Writ­ten by Ron Grain­er, and then famous­ly arranged and record­ed by Delia Der­byshire in 1963, the Doc­tor Who theme song has been adapt­ed and cov­ered many times, and even ref­er­enced by Pink Floyd.
In the hands of come­di­an Bill Bai­ley, the song comes out a lit­tle differently–a lit­tle like a Bel­gian Jacques Brel-esque jazz cre­ation.
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Relat­ed Con­tentThe Fas­ci­nat­ing Sto­ry of How Delia Der­byshire Cre­at­ed the Orig­i­nal Doc­tor Who ThemeTwo Doc­u­men­taries Intro­duce Delia Der­byshire, the Pio­neer in Elec­tron­ic MusicHow Doc­tor Who First Start­ed as a Fam­i­ly Edu­ca­tion­al TV Pro­gram (1963)A Detailed, Track-by-Track Analy­sis of the Doc­tor Who Theme Music

The Doctor Who Theme Reimagined as a Jacques Brel-esque Jazz Tune