Doctor Who - Clean Peter Davison Closing (1982)

[ParkerMcgraw]

Definitive in my book. When this music hits my body tingles.

[bloggaloggs]

I vividly remember those electronic reverbs at each chorus! How did you get this footage without any credits superimposed?

[k1ng401]

74 Tom Baker theme is my favourite, very spooky with all those wooh woohs, but this is my second favourite

[soundmanhaven1]

love this the best then the rest except first one which is original

[hipshot695]

and i love it

[hipshot695]

i was 9

[hipshot695]

tom baker great but this my doctor all creatures great and small

[TheMrOkamiden]

Best Doctor,best Actor,best stories,best Cliffhangers,best ending,best story ever,best endings in general,best companions,and best final adventure story and best doctor who story ever,the fifth doctor is my favourit and he is by far the best doctor and have had the best doctor who stories I have seen.5th doctor,you are the best.

[gallifrey01]

@TheMrOkamiden Couldn't of put it any better myself :)

[TheMrOkamiden]

@gallifrey01 My Top 5 favourit 5th Doctor stories are.

5. Time - Flight.

4. Frontios.

3. Caves of Androzani.

2. Arc of infinity.

1. Mawdryn undead.

Whicth ones are your Top 5 favourit 5th Doctor stories?

[gallifrey01]

@TheMrOkamiden

1. Caves Of Androzani

2. The Five Doctors

3. Terminus

4. Earthshock

5. Planet Of Fire

[TheMrOkamiden]

@gallifrey01 Actually I should have put an / next to Time - flight were Planet of Fire would be because both are my favourit Master stories.

And atleast Terminus wasn't boring like Enligtenment,but it was hungry for a bigger budget.

Earthshock and The five Doctors are brillijant and very good stories,just that they are a bit overrated if you ask me,no offense by any mean since they are still the best of thier kind of stories.

[Shockwave474]

This is the Doctor Who theme I remember falling in love with when they used to show old reruns on PBS.

[protestifications]

play the last sixteen seconds at full blast through headphones.

[cyndassprites]

The screen exploded!

[TARDISDimensions]

the best theme

[Angryification]

Great version! WIll hopefully be great for helping my friend train her ears [I'm making her work it out by ear]. :)

[louistubemk]

good sound quality

[freehal]

Ever notice that in this closing we're traveling backwards. All the other openings and closings have us going forwards in the vortex.

[HerrWeinachten]

Could anyone tell me what the stories featuring Peter Davison are? I've seen The Visitation which I enjoyed and his final story The Caves of Androzani but I'm interested in seeing more.

[lucaschamberlain67]

@HerrWeinachten there's kinda, mawdryn undead, the five doctors, planet of fire, snakedance, terminus, earthshock, ressurection of the daleks and much more

[TheMrOkamiden]

@HerrWeinachten His first is Castrovalva,then Four to doomsday,thenKinda,then The Visitation,the Black orchid,then the famose Earthshock,Time-Flight,Arc of Infinity,Snakedance,Mawdry undead,Terminus,Enlightenment,­The Kings Demons,The Five(Four)Doctors,Warriors of the DeepThe awakening,Frontios,Resurrectio­n of the Daleks,Planet of Fire and finally Caves of Androzani.

[HileTroy]

THE version of the Doctor who theme.

[ZacTerraHunterZTV]

I always listen to this one all the credits and everything just to listen to that BANG

[Arzaker]

0:01 as soon as that bit starts i just think off cliff hanger with someone screaming DOOOCTOOOR ! (titles start)

[drakelowc]

Couldn't agree more with most of the comments, I'm old enough to remember this as broadcast. This sort of lightbox startfield animation beats CGI hands down, yes a lot of work goes into CGI too but to physically manipulate a rostrum camera towards transparences time after time to build up a multilayered effect such as this without knowing exactly what the finished thing will look like is incredible. Great theme too but I'd be hard pressed to choose between this and the original.

[snugglepups1]

Remember watching my Uncle's old video tapes when I was a kid. This was the theme that made me want to get up and dance AND hide behind the sofa at the same time.

[animationdude56]

thumbs up if you think that this looks more realistic than CGI in its own way.

[buenaorgone19]

@animationdude56 it's way realistiv than today's titles, the starfield never date neither does this music, it's still very modern and stands very well to other versions in the eighties.

[eveningtsar]

Any musical folk out there who know the notes? I know it's the key of F sharp minor. . .

[MST3K1506]

I got into Doctor Who with the new series, but this is hands down my favourite version of the opening theme.

[jimbo17437]

pregunto, cuantos doctor who va a ver en estas series? madre los que son ya.

[MrFishman55]

@jimbo17437 Que? Engles, por favor.

[MrFishman55]

This theme is really great, but the middle 8 has me humming it all the time. It makes me imagine a hundred chancellory guards rescuing the doctor from sontarans or daleks. The middle 8 is the best part of the theme. The day they cut it out is the day they die.

[eveningtsar]

@MrFishman55

Agreed. But they have cut it out haven't they? The credits have been shortened, and I don't hear it anymore.

[MrFishman55]

@eveningtsar No, they didn't cut it out. I've heard the theme on youtube for series 1-6.

[eveningtsar]

@MrFishman55

The full versions do exist on Youtube, but during Broadcast, the BBC tends to cut it short. Besides shrinking the credits into the corner and drowning it out with advertising (maybe I just didn't hear it).

[MrFishman55]

@eveningtsar You're right, they probably have the middle 8, but they drown it out with stupid ads.

[ZedAlfa273]

The interlude starts at 0:40 & is a full twenty seconds; it makes the song.

[sorahearts325]

this is my favourite doctor who theme.

[yeopful]

It's less haunting than the earlier themes..........that makes this one by far the best.

[supersnazzy33]

I feel bad reading all of the comments about the best Doctors, because I grew up watching the David Tennant era, so I only really know him. I've watched the new season with Matt Smith, the first remade season with Christopher Eccleston too, and a few of the Peter Davison ones, but all I really want is a gant box-set. I want to be able to watch every single episode. Because as @lacthewatcher1 said, every doctor has their own special quirk to bring to the show, and that's why we love it.

[dragoonkng]

man this song gives me chills, its good and amazing:)

[DWFA100]

I love this this theme until they scrapped the theme for a crap 7th doctor theme. YUCK

[LDman95]

Who thinks the middle eight sounds like violins?

[tulleuchen]

That really brings back good memories.

[E9ODOC7890]

I like this theme better than the current one, the 2010 theme is awful I don't know how anyone who appreciates Doctor Who can like Murray Gold's 2010 mess, that 2007 one was just as bad.

don't think he's a patch on Derbyshire or Howell he is not!

[DoctorWhoCenter2011]

@E9ODOC7890

Well, yeah I agree but there not bad. Consider us lucky for what we could of gotten.

[Angryification]

Legend theme

[foxboro27]

Best version of the theme...EVER. Nothing else comes close.

[HarvestmanMan]

@foxboro27 Especially considering the sub-par equipment that Peter Howell was left to work with at the Radiophonic Workshop!

[PCCphoenix]

@foxboro27 BIG thumbs up! Best theme variation ever, best title sequence ever!

[MrStephenRGilman]

This one will always be my favourite.

[adiltalk1]

I grew up with this theme and its the best one of the lot. Really used synth tech to the max.

[zazozung]

I've never understood why Dr. Who fans like Davison so much. I think he was the weakest of the original seven actors.

[AlistairAI]

@zazozung really? Colin baker ring any bell's?

[zazozung]

@AlistairAI That's something else I never got. After three years of Davison, Colin Baker was a breath of fresh air to me. (And one of the few wise choises ever made by JNT.) I still don't understand why so many fans didn't like him. Granted, his costume was a disaster. But Colin brought back characteristics in the Doctor absent since the early days. He very much reminded me of Hartnell with a bit of Pertwee thrown in.

[haydos271]

@zazozung Let's just stop complaining us a Doctor and just say that the Doctor is the Doctor, only with 11 different faces.

[hoggys2much]

Great work. How do you do this?

Although it does look weird without any credits

[WINTERSTORM69]

BEST DR WHO THEME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WINTERSTORM69]

BEST THEME FOR DR WHO EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SacredBobCMB]

My favorite part of this theme has got to be the "scream" at the beginning. Gets me every single time.

[DomVanquish]

I used to prefer the 1st theme but ive got to say i know prefer this

[kingt34]

I think I may have found the reason why i love this opening more than the other openings: The awesome sounds and how they echo makes it seem so deep, mystifying, and just plain awesome :D

[drwhocrazed]

@kingt34 this isn't an opening, its a closing, but i get your point

[kingt34]

@drwhocrazed The opening and closing are the same, but the closing is a bit longer :D but yeah rofl

[orlando318]

one of the best themes ever made, and of course in this sublime version

[theseus27]

Wow,awesome!!! Don't you just love the kind of sonic boom at the end!!!

Coool!! :P :P =)

[captainlovepony]

This is the best theme,and Tom the best doctor by far.

[doctorwhoone]

@jamesanddaddy Which Baker ? Tom or Colin ? .

[quikgamer]

Peter Davison was my Doctor, David Tennant close behind.

[AndyMattey]

defo best theme first one i saw as kid nothing beats the screen going white.

[AndyMattey]

defo best theme. first one i watched as kid. nothing beats the screen going white at the end of the closing titles

[swampfire786]

0:42 my fav bit of all the themes

[0211devil]

@swampfire786 same her i love the middle 8

[PunkRocker666Metal]

@swampfire786 mine too , and the first bit i learnd to play on piano ....

[DoctorPretorious616]

Great rendition of the theme, I always loved that "sonic boom" at the end!

[sixstanger00]

I would much prefer a complex opening/end sequence to the new series like this one rather than just barreling through a vortex.

[babeeshopiez123]

@sixstanger00 but barreling through the vortex IS COOLER

[DrSeussThing1]

0:40 to the end. What is that part technically called? I think I used to know, but I've forgotten. And why did they remove it from Matt's titles? They aren't the same without it. :(

[DrSeussThing1]

@DrSeussThing1 Finally found it. It's called the "middle eight," but what's Gold done with it?

[HTprodsDW]

@DrSeussThing1 They where in The Beast Below I think,but because they've been using different songs there hasn't been time for it in the credits of other episode

[FinalFantasyGirl666]

pure british gold!!!!!

[yidow4life]

peter Davison is the only doctor

[Annoire]

Favorite theeeme <3

Love the BOOOOM at the end!!

[el0hyek]

BAKER.....First, Last, and Always.......and ofcourse I mean

TOM!!!

No one else ever came close.

All teeth and curls.

No one else ever will.

No one else ever could!!!

[blueluny]

@el0hyek you forgot Scarf and Hat!

[SventheCrusader]

I'm amazed at how little the theme has changed over the years.

[Richiepookinshoo]

@SventheCrusader

Well, if it aint broke..

[VictorCreed89]

Tom Baker and Peter Davison were the best Doctors imo. Eccleston was great too, but I never fully warmed to Tennant.

[1001100x02]

Four to Doomsday was the first Doctor Who story I watched...and I was hooked.

My favorites are Tom Baker, Davison, and Pertwee.

[lacthewatcher1]

I'm an American so maybe my opinion about Doctor WHo means nothing, but i always kinda Thought Jon Pertwee was the best doctor. I guess i just felt that he embodied exactly what the doctor should be like. He's old and Wise, and he loves Humanity but won't take their crap.

Never the less this is the best theme, and all of the Doctor's were good in their own way, but i guess that's the whole point isn't it? :)

[ThisBritGuy]

@lacthewatcher1 Your opinion is gold, and your description is lol'ish John pertwee has to be the best doctor mainly becuase he had the GOLD AGE of doctor who with UNIT, The Master (Roger DelGado) and Jo grant. RIP Jon :'(

[drwhomasterfan]

@lacthewatcher1 Dude. For an american dw fan you have a great opinion.

[SCRebelMetalHead1]

@lacthewatcher1: *Arches Eyebrow* I thought I was the only one who liked Pertwee. He's in my top five favorites.

[TakunaNuva]

@lacthewatcher1 I'm English and I think you just about WIN the PRIZE.

Jon Pertwee was the best, in my opinion, anyway, though Tom Baker will never be far off, phenomena that he was and is.

[jamesschader]

@lacthewatcher1 (opinion, however i feel very strongly) The doctor isn't supposed to be old and cut off, he should be really spirited and have fun. David Tennant and Tom Baker, I believe, were the best.

[yamhamdan]

@lacthewatcher1 well said

[saxonrox]

@lacthewatcher1 yes, I agree, I believe Pertwee is one of the best doctors



[Octagon8125]

@lacthewatcher1 Being a fan of Doctor Who and being a fan of mixed martial arts, I have to agree with you. Jon Pertwee was the best. Jon Pertwee had a big heart for humanity and he was not afraid to throw down if he needed to. Jon Pertwee was the Doctor Who that could whoop some ass.

[Octagon8125]

@lacthewatcher1 R.I.P. Jon Pertwee

[hulmedogcity]

@lacthewatcher1 just cos ur american don't mean that ur opinion doesn't matter. We like to have opinions on american movies. :)

[CrusherX1000]

@lacthewatcher1 WHAT do you mean your opinion doesnt matter becuase your american and jon pertwee is my favorite to

[infernai]

Davidson was the first doctor i truly sat down and watched, therefore he remains one of my top 3. And he always will. Mccoy was interesting, even though i didn't expect to like him i just found him interesting to watch. And Tennant...seriously, who doesn't love tennant.

Those are my top 3, but i can't really put them in any specific preference order though.

[neutronflows]

This is fantastic, but is it better than the closing used for Jon Pertwee and the first sis season of Tom Baker?

[iadukendaisy]

Peter Davison is the best doctor and Arc of Infinity is my favorite story out of all 202

I have always wanted to meet him but I haven't got the chance. I want to get his costume but I haven't ever found the stuff for it( I'm American) I do have the tom baker scarf from his first six seasons

[zufgh]

Same on Peter Davison. But, Arc of Infinity ??? that has to be my least liked adventure of his. But, each to their own.

[doctorwholover1993]

long live peter howell

[TaranAPK]

Tom Baker was my favorite Doctor, but this is the theme that runs through my head when I think of Doctor Who. Ah, nostalgia. :)

[notgivingatoss73]

Still my favourite. Peter was my Doctor

[icecube280000]

me too

i love his vulnerable attitude

[notgivingatoss73]

All the Doctors. Splendid fellows all 11 of him

[killcraz]

some day i would like to know all the diffrent keyboard synths they used for the music! bbc labs did the first season.

[MFAtlas]

Actually they didn't use a keyboard, they used electronic samples

[TheDeceptitron]

colin baker sucked as the doctor,he was a pompous ass.

[icecube280000]

colin baker was one of the GREATEST DOCTORS OF ALL TIME

especially in the BIG FINISH Audio Dramas!

[Richiepookinshoo]

No idea why you got such negative ratings for your comment Colin is brilliant in his audio work

[icecube280000]

because someone has youtube graffitied and thumbs-downed everyone on this page

[notgivingatoss73]

@icecube280000 definitely. Colin never had the chance to shine thanks to the BBC but he's one of the great Doctors

[startrekgamer]

@icecube280000 I never heard his big finish audio dramas, but he sure was a great doctor.

[achasingfrenzy]

It's amazing the techniques used to create these title sequences, before the days of computer animation.

[animationdude56]

I wonder if the graphics were ceated by using animation

[4642eb]

It was created using a piece of black card with some holes in it with a direct light source behind it, and some very clever rostrum camera work. The 'bursts' around certain stars were created with diffraction filters, and the Doctor's head was on a photographic transparency.

[animationdude56]

cool

[todmustard]

i luv the bit at 0:40 - 0:50

[Chev427BB]

The "middle 8", it's probably the most memorable part of the theme

[keiracounsell]

i love th way th music actually links with th starfield, great example 0:53

[BannedFromThisSite]

Awesome. When I saw the caves of androzani on the regeneration scene my jaw dropped and it brought a tear to my eye. Davison was the man for the job.

[eveningtsar]

By far, my favorite of all the themes.

[BigBedunga]

Davison was MY Doctor....the first one I really remembered & followed.I was around when Tom Baker played the part but couldn't really remember much about him....until I bought ALL the videos,then DVDs of the old series.

Dr Who suffered badly during the 80s with crappy scripts,poor time slots & JNTs ego all bringing it down.....I've never really warmed to Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy.

The new series up to now has hit the spot,with Eccleston & Tennant being 2 very good & worthy Doctors.

[Wellch]

I think that it was more of the writers faults than the lead actors fault.

Sylvester McCoy could have been a gem if the writing was halfway decent.

[BannedFromThisSite]

Don't you mean Colin Baker?

[lighthousedreamers]

I wish I could somehow get this on my iPOD, lol! :) That'd be cool.

[soleman1x]

If you ever get the chance to play Bally Electronics' "Doctor Who" pinball game (1993), it uses a variation of this theme as a way of opening it. Since the first Doctor Who I liked was Peter Davison's, I must admit this was a better theme fit for me than the "usual" Dr. Who theme.

[RegenerationStorm]

just reverse it on vegas.... yeah some nice cropping AH HAH - A BLANK TITLE SEQUENCE!!

[gc7820]

This is definitely me favourite version of the theme, Colin Bakers and Chris Ecclestons are my joint second favourites.

[tardistuner]

These clean titles were actually used at the end of the one foot in the grave special star-

bound,with mr tambourine man played over them!!

[593OLYMPUS]

For me this was the era of Doctor Who at it's very best. Tom Baker,John Pertwee were extremely good, but here Doctor Who got the real 80's treatment,up to date theme music,etc. Peter Davison did better than I could have wished,and became my favourite Doctor of them all. Each to his/her own, but I have to say I find the movies rubbish and the latest offering "children's hour drivel" compared to the true science fiction Doctor Who is supposed to be. Even the companions were 10x better in 1986!

[lighthousedreamers]

I don't know why either, but I actually prefer this theme over the newest one. Maybe because Peter's my favorite Doctor, but I like the music 40 seconds on :)

[SNK038]

@lighthousedreamers: the music 40 seconds on is called "The Middle Eight". The current composer of Doctor Who, Murray Gold detests this part. He thinks it sounds like "Do They Know It's Christmas". Gold has no respect for the heritage of Doctor Who and I cannot stand him in the current show.

[lighthousedreamers]

Lol. Thanks for the info; that's really interesting. 'The Middle Eight' is the best part of the theme, imho--it doesn't sound like the Christmas song :-S It's brilliant, and it's too late to do anything about it now! =D

[DoctorWhoCenter2010]

@SNK038

He does compose good music, the 2006 and 2007/2008 themes were awesome and I like the 2010 one. But the howell theme is the best. Besides the Derbyshire theme.

[MundusLitterae]

I have no idea why I like this theme the best for Doctor Who but it's done very well :D Thanks for sharing!

[dalekcybermen]

have you noticed the closing titls of the five doctors is the first doc theme

[LoneDragoon90]

Long live the Howell theme!

It's the best version.

[LaserDarkDX]

@LoneDragoon90 Peter Howell will ALWAYS be the best theme!!!

[lookbacktime]

@LoneDragoon90 -- +1

[dragonslayers118]

there's was something about this theme.i realy liked this song better than the other 1's.y don't they use it now?

[DoctorWhoLeelaFan]

Great! I don't know why, but this is my favourite starfield closing sequence!

[bcn00000]

It's also my favourite. Maybe because that's the one I started watching.

[BannedFromThisSite]

davison has it all!

[CultofJ]

i wish I had the chance to see more of Davison when I was younger. I somehow managed to miss most of his time on the show and looking back I really enjoy the episodes that I've seen. Tom Baker is still my favorite Doctor, but I really like Davison too.

[Jaybeebaby]

I'm only a show fan since it came back, but i love this version of the tune the most. Might well have been on telly in the background when i was a wee toddler lol, subliminalness :)

[bjmorley]

I do like this theme, but i think its too publicised - in some of the early 2000s BBC audio recordings, they always used this theme, even if its an earlier doctor, e.g. Jon pertwee.

[Noveltooner]

This has always been my favorite version of the theme. Transposing the key up from E minor to F-sharp minor and putting it somewhat uptempo with the new orchestration set a darker, more haunting atmosphere. It has a definite sci-fi eeriness and conveys action with a solid purpose.

[joel1975]

I love the Doctor Who theme....(This is one of my favorite variations).

[6364gg]

peter looks worried

[nutherefurlong]

He has a conscience! :)

[IbiosnakeI]

URGENTLY NEEDED HELP:

did you have to ask for permission to upload this? i really whant to make my own custom title sequence using the Peter Davidson theme, but do i need permission to do so, if so how do i go about it?

[Shizenvi]

I don't think it'll be an issue if you make your own. It's not like you're charging people for it. Why would the BBC get mad about it. Besides, lots of people have done it and the vids have been up for months/years, so go for it.

[andymxxxx]

Peter Davison was my favourite doctor and this version of the tune was the best.