Released December 4, 2006 Length 75:26 Label Silva Screen Records Genre Incidental music | Recorded 2005-2006 Release date 4 December 2006 TV show Doctor Who | |
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Producer Murray Gold and Ben Foster Doctor Who Original Television Soundtrack
(2006) Doctor Who Series 3
(2007) Artists Murray Gold, BBC Symphony Orchestra Similar Murray Gold albums, Other albums | ||
Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack is a soundtrack album released on 4 December 2006, containing incidental music composed by Murray Gold and used in the 2005 and 2006 series of Doctor Who.
Contents
The release included a fourteen-page booklet containing an introduction to the album by "Doctor Who" Executive Producer Julie Gardner, written on 8 November 2006; and four pages of comments on the contents of the album, written by Murray Gold in November 2006. The booklet also featured many publicity pictures, including a Cyberman, a Dalek ship, Matron Casp and the New Earth Hospital, the Doctor and Rose, and a Slitheen. The last page has a picture of Dalek Sec from "Doomsday".
It was originally released as a special limited edition, which featured a cardboard slipcase containing the jewel CD case, as well as a small badge featuring the Doctor and Rose, as seen on the cover artwork. In 2008 a new cover was released for this album, removing Rose and including a different picture of the Doctor. It was reissued in a limited edition of 500 2-LP sets on 2 September 2013.
Track listing
The album features 31 tracks, including two of variations of the Doctor Who theme music. The longest track is "Doomsday" at 5:11 and the shortest is the TV version of the theme tune (0:40).
The compilation includes two songs, "Song for Ten" and "Love Don't Roam", both of which were performed by Neil Hannon. Tim Phillips is the singer of the original version of "Song for Ten" (in "The Christmas Invasion"), while Neil Hannon's performance of "Love Don't Roam" was used during the wedding reception scene in the 2006 Christmas special, "The Runaway Bride".
Reception
The soundtrack became the top download in its category on iTunes, above the soundtrack for Casino Royale. On 12 January 2007, the MediaGuardian.co.uk website's "Media Monkey" diary column reported that Doctor Who fans from the discussion forum on the fan website Outpost Gallifrey were attempting to organise mass downloads of the track "Love Don't Roam" from the soundtrack, which was available as a single release on the UK iTunes store. This was in order to attempt to exploit the new UK singles chart download rules, and get the song featured in the Top 40 releases. The effort was not successful.
IGN gave the collection a 7.5 out of 10 rating.
Songs
1Doctor Who Theme (TV version)0:41
2Westminster Bridge2:08
3The Doctor's Theme1:18