool
It kind of was, the 2008 theme was based on parts of this.
NEXT TIME
Is it just me that thinks of an exciting new adventure for the doctor from 0:00 to 0:35?
Sounds like a reference one of those My little Pony/Doctor Who crossover stories. Bon-Bon's one of the show's background characters.
The fandom's had a pipe interest in Doctor Who ever since they decided one of the characters resembled the Tenth Doctor.
from seasons 2 and 3
@DarthJedi2005 no i got told by my music teacher that it is a tune that is different to the main bit
0:56 to 1:06 favourite part of this theme
Should be great if Rose meets the 13th Doctor in Doctor Who Series 13 👍
It would've been interesting if we had a one-off opening theme from the recording of this closing theme (kinda like the 2008 theme but without the added drums and guitar). Would've probably worked awesomely with "The Christmas Invasion".
This putto reminded me of the Loki show outro