The Timelords - Doctorin' The Tardis (Official Video) An Atlas Adventure Directed by Bill Butt KLF Communications Listen to Solid State Logik 1: smarturl.it/KLF...
This song was the ultimate example of something living "rent-free" in my head. I probably heard this when it came out (I was four or five) and for the next 16 or so years I would, every now and then, stop and start singing "DOCTOR WHOOOOO-HEY! DOCTOR WHO, DOCTOR WHOOOOO-HEY!" to myself. And I couldn't for the life of me figure out what was the origin of this crazy song that kept popping up in my head.
I used to sing it all the time when I was in high school and had to convince people it was an actual song. Funny enough I knew this before I knew "Rock And Roll 2" so I was surprised when I heard that!
@@iainsear7830 Didn't their distributor Rough Trade sort out the copyrights before public release? I know they sampled ABBA on an earlier album but because ABBA wouldn't oblige it was subject to a recall and destruction order.
I remember this song playing at a Doctor Who convention in the 90's. Me and 2 other people dressed as the 4th Doctor danced around in circles holding the ends of each other's scarves - it was fun.
Great memories of a kid living in a small town in the Midwest in the 80s. My parents had one of those old NASA communications sized satellite dishes. I fell asleep watching MTV Europe. I woke up in the middle of the night to what I thought was Dr. Who coming on. I was a big fan in the 80s. But as I woke, the music sounded strange... mesmerizing... I had finally found the kind of music I was looking for. Long live the Justified Ancients of Mumu.
I heard this song on a New Wave radio station from Long Island, NY WLIR, in 1988, and on a trip to London later that year, instead of visiting museums or palaces, I hit the record stores. I still have the 12” single. 34 years later.
True story: Back in college I had a radio show and a friend of mine wanted me to play the standard "Goal song" of just about every NHL team at the time "Rock and Roll 2" and one of the other DJ's said we didn't have it but something like it. I played this and subsequently opened my show for the rest of the year with it. That was 1991 I feel soooo old
Shame Tennant’s turned out to be such a trans gaslighting mega twank… be great if every episode he ever made were just wiped and replaced with this video… see what I did there?!!
The one that appeared in this video got banger raced (I've got video evidence) but the group owned two cars that were virtually identical, and the whereabouts of the other one is unknown (presumed scrapped).
@@davecommentator There was a new V5 issued for a Ford Galaxie WGU 18G last year. It hasn't been taxed since '89 and no one seems able to agree if it is the original car, or the second car that had its registration transferred over from the first one. Either way, it seems that one of them still survives somewhere.
Always loved this - it's cheap, cheerful and demented. This 7" mix is a bit tacky but track down the 12", it's genuinely good, err in parts. What am I saying? It's absolute bobbins and a total guilty pleasure.
It's one of those songs that won't go down in history for musical sophistication or elegance, yet embraces its identity so completely and gleefully it manages to be entertaining.
@@laurencefegan1875 Cheap at double the price! Ha ha the samples are very wry, from the terrible - Steve Walsh, Loadsamoney, G###y G######r, to the sublime - Delia Derbyshire who co-wrote the Dr. Who theme. It’s Dalek!
I think my favourite thing about the video is it's got the same held-together-by-spit-and-glue style that location filming in Classic Dr Who often did. Certain scenes could be spliced into a Jon Pertwee 1970s classic or even Sylvester McCoy's "Battlefield" in 1989 and it'd fit right in.
Filmed in Glorious Avebury, Yatesbury & Cherhill in Wiltshire, England. Back in 1977 when I was 4 years old I was absolutely petrified of the Dr. Who theme tune. 11 years later at age 15 in 1988 this was the first record that I ever bought!
My favourite part of Doctor Who was when the Doctor said 'It's Doctorin' time' and then doctored all over the Daleks. Truly one of the TV programmes of all time
@@The_Common_Potato only clear gin at the moment for me, thank you. "The Dr. Who Theme" is the classic futuristic tune/soundtrack by which all other "techno" musics are measured. i've loved this tune and beat ever since i heard it mid-60's. i think Peter Davison was the last incarnation of the Dr. i watched regularly but that tune, That's The One.
@@The_Common_Potato also, 50 years of being a rum fiend saw me do some crazy things. i didn't steal the Police launch and go pirating, but i was tempted by my rum fuelled ambitions. Looking in the mirror, red rum is mur der ________ Stay sober friend, it's safer.
I was "addicted" to this as a kid. Thankfully they came back for good quality vid releases. I thank others who re-upped their vids while they were not on here as atleast we got their greatness. On a side note who ever though a bog plunger could be a deadly weapon :-)
@@alipiodomingo7458 Wait until the Daleks show up in 2050. When you play with DNA and robotisise people, you'll end up with Daleks and Robomen/Cybermen.
It didn't disappear in the first place. Reuploaders filled the gap though they could not match the quality video wise atleast they made sure their vids remained on YT while risking lifetime bans.
@@Dermacrosis I think that have been partly the reason as well. So many uploads from other you tubers. What’s the harm in releasing it again, yourself ?
I didn't know this existed 😂till I saw a compilation of novelty songs from 1953 to 2023.I have to go back and thank the creator!!! I think it's awesome!!!!
Love Doctor Who & I love this Song! Just thought of something twisting the 10th Doctors quote a bit... "You want a weapon? Were listening to Music! The best Weapon in the World!"
Just watched it....and realised that it was filmed near where I have been living for 30+ years. It takes me way way back. Awesome. The KLF needs a remaster/release.
@@jsh295 Paid a visit a couple of years ago while passing by, the post box is still there on the corner and most of the buildings and access road, but there were efforts to redevelop the site underway. You could sneak in easily enough though from the bridalway but looks like it's used for airsoft so you don't want to be there when that's going on! Fun-fact Julian Cope lives very close by.
I always listened to this on a casette my dad recorded somewhen in the 80s from the radio. It took me so long but now I finally know the name of the song. Thanks "All German Charts of 1988" Video on YT.
I had to have this back in 1988 and Bought the CD. Watching Doctor Who on PBS was the highlight of my week Growing growing up in Arizona and only 6 channels on the TV. I was able to stay up and watch it. All of today’s sci-fi has bits and pieces of the doctor in it. All the theories on Time travel and dimensional space. The source is here. Yes Doctor Who rocks! Best episode in my option Is is 310 blink. My daughter was dating a young man from the UK and he said when he was a kid he watched that episode and he had nightmares for months. You gotta love that!
Its perfection in the eyes of the KLF. It was intended to be a terrible video and a terrible song. They were out to prove at the time that anyone could make a number 1 video with anything back in the day. I reckon Drummond and Cauty could have sampled the Shake and Vac advert and got a number 1 such was their determination!
it's 3 am, time is eternal, many thanks for all the tunes, especially this one...instead of burning a million quid, a wee scoor oot at designated towns over the country and the kids will be alright for a wee while...
If you listen carefully, you can hear Davros saying "The Dalek!" at the end of the song. There is also a piece of dialogue from Genisis Of The Daleks. The TARDIS noise is officially classed as music.
I saw that 1 time back in 1980 and they had a music video.And I couldn't ever found that but that groove, I can't think they're name.They're great.I can't spell their name right but take care.I like that doctor who drive in the dand the darwin getting beat up
The groaning sound of a Tardis - The Timelords mix this stuff with elements of glam rock, house and the Dr Who theme tune to lucrative and chart-topping effect. A novelty UK #1, that caught a time in the charts to a tee.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but Ford Timelord was actually destroyed in a banger race in Norfolk in the early 90's. The DVLA site says that it was registered as being taken off the road (SORN Statutory Off Road Notice) and that there are no MOT results found. I don't know why KLF didn't repair it.
Recent evidence suggest there were actually two Galaxie based timelords, one that went to Sweden and blew up (that potentially still exists), and a second (the one in this video) that ended up as a banger racer.
I have loved this track for a long long time and went to great lengths to find a copy. Being able to see the video in HD is such a good start to 2021. Thank you KLF!
I was lucky enough to come across the second 12 inch single of this unfortunately called Gary Glitter joins The JAMMS in a second hand record shop. Once I got home I checked the issue of Record Collector magazine which had a KLF article and found out there was only 2000 copies of it pressed.
One of my all-time favorite videos! Little did I know when this came out that the vintage series was on the verge of ending. And yes, I still love the goofy ghetto Daleks!
What you do is watch 'Delta & the Bannermen', then this video, then put on 'Remembrance of the Daleks' - and remember how gamely Who tried at the end and how lush the weather was in those few summers in the late 80s. Unlimited rrrrrice pudding, etcetera etcetera!
This song did a mash-up of the Doctor Who theme tune with sections of 'Blockbuster' by Sweet in 1973 and 'Rock and Roll Part 2' by Gary Glitter in 1972.
I remember back in like 88 or 89 my brother had a mix tape with this song on it. I'm surprised my random Google searches for this song brought me here.
"Doctor, why do the Daleks never attack the US?" "Well, I don't know if you ever heard about Knight Industries' experimental self-driving law-enforcement vehicles, the Knight Rider project, but the technology was adapted by a secret society called the Justified Ancients of Mumu into police cars so that if Dalek bio-frequencies were registered the vehicles would automatically pursue and destroy them. Scared the hell out of them and they never went back. If only the cars were amphibious all of Earth might be safe..."
I think they were just scared of David Hasselhoff singing 'Looking For Freedom 'at them. That's also the reason they never invaded Germany...that and the whole wall down the middle of the country thing that was happening at the time
