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Production stills and behind the scenes of "The General"

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Who is most important to the history of Doctor Who?

ROUND 1: Vote for your choice, the bottom three will be eliminated

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop – music and sound design, including the theme tune

Delia Derbyshire – arranged the original theme tune

Ron Grainer – wrote the music for the original theme tune

Dudley Simpson – the most prolific composer for Classic Who, second for all Who

Paddy Kingsland – 1980s Doctor Who composer

Peter Howell – 70s and 80s Doctor Who composer

Robert Harvey – sound design and music for audio dramas

Segun Akinola – composer during the Chibnall era

Murray Gold – composer during the RTD and Moffatt eras

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Voting ended onNov 27, 2024

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Doctor Who Theme: Round 1

Seasons 18-22

"The new theme was arranged by Peter Howell using his Yamaha CS-80, ARP Odyssey and Roland Jupiter 4 synthesisers as well as his EMS Vocoder, and some additional processing to that recording. [...] The opening and closing themes followed the pattern set in 1970 [...] However, Howell's theme began in the key of F-sharp minor. This obligated incidental music composers to end their final cue of the episode in the highly unusual key, or something complimentary. Howell therefore has called himself "the guy who just made it difficult for everybody". (DCOM: Meglos) Beyond this unusual feature, his opening remained unchanged aside from some very minor alterations to coincide with the revised Sixth Doctor opening sequence from The Twin Dilemma and his closing included the "middle eight" and ended with an explosive sound (nicknamed the "sonic boom" and complimented by the white-out effect at the end of the credits). This theme was used from Season 18 through Season 22."

Season 23

"Season 23 saw another new arrangement by Dominic Glynn. It was more haunting and ethereal than the previous themes, but very similar to Peter Howell's arrangement in most respects (enough so that the opening graphics remained unchanged from the final Howell season). The theme was in the E Minor key."

80's synth smackdown:

Seasons 18-22

Season 23

Voting ended onMay 13, 2023

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The Mutants - season 09 - 1972

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Here's How Peter Howell Remixed the Doctor Who Theme Tune in the 1980s

Here's How Peter Howell Remixed the #DoctorWho Theme Tune in the 1980s

Fans of the Doctor Who theme (and who isn’t, eh?) should check out this BBC report from 1982 in which Peter Howell describes how he went about revamping the programme’s famous opening tune. The clip was originally screened on 2nd February 1982 as part of The Music Arcade: Electricity in Music. Peter gives a detailed run through of his use of polyphonic analogue synthesisers, a vocoder, and an…