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THE MIDDLE 8 OMG

The Doctor Who theme frightened the life out of me as a child, during the Tom Baker era. If it had been like this example of cheesiness I’d probably have found it hysterically funny. It’s a lot more 70s Starskey and Hutch than Doctor Who. I’ve seen bits of the John Pertwee era though and it probably would have suited his Doctor.

Ozma :)

Thanks for posting this

Lorraine you're all that I wanted of a girl you're all that I need in this world

Thank you for sharing this. It features a very close friend and his dad who have sadly both passed away and I’ve been able to send this to his widow. I never knew this existed anywhere so I’m thankful to someone who posted it on Twitter this morning as it’s 30 years since it was broadcast.

The titles sequence would be the Tardis driving through a plate glass window, then a freeze frame.

Great upload I remember this well I taped it

Cheesy but kind of Nice especially at the end

third doctor be like

Barry Grey meets Ron Grainer... yup love it :) very 70's all it needed to compliment it was Johnny Williams in that decade *lost in space season 3 esc*

All it needs now is a go-faster stripe for the TARDIS!

Middle 8 still slaps.

Sounds very ITC which isn't surprising given the composer and the era.

rivers so very fine

i remember seeing a video once using this whilst doing 'montages' and 'starring' bits...but i can't seem to find it anymore I saw a similar one, but it was shorter, the one i remember I'm pretty certain used the whole theme can anyone help find this video?

When you hear that "All options are on the table." think of this.

I do wonder what the Ronnie hazelhurst version would sound like....

Notice the Kurt Cobain shaped glitch in the matrix at around 5:25. Bottom, middle left

Doctor who just wouldn't be around today if this was the final theme.

Finally, I found it again!

The middle 8 is even more glorious than usual.

Ewwwwwwww... Soundslike a Burger King commercial stinger...

Groovy Baby✌️

It shows how much of an unsung genius Delia Derbyshire truly was. And I see why Grainer wanted to give her co-credit.

Jesus, thank god Delia Derbyshire arranged the theme herself.

Apparently when Ron Grainer heard Delia Derbyshire's rendition of his theme for the first time, he remarked "Did I write that?" Delia replied, modestly, "Most of it."

Thunderbirds are go! I keep expecting some really horrible lounge-lizard singer to burst out over this with cringy lyrics to the theme! "DOCTOR WHO! AIN'T HE SWELL! HE DRIVES DALEKS STRAIGHT TO HELL! DOCTOR WHO! HIS TIME MACHINES IS BLUE! IT'S BIGGER INSIDE THAN OUT! HEY! GIVE A SHOUT! ..and so on. Blimey.

Wierd! It has some interesting things but a little too much Disco and I prefer Delia's interpretation.

It has a Prisoner vibe to it...

they all look so good here

This is probably just a coincidence but kinda weird thought. Mikey had a mental breakdown at 30 years old in August 2001 just a month before 9/11 attacks and nearly committed suicide but was put in a psychiatric hospital. Then 10 years later just under a month from October he had a dream about his own death in September 2011 and was found dead October 2011 from drug OD at the age of 40.

I love how it is literally impossible to mess up the Middle 8

I swear I remember seeing a video somewhere on this site where there was an entire Doctor Who intro that used this theme... In hindsight, that video was probably just a hoax, and the intro could've been fan-made, but I remember it so vividly.

This must’ve been from that time when BBC2 showed a whole evening of programmes, dedicated to George Best. Back when the BBC meant something more than nonces and apologists for nonces. How times change.

As a survivor of the disco era, which I spent on the sidelines laughing at the scene, all I can say is...🤢🤮

As a "Doctor Who" fan of 52 years (that's watching the show, not my age) I'm fully qualified to say this is rubbish! 👎🤣 Now, what we need is for somebody to take Ron Grainer's score and make it a good DEAL better! 🎶👍🤣 ... (See what I did there?) ... Then, it can be released as a 45RPM, and be played on the RADIO, if it's not too PHONEY? 👍🤣... (See what I did there, again?) EDIT: It's 02:05 am, and that's the best I could come up with!

Georgie Best was groovy baby.

Sounds to me like "Doctor Who" meets "The Prisoner"

John Higgs asking for the cheat there… now a well known author.

A Genius

If Dr Who did Ska !

Bloody Horrible

Ron Grainer was a genius. All of his arrangements are perfect for the films/tv series he scored (Steptoe and Son, the Prisoner, Tales of the Unexpected, The Omega Man etc etc etc). That's why he had the BBC Radiophonic Workshop arrange an electronic version of his Dr Who theme -according to his instructions which included requests for various sound effects alongside his music score. The workshop did a great job arranging it, but the claims of authorship by Delia Derbyshire are political rather than musical. If she was responsible, where are her other great theme tunes?

I still prefer this version to any of the wimpy synthesiser abortions from the eighties.

Thank you,. Seb, for bringing this arrangement to my attention! I've featured you in the end credits of my mini-documentary on the creation of the 1963 Doctor Who theme, which is followed by my new 60th anniversary arrangement. I hope you don't mind the shameless plug..... In "SPOTLIGHT on Doctor Who Theme 60", Dan Akers looks at how the original theme for the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who was created in the pre-synthesiser days of 1963. Featuring the work of Delia Derbyshire, Dick Mills, Peter Howell and Brian Hodgson at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Then, a chance to hear Dan's 60th anniversary arrangement of Ron Grainer's timeless theme for a time lord, featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra Core instrument library from London-based Spitfire Audio. "I'd always wanted to produce my own arrangement of the Doctor Who theme tune, and the show's 60th anniversary gave me the opportunity to do just that." said Dan. "I wanted to partly re-invent it, but at the same time I wanted to stay true to the spirit and creative intention of Delia Derbyshire's original arrangement, which is simultaneously beautiful and un-nerving, haunting yet hopeful; the musical embodiment of The Doctor". To watch "SPOTLIGHT on Doctor Who: Theme 60", please visit to youtube.com/@danmademusic Thanks! Dan

If James Bond did a crossover with Doctor Who

I can just imagine Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor in a 70s outfit in an intense chase scene through a discotheque.

This would've fit Tom Baker's era so well

Why is Brian's mic completely silent here? Weird.