"Upper Boat, Pontypridd. Jimmy Vee, ""a faithful friend of the show"", was recalled to the part of the Graske he first portrayed in the interactive episode ""Attack of the Graske"". Murray Gold composed music especially for this short episode. Gold's Series 4 arrangement of the ""Doctor Who"" theme tune is used for the title sequence, and Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire's original version of the ""Doctor Who"" theme tune is played over the end credits. The episode premièred at the Royal Albert Hall before the interval of the ""Doctor Who"" Prom on Sunday 27 July 2008 and could be heard"
"Keff McCulloch Keff McCulloch is an English composer best known for his electronic music for ""Doctor Who"" in the late 1980s. In 1987 he was employed by producer John Nathan-Turner to arrange the ""Doctor Who"" theme music for the Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy. The theme, drawing on the original composed by Ron Grainer and arranged by Delia Derbyshire, was used for three years until the series was cancelled by the BBC in 1989. The new theme music was accompanied by new titles and logo. McCulloch also contributed incidental music scores to six stories during the McCoy era, namely: ""Time and"
"the theme - including the current arrangement by Segun Akinola - have retained the use of the original key, with exceptions being Peter Howell (F# minor) and Keff McCulloch's (A minor) arrangements. Although widely listed in reference works, and many series soundtrack albums, under the title ""Doctor Who Theme"", its official title is ""Doctor Who"", although its initial sheet music release used the now-deprecated form ""Dr. Who"". The original 1963 recording of the ""Doctor Who"" theme music is widely regarded as a significant and innovative piece of electronic music, recorded well before the availability of commercial synthesisers. Delia Derbyshire (assisted"
"The Worlds of Doctor Who The Worlds of Doctor Who is a compilation CD consisting of musical excerpts from ""Doctor Who"" episode soundtracks, coupled with music from some of the independent spin-off productions for Reeltime Pictures, some original music and several versions of the Doctor Who theme. Most tracks (which included a mixture of original soundtrack recordings and newer performances) had been previously issued, with three tracks being released for the first time: Mark Ayres' main title music to the documentary ""Return to Devil's End"", and two arrangements of the Doctor Who theme by Mark Lambert and Ian Hu, the"
"Original Radio Drama. Murray Gold Murray Jonathan Gold (born 28 February 1969) is a five-time BAFTA nominated English composer for stage, film, and television and a dramatist for both theatre and radio. He is best known as the musical director and composer of the music for ""Doctor Who"" from 2005, until he stepped down in 2018 after the tenth series aired in 2017. Gold has been nominated for a BAFTA five times in the category Best Original Television Music, for ""Vanity Fair"" (1999), ""Queer as Folk"" (2000), ""Casanova"" (2006) and twice for ""Doctor Who"" (2009 and 2014). His score for"
"A Dangerous Game and the 2016 sequel, You've Been Trumped Too. Dominic Glynn Dominic Glynn (born September 27, 1960) is an English electronic composer. Glynn is a prolific composer of music for television and film. His work includes the arrangement of the ""Doctor Who"" theme music which served as the series' theme for Season 23 of the programme. It was replaced by Keff McCulloch's arrangement the next season. He also wrote the incidental music for the ""Doctor Who"" stories ""The Mysterious Planet"", ""The Ultimate Foe"", ""Dragonfire"", ""The Happiness Patrol"" and ""Survival"". Big Finish Productions has used his arrangement of the"
"Dominic Glynn Dominic Glynn (born September 27, 1960) is an English electronic composer. Glynn is a prolific composer of music for television and film. His work includes the arrangement of the ""Doctor Who"" theme music which served as the series' theme for Season 23 of the programme. It was replaced by Keff McCulloch's arrangement the next season. He also wrote the incidental music for the ""Doctor Who"" stories ""The Mysterious Planet"", ""The Ultimate Foe"", ""Dragonfire"", ""The Happiness Patrol"" and ""Survival"". Big Finish Productions has used his arrangement of the theme on several audio plays featuring the Sixth Doctor, starting with"
"and in 1974 he joined the Radiophonic Workshop with which he would remain associated until 1997. His work on ""Doctor Who"" began in 1975 when he provided some accompanying incidental music for ""Revenge of the Cybermen"" and special sound for ""Planet of Evil"". When John Nathan-Turner became producer of ""Doctor Who"" in 1980, he decided that the music needed to be updated and commissioned Howell to provide a new arrangement of the ""Doctor Who"" theme to accompany a new title sequence. Whereas the original arrangement of the theme (written by Ron Grainer) had been realised by Delia Derbyshire (and, originally,"
"Segun Akinola Segun Akinola is an English composer for television and documentaries. He took over from Murray Gold as the director and composer of the music for ""Doctor Who"" from 2018 for the eleventh series. Akinola has British-Nigerian heritage. As a child he learned to play piano and drums. He is an alumnus of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, from where he graduated with first-class honours in 2014. He subsequently obtained an MA in Composing for Film and Television, at the National Film and Television School. On 26 June 2018, ""Doctor Who"" executive producer Chris Chibnall announced that the musical score for"
"for ""Doctor Who"" in 1996. For the return of the series in 2005, Murray Gold provided a new arrangement which featured samples from the 1963 original with further elements added; in the 2005 Christmas episode ""The Christmas Invasion"". A new arrangement of the theme, once again by Gold, was introduced in the 2007 Christmas special episode, ""Voyage of the Damned""; Gold returned as composer for the 2010 series. He was responsible for a new version of the theme which was reported to have had a hostile reception from some viewers. In 2011, the theme tune charted at number 228 of"
"""Doctor Who"" composer Murray Gold. The opening sequence was re-done specifically for series 2, episode 5 ""Adam"", adding the titular character to the existing scenes. This reflected the in-universe story of Adam psychically inserting himself into the team members' memories as a long-standing member of the team. For """", a recap of the last episode was played at the beginning of each episode, followed by a title card. The theme was not featured in this, instead only featuring over the end credits. A new theme arrangement and opening credit sequence was introduced with Series 4 (though a musical motif, or"
"Murray Gold Murray Jonathan Gold (born 28 February 1969) is a five-time BAFTA nominated English composer for stage, film, and television and a dramatist for both theatre and radio. He is best known as the musical director and composer of the music for ""Doctor Who"" from 2005, until he stepped down in 2018 after the tenth series aired in 2017. Gold has been nominated for a BAFTA five times in the category Best Original Television Music, for ""Vanity Fair"" (1999), ""Queer as Folk"" (2000), ""Casanova"" (2006) and twice for ""Doctor Who"" (2009 and 2014). His score for the BAFTA winning"
"Dudley Simpson Dudley George Simpson (4 October 1922 – 4 November 2017) was an Australian composer and conductor. He was the Principal Conductor of the Royal Opera House orchestra for three years, although he is best known for his work as a composer on British television, especially his long association with the BBC science-fiction series ""Doctor Who"", for which he composed incidental music during the 1960s and 1970s. Among his early television work was the music for ""Moonstrike"" (1963). Simpson was also responsible for the theme music for ""The Brothers"" (1972), ""The Tomorrow People"" (1973), ""Moonbase 3"" (1973), ""The Ascent"
"Delia Derbyshire Delia Ann Derbyshire (5 May 1937 – 3 July 2001) was an English musician and composer of electronic music. She is best known for her pioneering work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, particularly her popular electronic arrangement of the theme music to the British science-fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". She has been referred to as ""the unsung heroine of British electronic music."" Derbyshire was born in Coventry, daughter of Emma (née Dawson) and Edward Derbyshire. of Cedars Avenue, Coundon, Coventry. Her father was a sheet-metal worker. She had one sibling, a sister, who died young."
"collection of his better known 1960s compositions. This was followed by ""Exciting Television Music of Ron Grainer"" (RCA, 1980), which covered the 1970s. In 1994 a career-spanning thirty-track CD was released as part of the ""A to Z of British TV Themes"" project on the Play it Again record label. Ron Grainer Ronald Erle Grainer (11 August 1922 – 21 February 1981) was an Australian born composer who worked for most of his professional career in the United Kingdom. He is mostly remembered for his television and film score music, especially the theme music for ""Doctor Who"", ""The Prisoner"", ""Steptoe"
"Doctor Who: Series 3 (soundtrack) Doctor Who: Series 3 is a soundtrack album that was released on 5 November 2007, containing incidental music that was used throughout the third series of the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who. The music was composed by the British musical director Murray Gold and was orchestrated by his collaborator Ben Foster who had previously worked with him on the films ""Alien Autopsy"", ""I Want Candy"" and most recently Frank Oz's ""Death at a Funeral"". The album's independent record label is Silva Screen Records who were responsible for the release of previous Doctor Who"
"Bond composer David Arnold, who provided the theme tune. He wrote the theme tune for the Channel 4 series ""Shameless"" and scored the period drama ""The Devil's Whore"". More recently Gold scored another David Tennant series, in BBC1's ""Single Father"". In this, Gold opted for a more popular music style ensemble rather than writing for orchestra. Since 2012 Murray Gold has composed the musical score for the drama series ""Last Tango in Halifax"". In 2014, Gold scored the BBC series ""The Musketeers"". From 2005 to 2017, Gold served as musical director of science fiction drama ""Doctor Who"" for the BBC."
"Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack 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"". 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"
"its equipment, which was some of the most advanced in the country at that time not only because of its nature, but also because of the unique combinations and workflows which the Workshop afforded its composers. In later years this would become less important as more electronic equipment became readily available to a wider audience. In 1963 they were approached by composer Ron Grainer to record a theme tune for the upcoming BBC television series ""Doctor Who"". Presented with the task of ""realising"" Grainer's score, complete with its descriptions of ""sweeps"", ""swoops"", ""wind clouds"" and ""wind bubbles"", Delia Derbyshire created"
"""Doctor Who"" was originally intended to be an educational series, with the TARDIS taking the form of an object from that particular episode's time period (a column in Ancient Greece, a sarcophagus in Egypt, etc.). When the show's budget was calculated, however, it was discovered that it was prohibitively expensive to re-dress the TARDIS model for each episode; instead, the TARDIS's ""Chameleon Circuit"" was said to be malfunctioning, giving the prop its characteristic 'police-box' appearance. The series' theme music was written by film and television composer Ron Grainer (who would later go on to also compose the theme to ""The"
"""Duel"" (the eighth episode of series 1) for which the director Douglas Camfield chose to use stock music and ""Gambit"" (the eleventh episode of the second series) which was scored by the special sound creator of series 2 to 4, Elizabeth Parker. Another science fiction series Simpson developed for was ""The Tomorrow People"", although his role was limited to producing the theme tune, with Brian Hodgson producing the series music. Between 1964 and 1980, Simpson composed the incidental music for the following ""Doctor Who"" serials: Dudley Simpson Dudley George Simpson (4 October 1922 – 4 November 2017) was an Australian"
"collaboration with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. The soundtrack features regular vocalist Melanie Pappenheim on tracks 12 and 19 and countertenor Mark Chambers on track 6. ""Total running time"": 76:27 minutes. Doctor Who: Series 4 (soundtrack) Doctor Who: Series 4 is a soundtrack album released on 17 November 2008, containing incidental music that was used throughout the fourth series of the BBC science fiction television programme ""Doctor Who"". The music was composed by the British musical director Murray Gold and was orchestrated by his collaborator Ben Foster who had previously worked with him on the films ""Alien Autopsy"", ""I Want Candy"""
"Time (musical) Time is a musical with a book and lyrics by Dave Clark and David Soames, music by Jeff Daniels, and additional songs by David Pomeranz. Derived from the 1970s musical ""The Time Lord"" by Soames and Daniels, it focuses on contemporary rock musician Chris Wilder, who has been transported with his backup singers and band from a concert to the High Court of the Universe in the Andromeda Galaxy. In light of mankind's strides in space exploration, the Time Lord Melchisedic (loosely based on the title character in the BBC science fiction series ""Doctor Who"") has decided the"
"longer exist in the BBC's collection. In 1968, during his third year on the show, Hines released with Major Minor Records the novelty record ""Who's Dr. Who?"" Esteemed songwriters Barry Mason and Les Reed composed the music and lyrics, but the record was a commercial failure. Hines would later call it the only flop Mason and Reed ever wrote. Frazer Hines and his fellow lead actors Patrick Troughton and Wendy Padbury (who played the Doctor's other companion Zoe Heriot) decided collectively that the workload of ""Doctor Who"" was exhausting them. Frazer was the first of the three to announce his"
"Dr. Who & the Daleks (soundtrack) Dr. Who & the Daleks is a soundtrack album of music from the two Dalek films based on the BBC television series ""Doctor Who"". It includes music from ""Dr. Who and the Daleks"" by Malcolm Lockyer, music from ""Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D."" by Bill McGuffie with electronic effects by Barry Gray. It was reissued 16 April 2016 as a yellow double vinyl LP, limited to 1500 copies, released for Record Store Day. As part of Record Store Day 2011, a limited edition 7"" EP of selected tracks was released on 16 April 2011"
"Stanley Myers Stanley Myers (6 October 19309 November 1993) was a British film composer who scored over sixty films. He is best known for his guitar piece ""Cavatina"". Myers was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England; as a teenager he went to King Edward's School in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham. Myers wrote incidental music for television: for example, The Reign of Terror, a 1964 serial in the television series ""Doctor Who""; the theme to ""All Gas and Gaiters""; and the theme for the BBC's ""Question Time"". He is known for composing music for the cult horror films ""House of Whipcord"","
"Ron Grainer Ronald Erle Grainer (11 August 1922 – 21 February 1981) was an Australian born composer who worked for most of his professional career in the United Kingdom. He is mostly remembered for his television and film score music, especially the theme music for ""Doctor Who"", ""The Prisoner"", ""Steptoe and Son"" and ""Tales of the Unexpected"". Ronald Grainer was born on 11 August 1922 in Atherton, Queensland, Australia, the first child of Margaret Clark, an amateur pianist, and Ronald Albert Grainer, a storekeeper and postmaster. For the first eight years of Ron's life the Grainer family lived in Mt"
"Doctor Who: Series 4 (soundtrack) Doctor Who: Series 4 is a soundtrack album released on 17 November 2008, containing incidental music that was used throughout the fourth series of the BBC science fiction television programme ""Doctor Who"". The music was composed by the British musical director Murray Gold and was orchestrated by his collaborator Ben Foster who had previously worked with him on the films ""Alien Autopsy"", ""I Want Candy"" and most recently Frank Oz's ""Death at a Funeral"". The album's independent record label is Silva Screen Records who were responsible for the release of previous Doctor Who soundtracks, in"
"by long-term ""Doctor Who"" enthusiast and record producer, Ian Levine, with his musical partner Fiachra Trench. Levine, who was also the unofficial continuity consultant for ""Doctor Who"" in the 1980s, said in an interview with ""Dreamwatch Bulletin"" that the music was intended to be an orchestral score, but was instead arranged directly from his electronic demonstration arrangement by Peter Howell (who also arranged the 1980s version of the ""Doctor Who"" theme music) without Levine's knowledge. The viewing figures for the pilot were strong, achieving a viewership of about 8.4 million Britons on its première. This meant that it attracted more"
"Brian Hodgson Brian Hodgson (born 1938) is a British television composer and sound technician. Born in Liverpool in 1938, Hodgson joined the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in 1962 where he became the original sound effects creator for the science fiction programme ""Doctor Who"". His main claims to fame are the sound of the TARDIS (which he created by running the back door key to his mother's house along a bass string of a gutted piano, then electronically treating the recording) and the famous voices of the Daleks, which he created by distorting the actors' voices and feeding them through a device"
"Who"" adventure, ""An Unearthly Child"", was written by Norman Kay. Many of the stories of the William Hartnell period were scored by electronic music pioneer Tristram Cary, whose ""Doctor Who"" credits include ""The Daleks"", ""Marco Polo"", ""The Daleks' Master Plan"", ""The Gunfighters"" and ""The Mutants"". Other composers in this early period included Richard Rodney Bennett, Carey Blyton and Geoffrey Burgon. The most frequent musical contributor during the first 15 years was Dudley Simpson, who is also well known for his theme and incidental music for ""Blake's 7"", and for his haunting theme music and score for the original 1970s version"
"it"". Grainer attempted to get her a co-composer credit, but the attempt was prevented by the BBC bureaucracy, which then preferred to keep the members of the workshop anonymous. She would not be credited on-screen for her work until ""Doctor Who""'s 50th anniversary special, ""The Day of the Doctor"". Derbyshire's original arrangement served as Doctor Who's main theme for its first seventeen seasons, from 1963-80. The theme was reworked over the years, to her horror, and the version that had her ""stamp of approval"" is her original one. Delia also composed some of the incidental music used in the show,"
"the Doctor tells Martha the truth about Gallifrey. It is implied that the now-free motorists are the singers. Doctor Who: Series 3 (soundtrack) Doctor Who: Series 3 is a soundtrack album that was released on 5 November 2007, containing incidental music that was used throughout the third series of the BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who. The music was composed by the British musical director Murray Gold and was orchestrated by his collaborator Ben Foster who had previously worked with him on the films ""Alien Autopsy"", ""I Want Candy"" and most recently Frank Oz's ""Death at a Funeral"". The"