Lyrics to Doctor in Distress

    Eighteen months is too long to wait,
    Bring back the doctor don't hesitate.

It was a cold wet night in November
Twenty-two years ago,
There was a police boc in a junkyard
We didn't know where it would go,
An old man took two teachers
Into time and space,
It started off a legend
That no other could replace.

    Doctor in distress,
    Let's all answer his S.O.S.,
    Doctor in distress,
    Bring him back now, we won't take less.

There were evil metal creatures
Who tried to exterminate,
Inside each of their casings
Was a bubbling lump of hate,
We met cybernetic humans
With no feelings at all,
Warriors of the ice
Who stood over seven feet tall.

    Bring him back now we won't take less,
    If we stop his travels he'll be in a mess,
    The galaxy will fall to eveil once more,
    With nightmarish monsters fighting a war.

We've learned to accept six doctors
With companions at their side,
When they were faced with danger
They didn't run and hide,
There was a Brigadier and a Master
And a canine computer,
Each screaming girl just hoped
That a Yeti wouldn't shoot her.

    Doctor in distress,
    Let's all answer his S.O.S.,
    Doctor in distress,
    Bring him back now, we won't take less.

Notes:
1.)    These lyrics, punctuation and capitalisation are as printed in DWM
issue 101 (June 1985).  I'm not entirely sure how faithful to the final
recorded version they are.

2.)    I can't recall who sung all the solo parts, but the line about the
Brig, the Master, and the canine computer was shared, not very tunefully, by
Nicholas Courtney and Anthony Ainley.

3.)    Six doctors?  Those were the days...