The Doctor Who Years: The Eighties (documentary)

The Doctor Who Years: The Eighties was the third and final episode of The Doctor Who Years, a three-part musical documentary series charting the history of the so-called "Classic Series" of Doctor Who.

	Seasons 18-26
	21 May 2005
	30 minutes
	Ed Stradling
The Doctor Who Years
← Previous	The Doctor Who Years: The Seventies

It was released on the Doctor Who website on 21 May 2005.

The style and format of the documentary was based on the BBC television series The Rock 'n' Roll Years (1984-94). It featured clips and images from every Doctor Who story, in chronological order, as well as various promotional appearances, merchandise and newspaper clippings, accompanied with tounge-in-cheek captions and scored with pop music from the UK Singles Chart at the time.

Initially it was only available to stream in RealPlayer (.ram) format, then on 6 July 2005 it was made avalable in a second format, Windows Media Video (.wmv), after a website visitor survey in which RealPlayer was heavily criticised.

Other material featured

Other clips featured were:

• BBC1 ident from 1974 & BBC2 ident from 1979.
• The Five Faces of Doctor Who trailer, TX: c.19 October 1981.
• Blue Peter, TX: 29 October 1981 & TX: 18 September 1986.
• Nationwide or BBC News?, TX: c.2-6 November 1981.
• Swap Shop, TX: 9 January 1982.
• Saturday SuperStore, TX: 26 March 1983.
• Longleat 20th anniversary convention footage from Reeltime Pictures.
• Nationwide, TX: 17 March 1983.
• BBC Nine O'Clock News, TX: 28 July 1983, TX: 19 August 1983 & TX: 27 February 1985.
• BBC South-East at Six, TX: 29 July 1983.
• Jim'll Fix It: A Fix with Sontarans, TX: 23 February 1985.
• Wogan, TX: 1 March 1985 & TX: 25 August 1986.
• The Saturday Picture Show, TX: 6 September 1986.
• BBC Six O'Clock News, TX: 2 March 1987.
• Open Air, TX: 29 September 1987.
• The Making of Doctor Who: Silver Nemesis (1988).

Press clippings featured were:

• "Will the cruel Beeb really kill off K9?", The Sun, 7 June 1980.
• "Time's up, Doctor And the new Who could be a woman", Daily Star, 25 October 1980.
• "Peter Who?", Daily Record, 5 November 1980.
• "Tell me, Doctor, who's Who and who is not?", 1983.
• "Colin's the new Dr Who", Daily Star, 20 August 1983.
• "Dr Who is axed in a BBC plot", The Sun, 28 February 1985.
• "Dr Who down-Graded!", Daily Mail, 28 February 1985.
• "Now for Dr Who on radio", c.10 June 1985.
• "One last chance for timeless Dr Who", 1985 or 1986.
• "Colin Baker quits as the Doctor", Glasgow Herald, 19 December 1986.
• "Why I'll never forgive gutless Grade, by axed Dr Who", The Sun, 6 January 1987.
• "Who do you do, Doctor", Daily Mirror, 3 March 1987.
• "McCoy, That's Who", The Sun, 3 March 1987.
• "Doctor Who is the real McCoy", Today, 3 March 1987.
• "Dr Who and the battle of Coronation Street", The Guardian, 1987.
• "Jubilee spree for Doctor Who", The Guardian, 16 November 1988.
• Radio Times cover from 19-25 November 1983.

Images of the following pieces of merchandise - The Doctor Who Celebration: Twenty Years of a Time Lord Commemorative Programme, Radio Times Doctor Who 20th Anniversary Special, Daily Star "Save Doctor Who" sticker, and Doctor Who Bulletin No. 26 (September 1985).

A publicity photo was used to illustrate the BBC Radio 4 audio drama Slipback.

Music list

• "Enola Gay" by Orchestral Manouvres In The Dark
• "Ashes To Ashes" by David Bowie
• "Feels Like I’m In Love" by Kelly Marie
• "The Tide Is High" by Blondie
• "Fade To Grey" by Visage
• "Imagine" by John Lennon
• "Kids In America" by Kim Wilde
• "Vienna" by Ultravox
• "It Must Be Love" by Madness
• "Don’t You Want Me" by The Human League
• "The Land Of Make Believe" by Bucks Fizz
• "I’ll Find My Way Home" by Jon & Vangelis
• "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by Tight Fit
• "See You" by Depeche Mode
• "Poison Arrow" by ABC
• "A Town Called Malice" by The Jam
• "Mickey" by Toni Basil
• "You Can’t Hurry Love" by Phil Collins
• "Down Under" by Men At Work
• "Africa" by Toto
• "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson
• "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" by Bonnie Tyler
• "Blue Monday" by New Order
• "Karma Chameleon" by Culture Club
• "Moonlight Shadow" by Mike Oldfield
• "Uptown Girl" by Billy Joel
• "Relax" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
• "Wouldn’t It Be Good" by Nik Kershaw
• "Radio Ga Ga" by Queen
• "99 Red Balloons" by Nena
• "Doctor! Doctor!" by Thompson Twins
• "Robert De Niro’s Waiting" by Bananarama
• "It’s Raining Men" by The Weather Girls
• "Like A Virgin" by Madonna
• "I Want To Know What Love Is" by Foreigner
• "Run To You" by Bryan Adams
• "The Boys Of Summer" by Don Henley
• "Every Time You Go Away" by Paul Young
• "We Close Our Eyes" by Go West
• "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" by Tears For Fears
• "And She Was" by Talking Heads
• "Thorn In My Side" by Eurythmics
• "The Way It Is" by Bruce Hornsby & The Range
• "Walk Like An Egyptian" by Bangles
• "The Final Countdown" by Europe
• "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin
• "Caravan Of Love" by The Housemartins
• "It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way" by The Blow Monkeys
• "Alone" by Heart
• "What Have I Done To Deserve This?" by Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield
• "You Win Again" by Bee Gees
• "China In Your Hand" by T’Pau
• "Heaven Is A Place On Earth" by Belinda Carlisle
• "Doctorin’ The Tardis" by The Timelords
• "A Little Respect" by Erasure
• "One Moment In Time" by Whitney Houston
• "Orinoco Flow" by Enya
• "Waiting For A Star To Fall" by Boy Meets Girl
• "If I Could Turn Back Time" by Cher
• "Ride On Time" by Black Box
• "Listen To Your Heart" by Roxette
• "Never Too Late" by Kylie Minogue
• "Nothing Ever Happens" by Del Amitri