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===Theme music===
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The [[Doctor Who theme music|''Doctor Who'' theme music]] was one of the first [[electronic music]] signature tunes for television, and after more than a half century remains one of the most easily recognised. The original theme was composed by [[Ron Grainer]] and realised by [[Delia Derbyshire]] of the [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop]], with assistance from Dick Mills, and was released as a single on Decca F 11837 in 1964. The Derbyshire arrangement served, with minor edits, as the theme tune up to the end of [[Doctor Who season 17|season 17]] (1979–1980). It is regarded as a significant and innovative piece of electronic music recorded well before the availability of commercial synthesisers or multitrack mixers. Each note was individually created by cutting, splicing, speeding up and slowing down segments of [[analogue tape]] containing recordings of a single plucked string, [[white noise]], and the simple [[harmonic]] waveforms of [[Tone generator|test-tone oscillators]], intended for calibrating equipment and rooms, not creating music. New techniques were invented to allow [[Audio mixing (recorded music)|mixing]] of the music, as this was before the era of multitrack tape machines. On hearing the finished result, Grainer asked, "Jeez, Delia, did I write that?" She answered, "Most of it."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hebblethwaite |first=Phil |date=29 June 2016 |title=Surprising Facts about BBC Theme Tunes You've Heard Hundreds of Times |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/36b860f1-b3d5-4fcc-acdc-c2e95fb99176 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170725043928/https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/36b860f1-b3d5-4fcc-acdc-c2e95fb99176 |archive-date=25 July 2017 |access-date=12 January 2018 |website=Bbc.co.uk}}</ref> Although Grainer was willing to give Derbyshire the co-composer credit, it was against BBC policy at the time. She would not receive an on-screen credit until the 50th-anniversary story "The Day of the Doctor" in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pidd |first=Helen |date=20 November 2017 |title=Doctor Who theme's co-creator honoured with posthumous PhD |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/20/delia-derbyshire-doctor-who-theme-co-creator-posthumous-phd |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228115219/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/20/delia-derbyshire-doctor-who-theme-co-creator-posthumous-phd |archive-date=28 December 2017 |access-date=31 December 2017 |website=The Guardian |publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Allen |first=Ben |title=Doctor Who theme co-composer honoured with posthumous PhD |url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2017-11-21/doctor-who-theme-co-composer-honoured-delia-derbyshire-honorary-phd/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101030501/http://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2017-11-21/doctor-who-theme-co-composer-honoured-delia-derbyshire-honorary-phd/ |archive-date=1 January 2018 |access-date=31 December 2017 |website=Radio Times |publisher=Immediate Media Company Ltd}}</ref>

A different arrangement was recorded by [[Peter Howell (musician)|Peter Howell]] for [[Doctor Who season 18|season 18]] (1980), which was in turn replaced by [[Dominic Glynn]]'s arrangement for the season-long serial ''[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]'' in [[Doctor Who season 23|season 23]] (1986). [[Keff McCulloch]] provided the new arrangement for the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s era, which lasted from [[Doctor Who season 24|season 24]] (1987) until the series' suspension in 1989. American composer [[John Debney]] created a new arrangement of Grainer's original theme for the 1996 ''[[Doctor Who (film)|Doctor Who]]'' film. For the return of the series in 2005, [[Murray Gold]] provided a new arrangement, which featured [[sampling (music)|samples]] from the 1963 original with further elements added in the 2005 Christmas episode "[[The Christmas Invasion]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/01/10/28657.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060114173247/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/01/10/28657.shtml|archive-date=14 January 2006|title=Hear the Christmas Song|publisher=BBC|date=10 January 2006|access-date=22 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/01/03/28476.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060117152809/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/01/03/28476.shtml|archive-date=17 January 2006|title=The New Theme|publisher=BBC|date=3 January 2006|access-date=22 April 2022}}</ref>

A new arrangement of the theme, once again by Gold, was introduced in the 2007 Christmas special episode, "[[Voyage of the Damned (Doctor Who)|Voyage of the Damned]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=phil_collinson_on_doctor_who|title=Phil Collinson on Doctor Who|publisher=SFX|first=Ian|last=Berriman|date=13 December 2007|access-date=16 April 2023}}</ref> Gold returned as composer for the 2010 series, and was responsible for a new version of the theme which was reported to have had a hostile reception from some viewers.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Blake |first=Heidi |date=18 April 2010 |title=Doctor Who: 'nasty' new theme tune angers fans |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/7603262/Doctor-Who-nasty-new-theme-tune-angers-fans.html |url-status=live |access-date=20 May 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100530214525/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/7603262/Doctor-Who-nasty-new-theme-tune-angers-fans.html |archive-date=30 May 2010}}</ref> In 2011, the theme tune charted at number 228 of radio station Classic FM's Hall of Fame, a survey of classical music tastes. A revised version of Gold's 2010 arrangement had its debut over the opening titles of the 2012 Christmas special "[[The Snowmen]]", and a further revision of the arrangement was made for the 50th-anniversary special "[[The Day of the Doctor]]" in November 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Name of the Doctor |url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-10-21/the-name-of-the-doctor/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701083205/https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-10-21/the-name-of-the-doctor/ |archive-date=1 July 2018 |access-date=1 July 2018 |website=Radio Times}}</ref>

With the arrival of new composer [[Segun Akinola]] for [[Doctor Who (series 11)|series 11]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Jeffery |first=Morgan |date=26 June 2018 |title=Doctor Who series 11 composer has been revealed |url=http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/doctor-who/news/a860312/doctor-who-series-11-composer-music/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627034313/http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/doctor-who/news/a860312/doctor-who-series-11-composer-music/ |archive-date=27 June 2018 |access-date=26 June 2018 |work=[[Digital Spy]]}}</ref> came a new version of the opening theme, which incorporated elements of Derbyshire's original arrangement.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Scoring Doctor Who Series 11: An Interview with Composer Segun Akinola {{!}} Doctor Who |url=https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/scoring-doctor-who-series-11-an-interview-with-composer-segun-akinola |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241205231040/https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/scoring-doctor-who-series-11-an-interview-with-composer-segun-akinola |archive-date=2024-12-05 |access-date=2025-03-26 |website=www.doctorwho.tv |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Doctor Who theme tune: new arrangement created from original 1963 recordings {{!}} Radio Times |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/the-new-doctor-who-theme-tune-includes-recordings-of-the-1963-original/ |access-date=2025-03-26 |website=www.radiotimes.com |language=en-GB}}</ref> Akinola also created a new arrangement of the show's closing theme to play over the end credits of "[[Demons of the Punjab]]" in the style of [[Music of Punjab|Punjabi music]].<ref name="RT">{{cite news|last=Fullerton|first=Huw|title=11 Burning Questions We Have After Watching Doctor Who: Demons of the Punjab|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-11-14/doctor-who-demons-of-the-punjab-question-plotholes-theories/|date=23 November 2018|accessdate=13 February 2025|website=[[Radio Times]]|archive-date=16 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116085703/https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-11-14/doctor-who-demons-of-the-punjab-question-plotholes-theories/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Versions of the "Doctor Who Theme" have also been released as pop music. In the early 1970s, Jon Pertwee, who had played the Third Doctor, recorded a version of the Doctor Who theme with spoken lyrics, titled, "Who Is the Doctor".{{efn|Often mistitled "I am the Doctor". Originally released as a 7" vinyl single, plain sleeve, December 1972 on label Purple PUR III}} In 1978, a disco version of the theme in the UK, Denmark and Australia by the group Mankind, which reached number 24 in the UK charts. In 1988, the band The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (later known as [[The KLF]]) released the single "[[Doctorin' the Tardis]]" under the name The Timelords, which reached No. 1 in the UK and No. 2 in Australia; this version incorporated several other songs, including "Rock and Roll Part 2" by [[Gary Glitter]] (who recorded vocals for some of the CD-single remix versions of "Doctorin' the Tardis").<ref name="guardian music">{{Cite news |last=Peel |first=Ian |date=7 July 2008 |title=Doctor Who: a musical force? |work=The Guardian |publisher=[[Guardian News and Media Ltd.]] |location=London |url=http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/07/doctor_who_a_musical_force.html |url-status=live |access-date=7 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708223445/http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/07/doctor_who_a_musical_force.html |archive-date=8 July 2008}}</ref> Others who have covered or reinterpreted the theme include [[Orbital (band)|Orbital]],<ref name="guardian music" /> [[Pink Floyd]],<ref name="guardian music" /> the Australian string ensemble [[FourPlay Electric String Quartet|Fourplay]], New Zealand punk band [[Blam Blam Blam]], [[The Pogues]], [[Thin Lizzy]], [[Dub Syndicate]], and the comedians [[Bill Bailey]] and [[Mitch Benn]]. Both the theme and obsessive fans were satirised on ''[[The Chaser's War on Everything]]''. The theme tune has also appeared on many compilation CDs, and has made its way into mobile-phone ringtones. Fans have also produced and distributed their own remixes of the theme. In January 2011, the Mankind version was released as a [[music download|digital download]] on the album ''Gallifrey And Beyond''.{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}