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Best Doctor Who Theme version ever?

Really good, Bill Bailey's great. I liked the slow down version. Especially good to watch as I'm practising French.
 
I have to say I do really like the Hartnell/Troughton versions because, if nothing else, there's a real alien feel to them missing since then.

For me the Tom/Davison is the definitive, though I loved Eccleston's version. McCoy's is very good as well, and I've a soft spot for the TVM one also.
 
Professor Zoom said:
23skidoo said:
I'd never heard of Bill Bailey before a few minutes ago, but near as I can figure he's this generation's Victor Borge -- a classical musician who inserts comedy and humor into his shows.
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It might be more the other way around. A comic who puts music into his shows.

He's great. He's in Spaced, in Hot Fuzz--dual roll!

Edited to add: Oh, shit, I totally forgot, he's in Black Books. An AMAZINGLY funny show.
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And he's a genuine One Of Us: a the launch event for Space Cadets (a comedy SF quiz Channel 4 did back in the 1990s), I was interviewining the various panellists, asking them all the same set of 20 questions, one of which was "Favourite spaceship?"
Most went for one of the usual suspects,m like Millennium Falcon, or TARDIS, or Enterprise. Only Bill said "Liberator!"
And, of course, the UK papers were reporting yesterday that he's going to be in the Who Christmas special.
 
Don't have a specific favourite, but I do have a real soft spot for any version that includes the oft elusive middle eight. One of the things I dislike about the current theme is how they ditched it in the closing credits in favour of looping back to the main melody.
 
Honestily, I think Sylvester McCoy's version is the best one out there. I'm not a huge fan of his version of the Doctor but I love his era's rendition of the theme song.

Also, too bad this didn't have a poll. Could you fit all of the variations into a poll?
 
diankra said:
Professor Zoom said:
23skidoo said:
I'd never heard of Bill Bailey before a few minutes ago, but near as I can figure he's this generation's Victor Borge -- a classical musician who inserts comedy and humor into his shows.
Click to expand...

It might be more the other way around. A comic who puts music into his shows.

He's great. He's in Spaced, in Hot Fuzz--dual roll!

Edited to add: Oh, shit, I totally forgot, he's in Black Books. An AMAZINGLY funny show.
Click to expand...

And he's a genuine One Of Us: a the launch event for Space Cadets (a comedy SF quiz Channel 4 did back in the 1990s), I was interviewining the various panellists, asking them all the same set of 20 questions, one of which was "Favourite spaceship?"
Most went for one of the usual suspects,m like Millennium Falcon, or TARDIS, or Enterprise. Only Bill said "Liberator!"
And, of course, the UK papers were reporting yesterday that he's going to be in the Who Christmas special.
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You know I wouldn't have thought Bailey could go any higher in my estimation...but he just did :)
 
Newspaper Taxi said:
Honestily, I think Sylvester McCoy's version is the best one out there. I'm not a huge fan of his version of the Doctor but I love his era's rendition of the theme song.

Also, too bad this didn't have a poll. Could you fit all of the variations into a poll?
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Since this thread wasn't technically about this line of conversation, it makes sense there's no poll. I thought about creating a new thread, but I didn't want to have to dig up all the themes and make sure I had all of them in order to truly do such a thread justice.
 
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