9. The Theme Tune Was Better
Perhaps its a nerdy one, but bring back the Radiophonic Workshop. What they don't know about synthesisers isn't worth the effort to learn, and it would be one of the many nice bridges between past and present that the show seems to utilise effectively these days ('Cold War' being a love letter to 'The Ice Warriors' aside). They should be invited to work alongside Murray Gold on the music, even if it's just once. I mean, let's face it part of the reason you remember your Classic Who is because of that iconic score, which wouldn't have been the same without all the space-age Muzak. In all the rigmarole over the 50th Anniversary it seems the men and women who made that happen in the first place have been forgotten shame on you, BBC. Without Ron Grainer, Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson and the other inhabitants of the mysterious Room 13 at Television Centre, the iconic theme as we know it wouldn't have existed, nor all the ' special sounds' they brought to life ( hink of the Quarks, those odd boxy servants of the Dominators from, well, ' The Dominators', as one example). And if that can't convince you, just watch the fantastic documentary 'The Alchemists Of Sound' or invest in one of the many vast tranches of CDs everything from this year's reissues of Roger Limb's soundtrack to 'The Caves Of Androzani' and the aforementioned Mr Hodgson's ' The Krotons' to the early Noughties Volumes 1- 4 of ' Doctor Who At The BBC Radiophonic Workshop' should have even new Whovians pining for the good old days of proto-electronica. While we're here, does anyone else think it was a bit of an own-goal not to electronically treat the recorder tootlings of the Second Doctor and add them into the scores of his stories? It could've been an interesting excursion into electronic jazz, cuing album titles like ' When I Say Play, PLAY!' among others, and possible bagpipe solos for Jamie McCrimmon. No? Ok, just me then.