![]() This version was never officially employed due to being disliked by BBC executives, but did accidentally go out on an international print of Episode 2 of Carnival of Monsters, and Episode 5 of Frontier in Space. A new version of the theme was also created in 1972, known as the "Delaware theme". Otherwise, from here on in, the episode title and writer and episode number would be consistently featured as part of the opening titles.Īn, unused version of Pertwee's first titles were included on the DVD release of Season 7 with slightly different colours, and incorporating a larger image of Pertwee holding his hands up followed by the usual one. Some variants were attempted during the 1970 season: The Ambassadors of Death experimented with interrupting the title sequence with a scene from the episode, while Inferno employed a one-off use of volcano footage as the backdrop to the episode title and writer credit. A new image of Jon Pertwee replaced that of Troughton. The episode title and the name of writer are stationary as well, except for during the title sequences of The Ambassadors of Death and Spearhead from Space, in which the title goes towards the screen. Now, instead of moving away from the camera, the logo is stationary, but it changes colour. Although similar to the 1967- 69 version, only now given a red hue, a more tunnel-like howlround is employed. ( Spearhead from Space - The Green Death)Ī shift to colour production and a change to a new Doctor resulted in a new title sequence being commissioned. The Third Doctor Title Sequence - Doctor Who For the most part, the howlround effect continued as the episode title, episode number and writer appeared superimposed over the image, though some stories such as The War Games placed the titles over specialised footage.Ī modified arrangement of the Doctor Who Theme accompanied this version from episode 2 of The Faceless Ones onwards, except on episodes 4 and 5 of Fury from the Deep where, due to an error, the 1963 arrangement of the theme was used. Like its predecessor, it moves towards the back of the image. ![]() The Doctor's face is now incorporated into the sequence: a closeup of a smiling Patrick Troughton which breaks apart to reveal a redesigned logo. This is the first to truly illustrate the time vortex effect. Second Doctor Title Sequence - Doctor Who - BBCĪ more active howlround effect is employed in the second title sequence. In 2013, the original title sequence was brought back and used at the start of The Fall of the Doctor. The original title sequence was filmed by Bernard Lodge, Hugh Sheppard and Norman Taylor. The title and writer of the episode is superimposed over this scene, except The War Machines and The Tenth Planet experimented with specialised title cards for the episodes. The logo then moves into the distance as the sequence cross-fades into the first scene of the episode. The logo was mixed into the image in such a way that the title momentarily looks like DOCTOR OWO or DOCTOR QHO. The first title sequence consisted of a simple "howlround" effect over the stark original arrangement of the Doctor Who theme. ( An Unearthly Child - The Moonbase The Fall of the Doctor) Throughout much of the 90s and early 2000s, the title sequence would occasionally change each season usually in terms of the colour schemes, theme tunes and general effects. ![]() John Nathan-Turner's radical redesign of the title sequence completely eliminated the time vortex, and replaced it with a representation of space that was never seen in that way within the body of episodes - mainly because the visual effect of space was far more expensive than the production team could afford on a weekly basis. The one exception was the Broadbent era titles which did not feature the Ninth Doctor's face or body. However, the presence of the head - or in the case of Season 11, then later Seasons 33- the body - of the Doctor during the Troughton, Pertwee, Baker and McGann eras rendered the title sequences more abstract. The 1963- 1967 version of the programme titles did not feature an image of the Doctor, but from 1967 onwards, the title sequence included a shot of the current Doctor's head floating either through space or the time vortex. Changes to the title sequence can be rigorously scrutinised by fans, who may be interested in such minutiae as the font used in the title cards or even relatively minor variations in the theme music. Historically, the title sequence has been of great interest to Doctor Who fans, especially when it has been overhauled, as at the beginning of a new actor's tenure as the Doctor, or simply when a producer decided to do so.
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