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ORIGINAL TELEVISION SOUNDTRACK (*previously unreleased) 1. Doctor Who (Opening Theme) 2. The Madhouse 3. Redvers, I Presume? 4. Uncharted Territory 5. Heart of the Interior 6. Gwendoline* 7. The Fang of a Cave Bear* 8. Enter Josiah 9. Indoor Lightning 10. Nimrod Observed 11. Time to Emerge 12. Burnt Toast 13. Ace’s Adventures Underground 14. Where is Mamma? 15. Loss of Control 16. The Way to the Zoo 17. The Hungry Inspector* 18. The Memory Teller 19. Lighting the Touchpaper 20. Homo Victorianus Ineptus 21. Out of the Shadows 22. Light Enlightened 23. Tropic of Perivale 24. Tricks of the Light 25. Judgement in Stone 26. Requiem 27. Passing Thoughts 28. Doctor Who (Closing Theme) PART ONE DEMO VERSION (all previously unreleased) 29. The Madhouse (alternative) 30. Redvers, I Presume? (alternative) 31. Uncharted Territory (alternative) 32. Heart of the Interior (alternative) 33. Gwendoline (alternative) 34. The Fang of a Cave Bear (alternative) 35. Enter Josiah (alternative) 36. Indoor Lightning (alternative) 37. Nimrod Observed (alternative) 38. Time to Emerge (alternative) 39. Burnt Toast (alternative) 40. Ace’s Adventures Underground (alternative) Tracks 6, 7, 17, 29-40 Previously Unreleased. Back in the days of Troughton and Pertwee, I recorded Doctor Who soundtracks off-air on an archaic reel-to- reel tape recorder. I played the tapes until they fell to bits, revelling not just in the drama, but in the musical skills of Tristram Cary and Dudley Simpson. Now I couldn’t write music to save my life, but one day - I might provoke some... Two bars of Mark Ayres’ evocative score for Ghost Light can conjure more of the quintessential Dark Continent than twenty pages of waffle about natives, heat, and tsetse flies. Mark’s music is more than incidental and summons up all the light and attendant shadows of Gabriel Chase. One way or another, things evolve. MARC PLATT SCRIPTWRITER, GHOST LIGHT A NOTE FROM THE COMPOSER Ghost Light was the third of three scores I Also in attendance are the housekeeper (Mrs for me to do a re-think. Some of the chamber composed for Doctor Who between 1988 and Pritchard), Gwendoline (Smith’s ward), and style remained, but the whole score became 1989. Originally released on CD in 1993, it is a Neanderthal butler, Nimrod. Stalking the much `bigger’. presented here in a version newly-remastered corridors is a deranged explorer, Redvers Fenn- from the original tapes, and with additional Cooper, and something is locked in the cellar... Whilst small themes and motifs do appear, tracks previously omitted. This includes the Ghost Light is a score of “sounds” rather than complete initial “demo” version of the music The complex and claustrophobic story “themes”. Strings, harp, clarinet and flute are for Part One. presented challenges for the entire cast used for the more genteel aspects of the house, and crew, my own job being made even whilst native drums and pipes serve for Redvers, Marc Platt’s script was richly-plotted, drawing more challenging by the fact that the post- a distorted dinner gong for Mrs. Pritchard, inspiration from a variety of sources such as production schedule for Ghost Light was very organ for the shrine-like lower observatory, Benjamin Britten’s Opera The Turn of the tight. Although it was the last show to be angelic choir for the golden-cloaked Light. Screw, J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas, Rider shot that year (1989 - and sadly it became the The score is filled out with sampled orchestral Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines, Alice in last Doctor Who story to be made for many “textures”. Wonderland, and Pygmalion. Director Alan years), it was the second to be transmitted - Wareing, for whom I had worked previously on so I was still working on it as the last part of This newly-remastered release presents the The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, assembled the previous adventure, Battlefield, was going score in story order and is compiled from new a remarkable guest cast which included Sylvia out. In fact, I ended up scoring Part One twice, transfers of the original analogue stereo master Syms, Katharine Schlesinger, Ian Hogg, Michael as my original ideas didn’t quite hit the spot. tapes. Consecutive cues have been combined Cochrane, Sharon Duce, Frank Windsor and Producer John Nathan-Turner told me that he into longer tracks. John Hallam. had hoped for a real `instrumental’ score for the story before the budget forced him to fall Thanks are due to John Nathan-Turner, Alan The Doctor takes Ace to a large Victorian back on synthesisers. Bearing John’s comments Wareing, Marc Platt (for the challenge, the house, Gabriel Chase, in the year 1883. It in mind, I set about scoring the episodes as cake, and help with giving names to the tracks transpires that this is the house which so if for a well-heeled Victorian family in which, on this album!), Dick Mills, Sophie Aldred and frightened the 13-year-old Ace some 100 years for instance, the son would play the clarinet, Sylvester McCoy. later that she torched it. The house is seemingly the daughters would play flute and harp, the owned by Josiah Samuel Smith, a disreputable- mother cello and so on - I wanted a definite looking gentleman whose theories of evolution `chamber’ feel. This didn’t sound as effective as are strongly refuted by the Reverend Ernest I’d hoped on synthesisers, so John managed to MARK AYRES, APRIL 1993, Matthews, who has arrived from Oxford. squeeze some extra time out of the schedule REVISED OCTOBER 2012 CREDITS Composed, Arranged and Performed by MARK AYRES Produced and Engineered by MARK AYRES Copyright © 1989 MARK AYRES (MCPS) Except Doctor Who Theme Composed by RON GRAINER (Warner/Chappell Music) Arranged and Performed by KEFF McCULLOCH Ghost Light recorded between August and October 1989. Remastered March 2012 Ghost Light was originally transmitted in 3 episodes on BBC One between Wednesday 4th October and Wednesday 18th October 1989 Ghost Light starred SYLVESTER McCOY as the seventh Doctor, with SOPHIE ALDRED as Ace. Written by MARC PLATT Produced by JOHN NATHAN-TURNER. Directed by ALAN WAREING Sleeve Illustration: CLAYTON HICKMAN SILVA SCREEN RECORDS LTD. Executive Producers: REYNOLD D’SILVA and DAVID STONER Artwork: STUART FORD Release co-ordination: PETE COMPTON Ⓟ 1989 BBC Worldwide Limited. Under exclusive licence to Silva Screen Records Ltd. © 2013 Silva SILCD 1372 Screen Records Ltd. All rights reserved. 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