Gold themer

Murray Gold has produced a new version of the theme, reports SFX.

SFX has confirmed that Gold, famous for his work on such dramas as The Second Coming and Shameless, has produced a new arrangement that updates Delia Derbyshire and Ron Grainer's original.

"It's brilliant, absolutely brilliant," Russell Davies told SFX. "I would say that, but I loved it! It was hard, because to be honest, I'd not liked any version of the theme tune since the Ron Grainer original and so we'd been waiting for Murray to do it.

"He'd been so busy scoring a million things and he'd been researching Delia Derbyshire and Ron Grainer and he went off into a little world of his own, sampling stuff and things like that. The thinking was, if we don't like what he does, we'll just put the original on."

"I thought the original theme would be perfect though, but the version Murray's done is so faithful."

Davies also confirmed that the classic Jon Pertwee/Tom Baker "cliffhanger screech" will return:

"It's a bit deeper because Murray's added things in, but it's exactly the same noise because you can't fake that."