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IreneDoctor Who ruined my childhood
June 4th 2009 15:56
When I was a kid growing up in the 80s, I used to watch a lot of TVO (TV Ontario). TVO had the best kids' shows, in my opinion. Children's programming ran the gamut from old reruns, e.g., Doctor Snuggles, Fables of the Green Forest, and Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings, to educational shows like The Electric Company, Passe-Partout, and Read All About It.
My sister and I enjoyed many of TVO's shows, but one of them frightened us out of our minds. One second of its opening credits signalled the end of kids' programming for the day and sent us scurrying from the room in terror. The show was, of course, Doctor Who.
Why, you may ask, did it scare us? What with its eerie whooshing and the rumbling strings, just before the high-pitched tune kicks in, who wouldn't be scared? I doubt that we were the only children to find the theme music (as well as the psychedelic vortex) terrifying.
Below is a video that features all of the Doctor Who themes/credits to date. Which one do you think best? I'm partial to the Tom Baker one, though that may be due to nostalgia. The latest one is too bombastic!
Here's some trivia about the Doctor Who theme music:
Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor Who
My sister and I enjoyed many of TVO's shows, but one of them frightened us out of our minds. One second of its opening credits signalled the end of kids' programming for the day and sent us scurrying from the room in terror. The show was, of course, Doctor Who.
Why, you may ask, did it scare us? What with its eerie whooshing and the rumbling strings, just before the high-pitched tune kicks in, who wouldn't be scared? I doubt that we were the only children to find the theme music (as well as the psychedelic vortex) terrifying.
Below is a video that features all of the Doctor Who themes/credits to date. Which one do you think best? I'm partial to the Tom Baker one, though that may be due to nostalgia. The latest one is too bombastic!
Here's some trivia about the Doctor Who theme music:
- The original piece was completely electronic--quite avant-garde for 1963.
- Ron Grainer is credited as the composer, but Delia Derbyshire of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was the one who recorded it using samples of "a single plucked string, white noise, and the simple harmonic waveforms of test-tone oscillators".*
- The theme came in first place in Telegraph's science fiction theme poll.
- KLF had an abominable mashup called "Doctorin' the TARDIS" back in 1988. It reached #1 in many countries.
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