BBC Corners - The Making Of The Doctor Who Theme (1987) - 1080p AI Upscale

The making of Keff McCulloch's classic Doctor Who Theme
Originally in 720 x 576 25FPS Interlaced
Upscaled to 1440 x 1080 50FPS Progressive
Software used: Topaz Video AI
Sourced from Doctor Who: The Collection Season 24 Blu-ray
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[@TurboTubs]

Its funny seeing Sophie Aldred talking about Doctor Who just a year or so before she went on the show!

[@passionateerrors]

MASSIVELY UNDERRATED THEME SONG

[@ajr99893]

I remember watching this in 1987! Thank you 🙂

[@whophd]

Thank you for uploading this properly. Unlike 99% of SDTV on the internet. There’s a “right way” to do it and yet we’ve somehow built an infrastructure that makes the past look way worse than it needs to.

[@commanderskittles6558]

This video has been approved by the Keff McCullough appreciation society

[@404TVfr]

On the Keffage Scale, it gets a 9.89/10.

[@projectdalekmark]

Met Sophie last year. A lovely humble Person.

[@YoungButRetro]

So did I, at Scarborough comic con. She told me about an audio documentary she worked on for the Wilderness Years about 2 weeks before it was released. Really lovely person.

[@projectdalekmark]

@@YoungButRetro I was there too! In November.

[@YoungButRetro]

@@projectdalekmark oh damn that's a coincidence. I was there in 13th Doctor cosplay!

[@projectdalekmark]

@@YoungButRetro I was there with a yellow aldi bag and two 7th doctor umbrellas. One for Sylvester to sign and another for him to pose with and I use as my regular umbrella 😄

[@projectdalekmark]

You'll find Dalek videos on my account if you look at my early videos. I sold my Dalek back in 2016 but I've a new one in the works...😊

[@derekhart3308]

Might been in late 80s but still very modern even today still hasn't aged.

[@Kryojenix]

1:34 Sophie having a go is literally better than Matt'n'Karen singing the tune together. Though that was cool too.

[@MandmaOfficial]

Thanks for the remaster!

[@timeywimeybrony]

I want a version of just the bass, and each separate track

[@RedMakesMusic_]

sorry but stuff like that cant be shared about and sadly this theme rendition has been lost

[@Sam_Locke]

Trust me I tried speaking to several BBC people about the Howell multitrack and they’re only allowed to share it for commercial BBC projects- even Mark Ayres told me this and Simon Gurney is the only person who can ‘licensee’ the stems. And you can try so much eventually they’ll tell you that you ‘burned your bridges’ with the BBC. Not worth trying with BBC studios aynmore…

[@timeywimeybrony]

@@Sam_Locke you have? Wow I just wanna know what they used to make the base, so I can re-create it

[@Sam_Locke]

@@timeywimeybrony The Keff bass was done on a Prophet 5.

[@DoctorM1ck]

@@Sam_Locke I think everyone needs to put more respect into the composers who make these music rather than factor the multitrack or stems, seems a bit disrespectful if the only factor you want is the stems or the multitrack of the theme, in which mutually you have a small understanding at least to what I and many people do, is to isolate the theme through plenty of tools. At least then when people isolate the theme, they have a firmer attachment to the music and you actual spend time crafting the elements. Also, please don't boast about AI Isolating, as much people would give a toss about it, it is lazy, a crap thing to properly set up and execute (including artefacts it leaves behind), and it will never give you the satisfaction and a proper understanding on how the elements were actually set up, I also simply do not care about AI Isolating.

[@michaelsoftbinbows]

I'm so happy to find this, after seeing the Howell making of years ago

[@TheLowerDecker]

When I was 4 years old I heard that theme during a rerun of Doctor Who in the late 90s, that actually scared me, I think it was the combination of the creepy music and the Late 80s CGI that terrified me. I only got to the intro and that was it, didn’t want to watch the rest of it so I couldn’t tell what episode it actually was! Also 2:03 still low key scares me! This was years before discovering Doctor Who properly in 2005 with Series 1.

[@DoctorM1ck]

Lovely to see! :)

[@ryantowell]

Old analog recording equipment might be outdated, but still every bit as awesome.

[@paulashe61]

The organic reverb add an organic element which the brain picks up.

[@scbLMAO_main]

"ahh oh its horrible! ah its a monstah! ahhh!" I felt that 💀

[@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2]

I love ❤️ the seventh doctor and keff theme until I die and become a time Lord, or else this will be the main theme for my funeral

[@paulashe61]

5 tracks but the tracks go forward and tucks back to fit in.

[@NatrollJM]

Love how he only used one synth for it.

[@Vim-Wolf]

Yeh, but it is a Prophet. They used a CS80 for one of the previous ones. Oh for that studio.

[@NatrollJM]

@@Vim-Wolf Yeah I'm specifically talking about this theme.

[@YoungButRetro]

Unfortunately KZbin compression has degraded the quality quite a bit however you can still see a difference.

[@PhilDrury]

It still trying to figure out how he made two notes sound like three

[@YoungButRetro]

Some notes can sound like that with the semitone wheel on one of the oscillators

[@davidaston5773]

Is that BEFORE, during or after she made her debut as Ace? Wow, that brings back me memories. ACE. Thankyou YBR, David

[@davidaston5773]

LOL I'm like 14 SEVEN LOL

[@YoungButRetro]

Sometime around the broadcast of Season 24 likely before or during Dragonfire (Ace's first story)

[@Casterborous]

Of course the real question is what the machine at the end is for

[@shadowstormd6697]

im pretty sure its to put out candles after they reach a certain height

[@milkjester]

It's for squirting jam into doughnuts and I've been waiting since watching this in 1987 to use that knowledge!

[@ImSchrodingerCat]

ITs a Tardis in disguise

[@SerialDesignationN2024]

I love the 1987 theme of doctor who

[@tardismechanic2319]

2:28 anyone else get goosebumps?

[@johnjeczalik8960]

This guy wrote the score to Paradise Towers in just ONE WEEK!

[@Agui007]

I was nine when I first heard this and I thought...WTH! I thought at the time is was a bit of a mess up. Now it's not so bad. I think I was so used to Peter Howell's version.

[@RealSweetTom]

I remember watching this. Doesn't look upscaled, just as I remember it 😄

[@YoungButRetro]

KZbin compression and dark grainy source material unfortunately makes it look that way

[@timeywimeybrony]

What did you use for the remaster? What software?

[@YoungButRetro]

its in the description

[@timeywimeybrony]

@@YoungButRetro thanks

[@HappyPrometheus]

People looked so natural, healthy and beautiful then

[@theknightsofawesomeness2701]

Sophie jumpscare

[@LUCKYPIG-ni3ov]

Nice

[@MePeterNicholls]

Oo. Never seen this

[@db13724]

Yummy bass lol

[@MandmaOfficial]

What’s the source that you used?

[@YoungButRetro]

Doctor Who: The Collection Season 24 Blu-ray

[@MandmaOfficial]

@@YoungButRetro thanks, didn’t know that was an extra on the blu-ray, might get it!

[@404TVfr]

@@MandmaOfficial I didn't and I own the bloody thing LMAO

[@MandmaOfficial]

@@404TVfr that’s happened to me too!

[@404TVfr]

@@MandmaOfficial I'm getting old lmao

[@jasonkey3494]

What does the machine do?

[@YoungButRetro]

Which one?

[@milkjester]

Squirts jam into doughnuts if you mean that thing in the mystery corner at the end of the clip

[@FrankNFurter1000]

God bless the Prophet 5

[@Officialkrisparanormal_]

Delia Derbyshire didn’t like this version

[@YoungButRetro]

The only version she liked was Peter Howell's arrangement

[@YoungButRetro]

@@max2009mage yep, she dispised glynn

[@YoungButRetro]

@@max2009mage we have no idea about them ones. She died the same year the Arnold theme came out and never voiced her opinion on Debney

[@paulashe61]

Poor Delia seeing her original being carved up. Why don’t they use the original but recreated for now.

[@scottwylie8568]

For decades I’ve been wondering who ruined the theme.