1982: Peter Howell gives the DOCTOR WHO THEME an 80s REMIX | Making of | BBC Archive

Peter Howell of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop demonstrates how he reimagined Ron Grainer’s classic Doctor Who theme - which was first realised so startlingly by Delia Derbyshire and Dick Mills in the 1960s - to make it ’brighter and more modern sounding’ for the 1980s. He uses modern polyphonic analogue synthesisers like the Yamaha CS-80, an ARP Odyssey Mk3 and a Roland Jupiter-4, a vocoder and an old, malfunctioning phase shifter unit he found in the back of the Workshop. Gent that he is, he then pops over to the Music Arcade studio to demonstrate the extraordinary new Fairlight CMI Series II synthesiser to the some kids from St Mary’s Balham Primary School and hosts Tim Whitnall and Lucie Skeaping. This clip is from The Music Arcade: Electricity in Music. Originally broadcast 2 February, 1982. The BBC has thrown the TARDIS doors wide open to celebrate 60 years of Doctor Who, and there’s a huge amount of archive inside. Interviews, photos and documents sit alongside hundreds of programmes from the Whoniverse on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds. Begin your journey at You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you through our classic clips from the BBC vaults. Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive -