amazingrandy900 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

If i'm not mistaken the high parts (oooeeooo) is a test tone generator played at different pitches, recorded and then the pieces cut together in the right order and covered with reverb. The dumdedum bit was a string over a box, plucked and then cut together again. It turns out there were no synths at the Radiophonic workshop at the time of making this so it was all real,

amazingrandy900 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

They did in the orginal leaked version of Rose, the first episode of the new series. But it was decided that the pace didn't fit the new series.

NeutralDice (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Paraphrasing Ben Jonson I'll say "This was not of an age, but for all time!"

tony2113041987 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

halo pads sort of what makes that sort of whistling sound in the tune. But it might be a bowepad

skt556 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

love old and new dr who

EarlGreyIII (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Ita all down to Delia really, composed by Ron, but apparently he was errr 'surprised' by what she made of his original score. Just so far ahead of its time, but then again, not really, since it was well loved at the time it was used

leon010 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

a lot of this was composed using tape reels, not synthesizers. the bass loop was actually sliced together using a lot of techniques used today

tony2113041987 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I really dont know what instrument it is but it is a realy good theme. And the steptoe and son main theme. The steptoe and son rides again piano theme was good.

kidtechno (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

there were a few very large synthisizers in labs at that time, they might have been using an ems synthi 100...

amazingrandy900 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

He also did the theme to Steptoe and Son