Peter Howell updated the Dr.Who theme tune with synthesisers, Delia Derbyshire realised the original theme tune along with Dick Mills and Brian Hodgson, using a combination of plucked string mounted on a wooden box and deep bass swoops created from the valve oscillators they had for the bassline, the melodyline was done by test tone generators and a keyed instrument for the high note, called a melodica, and a white noise rhythm was created by recording cutting and editing three pieces of white noise together, adding reverb and dubbing it on back to front over the music, say 'reversed'. From Patrick Troughton's era, Delia added rapid echoes to the bass line and melody line and also dubbed over newly created electronic spangles mixed with the rapid echo onto the opening bars of the tunes up to the start of the middle eight where the spangles are rapidly faded out. For Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker Delia did a number of edits of the original to shorten the opening title music, dubbing over an additional loud whoosh of white noise at the theme tune bridge to disguise a bad edit before the familiar repeating melody line / bass line / hisses loop to fade, and from Ambassadors Of Death, she added the familiar cliffhanger scream effect - this was created using a hard edged audio tone which was used untreated in the TARDIS-Dr.Who track on Doctor Who The Music BBC Records REH 462 Stereo 33rpm, BBC Cassettes ZCR 462 Stereo Dolby System and it was treated and re-recorded to add the bubbling rising descending background and echo into the cliffhanger scream into the closing title music.
The best jingle to a logo ever, I particularly love the closing piece, how it starts off catchy and funky and it turns into a slow sad song at the end.
@@jordanhowell7798 both are good and made my childhood Sadly i only watched the only movie of postman pat and 1 movie of fireman sam (ready for action 1996) and a lot of episodes they were good
I have been passionate about graphic design from a very early age. I think I was about a year old when I first saw this and I remember being amazed by the bright colours. This ident is probably what started my interest in graphic design.
This one scared me a bit when I was a kid because of the music, but I love it now :) Reminds me of my cousins' Fireman Sam vids. My brother's friend also has old Monty Python videos with this logo on as well.
The "Revenge of the Cybermen" one was the original music. RotC was one of the BBC's earliest video releases, in the early 80s. The version here is the second ident.
This was on the first VHS release of _The Young Ones_. I still remember that video - Three episodes ('Oil', 'Boring' and 'Flood') horribly spliced together without their end credits, and as a consequence, the ending punchline of the first episode was missing!
this music some always went well with the 70s Dr Who theme, Death To The Daleks was first Dr. Who story I bought on VHS that was Christmas 1990 although it was released in the mid 80s all Dr. Who videos then were released in movie format until 1989 when the first unedited Dr. Who was released which was The Daleks as a two part release part 1 The Dead Planet & Part 2 Expadition
Not only was this ident from Postman Pat and Fireman Sam VHSs but also I guess is from Fawlty Towers, Bertha, The Family Ness and Jimbo and the Jet Set. I also saw the ident in Black & White to and from it on the first Watch with Mother VHS in 1987. I was actually born in 1986.
O M G! I haven't seen this for over 20 years! Seeing this just actually made me cry! I was whisked back in time to being sat in front of the TV watching Postman Pat videos. That is just incredible. THANK YOU for uploading it. I loved my childhood, and this ident just takes me straight back to it at warp speed whenever I click 'replay'. :) Thank you so much.
Yeah! :) Me too! There was something 'magical' about the star shimmering at the end. Like it was saying 'goodbye, until next time' or something! Perhaps it was a subliminal message programmed in by a BBC Micro to make us all buy retro computing hard and software in our 20's, 30's? :)
This was version 1 of the 1980-1988 logo (this exact one hailing from 1984), as the star doesn't have the shadow chyron out effect that was added sometime around 1985.
Awesome ident! BBC Radiophonic Workshop and 1980s graphics. This was on the first release of Doctor Who Pyrmaids of Mars in 1985 obtained on Betamax for £24.99. The good old days.
Does everyone else notice the 'moon' shape object that appears too right at the end when the star 'shines' for the last time?! I always wondered what it was? Was it really space I used to think? :) Are there moons and other planets and things in that blackness? The star needs to shine brighter so we can see them! :)
I've just remembered another video I've seen this one on - when I was at school we had to watch the cartoon version of Animal Farm and it was at the beginning of that.
Just found out who composed this tune, it was Peter Howell, a member of the BBC Radiophonic workshop who also composed the Doctor Who theme song.
Peter Howell updated the Dr.Who theme tune with synthesisers, Delia Derbyshire realised the original theme tune along with Dick Mills and Brian Hodgson, using a combination of plucked string mounted on a wooden box and deep bass swoops created from the valve oscillators they had for the bassline, the melodyline was done by test tone generators and a keyed instrument for the high note, called a melodica, and a white noise rhythm was created by recording cutting and editing three pieces of white noise together, adding reverb and dubbing it on back to front over the music, say 'reversed'.
From Patrick Troughton's era, Delia added rapid echoes to the bass line and melody line and also dubbed over newly created electronic spangles mixed with the rapid echo onto the opening bars of the tunes up to the start of the middle eight where the spangles are rapidly faded out.
For Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker Delia did a number of edits of the original to shorten the opening title music, dubbing over an additional loud whoosh of white noise at the theme tune bridge to disguise a bad edit before the familiar repeating melody line / bass line / hisses loop to fade, and from Ambassadors Of Death, she added the familiar cliffhanger scream effect - this was created using a hard edged audio tone which was used untreated in the TARDIS-Dr.Who track on Doctor Who The Music BBC Records REH 462 Stereo 33rpm, BBC Cassettes ZCR 462 Stereo Dolby System and it was treated and re-recorded to add the bubbling rising descending background and echo into the cliffhanger scream into the closing title music.
The best jingle to a logo ever, I particularly love the closing piece, how it starts off catchy and funky and it turns into a slow sad song at the end.
It's not sad at the end, but has a calmer feel to it.
Takes me back to my earliest conscious memories of my Fireman Sam VHS in the very late Eighties.
And maybe Postman Pat?
@@jordanhowell7798 both are good and made my childhood
Sadly i only watched the only movie of postman pat and 1 movie of fireman sam (ready for action 1996) and a lot of episodes they were good
so glad it's not just me. found it scary at age 4 and still do!! (age 30!)
Reminds me of Dr Who on VHS in the 80s.
And the Protect & Survive videos - they had scary synths on them, too...
I LOVE the ending of the closing piece. It's like an extra little surprise that rounds it all out.
1980-1988 the first ever bbc video logo
The music in this one was made in 1984
This, perhaps more than anything I've ever seen, fills me with joyful nostalgia.
I had this on my old Fawlty Towers VHS videos.
I have been passionate about graphic design from a very early age. I think I was about a year old when I first saw this and I remember being amazed by the bright colours. This ident is probably what started my interest in graphic design.
Love this one! Just been watching the Doctor Who serial Pyramids of Mars. All the B.B.C idents are great, but this is probably my favourite :)
I have that logo on my Dad's 4 VHS box set of Fawlty Towers.
Reminds me of my old Fawlty Towers tapes
I was expecting Jon Pertwee's face to appear midway through the sequence.
This one scared me a bit when I was a kid because of the music, but I love it now :) Reminds me of my cousins' Fireman Sam vids. My brother's friend also has old Monty Python videos with this logo on as well.
Also from Postman Pat 1, 2 & 3 1986, UK VHS!
I had Death to the Daleks and Robots of Death, the movie versions, which both had this video ident, i still love it now lol
The "Revenge of the Cybermen" one was the original music. RotC was one of the BBC's earliest video releases, in the early 80s. The version here is the second ident.
I had hardly and Doctor Who videos with this ending, mine usually had the later version. My copy of Death to the Daleks used this though.
This was on the first VHS release of _The Young Ones_. I still remember that video - Three episodes ('Oil', 'Boring' and 'Flood') horribly spliced together without their end credits, and as a consequence, the ending punchline of the first episode was missing!
Throatwobbler Mangrove Very true. I still have my VHS copy somewhere.
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This is meant to be scary? This is freaking sweet!
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Same here is Amazing this is my favorite bbc video logo the Synth jingle music from intro and closing are Fantastic Cool Wow the Best ever 👍✌😁😀
this music some always went well with the 70s Dr Who theme, Death To The Daleks was first Dr. Who story I bought on VHS that was Christmas 1990 although it was released in the mid 80s all Dr. Who videos then were released in movie format until 1989 when the first unedited Dr. Who was released which was The Daleks as a two part release part 1 The Dead Planet & Part 2 Expadition
Postman Pat & Fireman Sam. Also Scotch & Wry.
Not only was this ident from Postman Pat and Fireman Sam VHSs but also I guess is from Fawlty Towers, Bertha, The Family Ness and Jimbo and the Jet Set. I also saw the ident in Black & White to and from it on the first Watch with Mother VHS in 1987. I was actually born in 1986.
Don’t forget The Magic Roundabout as that too had a VHS release with this BBC Ident on it from 1984
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The closing one is so sad :_:
Not to me. It's more calming and moving, but makes me cry tears of joy.
It’s like state funeral music
It's a clever way to get you to rewind the tape and not feel so bad about it 😁
The corona at the end seems to go PERFRCTLY with the start of the 1980-1986 Doctor Who title sequences...
This used to be on my old Dr Who Videos lol
I had this ident on the first ever EastEnders video!
O M G!
I haven't seen this for over 20 years!
Seeing this just actually made me cry! I was whisked back in time to being sat in front of the TV watching Postman Pat videos. That is just incredible.
THANK YOU for uploading it. I loved my childhood, and this ident just takes me straight back to it at warp speed whenever I click 'replay'. :)
Thank you so much.
This always puts a smile on my face
I remember this being on an old Doctor Who video my big brother had. Ah, sweet childhood, where have you gone now?
I swear, NBC had a variant to.
To met he intro to this ident both does bear some resemblance to the Star Gate sequence from 2001 A Space Odyssey.
Nice!
when i saw this it would then lead me into the doctor who theme tune
1980-1988, 1984 variant!!
Looks like a dodgy acid trip
I saw this on my Fawlty Towers VHS boxset.
Taken from faulty towers vhs
I remember this being the intro and ending for my Faulty Towers Home videos. :)
My grandpa's got this on a Dad's Army vhs
Reminds me of Fawlty Towers
I've got this ident on Postman Pat 1 video.
I have this on the first three volumes of Postman Pat and the first two volumes of Fireman Sam. 📼
ah that takes me back. Always remember that as the intro the my fireman sam videos :p
and maybe postman pat?
this one is fine, it's the one from the 90's i cannot cope with !
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Marvelous!
AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT THINKS THE EDM MUSIC IN THE BEGINNING SCARES THE SHAT OUT OF ME SO MUCH THAT I COULDNT SLEEP AT NIGHT!
Yeah! :) Me too! There was something 'magical' about the star shimmering at the end. Like it was saying 'goodbye, until next time' or something!
Perhaps it was a subliminal message programmed in by a BBC Micro to make us all buy retro computing hard and software in our 20's, 30's? :)
This used to scare me...still does a little hahahahaha
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@Oreo master, I agree with you! It's synth heaven to me!
This was version 1 of the 1980-1988 logo (this exact one hailing from 1984), as the star doesn't have the shadow chyron out effect that was added sometime around 1985.
i love this ident. i was only 3 when i saw this for the first time! 37 years of it! WOW
Awesome ident! BBC Radiophonic Workshop and 1980s graphics. This was on the first release of Doctor Who Pyrmaids of Mars in 1985 obtained on Betamax for £24.99. The good old days.
And composed by the same bloke who did the 80s Doctor Who theme
I am familiar with the version.
Bloody hell havent seen that since death to the daleks video with jon pertwee!!! i still have it somewhere!!!
Does everyone else notice the 'moon' shape object that appears too right at the end when the star 'shines' for the last time?!
I always wondered what it was? Was it really space I used to think? :) Are there moons and other planets and things in that blackness? The star needs to shine brighter so we can see them! :)
The Music sounds like it was made by Peter Howell of the BBC radiophonic workshop.
I wonder if it was by him?
BTW I'm sure they used a bit of this music on Channel 4's Kevin Bishop Show last night, over a mock HBO ident
I love the final outro shot of the star winking out.
Sorry this takes me back to my childhood and postman pat and it really cheers me up when I’m down
They could easily remake it for DVD's
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This logo was on a video my late father owned called 'The Crowning Years' which was a video about Welsh Rugby.
I remember this logo on my Postman Pat Video
I've just remembered another video I've seen this one on - when I was at school we had to watch the cartoon version of Animal Farm and it was at the beginning of that.
Get in!! Reminds me of my oldschool Fawlty Towers videos! Nice post - much appreciated!
i don't know if this was me, but this used to scare me when i was little.
This felt like it was from a past era when it came out
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That will be released in 1985
A Great Classic Indeed.
The ending one makes me smile :-)
Brilliant beginning and end. At first I was afraid at the end sequence but I like the sound and it matches the video ident.
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Now this one scared me I'm not so sure why
1984-1988
Leo was 1 year old in December 2007.
i remember this from the Postman Pat vhs tape when I was about 7
this music does the face of the light with the nest
Best One EVER. They have put effort into this one...
Followed by the best tv theme ever - Doctor Who
Also from fireman Sam 1&2 1988, UK VHS!
Also from postman Pat 1, 2 & 3 1986, UK VHS!
I know, I was sacred of the video music too!
I remember this logo
I had this on an old VHS of the Five Doctors
Technical brilliance
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love this as the one before!
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may be scary, but..
points to 1990-1997 ident and ident plays
Yup, even scarier. But I'm actually immune to such scary logos like that.
What is that song from
Fab piece o Prog!
Definitely ripped from a Pigeon Street VHS,
Or maybe from The Family Ness: Tales from Loch Ness
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Loved it :)