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Doctor Who - Original 1963 Opening Title Sequence - Classic!

submitted by gwaan

1 decade 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago

The Doctor Who theme music was created in 1963, composed by Ron Grainer and "realised" with electronics by Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The theme was one of the first electronic music signature tunes for television. Its haunting and ethereal sound has become as indelibly associated with the programme as the TARDIS or the Daleks, and the theme has endured over four decades.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_Music

19 Comments

That music always seriously freaked me out as a kid.... still does actually!

I always thought Pink Floyd made it -- nice to hear the real story.

ahh, beautiful

timelord says...

How could I miss this in the queue? oh well.

amazing when you think of what sort of technology ordinary people had available back then.. this must have been like magic

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firefly has fixed this video's dead embed code - no star awarded because firefly was awarded too recently.

*1sttube

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*quality *electronica

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*british, too

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Awarding Barseps with one Power Point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

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