The original 1963 titles - Doctor Who - BBC

Stunning and original, like everything about early Doctor Who the title sequence was like nothing ever seen on television before. The first title sequence consisted of a simple “howlround“ or “howl-around“ effect over the stark original arrangement of the Doctor Who theme. While experimenting with a camera looking at a monitor showing its own picture, BBC Technical Operations Manager Norman Taylor, made the serendipitous discovery of “visual howlaround“. Bernard Lodge and a small team of BBC engineers crea