"Who is the Doctor?" first released in 1972, was a single performed by Jon Pertwee, arranged and written by Rupert Hine. A spoken word song, it featured Pertwee reciting lyrics over Hine's upbeat rearrangement of the Doctor Who theme. It was the first time that one of the actors who played the Doctor recorded music having to do with Doctor Who and the first time lyrics had been set to the Doctor Who theme tune.

Its B Side, "Sheer Mystery", another spoken word piece recited by Pertwee, had no connection to Doctor Who.

It was used for the end credits of the More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS video documentary.

John Levene sang this song once as a tribute to Jon Pertwee, but replaced the line "I'm the Doctor", with the words, "I knew the Doctor".

Reissues Edit

In 1983 it was released with a B-side of "The Sea Devils" by Malcolm Clarke and 1985 it was released with a B-side of ""Doctor...?" by Blood Donor.

Lyrics Edit

Verse 1 Edit

I cross the void beyond the mind

The empty space that circles time

I see where others stumble blind

To seek a truth they never find

Eternal wisdom is my guide

I am the Doctor.

Verse 2 Edit

Through cosmic waste my TARDIS flies

To taste the secret source of life

A presence science can't deny

Exists within, outside, behind

The latitude of human minds

I am the Doctor.

Verse 3 Edit

My voyage dissects the course of time

"Who knows?," you say

But are you right?

Who searches deep to find the light

That glows so darkly in the night

Toward that point I guide my flight.

Verse 4 Edit

As fingers move to end mankind

Metallic teeth begin their grind

With sword of truth I turn to fight

The satanic powers of the night

Is your faith before your mind?

No man, am I, the Doctor.

External links Edit

• Millennium Effect - 1972 - Who is the Doctor? more information