Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack

Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Murray Gold
Released December 4, 2006
Recorded 2005-2006
Genre Soundtrack
Length 75:26
Label Silva Screen Records
Producer Murray Gold and Ben Foster
Doctor Who soundtrack chronology
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Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack is a soundtrack album released on 4 December 2006, containing incidental music composed by Murray Gold and used in the 2005 and 2006 series of Doctor Who.

The release included a fourteen-page booklet containing an introduction to the album by "Doctor Who" Executive Producer Julie Gardner, written on 8 November 2006; and four pages of comments on the contents of the album, written by Murray Gold in November 2006. The booklet also featured many publicity pictures, including a Cyberman, a Dalek ship, Matron Casp and the New Earth Hospital, the Doctor and Rose, and a Slitheen. The last page has a picture of Dalek Sec from "Doomsday".

It was originally released as a special limited edition, which featured a cardboard slipcase containing the jewel CD case, as well as a small badge featuring the Doctor and Rose, as seen on the cover artwork. In 2008 a new cover was released for this album, removing Rose and including a different picture of the Doctor.

Contents

Track listing

The album features 31 tracks, including two of variations of the Doctor Who theme music. The longest track is "Doomsday" at 5:09 and the shortest is the TV version of the theme tune (0:41).

The compilation includes two songs, "Song for Ten" and "Love Don't Roam", both of which were performed by Neil Hannon. In the original version of "Song for Ten" (in "The Christmas Invasion"), the singer was Tim Phillips, while Neil Hannon's performance of "Love Don't Roam" was used during the wedding reception scene in the 2006 Christmas special, "The Runaway Bride".

Track no. Track Episodes used in Track time
1 "Doctor Who Theme" (TV version) All episodes from "Rose" up until "Time Crash" 0:40
2 "Westminster Bridge" "Rose", variations in "The Long Game", "Aliens of London", "The Doctor Dances", "Boom Town", "The Parting of the Ways", "The Christmas Invasion", "New Earth", "Fear Her", "The Runaway Bride" 2:10
3 "The Doctor's Theme" "Rose", "The End of the World", "Boom Town", "Bad Wolf", "The Parting of the Ways", "The Christmas Invasion", "The Satan Pit", "Fear Her" (Variations in "Love & Monsters)", "The Runaway Bride", "Human Nature", "Last of the Time Lords", "Partners in Crime", "Forest of the Dead", "Turn Left", "Journey's End", "The Next Doctor", "The Waters of Mars", "The End of Time, Part Two", "The Impossible Astronaut" "A Good Man Goes To War", (Torchwood episode "Day One") (The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith , The Mad Woman in the Attic) 1:20
4 "Cassandra's Waltz" "The End of the World", "New Earth" 3:10
5 "Slitheen" "Aliens of London", "World War Three", "Boom Town", "Love & Monsters" 1:24
6 "Father's Day" "Father's Day", "The Parting of the Ways", "Rise of the Cybermen" 1:57
7 "Rose In Peril" "Bad Wolf", "The Parting of the Ways", "The Impossible Planet", "The Stolen Earth" 1:41
8 "Boom Town Suite" "Boom Town" 3:04
9 "I'm Coming To Get You" "Bad Wolf", "The Parting of the Ways" 1:14
10 "Hologram" "The Parting of the Ways", "Doomsday", ″Last of the Time Lords,″ "Journey's End" 2:17
11 "Rose Defeats The Daleks" "The Parting of the Ways", "The Satan Pit", "Journey's End" 2:33
12 "Clockwork TARDIS" "The End of the World", "Attack of the Graske", "Time Crash" 1:20
13 "Harriet Jones, Prime Minister" "World War Three", "The Christmas Invasion", "The Stolen Earth", Dreamland 2:15
14 "Rose's Theme" "The End of the World", "The Parting of the Ways", "The Christmas Invasion", "New Earth", "The Age of Steel", "Fear Her" (Trailer at end of episode), "Doomsday", "Human Nature", "Utopia", "The Stolen Earth", "Journey's End", "The End of Time, Part Two" 2:16
15 "Song for Ten" (performed by Neil Hannon) Extended version of song used in "The Christmas Invasion" (originally recorded by Tim Phillips) with additional lyrics (non-vocal versions in "School Reunion", "The Idiot's Lantern", "Army of Ghosts" "Journey's End", "The End of Time" 3:29
16 "The Face of Boe" "New Earth", "Gridlock" 1:18
17 "UNIT" "The Christmas Invasion", "The Sound of Drums", Dreamland, (The Sarah Jane Adventures: Death of the Doctor) 1:46
18 "Seeking The Doctor" "Rose", "Love & Monsters", "Army of Ghosts", "The Stolen Earth"; notes in "School Reunion" 0:43
19 "Madame de Pompadour" "The Girl in the Fireplace" 3:46
20 "Tooth and Claw" "Tooth and Claw", "The Satan Pit" 3:52
21 "The Lone Dalek" "Dalek", "The Impossible Planet", "The Satan Pit", "Doomsday" 5:01
22 "New Adventures" "Boom Town", "The Parting of the Ways", "New Earth", "The Satan Pit", "Doomsday", "Human Nature" 2:21
23 "Finding Jackie" "The Parting of the Ways", "The Satan Pit", "Love & Monsters" 0:54
24 "Monster Bossa" "Boom Town", "Love & Monsters" 1:39
25 "The Daleks" "Dalek", "Bad Wolf", "The Parting of the Ways", "Army of Ghosts", "Doomsday", "Evolution of the Daleks", "Journey's End" (discordant note used multiple times in "Daleks in Manhattan" and "Evolution of the Daleks" along with ending section),variation in "Victory of the Daleks" 3:03
26 "The Cybermen" "The Age of Steel", "Fear Her" (Trailer at end of episode), "Army of Ghosts", "Doomsday", theme adapted for "The Next Doctor", brief snatch heard in The Pandorica Opens, "Closing Time" 4:34
27 "Doomsday" "Rose", "Doomsday", "Partners in Crime", "Planet of the Ood", The Stolen Earth" (fully orchestral) 5:11
28 "The Impossible Planet" "The Impossible Planet", "The Satan Pit", "Doomsday", "Journey's End" 3:13
29 "Sycorax Encounter" "The Christmas Invasion", "Love & Monsters" 1:13
30 "Love Don't Roam" (performed by Neil Hannon) "The Runaway Bride" 3:59
31 "Doctor Who Theme" (album version) Special Remix for the album 2:31

Reception

The soundtrack became the top download in its category on iTunes, above the soundtrack for Casino Royale.[1] On 12 January 2007, the MediaGuardian.co.uk website's "Media Monkey" diary column reported that Doctor Who fans from the discussion forum on the fan website Outpost Gallifrey were attempting to organise mass downloads of the track "Love Don't Roam" from the soundtrack, which was available as a single release on the UK iTunes store. This was in order to attempt to exploit the new UK singles chart download rules, and get the song featured in the Top 40 releases.[2] The effort was not successful.

Notes

See also

References

  1. ^ "Song for Top Ten". Doctor Who - News (BBC). December 11, 2006. http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2006/12/11/38855.shtml. Retrieved 2007-01-21. 
  2. ^ "Who's in the pop charts?" (free registration required). Guardian Unlimited. 2007-01-12. http://media.guardian.co.uk/diary/story/0,,1985267,00.html. Retrieved 2007-01-13. 
  3. ^ Murray Gold, Doctor Who Magazine #363