As a child of the 1970s I can’t begin to describe how evocative this is… absolute shivers down the spine on hearing this old school analogue version again, immediately summoning up both terror and excitement at what was about to come. That “opening sting” they describe in the notes (the dramatic descending sound before the main bassline kicks in) was usually only used at the end of an episode to underscore whatever dramatic cliffhanger or plot twist had just occurred. By which point my sister and I, along with millions of other British children, would be hiding behind the couch in fear… this is the days when, to quote National Lampoon, we had “only three channels and no MTV” and I “pity the fools” who tried to schedule any competing American action shows on the other major channel at the same time.

There is of course, only one Doctor that counts, and it’s Tom Baker all the way…