i love the sequence its self, hate the way the theme is played! parts of the theme sound so off time that it constantly drives me insane listening to it
I *DO* wish they would make Sean Pertwee the doctor before he gets too old, although age/looks doesn't really matter whenever the Doctor regenerates I guess.
I found Ace to be a good companion. She reminded me of a weird girl in high school who was kind of a tomboy like her, and I think she hid behind a couch once...
These titles were created in the 8 bit era (well for most) when the majority of the population were using computers such as the Commodore 64, Sinclair Spectrum and Amstrad. 16 Bit computers were emerging in the form of the Atari ST amd Amiga 500 with 32 bit available (but expensive) in the form of the Intel 386. These titles stand up fairly well to today's CGI - that is more detailed but that is thanks to the far far far more powerful computers available to do so.
Sylvester McCoy is my favorite Classic Doctor (and third overall after Matt Smith and Christopher Eccleston), but his Doctor got stuck with the MOST annoying of all the companions, Ace.
I loved Sylvester McCoy. Personally, I think he is one of the best. If the next actor to play The Doctor does it like Sylvester, with his dark, manipulative side and quick wit, I'd be happy. I loved all the Doctors.The worst is Matt Smith. I dunno, but he is NOT good at it. He is always smiling, throwing his arms around, shifting etc. Matt Smith and Steven Moffat ruined Doctor Who. Too much humour and general stupidness. Who cares who River Song is? Back to the old days, and Tennants time! BEST!
@haydos271 It's funny cause I really don't give a fuck about who agrees with me. I'm entitled to my opinion. Seriously, there are many, many people who agree with me. I'm being critisized for not worshipping Steven Moffat...
@SwordMaster515 Yes, you are entitled to your own opinion and I respect that. What I don't respect is you going on about people agreeing with you, because I see none. I'm not critisizing you for not worshipping Steven Moffat, I don't even worship him. I actually do prefer Russell T. Davies but Steven Moffat did not ruin Doctor Who. Please don't brag about your non-existant "clan" of Steven Moffat haters, only say that to actual Steven Moffat haters. Until then, Allonsy!
Colin Baker was a good doctor given bad writing and a bad costume, considering in the Big Finish audio stories he is brilliant and a lot of people's favourite reinforces this idea. :)
Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, weakest Doctors by far for me
The problem with both the 5th and 9th Doctors was characterization but for different reasons. With the 9th it was that Eccleston never really acted all that Doctorly, some of it could be blamed on writing but ultimately I don't think Chris really had a grasp on the sort of character The Doctor is supposed to be.
@modestmaus With the 5th Doctor, it was definitely more the writing. If you've read or seen interviews with Peter Davison the way he wanted to play his Doctor was the way he was in Caves of Androzani ("So you see, I'm not going to let you stop me now!!") and in Time Crash (the special where the 10th and 5th Doctors meet)
@modestmaus 6th Doctor was writing and the fact that having a character development arc in the days before DVD box sets and such was absolute insanity. He was supposed to gradually mellow out and such. There's actually a saying that the 6th Doctor might have the biggest two hearts of gold of them all, he just tends to hide them quite well. I can never stress enough how amazing Colin Baker is in the Big Finish Audio dramas. Seriously, at least listen to "The Holy Terror" or "Davros" or "Jubilee"
@modestmaus And finally with the 7th Doctor... -sigh- I hate to do this because I love all The Doctors, I really do, but if one is going to do some rankings in terms of acting talent I think McCoy is probably at the bottom of the list. Writing is one problem but really the 7th Doctor is generally at his best in the Virgin New Adventures novels. Which in a way is pretty much saying the 7th Doctor is best enjoyed when it's your imagination controlling his acting, so to speak.
@modestmaus Yes, more like the first Doctor. "Techty," is I think the 5th described it to Tegan in the Five Doctors. Yeah, JN-T took the shackles off in his last story to let him play it how he wanted. Time Crash was brilliant. I would like to have seen a full length episode.
@metroidprime4 He was brilliant! What is great about the classic Doctor's is that it seemed like they were different aspects of the same personality. Each had different aspects come to the fore. The 7th's were his mastery of strategy and manipulation on the micro and macro scale of the Universe. It is a lot harder to suss that out with 9, 10, and 11.
to all you uptight assholes who say mccoy sucked think of this...he was actually voted best doctor and took the title from tom baker for a few years so why dont you all just shut the hell up
@TheOnComingStorm121 It's like your first girlfriend, the first Doctor you experience will be your favourite. I still think that William Hartnell was a difficult act to follow. I've seen most of them since day one and I like them all, particularly the recent Doctors who have tried to stick to the originally defined character with his eccentricities. In the latest Doctor, Matt Smith, it is clear that he has studied the role (as said in an interview). I see flashes of Hartnell, troughton, Tennent
@TheOnComingStorm121 Completely agree. McCoy really brought the mystery back to the Doctor (with the help of Cartmel and Platt). He was my 1st doctor and will always be my favourite
Sylvester McCoy is my doctor because my earliest memory ever was Doctor Who on TV, "Remembrance of the Daleks". A Dalek hovers up the stairs and McCoy is scared to death. It creeped me out when I found a picture of that Dalek going up the stairs and it triggered a tiny cell in my brain to work. I saw it when I was about 2.
Who would lie about such a random thing?, a lie would be, Sylvester McCoy is my Dad, the fact that he is the son of the composer of the Sylvester McCoy Doctor Who title sequence is hardly something to lie about to a bunch of random strangers online, it is inconspicuous... If that's the case then anything anyone says on here could be a lie...
i have seen all of Sylvester McCoy's stories and i think he was fantastic if i was born back then he would of been my 2nd best dr 1st of cours being tom baker
addmittedly selvester Mccoy, wasn't that good (cos they were were using unused colin baker stories) but after rememberence of the Daleks he got better
@EnsaLucis technically everyone knew doctor who would end very shortly after colin baker's first season when the show was put on hiatus after that it never really recovered...i think mccoy got gipped he was really good and in my opinion chris eccelston was the worst
This is definitely the worst opening title of Doctor Who. Corny music, inaccurate depiction of a galaxy, and weird graphics (no offense intended, RedWine2go).
@DAK4Blizzard I personally kinda like it, it really has that retro feel to it. Plus the 1987 series is the series I actually remember from when I was very young. I was a baby, no more than a year old, but after all this time I still vividly remember the umbrella with the question mark handle. Still, I'll agree with you that the other openings were better than this one.
@Chev427BB True, I do have to remember that it was 1987-1989 when this opening was played, and I was also a toddler. (It makes me feel a little old now!) So, this does give the opening some excuse for being confusing and funky. But this opening left me more confused than almost all of the other openings did.
Agreed, i was only 3 when this aired in Aus, but i remember it vividly, its one of the better themes, it has true 80s styling, the coming of age with syntehsisers and other electronic music styles
@DAK4Blizzard The Doctor can go ANYWHERE man. How do you know that's THIS Galaxy? Even This UNIVERSE? He's been off to the 4th Universe and no one knows what that's like. He's a proper geezer our time lord!
Oh, I suppose. If that's the case, that universe would indeed be very weird to us. As you know, a large majority of the Doctor's stories take place in this universe. But to be fair, even in this universe the Doctor seems to travel through galaxies as if they were small (though generally not a mix of silver, blue or purple). Your explanation is creative, and I'll accept it, because otherwise it doesn't make sense. Thanks for the enlightenment; now I have something else to ponder. = )
This opening looks like ca-ca. All openings previous to this were quite nice, but this one laid an egg. Everyhting about it looks artificial and fake, right down to the fake sounding music.
Not my favorite theme, to be fair the Logo's pretty bad, and as a whole the theme is just too far removed from the original 1963 versoin, I mean 1980-1985s theme was pushing that limit but this it just too far, basically theres very little of the original theme left
I'm not allowed to say the phrase "Star Trek" in a doctor who video? Seriously? What is this? Church? Sorry but I'm not a religious nutter. I like ALL the science fiction shows and books I watch/read --- I don't espouse to pointless bickering or hate or fanboyishm
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Star Trek, Stargate, Doctor Who, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, Sliders, Quantum Leap, .....
i think that sylvester mccoy was a great doctor who deserved a much better theme tune. the vortex is good and i like the logo but the theme is just...ew
i lot of people diss both mcoy and colin but in all fairness what ruined it for them being any good as the ones who played the doctor before them was the writers, a lot of stories were awful and werent their fault really, but have to agree that, greatest show and final series that aired '89 was mcoy as his best.
@MasterVidan Agreed, Season 26 (1989) was a pretty strong season, Ghost Light and Survival are two brilliant serials (which can't be said for the 1987 season, to be fair, alot of those stories where written for Colin Baker who was unfairly removed from plating the Doctor
Here in Australia when I was growing up, even in the '80s they played far more Tom Baker reruns than Peter Davison or Colin Baker stuff being made at the time. It was annoying. I didn't really get interested in actually sitting down and watching the show until they started running Sylvester McCoy's stuff. Then I fell in love with it. I loved how playful and campy it could get at times, though sometimes it was too much.....
@kavadias1981 I envy you. I grew up with no Doctor Who at all until '05. I remember the opening of the movie repeat in '99 and, aged 2, turned the TV off.
Like the previous generations before it, its a product of its time.
The opening here was actually good CGI back in its day(remember that Dr Who has always been a shoe-string budget show), and another example from that era would be Knightmare(ITV).
Back then, it was very difficult to do this level of CGI, but now its a snap even for a home user. Its wonderful how far we've come in computer technology!
I've always hated this version of the titles; Song arrangement isn't very good, it's backed by the most horrendous CGI animations this side of Hell and it concludes with the absolutely horrible '80s hipster' version of the logo.
From the classic Doctor titles my favorites are Hartnell and Baker (pre-Trial) versions. As theme song arrangements, I love the original, John Debney's orchestral version (McGann) and Murray Gold's 2010 version (kind of a combination of the first two).
A lot of people watching this clip tend to forget that these titles were created on computers and software of 23 years ago. Compared to what is available today this technology would not be perceived as "rubbish". The technology of that era was not fully capable of complex graphics rendering that can be found in todays' DW. Yes some effects look a bit ropey but considering this was cutting edge at the time is good enough!
sylvester was better than Colin baker , but i think there was no better doctor than Tom Baker - and then maybe Peter Davison , after that the series failed . The only sylvester one i like is rememberance of the daleks . Even that story i pick up the DVD up and go hmmm ill watch it some otherday and go straight to Genesis Of The Daleks instead
@mikesgtrs1 Tom Baker didn't take the role too seriously and had a string of really bad, ''comical'' stories until JNT took over and added a bit of dignity at the end.
And I would disagree completely with you that Tom Baker is the best. He is mainly thought of at the best due to American. At the time of his departure DW was considered a joke with critics and most fans were getting sick of him. Peter Davison was seen as a great new beginning and improvement and had better viewing figures.
@Wodanaz each to their own , ive studied most of the doctor who episodes back to to front - and i have to disagree , TB is my personel choice Peter Davison second , then John Pertweee , somtimes I consider John Pertwee the best too .
But Colin Baker , is prob on my number 1 worst Doctor List .
@mikesgtrs1 Yes, I guess so. I just disliked the comical turn of the 4th Doctor during most of his era until the 80s.
Colin Baker is, in my opinion, a great Doctor. He was edgy, unique and very alien. My number one least favourite Doctor would have to be Christopher Ecclestone followed closely by David Tennant.
@mikesgtrs1 And the majority of Tom Baker's era is pretty mind-numbing and farcical...especially the rubbish that Douglas Adams wrote or that Graham Williams produced. Doctor Who was not meant to be a comedy and especially not one reviled by critics (at the time...the Peter Davison era, on the other hand, got good reviews at the time). JNT actually saved the show from the stupidity of Williams when he produced the excellent Peter Davison era...the most evenly good of all.
horrible horrible horrible....i would have been 21 when this came out and i remember it sucking SO bad....almost as bad as the previous incarnation....Davison was the last great doctor...
It's hard to describe Sylvestor McCoy as the Doctor. I never really felt like he lived up to the quirkiness of the what the Doctor was. I really wish they had kept Colin longer.
@TheOnComingStorm121 - "The new series has no darkness" You have to be joking. Watch "The Empty Child" or "The Idiot's Lantern" among other episodes and THEN tell me that the new show has no darkness.
Have you noticed how Murray Gold's Doctor Who episodes almost never stop with his terrible music in the background? What I wouldn't do for some silence (the old series had litlte music). It's hard to watch when every scene has a silly human chorus going "ooooh ooooh oooooooo" (his favorite instrument) trying to inject melodrama into the scene when the scene should stand up for itself. The original series was mostly silent, like a stage play but also more realistic and drew you into it.
This arrangement got slammed. I thought it was pretty good. Yes, different, but that doesn't make it automatically bad. The title sequence is good and the graphics are good for the time. The only thing I don't like is the logo.
This is far better than any of the junk Murray Gold has peddeled as Doctor Who music. He ignores the main theme and covers it up with all this bombastic disney garbage and the wrong beats and accents. Doctor Who should be wierd and electronic and eerie at very least. Murray Gold's themes (even the Matt Smith one) is all wrong and trying to be an action show, etc.
Total weak sauce. Why would you even mess with a good thing, let alone the greatest intro music of all time. Plus the production makes it look fucking cheesy. No wonder they cancelled it whoever got ahold of producing sucked balls
Remeberance of the daleks was probally the best mcoy episode and also ONE of the best dalek episodes, (along with Genesis and Death to the Daleks) it has all the elements of a perfect dalek epidsode e.g suspence, davros and the daleks elevating FOR THE FIRST TIME!
@SeolfurDragyn Hey, in 1987 that looked really cool! Of course people were also listening to Debbie Gibson and New Edition so their taste was already questionable.
CGI in 87? The creator of the intro must have used a time machine
RetroCalgary 1 week ago
i love the sequence its self, hate the way the theme is played! parts of the theme sound so off time that it constantly drives me insane listening to it
1devo6587 1 week ago
Thumbs Up If U Think This Is The Best Doctor Who opening ever!!! :D
MrUltragear6445 2 weeks ago 2
I was six years old when this was on tv.
freedomfighterguy1 1 month ago
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Stephen Moffat is the worst thing to happen to Dr Who. This "Non existant" clan will always exist as long as I draw breath. Just my two cents.
Magreknois 9 months ago
I've always felt this version of theme intro, the animation I mean, was the best. Although I prefer the Peter Howell composition of the theme.
Randomaited 9 months ago
I *DO* wish they would make Sean Pertwee the doctor before he gets too old, although age/looks doesn't really matter whenever the Doctor regenerates I guess.
filmidioten 9 months ago
fantastic graphics, godawful theme tune and im not a fan of the logo
SirWillig 10 months ago
fantastic graphics, godawful theme tune and im not a fan of the logo
SirWillig 10 months ago
@SirWillig meh, I atually kinda like the theme, but yeah, I fully agree with you about the title thing.
he show is made in England and it was just sort of...Americanised (no offence whatsoever intended to America or it's people)
zamroc100 9 months ago
I found Ace to be a good companion. She reminded me of a weird girl in high school who was kind of a tomboy like her, and I think she hid behind a couch once...
haydos271 10 months ago
Thirded on the Rose thing, why she was so well-received I don't know. Utterly annoying companion.
HileTroy 10 months ago
McCoy had to deal with weaker storylines.
Wellch 10 months ago
These titles were created in the 8 bit era (well for most) when the majority of the population were using computers such as the Commodore 64, Sinclair Spectrum and Amstrad. 16 Bit computers were emerging in the form of the Atari ST amd Amiga 500 with 32 bit available (but expensive) in the form of the Intel 386. These titles stand up fairly well to today's CGI - that is more detailed but that is thanks to the far far far more powerful computers available to do so.
Markjuk 11 months ago
Sylvester McCoy is my favorite Classic Doctor (and third overall after Matt Smith and Christopher Eccleston), but his Doctor got stuck with the MOST annoying of all the companions, Ace.
SCRebelMetalHead1 11 months ago
@SCRebelMetalHead1
Ace isn't that annoying if you compare her to Rose. Rose is an absolute BITCH!
DoctorWhoCenter2010 10 months ago
@DoctorWhoCenter2010: I didn't like Rose very much either. :-/
SCRebelMetalHead1 10 months ago
I loved Sylvester McCoy. Personally, I think he is one of the best. If the next actor to play The Doctor does it like Sylvester, with his dark, manipulative side and quick wit, I'd be happy. I loved all the Doctors.The worst is Matt Smith. I dunno, but he is NOT good at it. He is always smiling, throwing his arms around, shifting etc. Matt Smith and Steven Moffat ruined Doctor Who. Too much humour and general stupidness. Who cares who River Song is? Back to the old days, and Tennants time! BEST!
SwordMaster515 11 months ago
@SwordMaster515: I think there is a huge section of the Doctor Who fandom who just decided to forget your existence.
SCRebelMetalHead1 11 months ago
@SCRebelMetalHead1 And an even bigger one who agreed with me ;)
SwordMaster515 11 months ago
@SwordMaster515 ...Do I see anyone agreeing with you? *tumbleweed* No.
haydos271 9 months ago
@haydos271 It's funny cause I really don't give a fuck about who agrees with me. I'm entitled to my opinion. Seriously, there are many, many people who agree with me. I'm being critisized for not worshipping Steven Moffat...
SwordMaster515 9 months ago
@SwordMaster515 Yes, you are entitled to your own opinion and I respect that. What I don't respect is you going on about people agreeing with you, because I see none. I'm not critisizing you for not worshipping Steven Moffat, I don't even worship him. I actually do prefer Russell T. Davies but Steven Moffat did not ruin Doctor Who. Please don't brag about your non-existant "clan" of Steven Moffat haters, only say that to actual Steven Moffat haters. Until then, Allonsy!
haydos271 9 months ago
Colin Baker was a good doctor given bad writing and a bad costume, considering in the Big Finish audio stories he is brilliant and a lot of people's favourite reinforces this idea. :)
Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, weakest Doctors by far for me
Anyway, love this theme
zagreus316 11 months ago 3
@zagreus316 I guess I'm not only one who doesn't really like Tennant or Smith that much.
Styroksipaprika 11 months ago 2
Anyone who has objections toward the seventh doctor,I would like to request
that you do not show them here.
I have had enough of you,youtube smartasses.
1305ath 11 months ago
The worst version of the theme in my opinion, as much as I like The Seventh Doctor.
LeonSKennedy828 1 year ago
Why does it flash red first, I wonder.
feckingbillgates 1 year ago
The problem with both the 5th and 9th Doctors was characterization but for different reasons. With the 9th it was that Eccleston never really acted all that Doctorly, some of it could be blamed on writing but ultimately I don't think Chris really had a grasp on the sort of character The Doctor is supposed to be.
modestmaus 1 year ago
@modestmaus With the 5th Doctor, it was definitely more the writing. If you've read or seen interviews with Peter Davison the way he wanted to play his Doctor was the way he was in Caves of Androzani ("So you see, I'm not going to let you stop me now!!") and in Time Crash (the special where the 10th and 5th Doctors meet)
modestmaus 1 year ago
@modestmaus 6th Doctor was writing and the fact that having a character development arc in the days before DVD box sets and such was absolute insanity. He was supposed to gradually mellow out and such. There's actually a saying that the 6th Doctor might have the biggest two hearts of gold of them all, he just tends to hide them quite well. I can never stress enough how amazing Colin Baker is in the Big Finish Audio dramas. Seriously, at least listen to "The Holy Terror" or "Davros" or "Jubilee"
modestmaus 1 year ago
@modestmaus And finally with the 7th Doctor... -sigh- I hate to do this because I love all The Doctors, I really do, but if one is going to do some rankings in terms of acting talent I think McCoy is probably at the bottom of the list. Writing is one problem but really the 7th Doctor is generally at his best in the Virgin New Adventures novels. Which in a way is pretty much saying the 7th Doctor is best enjoyed when it's your imagination controlling his acting, so to speak.
modestmaus 1 year ago
@modestmaus Incorrect. Colin Baker was objectively the shittest Doctor. :-)
feckingbillgates 1 year ago
@feckingbillgates: Yep. Followed next by Tennant. . .
SCRebelMetalHead1 11 months ago
@modestmaus Yes, more like the first Doctor. "Techty," is I think the 5th described it to Tegan in the Five Doctors. Yeah, JN-T took the shackles off in his last story to let him play it how he wanted. Time Crash was brilliant. I would like to have seen a full length episode.
WC3POchannel10A 1 year ago
@modestmaus I am not sure Eccleston cared. The fact that he hung around for only a year, only reenforced that impression for me.
WC3POchannel10A 1 year ago
@tascott59 He was a good Doctor. Everyone gives him bad wrap, but I don't know why.
metroidprime4 1 year ago
@metroidprime4 He was brilliant! What is great about the classic Doctor's is that it seemed like they were different aspects of the same personality. Each had different aspects come to the fore. The 7th's were his mastery of strategy and manipulation on the micro and macro scale of the Universe. It is a lot harder to suss that out with 9, 10, and 11.
WC3POchannel10A 1 year ago
I want the titles, without The Doctor winking.
JHollowayNetwork 1 year ago
his going to be a wizard in the new lotr film called the hobbit
insanic1 1 year ago
to all you uptight assholes who say mccoy sucked think of this...he was actually voted best doctor and took the title from tom baker for a few years so why dont you all just shut the hell up
Mst3kfanatic1 1 year ago 4
@Mst3kfanatic1 And Ace was a freakin hottie!
Crosisborg 1 year ago 5
@Crosisborg yeah i know sophie aldred looked good tom baker was my fav doctor but ace was my fav companion
Mst3kfanatic1 1 year ago
@Mst3kfanatic1 Damn straight, McCoy was my first Doctor, and even to this day is my favourite.
TheOnComingStorm121 1 year ago 2
@TheOnComingStorm121 It's like your first girlfriend, the first Doctor you experience will be your favourite. I still think that William Hartnell was a difficult act to follow. I've seen most of them since day one and I like them all, particularly the recent Doctors who have tried to stick to the originally defined character with his eccentricities. In the latest Doctor, Matt Smith, it is clear that he has studied the role (as said in an interview). I see flashes of Hartnell, troughton, Tennent
dewarfinch1 1 year ago
@TheOnComingStorm121 mine too. solidarity!
78rikkers 1 year ago
@TheOnComingStorm121 He was my fourth and is tied for first with the fifth in my book.
WC3POchannel10A 1 year ago
@TheOnComingStorm121 Completely agree. McCoy really brought the mystery back to the Doctor (with the help of Cartmel and Platt). He was my 1st doctor and will always be my favourite
Gazz1982 9 months ago
after sylvester doctor who went way way way downhill and never has recovered
Mst3kfanatic1 1 year ago
my second favorite doctor..first of course is tom baker
Mst3kfanatic1 1 year ago
This is Doctor Who's way of saying "This is the 80's, bitch."
haydos271 1 year ago 17
@haydos271 Haha, totally agree. Everything from the synth to the graphics, even the font. It all just screams late-80s.
Jrinu 9 months ago
Sylvester McCoy is my doctor because my earliest memory ever was Doctor Who on TV, "Remembrance of the Daleks". A Dalek hovers up the stairs and McCoy is scared to death. It creeped me out when I found a picture of that Dalek going up the stairs and it triggered a tiny cell in my brain to work. I saw it when I was about 2.
haydos271 1 year ago
@cmanxs
Who would lie about such a random thing?, a lie would be, Sylvester McCoy is my Dad, the fact that he is the son of the composer of the Sylvester McCoy Doctor Who title sequence is hardly something to lie about to a bunch of random strangers online, it is inconspicuous... If that's the case then anything anyone says on here could be a lie...
Timelord6661 1 year ago
Best version of the doctor who theme. By far
Nomad5oul 1 year ago
My fav opening... the restoration team should make a 3D version of this for the future dvds and blu-rays
cyberleader1991 1 year ago 2
Wouldn't these graphics be pretty impressive for a TV show back then?
SonicMusic01 1 year ago
I like all the doctors, but McCoy was one of my favourites.
SamusDrake 1 year ago
this doc was joke cos he was the weakest doc of all, his bad situations seemed more nerv racking.
(before internet)
BVD169 1 year ago
@BVD169 No, Davison was the weakest. If Pertwee's catchphrase was "reverse the polarity" then Davison's was "Teagan, help me."
zazozung 1 year ago
Purple nebula: refrence to Gallifrey?!
PS this is definately higher pitch than 1st-5th Doctor openings...
So THAT's when they started using the american logo...
YoshiBoy1318 1 year ago
The BBC Channel Deleted Your Doctor Who - Clean David Tennant Opening (2006)
GeoCast01 1 year ago
kinda sounds like uprising from muse.
jeezalusif 1 year ago
I like the highly emphasized high notes on the synths.
Tabish29 1 year ago
best doctor by far, the new shite actors don't compare
allowthisshit 1 year ago
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i have seen all of Sylvester McCoy's stories and i think he was fantastic if i was born back then he would of been my 2nd best dr 1st of cours being tom baker
BossRoss999 1 year ago
sylvester Mccoy's doctor was always my favorite doctor. he fights with WORDS.
DoomsdayOdd 1 year ago 6
addmittedly selvester Mccoy, wasn't that good (cos they were were using unused colin baker stories) but after rememberence of the Daleks he got better
computorboy77 1 year ago
Encalucis you don't know crap about doctor who
Alphamask978 1 year ago
@Alphamask978 Simply the worst Doctor Who actor history could ever muster. Epic fail.
EnsaLucis 1 year ago
@EnsaLucis Sylvester McCoy was not that bad, but i agree- he is the worst doctor ever
DoctorSaqib 1 year ago
@DoctorSaqib Huh? Worse than Colin Baker?
You are joking right?
MrRWJP 1 year ago
@EnsaLucis Huh? Worse than Colin Baker?
You are joking right?
MrRWJP 1 year ago
Sylvester McCoy is the reason why Doctor Who ended.
EnsaLucis 1 year ago
@EnsaLucis technically everyone knew doctor who would end very shortly after colin baker's first season when the show was put on hiatus after that it never really recovered...i think mccoy got gipped he was really good and in my opinion chris eccelston was the worst
Mst3kfanatic1 1 year ago
I still think this is by far the best DoctorWho theme tune if that with the massive sting at the end :-)
foreyeproductions 1 year ago 2
:| ;) :)
cybertaylor 1 year ago
This is definitely the worst opening title of Doctor Who. Corny music, inaccurate depiction of a galaxy, and weird graphics (no offense intended, RedWine2go).
DAK4Blizzard 1 year ago
@DAK4Blizzard I personally kinda like it, it really has that retro feel to it. Plus the 1987 series is the series I actually remember from when I was very young. I was a baby, no more than a year old, but after all this time I still vividly remember the umbrella with the question mark handle. Still, I'll agree with you that the other openings were better than this one.
Chev427BB 1 year ago
@Chev427BB True, I do have to remember that it was 1987-1989 when this opening was played, and I was also a toddler. (It makes me feel a little old now!) So, this does give the opening some excuse for being confusing and funky. But this opening left me more confused than almost all of the other openings did.
DAK4Blizzard 1 year ago
@DAK4Blizzard
Agreed, i was only 3 when this aired in Aus, but i remember it vividly, its one of the better themes, it has true 80s styling, the coming of age with syntehsisers and other electronic music styles
pentergraph 1 year ago
@DAK4Blizzard
hmm no for me its the best, by a country mile!
s3tsuk3n 1 year ago
@DAK4Blizzard The Doctor can go ANYWHERE man. How do you know that's THIS Galaxy? Even This UNIVERSE? He's been off to the 4th Universe and no one knows what that's like. He's a proper geezer our time lord!
TheTobiasVaughn 1 year ago
Oh, I suppose. If that's the case, that universe would indeed be very weird to us. As you know, a large majority of the Doctor's stories take place in this universe. But to be fair, even in this universe the Doctor seems to travel through galaxies as if they were small (though generally not a mix of silver, blue or purple). Your explanation is creative, and I'll accept it, because otherwise it doesn't make sense. Thanks for the enlightenment; now I have something else to ponder. = )
DAK4Blizzard 1 year ago
Terrible music...
PS3Worshipper 1 year ago
@PS3Worshipper what are u talking about this theme is the best
timelordfromhell2 1 year ago
This opening looks like ca-ca. All openings previous to this were quite nice, but this one laid an egg. Everyhting about it looks artificial and fake, right down to the fake sounding music.
yandrsupreme 1 year ago
I never liked Sylvester McCoy that much, but these graphics were brilliant for their time.
avi8r1 1 year ago 34
@avi8r1 He was an OK Doctor...
Yownanymous 1 year ago
@avi8r1 first time GCI was used in a doctor who intro LOL
Furbydude05 1 year ago
My dad (Oliver Elmes) did the graphics for this !!!!
RedWine2go 1 year ago 203
@RedWine2go
Cool! I love this title sequence! Does he know Sylvester McCoy?
DoctorWhoCenterFilms 1 year ago 5
@RedWine2go nooo wayyy :O
keiracounsell 1 year ago
@RedWine2go Excellent! Their really impressive, especially for the time!
MordaciousFilms 1 year ago 4
@RedWine2go my uncle is steven moffat
lemonhead118 1 year ago
@RedWine2go buzz off that!!
CheesyAbs6 1 year ago
@RedWine2go -your dad was very talented!
i have been watching Dr who since 1975 and these
among are the best titles i have seen.
Although these are good the original 1963 titles are
in my opinion the best.
i believe that these titles used C.G.I on who for the 1st
time -although i could be wrong.
thekroton 1 year ago 4
@RedWine2go Lucky you.
haydos271 1 year ago
@RedWine2go wow :)
TimeVortex97 1 year ago
@RedWine2go if your dad had anything to do with dr. who he has to be the man!
miguelbovine10 1 year ago 2
@RedWine2go no way O.O thats friggin awesome!
princeofvideogaming 1 year ago
@RedWine2go
Then you have some legned in you ;)
TheOneToxic 1 year ago 2
@RedWine2go
He did a fantastic job. :)
CJ076 1 year ago 2
@RedWine2go
Did he tell you that he also did the early 1980's BBC 2 logo?
motherfan55 1 year ago
@RedWine2go can you ask him what those three flying chunks were at the beginning?
DrLanceAngry 1 year ago
@DrLanceAngry Asteroids.
haydos271 1 year ago
@RedWine2go Good on him! Mind you, it's the music that makes this one of my favourite DW openings.
Goodiesfanful 1 year ago
@RedWine2go what!?!
mattfanify 1 year ago
@RedWine2go Your Dad helped make my favourite titles! Bravo!
olliestoes 10 months ago
to this title i say to anyone who is trying to get clean, i wouldn't recommend watching this intro, you might get the urge!!!!!
supersonicdrawer 1 year ago
Well. now there's a classic example of savig the best until last!
all13Doctors 1 year ago
more techno best one yet even better than the new one
Ashysheard89 1 year ago
Not my favorite theme, to be fair the Logo's pretty bad, and as a whole the theme is just too far removed from the original 1963 versoin, I mean 1980-1985s theme was pushing that limit but this it just too far, basically theres very little of the original theme left
LightningT5 1 year ago
I think this might be my favourite of the themes, it sums up an era and is by far the eeriest of them all. It's fantastic!
burnsybaby1987 1 year ago
This version actually kinda sucks. I mean, I love dr who to near obsession, but that just sucked.
MsYokoshima 1 year ago
@MsYokoshima -_- Fail.
TheOnComingStorm121 1 year ago
I'm not allowed to say the phrase "Star Trek" in a doctor who video? Seriously? What is this? Church? Sorry but I'm not a religious nutter. I like ALL the science fiction shows and books I watch/read --- I don't espouse to pointless bickering or hate or fanboyishm
.
Star Trek, Stargate, Doctor Who, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, Sliders, Quantum Leap, .....
.
And I love them all.
harleykman 1 year ago 4
@harleykman star wars?
767scarecrow 1 year ago
i think that sylvester mccoy was a great doctor who deserved a much better theme tune. the vortex is good and i like the logo but the theme is just...ew
WilligsPage 1 year ago
Great opening - Horrid Logo!
008wombatable 1 year ago
Great Logo, Great Titles. Miles bettter than the Matt Smith one. I loved Jon Pertwee, he was classic.
DoctorWhoTHEORIES 1 year ago
those arent averege tissues,they are space vacuum tissues.
mikahaga 1 year ago
i lot of people diss both mcoy and colin but in all fairness what ruined it for them being any good as the ones who played the doctor before them was the writers, a lot of stories were awful and werent their fault really, but have to agree that, greatest show and final series that aired '89 was mcoy as his best.
MasterVidan 1 year ago
@MasterVidan Agreed, Season 26 (1989) was a pretty strong season, Ghost Light and Survival are two brilliant serials (which can't be said for the 1987 season, to be fair, alot of those stories where written for Colin Baker who was unfairly removed from plating the Doctor
LightningT5 1 year ago
For gods sake! Did he REALLY just wink at me!
alexkevans 1 year ago
Here in Australia when I was growing up, even in the '80s they played far more Tom Baker reruns than Peter Davison or Colin Baker stuff being made at the time. It was annoying. I didn't really get interested in actually sitting down and watching the show until they started running Sylvester McCoy's stuff. Then I fell in love with it. I loved how playful and campy it could get at times, though sometimes it was too much.....
TheDedPengwyn 1 year ago
@kavadias1981 I envy you. I grew up with no Doctor Who at all until '05. I remember the opening of the movie repeat in '99 and, aged 2, turned the TV off.
VampireofEmotion 1 year ago
aahh yes...the 80's...power of CGI
babeeshopiez123 1 year ago 2
gotta love the music
avptremor 1 year ago
@kavadias1981 Ah you young whipper-snapper, I left school in 1987 :o) Used to think Sofie Aldred was hot.
thiswonderfullife 1 year ago
Like the previous generations before it, its a product of its time.
The opening here was actually good CGI back in its day(remember that Dr Who has always been a shoe-string budget show), and another example from that era would be Knightmare(ITV).
Back then, it was very difficult to do this level of CGI, but now its a snap even for a home user. Its wonderful how far we've come in computer technology!
SamusDrake 1 year ago 2
@SamusDrake amen to THAT DUDE.
babeeshopiez123 1 year ago
I've always hated this version of the titles; Song arrangement isn't very good, it's backed by the most horrendous CGI animations this side of Hell and it concludes with the absolutely horrible '80s hipster' version of the logo.
From the classic Doctor titles my favorites are Hartnell and Baker (pre-Trial) versions. As theme song arrangements, I love the original, John Debney's orchestral version (McGann) and Murray Gold's 2010 version (kind of a combination of the first two).
necrophilissimo 1 year ago
@necrophilissimo To clarify; With Baker I meant 'The explosion in rainbow factory' variety.
necrophilissimo 1 year ago
0:34 NIGHTMARE FUEL UNLEADED.
modestmaus 1 year ago
lots of people dont like this theme supoort me if you do
0211devil 1 year ago
@0211devil I will suport you, i like the 7th Doctor :)
superspy6 1 year ago 2
@0211devil I like it as well, Sylvester McCoy infected me with the Who virus :D
sunlightguy75 1 year ago
@0211devil I support you! :D
TheDedPengwyn 1 year ago
If my memory serves me right, wasnt Peter Davisons Doctor always fainting. I remember my dad always called him tired Tim.Lol.
bazfanv2 1 year ago 3
This is the weirdest tune and probably the worst.
coolcabbage43 1 year ago
@coolcabbage43
Now, the worst is one of the ones by Murray Gold. Such A Burton-esque hack...
Wodanaz 1 year ago
@seolfirdragyn LOL
redquarterfilms 1 year ago
A lot of people watching this clip tend to forget that these titles were created on computers and software of 23 years ago. Compared to what is available today this technology would not be perceived as "rubbish". The technology of that era was not fully capable of complex graphics rendering that can be found in todays' DW. Yes some effects look a bit ropey but considering this was cutting edge at the time is good enough!
Markjuk 1 year ago 4
sylvester was better than Colin baker , but i think there was no better doctor than Tom Baker - and then maybe Peter Davison , after that the series failed . The only sylvester one i like is rememberance of the daleks . Even that story i pick up the DVD up and go hmmm ill watch it some otherday and go straight to Genesis Of The Daleks instead
mikesgtrs1 1 year ago
@mikesgtrs1 Tom Baker didn't take the role too seriously and had a string of really bad, ''comical'' stories until JNT took over and added a bit of dignity at the end.
And I would disagree completely with you that Tom Baker is the best. He is mainly thought of at the best due to American. At the time of his departure DW was considered a joke with critics and most fans were getting sick of him. Peter Davison was seen as a great new beginning and improvement and had better viewing figures.
Wodanaz 1 year ago 2
@Wodanaz each to their own , ive studied most of the doctor who episodes back to to front - and i have to disagree , TB is my personel choice Peter Davison second , then John Pertweee , somtimes I consider John Pertwee the best too .
But Colin Baker , is prob on my number 1 worst Doctor List .
mikesgtrs1 1 year ago
@mikesgtrs1 Yes, I guess so. I just disliked the comical turn of the 4th Doctor during most of his era until the 80s.
Colin Baker is, in my opinion, a great Doctor. He was edgy, unique and very alien. My number one least favourite Doctor would have to be Christopher Ecclestone followed closely by David Tennant.
Wodanaz 1 year ago
@mikesgtrs1 And the majority of Tom Baker's era is pretty mind-numbing and farcical...especially the rubbish that Douglas Adams wrote or that Graham Williams produced. Doctor Who was not meant to be a comedy and especially not one reviled by critics (at the time...the Peter Davison era, on the other hand, got good reviews at the time). JNT actually saved the show from the stupidity of Williams when he produced the excellent Peter Davison era...the most evenly good of all.
Wodanaz 1 year ago
O_O The DW logo looks like the early 2000's Family Feud logo.
iluvthecompanioncube 1 year ago
horrible horrible horrible....i would have been 21 when this came out and i remember it sucking SO bad....almost as bad as the previous incarnation....Davison was the last great doctor...
blueluny 1 year ago
It's hard to describe Sylvestor McCoy as the Doctor. I never really felt like he lived up to the quirkiness of the what the Doctor was. I really wish they had kept Colin longer.
masterblah777 1 year ago 3
so shit...
mrchrisdavis09 1 year ago
@TheOnComingStorm121 - "The new series has no darkness" You have to be joking. Watch "The Empty Child" or "The Idiot's Lantern" among other episodes and THEN tell me that the new show has no darkness.
gorgack2000 1 year ago
That tune is amazing and very good.
Cats1357911 1 year ago
Have you noticed how Murray Gold's Doctor Who episodes almost never stop with his terrible music in the background? What I wouldn't do for some silence (the old series had litlte music). It's hard to watch when every scene has a silly human chorus going "ooooh ooooh oooooooo" (his favorite instrument) trying to inject melodrama into the scene when the scene should stand up for itself. The original series was mostly silent, like a stage play but also more realistic and drew you into it.
SNK038 1 year ago
@SNK038
Yeah I do agree, and classics had incidental-music for key points when it was needed.
I dislike most of the 'dramatic' background music in the new Dr Who especially in the 'action' scenes.
Red23791 1 year ago
This arrangement got slammed. I thought it was pretty good. Yes, different, but that doesn't make it automatically bad. The title sequence is good and the graphics are good for the time. The only thing I don't like is the logo.
garethparr 1 year ago
Sounds like Kraftwerk. Which makes it cool.
Muskateering 1 year ago
This is far better than any of the junk Murray Gold has peddeled as Doctor Who music. He ignores the main theme and covers it up with all this bombastic disney garbage and the wrong beats and accents. Doctor Who should be wierd and electronic and eerie at very least. Murray Gold's themes (even the Matt Smith one) is all wrong and trying to be an action show, etc.
SNK038 1 year ago 2
@SNK038 Totally agree! Write to the BBC!
Eurocolder 1 year ago
Total weak sauce. Why would you even mess with a good thing, let alone the greatest intro music of all time. Plus the production makes it look fucking cheesy. No wonder they cancelled it whoever got ahold of producing sucked balls
pucpimp 1 year ago
I just saw Remembrence of The Daleks not to long ago.
startrekgamer 1 year ago
This tune is so retro and catchy now its stuck in my head
BigFanofBarnif85 1 year ago 2
ive got this tune on my ipod!
optimus212100 1 year ago
@optimus212100 I like your style :)
pufferfishish 1 year ago
i guess im lucky i love the old series as well as the newer one, variety FTW!
s3tsuk3n 1 year ago
The titles are some of the best used on the series.
K9MARK1 1 year ago
I've only ever watched an episode of the new Dr Who once.i like all who but i prefer
the original series as it is the series i grew up with.But that is just personal preference
K9MARK1 1 year ago
I just love the theme music from the Sylvester Mccoy era! Thanks for putting it up!
BrionyCoote 1 year ago
Remeberance of the daleks was probally the best mcoy episode and also ONE of the best dalek episodes, (along with Genesis and Death to the Daleks) it has all the elements of a perfect dalek epidsode e.g suspence, davros and the daleks elevating FOR THE FIRST TIME!
ThisBritGuy 1 year ago 4
Why are scrunched up tissues flying towards the centre of the galaxy?
SeolfurDragyn 1 year ago 41
The Sneezes of Rassilon
thatenglishkid 1 year ago 31
The sneezes of rassilon thrown by the hand of omega!
TheKiwiMaster 1 year ago 3
@thatenglishkid Or worse... :s
PrimusPrimal1995 1 year ago
@SeolfurDragyn Hey, in 1987 that looked really cool! Of course people were also listening to Debbie Gibson and New Edition so their taste was already questionable.
icemachine79 1 year ago