MUSIC BY: RON GRAINER / DELIA DERBYSHIRE / TRISTRAM CARY / DUDLEY SIMPSON T H E 5 0 T H DON HARPER / CAREY BLYTON / MALCOLM CLARKE / GEOFFREY BURGON PETER HOWELL / PADDY KINGSLAND / ROGER LIMB / JONATHAN GIBBS / ELIZABETH PARKER ANNIVERSARY DOMINIC GLYNN / KEFF MCCULLOCH / MARK AYRES / JOHN DEBNEY / MURRAY GOLD COLLECTION SPECIAL SOUND BY: BRIAN HODGSON & DICK MILLS / BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP VOLUME ONE: 1963 - 1974 VOLUME TWO: 1974 - 1984 THE FIRST DOCTOR - WILLIAM HARTNELL TRACKS 1-21 THE FOURTH DOCTOR - TOM BAKER TRACKS 1-19 THE SECOND DOCTOR - PATRICK TROUGHTON TRACKS 22-41 THE FIFTH DOCTOR - PETER DAVISON TRACKS 20-28 THE THIRD DOCTOR - JON PERTWEE TRACKS 42-53 TOTAL TIME: 79:28 TOTAL TIME: 78:56 VOLUME THREE: 1984 - 1996 VOLUME FOUR: 2005 - 2013 THE SIXTH DOCTOR - COLIN BAKER TRACKS 1-9 THE NINTH DOCTOR - CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON TRACKS 1,2 THE SEVENTH DOCTOR - SYLVESTER McCOY TRACKS 10-19 THE TENTH DOCTOR - DAVID TENNANT TRACKS 3-13 THE EIGHTH DOCTOR - PAUL McGANN TRACKS 20-25 THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR - MATT SMITH TRACKS 14-23 TOTAL TIME: 79:11 TOTAL TIME: 78:55 DOCTOR WHO - THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION TV movie saw Sylvester McCoy regenerate into Paul McGann THE TAPES for one night only. And whilst the music (composed by a team led by John Debney, who took the main credit) was still As is well-known, there are many episodes of early Doctor Right from the very start in 1963, Verity Lambert (the young There is no “performance” in the music and, no, that is not a produced largely using synthesisers and samples, it was no Who missing from the BBC archives. Even allowing for the 9 lady producer that Sydney Newman put in charge of Doctor Theremin. Every note, beat and pulse was hand-crafted using longer self-consciously electronic in flavour. A big Hollywood episodes discovered in Nigeria and returned just as I write this Who) wanted a very different, “alien” sound for the programme. test-tone oscillators, noise generator and wobbulator, then sound was asked for by the producers, so that’s what the in October 2013, there remain 97 episodes missing in action. She initially tried to approach French avant-garde group Les painstakingly cut together on multiple layers of 1/4” recording film got. The TV Movie was intended to pilot a new run of Structures Sonores to provide the theme tune, but nothing tape before being manually synchronised to form the final mix. adventures but, whilst generally well-received, the film did If the BBC was not able to maintain a full archive of completed was to come of this. Founded by Jacques Lasry and brothers not go to series and the programme would go underground programmes, the same is true of the bits and pieces that went François and Bernard Baschet, Les Structures Sonores Brian Hodgson continued with the programme for 10 years, for another 9 years before its triumphant return in 2005. to make up those programmes, including music and sounds. specialised in creating elaborate metal and glass instruments providing all of its Special Sounds - Dalek control rooms, planet Luckily, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop held its own historical (or “sound sculptures”), then composing music to be played on atmospheres, ray guns, doors opening, alarms and so on. This Russell T Davies was a Doctor Who fan in childhood, one of a archive at its studios in Maida Vale, a collection I have been them. Some of their work would later be used to accompany was in the days before extensive sound effects libraries, so number of enthusiasts who in the 2000s enjoyed considerable cataloguing and digitising since the Workshop’s closure in The Web Planet and Galaxy Four (“Marche” is featured on this originality was as essential as it was desirable. Some of these success within the television industry. He found himself 1996. Hence we have a complete collection of Doctor Who collection). Even before that, when producer/director Rex Tucker sounds live on in the current incarnation of the programme, 50 tasked with reinventing the programme for an entirely new sound effects - other than The Moonbase (1967), Fury from was briefly attached to Doctor Who he had sounded out Tristram years later. On occasion, Brian’s sounds became the de facto generation of fans, and asked long-term collaborator Murray the Deep (1968), The Time Monster (1972) and Carnival of Cary for the job but that fell by the wayside when Rex moved scores for episodes - The Krotons and The Wheel in Space being Gold to take on the music. Monsters (1973), all of which are absent without leave. on (they would later work together when Tucker directed The notable examples. For the latter, Brian’s chilling cyber-music Gunfighters). It was Lionel Salter, head of the BBC’s Television works superbly with the voice treatment used for the Cybermen. From the second year of the New Series, with a new Doctor I found that few tapes of the very early scores survive, though Music Department, who suggested to Verity that she meet with Dick Mills would continue this tradition, often providing sounds in the TARDIS in the form of David Tennant, the BBC National we do have all the theme music masters. I therefore made Desmond Briscoe at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. which are complex compositions in themselves. Orchestra of Wales - teamed with orchestrator/conductor Ben Foster - joined the crew: the music is now almost it my mission to track down as many as possible! But from 1980, when the BBC Radiophonic Workshop took over, pretty The Workshop had recently collaborated - to great acclaim Australian composer Dudley Simpson’s first score for Doctor entirely, genuinely and full-bloodedly orchestral. The theme much everything survives in one form or another - luckily, - with leading television tunesmith Ron Grainer on the Who was Planet of Giants in 1964, and within a couple of years music has also evolved in the past 8 years - from heavy use as well as the Workshop’s own archive, BBC Enterprises documentary series Giants of Steam, and a deal was swiftly he had established his position as the show’s “house” composer: of Delia Derbyshire’s original tracks plus overlaid sampled maintained a collection of tapes for foreign redubs. done: the Workshop’s Delia Derbyshire would work with Grainer he was to become its most prolific musical contributor to date, orchestral elements, to now when the orchestral take-over on the theme music, while Brian Hodgson would concentrate notwithstanding excellent contributions from others. In 1980, is almost complete. Although most Doctor Who music until 1987 was recorded in on the sounds - including that of the Doctor’s space-time John Nathan-Turner (“JN-T”) took the programme over and mono, some cues had been remixed in stereo and combined machine, the “TARDIS” (which stands, as if you didn’t know, was to go on to become its longest-serving producer. The first I do hope that these discs reflect the rich, inventive, and with sound effects to produce suites for two LPs - Doctor Who for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space). While this sound thing he did, musically, was to ask Peter Howell to remake inspirational variety of sound and music that this one - The Music (1983) and Doctor Who - The Music II (1985). was to become as much a signature for the programme as the theme music. The second thing he did was to book the television series has explored in its 50 years, and look forward Some of these suites are featured on this collection, and I Grainer’s music, the theme - still unique in television history Radiophonic Workshop to provide all of the show’s scores and to much more in the years to come. have used them as style-guide for new suites I have made for - is a wonderful product of the two talents that created it. Ron so Peter Howell, Paddy Kingsland, Roger Limb, Malcolm Clarke, other Doctor Who stories. provided a deceptively simple tune and harmonies over an Jonathan Gibbs and Elizabeth Parker became part of the regular Finally, I would like to pay tribute to those composers whose ostinato bass with poetic indication as to the kind of sounds team. Later, newer voices were added with Dominic Glynn, Keff original work for Doctor Who is not featured on this collection. he envisaged (“wind bubble” and “cloud”...), and Delia’s McCulloch and Mark Ayres seeing the programme to its end: in This is not for the lack of trying, but is for the lack of tapes. imagination went to work whilst Dick Mills (who would himself 1989, Ghost Light was the last story to be made. So, hats off to Norman Kay, Richard Rodney Bennett, Stanley take over from Brian Hodgson on the “Special Sounds” front in Myers, Francis Chagrin, Raymond Jones, Charles Botterill, 1973) stood by to assist with tape cutting and loop-wrangling. Until... in 1996, Doctor Who was back, if only briefly. A 90-minute Humphrey Searle and Richard Hartley. Mark Ayres - October 2013 VOLUME ONE: 1963 - 1974 THE FIRST DOCTOR - WILLIAM HARTNELL 01. Doctor Who (Original Theme) (2:20) THE CHASE (1965) - Music by Ron Grainer 13. Dalek Spaceship Lands (0:16) Realised by Delia Derbyshire, assisted by Dick Mills 14. TARDIS Lands (0:11) (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) Special Sound by Brian Hodgson Published by Chappell Music (BBC Radiophonic Workshop) AN UNEARTHLY CHILD (1963) GALAXY 4 (1965) 02. Three Guitars Mood 2 (2:03) 15. Chumbley (Constant Run) (0:27)* Nelson & Raymond / Performed by the Arthur Nelson Group 16. Chumbley at Rest (0:28)* Published by Berry Music Co (Library) Ltd. 17.