G'day,
In early 1996 Philip Segal played a piece of music at a press conference for his upcoming tv movie, "Doctor Who", staring Paul McGann. The music was John Debney's unfinished version of the Doctor Who theme tune, performed by an electronic orchestra, and thanks to the rather fledgling world wide web, the music was shared around the world by excited fans.
I've no doubt rambled on about this before, and I make no apologies for that! 1996 was a huge year for me in fandom, and this piece of music still chokes me up nearly as much as the 1980 version that I adored as a kid. Trying to download the 2mb file on my 14.4k modem was a nightmare, as the file kept stalling, leaving me with just the first few seconds, cutting out just after the first recognisable dum-de-dum chords... until finally obtaining the full file and having a massive nerdgasm.
A few months later, when I finally sat down to watch the Telemovie via the VHS copy I'd had flown over from the UK (because the extra month's wait for the Aussie air-date was just too much!), I was a little disappointed with the changes made to the theme from the version that Segal had unveiled. It was minor, yes, but the dum-de-dum's had been sped up, and stupid asteroid noises added over top to match the visuals... (How dare they do that?? That's absurd!)
Well, a while ago I did a pretty rough cut of a "full" version of McGann's title sequence, using what I had originally dubbed as the "preliminary" version of the theme tune. It removes the voice-over intro, and also the Master's eyes, both details that I had removed from my "Master-less" fan-edit of the movie... I popped it on YouTube, but their scrubbers flagged it and blocked it worldwide...
I have however continued to use the dum-de-dum from the preliminary theme as a little coda at the end of most of my YouTube Doctor Who videos. A while ago someone contacted me, as they recognised where that music was from, and wanted to hear the full version once again. After scouring the net for them, thinking it should still be "out there", I failed to track it down... And as such I tried once again to upload my 8th Doc Title Sequence... but again, the BBC didn't like it...
Presented here for your enjoyment is the "preliminary" version of Debney's 1996 Doctor Who theme tune, which is in no way complimented by the rough-cut title sequence, which I had to disguise using YouTube's own colour filters in order to hide the TARDIS from their scrubbers :}
(In fact - just do what I did all those years ago... turn the music up, (read the written intro) and close your eyes...)
In early 1996 Philip Segal played a piece of music at a press conference for his upcoming tv movie, "Doctor Who", staring Paul McGann. The music was John Debney's unfinished version of the Doctor Who theme tune, performed by an electronic orchestra, and thanks to the rather fledgling world wide web, the music was shared around the world by excited fans.
I've no doubt rambled on about this before, and I make no apologies for that! 1996 was a huge year for me in fandom, and this piece of music still chokes me up nearly as much as the 1980 version that I adored as a kid. Trying to download the 2mb file on my 14.4k modem was a nightmare, as the file kept stalling, leaving me with just the first few seconds, cutting out just after the first recognisable dum-de-dum chords... until finally obtaining the full file and having a massive nerdgasm.
A few months later, when I finally sat down to watch the Telemovie via the VHS copy I'd had flown over from the UK (because the extra month's wait for the Aussie air-date was just too much!), I was a little disappointed with the changes made to the theme from the version that Segal had unveiled. It was minor, yes, but the dum-de-dum's had been sped up, and stupid asteroid noises added over top to match the visuals... (How dare they do that?? That's absurd!)
Well, a while ago I did a pretty rough cut of a "full" version of McGann's title sequence, using what I had originally dubbed as the "preliminary" version of the theme tune. It removes the voice-over intro, and also the Master's eyes, both details that I had removed from my "Master-less" fan-edit of the movie... I popped it on YouTube, but their scrubbers flagged it and blocked it worldwide...
I have however continued to use the dum-de-dum from the preliminary theme as a little coda at the end of most of my YouTube Doctor Who videos. A while ago someone contacted me, as they recognised where that music was from, and wanted to hear the full version once again. After scouring the net for them, thinking it should still be "out there", I failed to track it down... And as such I tried once again to upload my 8th Doc Title Sequence... but again, the BBC didn't like it...
Presented here for your enjoyment is the "preliminary" version of Debney's 1996 Doctor Who theme tune, which is in no way complimented by the rough-cut title sequence, which I had to disguise using YouTube's own colour filters in order to hide the TARDIS from their scrubbers :}
(In fact - just do what I did all those years ago... turn the music up, (read the written intro) and close your eyes...)
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