Doctor Who (& Co.) Sings - The Nations of the World

Not counting re-released songs, this is the 50th Doctor Who Sings video! To celebrate, we thought we’d go all-out. With over 35 hours of tireless research, we’ve brought together Doctor Who, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Class, the BBC Radio episodes, AND Big Finish’s Doctor Who (and associated spin-offs) and Torchwood releases to bring you the ultimate (we hope!) Doctor Who version of Yakko Warner’s “Nations of the World” song from “Animaniacs”!
We were truly shocked (in a good way!) by just how many nations we were able to find, mostly due to the extensive list of potential sources. This song is a pretty good representation of just how far we’ve been able to stretch the concept of Doctor Who Sings and does nothing but spur us on into the future!
We felt the best way to present the song was to slow it down a bit, because it can be quite hard to follow otherwise. Feel free to put the video on 1.25x speed for something approaching the original :)
Also, we recently hit 1,000 subscribers! Thanks, guys! :D
If you want to check them out, the following is a list of all the Big Finish releases featured in this video (in order of appearance):
Torchwood Soho: 1. Parasite - www.bigfinish....
Doctor Who: 245. Muse of Fire - www.bigfinish....
Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles: 12. The Second Doctor: Volume 2 - www.bigfinish.... (Specific story: 4. The Tactics of Defeat)
Doctor Who: 28. Invaders from Mars - www.bigfinish....
Jago & Litefoot: Series 1 - www.bigfinish....
UNIT - The New Series: 4. United - www.bigfinish....
UNIT - The New Series: 2. Shutdown - www.bigfinish....
Doctor Who - Short Trips: 8.3. The Turn of the Screw - www.bigfinish....
UNIT: 1.2. Snake Head - www.bigfinish.... (Full UNIT series in money-saving bundle - www.bigfinish....)
Doctor Who: 99. Son of the Dragon - www.bigfinish....
Doctor Who - The Early Adventures: 1.1. Domain of the Voord - www.bigfinish....
Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles: 3.11. The Mahogany Murderers - www.bigfinish....
Doctor Who: 161. The Butcher of Brisbane - www.bigfinish....
Torchwood: Aliens Among Us Part 2 - www.bigfinish....
UNIT - The New Series: 1. Extinction - www.bigfinish....
Doctor Who - The First Doctor Adventures: Volume 3 - www.bigfinish....
Torchwood: 4. One Rule - www.bigfinish....
Doctor Who - The Fourth Doctor Adventures: 2.2. The Sands of Life - www.bigfinish....
Doctor Who: 130. A Thousand Tiny Wings - www.bigfinish....
The Diary of River Song - Volume 9: New Recruit - www.bigfinish.... (Specific episode: 2. Terror of the Suburbs)
Torchwood: 1. The Conspiracy - www.bigfinish....
Doctor Who: 20. Loups-Garoux - www.bigfinish....
Gallifrey: Time War 3 - www.bigfinish.... (Specific episodes: 1. Hostiles)
Doctor Who - The Lost Stories: 2.5. Animal - www.bigfinish....
Doctor Who: 64. The Next Life - www.bigfinish....
Doctor Who - The Lost Stories: 6.2. The Doomsday Contract - www.bigfinish....
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[@timrob12]

Can we take some time to appreciate the effort of going through 60 years of Doctor Who plus spin-offs and audios to find every possible nation ever.

[@Tony_Baloney_69420]

😂🤣 ofc it is bro

[@DoctorWhoHugh]

"Libera" being from "Cyberium" is genius

[@DoctorWhoSings]

Honestly, we were only looking for "iberia" or just "beria" from the word. We couldn't believe our luck when we took the "s" sound from the beginning and it somehow sounded exactly like "Liberia"!

[@Isaac_Clarke]

@@DoctorWhoSings Just got to it! AMAZING

[@rassilontdavros3004]

Fun fact: Randy Rogel, the guy who wrote this song (and a lot of the other Animaniacs songs) was involved in Doctor Who fan films in the 80s.

[@Tony_Baloney_69420]

My Animaniacs and Doctor Who fandomness came inside me.

[@carealoo744]

Only a true Doctor Who fan could have made this!

[@woodelfproductions]

Round of applause you absolutely amazing madman

[@DoctorWhoSings]

*Bows* You're too kind :)

[@djashley2002]

Someone clearly has too much time on their hands - which makes this utterly magnificent!

[@coolperson962]

The Doctor owning a space time machine that could easily visit all of these countries in one day. *Let's go to a quarry in South Wales!*

[@aloysiusthefish7076]

Chris Chibnall narrowing down which geographic location in which to set one episode

[@imnota.giantman]

this must of taken so long omg this is amazing

[@seasidepooches]

Good grief! I found myself holding my breath towards the end. Well done!!!

[@StateMasterSubdivisions3795]

(i know i'm a day late lol) Happy birthday to this masterpiece of a video!

[@omnisvalidus]

To quote 9, Fantastic, absolutely fantastic.

[@DoctorWhoHugh]

YEEEAAAAHHHH! Also realised how good of an announcer voice Azure has lol

[@DoctorWhoHugh]

Also, India and Pakistan being next to each other in the song must have made it quite easy lol, two at once!

[@s.l.thecoffeeaddict1657]

I don't even want to think about how extensive this word search was 💀

[@DoctorWhoSings]

"Very" just about sums it up! xD

[@CountdownBleckVids]

lost it at the 'nicaragua' stitch-up - great video

[@barryallen2569]

Start at 1.25 speed. After the first verse, in the break, increase to x1.5 speed. After second, 1.75 After the third and for the finale, Double-Time.

[@sallyatticum]

Well done! That's a staggering accomplishment!

[@bubbahealthy4725]

You absolute mad man! I love it!

[@ericlipton7640]

No words. Just brilliant

[@101Bullens]

Love this 👍

[@Tony_Baloney_69420]

I'm from Malaysia, my 60 Yr old dad, who was born a year before the show was released, didn't know a thing about Doctor Who. 🤣

[@HarryHayfield]

Next challenge: "The 50 states that make up the Union and their capitols" that has to de delivered in the form of a question to count (Animaniacs again)

[@DoctorWhoSings]

We learnt about that song while working on this one, and we thought this one was hard enough! Given Doctor Who doesn't have that many stories set in America, it would be an absolute nightmare to do! xD

[@ZachPatrickDevonshire]

Brilliant, however you missed a fantastic opportunity to sample William Hartnell saying ‘Spain’ instead of ‘space’ at the end of The Chase

[@wiltaylor]

Bloody amazing!!

[@adrianrutterford762]

Wonderful!! Thanks guys

[@Caroniver_Robocacci]

Children of Earth Day One must've been really helpful here

[@ajventura2423]

Simply magnificent!!!

[@BrendamProductions]

Do you have a massive database of words and where they were said or do you have to go through every episode to do this haha

[@DoctorWhoSings]

We've been keeping track of all sorts of words and phrases as we've re-watched various stories/episodes over the last few years, so we do have a sizeable list of potentially useful material. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a database though; it's a bit too primitive for that :P We also use this website (www.chakoteya.net/DoctorWho/) and Google to help look for words we don't have on our list/can't think of ourselves. For this particular song, we also used the Doctor Who Wiki to help narrow down which stories (audios in particular) were worth revisiting in case a particular country was mentioned in them. We couldn't find a source with transcripts of the audios, so we had to re-listen to EVERY release in this video just to find one or two words. We think it was worth the effort though :)

[@BrendamProductions]

@@DoctorWhoSings haha that's fair enough and very dedicated I'm also relieved that it's not just 1 person going through this stuff as that'd be nightmarish haha and yes it definitely paid off I love it!

[@TripleJumpYTP]

The vast knowledge that must have been required

[@hollymatton474]

Amazing! 😊😊

[@Isaac_Clarke]

I don't know if you do requests but could you see if you could do Sweet Caroline and/or some Christmas carols

[@DoctorWhoSings]

We're always open to requests! Sweet Caroline is one we've considered before, but it's not without its challenges. I'll bring it up next time we're discussing what song to tackle next :) I'm afraid I can't make any promises we'll end up doing it though. As for Christmas carols, we've been meaning to do some for ages, but we've not ended up with the time at the end of the year to do any, and I don't think we're going to have the time to put any together this year either. We usually take a break over the Christmas period because we're in different places spending the holiday with different people. Maybe the stars will align next year and we'll finally be able to fit them in!

[@Isaac_Clarke]

@@DoctorWhoSings Yeah fair enough! I completely understand. Thank you!

[@liesmazarina7578]

Brilliant! Just sad that Baltic States haven't been mentioned in Doctor Who...

[@thatoneguyatschool8453]

Heyo another Baltic person

[@liesmazarina7578]

@@thatoneguyatschool8453 Heyo!

[@_SYDGAMING_]

Could be a tiny bit faster. But amazing work. Rob would be proud of he sees this

[@andrewparkin4036]

Marvelous work, next up if you haven't already done it is the Elements song...

[@seasidepooches]

They've already done that one - it's great!

[@andrewparkin4036]

@@seasidepooches ah ok thanks

[@natsmith303]

They made extensive use of various characters saying, "Um."

[@annagundam9120]

great video

[@alexjgilpin]

>Nations of the World >1:34 "Taiwan" Congratulations. You just triggered China.

[@jasoncook2788]

*Chef's Kiss*

[@DoctorWhoHugh]

Here before the moment, I best the "Australia" will be Capaldi in The Pilot

[@tulliusexmisc2191]

A bit ironic that there's something mising from this song. An area the size of Wales.

[@critespranberry8872]

Do a modern rendition of Doctor in Distress but it's all of the big doctor who youtubers

[@williambryce4630]

*1.5x speed!*

[@alexl3500]

Whats the bit with the bald guy with the beard 38 seconds in from?

[@carolinemerk9814]

Torchwood S4E4 I believe. I think he's saying something about guava.

[@alexl3500]

@@carolinemerk9814 Ah OK. I've only seen Torchwood: Miracle Day once unlike most of the other footage used so I'd forgotten. Thank you

[@DoctorWhoSings]

50 points apiece for the correct episode AND what the character was saying!

[@NotAHamster]

Benni 💀

[@Timmymantwo]

Quite fun

[@Jcreed]

Watch at 1.25 speed

[@DoctorWhoSings]

We had considered doing the song at its original speed, but by the time you get to the final verse (where we were missing quite a number of the nations as whole words) it became far too choppy to be able to follow it properly, so we slowed it down to help make it a little more understandable. Of course, we don't discourage anyone from listening to it at its original speed if they want to :)

[@Jcreed]

@@DoctorWhoSings Excellent work on the video! The amount of patience you guys must have is astounding and I have watched it tons of times

[@maggot_2]

that's not malaysia, that's reverse malaysia

[@rosechuma2006]

Omg when does the Brigadier say "Czechoslovakia"

[@DoctorWhoSings]

That's from the second episode of "Battlefield" :)

[@NativelyBornAmerican]

🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂💀💀💀

[@joshgaming3106]

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