I love how "The Doctor" theme was expanded ONLY when Ecclestone gave his life to save Rose. It's like he was hiding his Doctor nature, but had shown it only in the end...
Actually… No, I don’t think it was. It was extended when he talked about Gallifrey in episode 2, and the full version was used again in Boom Town while he noticed the name Bad Wolf following him.
Still one of the smartest decisions any writer ever made in doctor who was the destruction of galafrey and the daleks, made for a perfect starting point, literally didnt have to remember anything from old who and allowed the doctor to reintroduce things from his past whenever he felt comfortable opening up and a writer wanted to re-establish something
@@Big_Bad_Gammon yeah it felt like we were all set for another massive journey to finding and saving galafrey again and then in the space of like 2 seasons the doctor finds galafrey, the master destroys it and the doctor turns out to be an ancient alien...davies seems like he is trying to work the whole orphan angle now, calling into question the doctors parents so that might go somewhere.
@@Big_Bad_Gammon This is honestly my biggest issue with the Timeless Child plotline/storyline. I don't care that they changed The Doctor's/Gallifrey's backstory (it happens all the time in Doctor Who and this is like the third retcon). I just hate that it undid everything the 50th set out to do and sort of made the 50th redundant.
@@keit99but then again, new who is much more of a collective story than classic who. so it makes sense that it would have musical motifs compared to the much less serialised classic who
Murray Gold's compositions for Doctor Who are some of the most incredible examples musical theming there has ever been. The way the show will weave motifs in ways that sometimes you don't even notice it's doing is masterful. It's so damn moving.
It's interesting to see how it's always the melody on vocals for 9. But immediately 10 gets it on flute as well as throughout the orchestra in his run. Like he's moving on more from how single minded he was as 9
@@thanatos-zero-x I'd assume they did, but you can imagine if Eccleston stayed on for s2 it would've worked with the new version of the theme, he'd have been less single minded and open and happier
I have always loved throughout my life how often they use this theme to represent The Doctor. It makes it feel mythical even outside of the context of the show. When you hear that theme it’s like a shiver down your spine of “brrrr. That’s THE Doctor”
The comeback in Hell Bent is striking, especially the war march version. You can tell he was really on a war path, and how wrong it was for the Doctor to be there.
Oh wow, I didn't expect to be hit so hard by the use of it in Last of the Time Lords, with Martha telling everyone the Doctor is the important one, not her. Yet she's the one that ultimately saves the world by episode's end. Martha's such a real one, vastly underrated.
I don't just associate The Doctor's Theme with one or two particular incarnations, I see it as a theme for *all* incarnations - the Doctor as a whole. Despite its complete absence in the Thirteenth Doctor era, I'm glad they used it for Jodie Whittaker's debut at the end of Twice Upon a Time, plus bringing it back in The Star Beast (multiple times) which really warmed my heart.
@@flyhylandBecause even with that, both RTD and Murray gold had been totally clear that this song is the overall doctor's theme, the music that defines him, 9 never got his own theme
I feel like in 9's run the theme haunts him. He is fresh out from the war and all that haunts him in that incarnation. And as 10 lives on it starts to sound more and more as prominent as he comes to term with it, it doesnt sound like a haunting theme anymore. He has accepted it.
Hearing that melody in that children in need short right after the regeneration into tennant before the Chrismas invasion really helped my kid brain understand it was the same person. This melody holds a special place in my memory and always will.
Nice compilation, it's amazing to see how synonymous this theme has become with the Doctor across the series. I did notice one absence, another instance of that woman singing when River whispers the Doctor's name in his ear. Though, I can't remember whether that's from the first part or second part of the story so it may count as a duplication in your eyes.
There is 1 missing use from The Sarah Jane Adventures - Revenge of the Slitheen Pt. 2 when the Father Slitheen explains that they’re here to avenge the family from Aliens of London/World War Three
@@CultOfThirteen you know what? that is fair lmao. I just really enjoy this considering how 10ths, 11ths, 12ths and so on themes are bombastic and filled with adrenaline. Where this tune really just makes you ask the question; Doctor Who?
This is the first time I see someone acknowledge inclusion of this theme in "A Good Man Goes to War". Thank you for confirming I'm not just hearing things!
@@CultOfThirteen and the same with star wars, other shows can sample John Williams when the scene needs it. And some scenes in Jodie’s era needed the doctors theme, or hints of the Dalek theme, cybermen etc.
I know that this is The Doctor’s definitive theme but it was originally 9’s but even though it was 9’s I still find it very hard to tell the difference between 9’s theme and 10’s theme
The regular theme version is cool The Vale Decem's version is kinda godly But Turn Left's feels like came from a freaking NIGHTMARE. If you put it to someone high... It's gonna drive him to a BAD HIGH
That’s not the doctors theme though, neither is the one after in the night of the Doctor. They don’t belong here. Or time of the Doctor. Or pyramid at the end of the world, or impossible astronaut and pandorica opens
I can’t really hear it in the impossible astronaut same with tpateotw. the doctor, the widow, and the wardrobe is a different theme same as in time of the doctor. Apart from that brilliant compilation!! Always forget how many times this theme creeps up in the series and in expanded
The Time of the Doctor and The Doctor the Widow and the Wardrobe both use parts of ‘The Doctor’s Theme Series 4’, (which adds new notes which makes it sound different from the original), and it’s incorporated into the track ‘1969’
@@CultOfThirteenabsolutely right!! I always forget they revamped that theme later on, I always remember the motif as the s1 Eccleston one. My mistake ahaha
Dont wanna be that guy, but i just found another one. In blink, when Billy shipton talks to Sally about the Tardis and that the windows are the wrong size, you can hear the theme again, its subtle, but definitely there.
Man,it's just me that thinks that this new actor (I forgot his name) who plays the First Doctor is so much good? He renember William Hartnell in apareance, personality and at all! I will love more historys with him
I hope next time Murray Gold leaves the show, this theme is still able to pop up from time to time, it feels like a core part of Doctor Who's Identity and the music during Chibnall era just felt wrong
I've just had a thought that's a crazy theory, you know the storyline Bad wolf that went from the episode boom to the parting of the ways. My theory is that Russell T Davis wrote bad wolf by predicting the future with bad wolf studios. That's happening now! 😮😂
Hate to be that guy but if you ever are looking for corrections, there were some more times throughout The Christmas Invasion where it played. Edit: Just noticed the disclaimer about an episode only appearing once. On me.
I was expecting this to change when we got to Matt Smith to "I am The Doctor" (and then same for Capaldi and Jodie). I don't really think there's one "The Doctor" theme. The theme in the video is just the theme for 9 and 10.
@@CultOfThirteen Yeah I don't deny that that's the title; not trying to say there's anything wrong with your video! But I think there's a difference between "The Doctor's Theme", in quotes, and The Doctor's theme, the latter of which changes with each Doctor, and the title can be interpreted as either. I'm not sure how the video could be titled to not have the ambiguity to be fair, but I think you can probably understand why I made the wrong assumption. And also to be fair, I probably should have realised this video wasn't doing the use of each Doctor's theme, because if it did it would be 3 hours comprising mostly of Matt Smith with "I am the Doctor" in the background!
Every time the Doctor's Theme plays y'all know it's gonna be an important scene to the overarching story
Unless it's "I am the doctor"
@@Somedude389 That’s I am the Doctor, comment said the Doctor’s Theme.
@@dylanziesing6122I know this is late, but isn’t that the 11th doctor’s theme?
@@dylanziesing6122nvm, I’ve misunderstood what was meant by The Doctor’s Theme.
I love how "The Doctor" theme was expanded ONLY when Ecclestone gave his life to save Rose.
It's like he was hiding his Doctor nature, but had shown it only in the end...
Actually… No, I don’t think it was. It was extended when he talked about Gallifrey in episode 2, and the full version was used again in Boom Town while he noticed the name Bad Wolf following him.
Still one of the smartest decisions any writer ever made in doctor who was the destruction of galafrey and the daleks, made for a perfect starting point, literally didnt have to remember anything from old who and allowed the doctor to reintroduce things from his past whenever he felt comfortable opening up and a writer wanted to re-establish something
Bringing it back was also great, but then destroying it again was the worst thing ever
@@Big_Bad_Gammon yeah it felt like we were all set for another massive journey to finding and saving galafrey again and then in the space of like 2 seasons the doctor finds galafrey, the master destroys it and the doctor turns out to be an ancient alien...davies seems like he is trying to work the whole orphan angle now, calling into question the doctors parents so that might go somewhere.
@@Big_Bad_Gammon This is honestly my biggest issue with the Timeless Child plotline/storyline. I don't care that they changed The Doctor's/Gallifrey's backstory (it happens all the time in Doctor Who and this is like the third retcon). I just hate that it undid everything the 50th set out to do and sort of made the 50th redundant.
I've always felt that this is to Doctor Who what The Force Theme is to Star Wars
Only new who. It didn't exist before 2005 after all.
@@keit99but then again, new who is much more of a collective story than classic who. so it makes sense that it would have musical motifs compared to the much less serialised classic who
Murray Gold's compositions for Doctor Who are some of the most incredible examples musical theming there has ever been. The way the show will weave motifs in ways that sometimes you don't even notice it's doing is masterful. It's so damn moving.
It's interesting to see how it's always the melody on vocals for 9. But immediately 10 gets it on flute as well as throughout the orchestra in his run. Like he's moving on more from how single minded he was as 9
Didn't the BBC National Orchestra of Wales began recording Murray Gold's score in Series 2?
@@thanatos-zero-x I'd assume they did, but you can imagine if Eccleston stayed on for s2 it would've worked with the new version of the theme, he'd have been less single minded and open and happier
I have always loved throughout my life how often they use this theme to represent The Doctor. It makes it feel mythical even outside of the context of the show. When you hear that theme it’s like a shiver down your spine of “brrrr. That’s THE Doctor”
The comeback in Hell Bent is striking, especially the war march version. You can tell he was really on a war path, and how wrong it was for the Doctor to be there.
Oh wow, I didn't expect to be hit so hard by the use of it in Last of the Time Lords, with Martha telling everyone the Doctor is the important one, not her.
Yet she's the one that ultimately saves the world by episode's end.
Martha's such a real one, vastly underrated.
I don't just associate The Doctor's Theme with one or two particular incarnations, I see it as a theme for *all* incarnations - the Doctor as a whole. Despite its complete absence in the Thirteenth Doctor era, I'm glad they used it for Jodie Whittaker's debut at the end of Twice Upon a Time, plus bringing it back in The Star Beast (multiple times) which really warmed my heart.
Take a shot every time the spooky doctor theme plays just in Turn Left
Do that and you'll end up like the Doctor at the beginning and Donna at the end.
Every single doctor have a theme, but this is The Doctor Theme, not like most of the people says "9th Doctor Theme"
It was originally the 9th Doctor's theme but because it's been used across many different eras it's just become the definitive Doctor's theme.
@@DoctorVision 9th GOATed so hard with his theme that no other Doctor could regenerate it.
Bro the 9th Doctor has so little of his own, why take this from him?
@@flyhylandBecause even with that, both RTD and Murray gold had been totally clear that this song is the overall doctor's theme, the music that defines him, 9 never got his own theme
This drs theme is THe doctors theme! Been heard in all the doctors part from the 15th doctor
Parting of the ways reindition as he let's go of the Tardis energy gives me goosebumps
I feel like in 9's run the theme haunts him. He is fresh out from the war and all that haunts him in that incarnation. And as 10 lives on it starts to sound more and more as prominent as he comes to term with it, it doesnt sound like a haunting theme anymore. He has accepted it.
Wow, I didn't realise how much this theme played, I always knew this as the 9th Doctor them, but it is just overall The Doctor's theme!
Hearing that melody in that children in need short right after the regeneration into tennant before the Chrismas invasion really helped my kid brain understand it was the same person. This melody holds a special place in my memory and always will.
The best theme ever written by Murray Gold for Doctor Who ❤
david tennant as the meep is the most cursed thing that i never thought i wanted to see so desperately
Such a good theme, gives me chills.
Nice compilation, it's amazing to see how synonymous this theme has become with the Doctor across the series. I did notice one absence, another instance of that woman singing when River whispers the Doctor's name in his ear. Though, I can't remember whether that's from the first part or second part of the story so it may count as a duplication in your eyes.
It’s in part 2 I think it’s the duplication thing but tbh that’s my favourite ever use of the theme
Oh, i always get chills from that theme...
And it always plays at important/dramatic scenes, it's like the time-lines are setting...
So many of these I never even noticed back in the day
HOLY CRAP I NEVER REALISED THAT WAS THE DOCTORS THEME IN VALE DECEM!!!
I love the brilliant use of the original during 12's episodes, it perfectly encapsulates his enigma
There is 1 missing use from The Sarah Jane Adventures - Revenge of the Slitheen Pt. 2 when the Father Slitheen explains that they’re here to avenge the family from Aliens of London/World War Three
I still can't stop bawling like a baby when he says, "I don't want to go!"
it goes so hard when it plays in the spin offs
Turn Left was such an eerie and heartbreaking episode, even though it never happened in the end.
You're doing a great service by putting all the appearances of these songs in one place. I always kind of wished for something like this.
This is brilliant! Such an iconic and beautiful theme! 😊😊
Thank you
wait!! The Parting of the Ways the Doctor let's go of the Heart of the TARDIS... just like DoctorDonna and Rose Temple-Noble 😮 very interesting
I am so glad we all agree this is The Doctors Theme
Tbf the song is called ‘The Doctor’s Theme’
@@CultOfThirteen you know what? that is fair lmao. I just really enjoy this considering how 10ths, 11ths, 12ths and so on themes are bombastic and filled with adrenaline. Where this tune really just makes you ask the question; Doctor Who?
If you count those photographs in Husbands of River Song it's played for every Doctor to date!
And no one's gonna talk about the cursed thumbnail
;)
This is the first time I see someone acknowledge inclusion of this theme in "A Good Man Goes to War". Thank you for confirming I'm not just hearing things!
Excellent compilation, what an emotional package.
An absolutely chilling theme. I hope it is here to stay
This is the content I like to see!!!!
Respectfully asking for more with more themes :)
Been waiting for a video like this, thank you so much
Big mistake not being able to use bits of Murray’s music for Jodie’s era, it feels so disconnected soundtrack wise
It's because Murray Gold left during 13th doctor era and came back with 14th
@@matleb8491 well yes, that’s why I said ‘not being able to use bits of Murray’s music’
Despite it being a different artist, he still could have put a hint of it in one of his songs like the people who make the music for SJA and Torchwood
@@CultOfThirteen and the same with star wars, other shows can sample John Williams when the scene needs it. And some scenes in Jodie’s era needed the doctors theme, or hints of the Dalek theme, cybermen etc.
I think they were able to, Murray Gold used some of Segun Akinola's music in the 60th.
Martha: He never asks to be thanked.
Also the doctor: Is no one gonna thank me
Waters of Mars was a TRIP
No matter the face, this is the theme tine of THE DOCTOR. always.
Nice video! Though the in The Star Beast, the Doctor's theme actually plays at the very first shot after the intro for a brief moment.
We were only using one instance per episode bar special cases ❤️
@@CultOfThirteen I know but it appears earlier in the episode than the one you put in the video
Was looking for a video like this a while ago, thank you 😍😍
I seriously hope we hear more of the doctors theme in the near future
Great video! Missed an extra one from Hell Bent, and a couple of other versions in Twige Upon A Time
We only used once per episode bar special cases
I know that this is The Doctor’s definitive theme but it was originally 9’s but even though it was 9’s I still find it very hard to tell the difference between 9’s theme and 10’s theme
I think Hell Bent is my favourite one
Yay it has a western style to it
The regular theme version is cool
The Vale Decem's version is kinda godly
But Turn Left's feels like came from a freaking NIGHTMARE. If you put it to someone high... It's gonna drive him to a BAD HIGH
you missed when it played when Bill and the First Doctor were talking about why he left Gallifrey
Chose to do it once per episode, bar the odd special case. 😀
that's Doomsday, not The Doctor's Theme.
@@AlexGonzalez-gf4ozactually both themes are played
@@AlexGonzalez-gf4oz no it's definetely The Doctor's theme, it's pretty vivid here
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I'm very confident it was used multiple times in Love and Monsters if I recall correctly
It's so weird to hear doctor's theme in it's pure OG form when twelve regenerated
8:59 11's face is when he says "I invented the quadricycle" I think. Of all the photos they could've used haha. Also great comp!
7:12 what a random ass time to use the dovtors theme lmao
well i mean they are talking about timelord dna
@@pianoif no the Christmas special one
That’s not the doctors theme though, neither is the one after in the night of the Doctor. They don’t belong here. Or time of the Doctor. Or pyramid at the end of the world, or impossible astronaut and pandorica opens
@@obiwankenobi687they come from the expanded version of the theme for series 4 - I think it counts, but just barely
I always thought this was Rose's theme!! 😮
The thumbnail... is fantastic :')
I can’t really hear it in the impossible astronaut same with tpateotw. the doctor, the widow, and the wardrobe is a different theme same as in time of the doctor. Apart from that brilliant compilation!! Always forget how many times this theme creeps up in the series and in expanded
The Time of the Doctor and The Doctor the Widow and the Wardrobe both use parts of ‘The Doctor’s Theme Series 4’, (which adds new notes which makes it sound different from the original), and it’s incorporated into the track ‘1969’
@@CultOfThirteenabsolutely right!! I always forget they revamped that theme later on, I always remember the motif as the s1 Eccleston one. My mistake ahaha
i remember when the thumbnail for this video was david tennant meep
6:46, for some reason, this version reminds me of the War Doctor’s Big Finish theme, particularly the more ominous rendition from ‘Forged in Fire.’
you missed one in parting of the ways but good video bro🙏🙏🙏
Loving these videos!
Thank you. ❤️
I thought this meant the actual Doctor who theme tune like in time and the Rani
You missed the Planet of the Ood when the Ood were telling the Doctor that his song will end soon.
That was the track Doomsday. 😀
@@CultOfThirteen Oh shee..., I must be misremembering.
A snippet of it also plays in The Doctor’s Daughter when they’re locked up
I believe that’s hints of The Doctor Forever and This is Gallifrey in the scene. 😀
Could you please do an extensive version of this and include every time the song plays, even when its more than once an ep?
NEEDS TO COME BACK
I wonder if this peice of classical music will still play in the new series? I hope it does at very important moments
Also in this part of Day of the Doctor where they enter the museum.
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Great theme
I thought 'I'm The Doctor' was Matt Smith's theme which did get used a lot more than what was shown in the video.
This is just for the track named The Doctor's Theme. :)
Dont wanna be that guy, but i just found another one. In blink, when Billy shipton talks to Sally about the Tardis and that the windows are the wrong size, you can hear the theme again, its subtle, but definitely there.
the collection never heard that one
Man,it's just me that thinks that this new actor (I forgot his name) who plays the First Doctor is so much good? He renember William Hartnell in apareance, personality and at all! I will love more historys with him
David bradley is his Name iirc
I hope next time Murray Gold leaves the show, this theme is still able to pop up from time to time, it feels like a core part of Doctor Who's Identity and the music during Chibnall era just felt wrong
You missed the 2 other times It plays in the star beast, when the tardis lands, and when their in the back of the army van
Just used once per episode, bar special cases. 😀
How did you even catch the one in Pyramid at the End of the World, that one was so subtle
So apart for Ncuti (so far), it played for all modern Doctors and in all modern spin-offs. Has any other piece of soundtrack achieved that?
What abt the 9th?
@@Athyxer What do you mean? He's literally the first in this video. In the very first episode.
@@Domihork im a dumbass.
@@Athyxer :D well... nice to meet you, dumbass, I've always wanted to meet someone named dumbass! (a little Day of the Doctor reference for you)
I've just had a thought that's a crazy theory, you know the storyline Bad wolf that went from the episode boom to the parting of the ways. My theory is that Russell T Davis wrote bad wolf by predicting the future with bad wolf studios. That's happening now! 😮😂
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gold is the goat
Here is your 1000th like!
Thank you. 😀
bro when it plays in the woman who lived during me's story it is so gas
it is really hidden in the music but it has a reference to vale decem
Hate to be that guy but if you ever are looking for corrections, there were some more times throughout The Christmas Invasion where it played.
Edit: Just noticed the disclaimer about an episode only appearing once. On me.
you forgot series five before the pandorica
When’s it used outside of Pandorica?
I was expecting this to change when we got to Matt Smith to "I am The Doctor" (and then same for Capaldi and Jodie). I don't really think there's one "The Doctor" theme. The theme in the video is just the theme for 9 and 10.
The name is “The Doctor’s Theme”. That’s the official title by Murray Gold. This is just for that track. It is used for 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14.
@@CultOfThirteen Yeah I don't deny that that's the title; not trying to say there's anything wrong with your video! But I think there's a difference between "The Doctor's Theme", in quotes, and The Doctor's theme, the latter of which changes with each Doctor, and the title can be interpreted as either. I'm not sure how the video could be titled to not have the ambiguity to be fair, but I think you can probably understand why I made the wrong assumption.
And also to be fair, I probably should have realised this video wasn't doing the use of each Doctor's theme, because if it did it would be 3 hours comprising mostly of Matt Smith with "I am the Doctor" in the background!
That's fair, also you'll be pleased to hear we have done a I am the Doctor video.
I’m pretty sure you missed one at m.th-cam.com/video/p7YXXieghto/w-d-xo.html
Lol
What was that last spin off
Class 😀
@@CultOfThirteenJust Class? Why?
Whats Collection and Lockdown?
The Collection is from the collection box-sets, and Lockdown was a series of mini episodes that released during the 2020 lockdown
6:36 you could have atleast shown the scene
Just using the part that utilises the Doctor’s theme. 😀
I’m glad Chibnall never used it. He would have ruined it
He wasn’t the composer.
@@CultOfThirteen true but he had control of how things were done on the show for those 3 years