Doctor Who theme (in-universe)

A portion of the tune plays from K9 Mark 2's memory section. (TV: Regeneration ^[+]Loading...["Regeneration (TV story)"])

Ellery Quest invented theme music for Doctor Who which went "da-da-dum da-da-dum da-da-da-dum doo-wee-oo". (AUDIO: All of Time and Space ^[+]Loading...["All of Time and Space (audio story)"]) The same composition was known by Maestro to be associated with the Lord Temporal known as the Doctor. (TV: The Devil's Chord ^[+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])

The Drumming in the Master's head had the same beat as this music. (TV: The Sound of Drums ^[+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)"])

History

In 1978, Geoff Love developed the Doctor Who theme tune, with help from Iris Wildthyme when she went undercover as a cellist/Space: 1999 fan. She had helped advise Geoff on his arrangements, and she had helped him develop the brass section to make it sound like "menacing, evening hordes of the Doctor's enemies".

Iris later thought that the theme was a sort of a "disco version in brass and woodwind". When Paul Magrs was eight, he owned a copy of the theme on record, and Iris also owned a copy on tape. (PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion ^[+]Loading...["Bafflement and Devotion (short story)"]) David also owned a copy, which he listened to with his friend Robert Woolf. (PROSE: The Diary of a Dr. Who Addict ^[+]Loading...["The Diary of a Dr. Who Addict (novel)"])

Following K9 Mark I's regeneration into K9 Mark 2, Professor Alistair Gryffen found a portion of this tune in K9's memory section, which K9 could not identify due to damage sustained by his memdrive. (TV: Regeneration ^[+]Loading...["Regeneration (TV story)"])

The theme plays from the TARDIS jukebox. (TV: The Devil's Chord ^[+]Loading...{"timestamp":"05:21","1":"The Devil's Chord (TV story)"})

The TARDIS jukebox had a record of this music. It once played this shortly before Ruby Sunday and the Fifteenth Doctor visited the Beatles in 1963. (TV: The Devil's Chord ^[+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])

Behind the scenes

• Geoff Love's Doctor Who theme does exist in reality, albeit under the name of "Dr. Who", as a part of his album, "Geoff Love & His Orchestra: Star Wars and Other Galactic Themes".
  • The cover of the album would be later paid homage by the cover of Tsar Wars.