Almost 40 years, and 13 different themes.

[gridlore]

I hear any of them, and I'm 14 again, watching KTEH at 11:15PM on a Saturday night. Greatest theme music in history.

So, which is your favorite? You never forget your first love, so the first Tom Baker intro is a special thrill, but either the second Jon Pertwee or Sylvester McCoy's are my favorite.

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[jemstone.livejournal.com]

I'm so very glad the maker of the video put the Paul McGann intro in this. It would have been a shame to bypass him.

For me it'll always be the second Tom Baker, but I have a soft spot for that bass line in the Davison intro.

[rick-day.livejournal.com]

I've only watched part of one, the one with the kid in the gas mask.

I had to wiki Dalek to discover it was not a sidekick to the Doctor.

It was not shown in my area until I was an adult, so I missed the teen impression thing like I did with MPFC

[lisa-marli.livejournal.com]

I can see why you like the second Pertwee and McCoy. Very much a Heavy Metal sound to those. And who likes heavy metal?
It was nice to hear all of them at once to compare.
I like the sparseness of the First of the Fourth. The first ones are too sparse. But there is enough to the fourth base line that carries it through. Yes, four was my first doctor. But I'm going for musicality/true to the theme, not fond memories for this.
I'm not really crazy about the new orchestra ones. And in 11, you can really hear how they are changing the theme.
Which is sad, because when Matt Smith sings the Doctor Who Theme (go find it on YouTube, it is hysterical), he sings a version closer to Four's than anyone's. Which says how iconic that version is.
I do believe Matt's first doctor was Five.

[arib.livejournal.com]

He included the Delaware version of the theme that only aired in Australia during the Pertwee years, that's a completist... :-)

My favorites are a toss-up between the first Tom Baker theme, and the second David Tennant theme, used during season 4 and the gap year specials.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

My classic favorite is the late Pertwee/early Tom Baker "blue kaleidoscope"... Davison's is a lot more "rock", but that's cool too. McGann's is actually pretty good - too bad it's attached to such an ill-starred production. And I like the Tennant sequence, but not Smith's.