Wheel was like the poster child for the Missing Episodes when I was first learning about them. There’s this incredibly melancholy undertone to it, very apt for a story that would go on to be junked. What some people see as a boring and uninspired production, I perceive as this thick sense of dreary hopelessness affecting everything. Wheel comes across as, for want of a better word, tired. One could almost imagine that the story somehow knows it was doomed to become lost one day.
Alot of these early 60s scores, considering the technological limitations at the time, are amazing ambient mood music. They sound like something Aphex Twin would make.
SO atmospheric... The soundtrack alone is reason to love The Wheel in Space. Love the weird sting whenever we see the Wheel through the Silver Carrier's porthole!
That was originally from the soundtrack to "The Web Planet". It was a piece of stock music originally composed by the French experimental music team Les Sculptures Sonores, who devised all manner of unusual instrumentation to create unique sounds.
+D For Dalek its so horribly beautiful. Its shows no emotion and constant precision with no alterations in anything but the basic pitch. Its so calculated I love it.
George Reid I just dont think he cares anymore, like the tracks are reused that much it kills me. Like how the doctors theme is used in every episode. I think we need a new composer just to change the feel of it abit ya know. And D for Dalek is right wheel in space theme is absolutely amazing for the cybermen, its simple, eerie and just works.
Thank you so much for this. I love Wheel. People trash on it, its one I wish could be found/animated the most. These early episodes are more like horror movies than action shows unlike stuff they make today. I fully get why kids hid behind the sofa.
@@ewaf88 You are wrong though. Im not saying you can not like his work but to say hes clueless when he clearly knows what hes doing is incorrect. I dont have to like Politicians but to say they are bad at politics is also wrong. I dont have to like gorden ramseys food but to say hes a bad chef is again wrong
The classic series really set the tone & atmosphere with sound & music. What is the point of having conventional music in Science Fiction Horror? Stranger Things showed us how DW should have been scored. But no. Orchestra never shuts up in the nu crap.
Wheel was like the poster child for the Missing Episodes when I was first learning about them. There’s this incredibly melancholy undertone to it, very apt for a story that would go on to be junked. What some people see as a boring and uninspired production, I perceive as this thick sense of dreary hopelessness affecting everything. Wheel comes across as, for want of a better word, tired. One could almost imagine that the story somehow knows it was doomed to become lost one day.
The thumbnail makes it look like the Cybermen are having a party
Alot of these early 60s scores, considering the technological limitations at the time, are amazing ambient mood music. They sound like something Aphex Twin would make.
I know this is a four year old comment. Boards of Canada actually sampled the Cyberman humming sound as part of their song Chinook released in 1998.
Fantastically eerie washes of sound, bleeps and bloops. Really atmospheric and alient and weird. Love it.
a much underated classic story the wheel in space is brilliant, great incidental sound track music by tristram cary here in this story.
The score in this is great gives a lost in space vibe in some dangerous place
SO atmospheric... The soundtrack alone is reason to love The Wheel in Space. Love the weird sting whenever we see the Wheel through the Silver Carrier's porthole!
This eerie music is superb in billions of ways
Was a lot scarier in the 60s than now more atmospheric the cybermen frightened the life out of me
3:26 love this part
1:55 I really like this part so atmospheric.
That was originally from the soundtrack to "The Web Planet". It was a piece of stock music originally composed by the French experimental music team Les Sculptures Sonores, who devised all manner of unusual instrumentation to create unique sounds.
4:31... how eerie is that?
Very. 4:32 is my favourite ambience for the Cybermen.
+D For Dalek its so horribly beautiful. Its shows no emotion and constant precision with no alterations in anything but the basic pitch. Its so calculated I love it.
+GTG I'm am idiot. I thought that was a background sound effect or their chest units.
D For Dalek
No no, I do agree there - Murray Gold is a bit... erm... samey?
George Reid I just dont think he cares anymore, like the tracks are reused that much it kills me. Like how the doctors theme is used in every episode. I think we need a new composer just to change the feel of it abit ya know. And D for Dalek is right wheel in space theme is absolutely amazing for the cybermen, its simple, eerie and just works.
4:32
"You will take us to the Wheel!"
"Obey. Inside the wheel. You will help us. You will obey."
Thank you so much for this. I love Wheel. People trash on it, its one I wish could be found/animated the most. These early episodes are more like horror movies than action shows unlike stuff they make today. I fully get why kids hid behind the sofa.
The Wheel Cybermen were the creepiest other than Tenth Planet
Personally, I find the Tomb Cybermen to occupy that spot. I think it's the eyes that do it for me.
I think the wheel cybermen’s behaviour was the scariest. There was just something about them that was so eerie, as well as the moonbase cybermen
So much better than the music in
NuWho
Far better than the modern soundtracks.
Murray Gold is clueless.
Just because you dont like modern soundtracks doesn't mean Murray Gold is "clueless"...Damn its like saying John Williams is shit at conducting
@@freddo7404 I stick by my comment.
@@ewaf88 You are wrong though. Im not saying you can not like his work but to say hes clueless when he clearly knows what hes doing is incorrect. I dont have to like Politicians but to say they are bad at politics is also wrong. I dont have to like gorden ramseys food but to say hes a bad chef is again wrong
this will be played at my funeral, that's assuming I die at some point and also that I get a funeral.
4:31 I like
The classic series really set the tone & atmosphere with sound & music. What is the point of having conventional music in Science Fiction Horror? Stranger Things showed us how DW should have been scored. But no. Orchestra never shuts up in the nu crap.
doctor who music quality really did decline during the 70s
What is it that makes the sound at 4:32 please???
It’s the noise that plays whenever a Cyberman is in view during the episode