Doctor Who: The Music

1983 compilation album by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

For other music used in Doctor Who, see List of Doctor Who music releases.

Doctor Who: The Music

Compilation album by

BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Released| 1983
Recorded| 1963, 1972, 1980–1983
Genre| Electronic music
Length| 40:24 / 51:24
Label| BBC Records
Producer| Dick Mills
Compiler| Dick Mills
BBC Radiophonic Workshop chronology
| BBC Sound Effects No. 26 - Sci-Fi Sound Effects
(1981)  | Doctor Who: The Music
(1983)  | The Soundhouse
(1983)

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Doctor Who soundtrack chronology
| BBC Sound Effects No. 26 - Sci-Fi Sound Effects
(1981)  | The Music
(1983)  | The Music II
(1985)

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Earthshock cover

Doctor Who: The Music is a 1983 compilation of music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop featuring incidental music from the popular science-fiction television series Doctor Who. The album was the first full-length to feature solely music from the programme. The collection was produced by Workshop member and long-time Doctor Who sound-effects creator Dick Mills. It featured the original Delia Derbyshire arrangement of Ron Grainer's theme tune and music by Malcolm Clarke from the 1972 serial "The Sea Devils", which was only the second to have an incidental score provided completely by the Radiophonic Workshop. Most of the music included came from serials from the previous three years to demonstrate the recent composers' works. For the album, each serial's incidental music was reassembled into short "suites" and although most of the music had been recorded in mono it was, for this compilation, remixed into stereo with sound effects added on to some tracks. The album was re-released in 1992 by Silva Screen records as Earthshock - Classic Music From The BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1, with bonus tracks including "The Worlds of Doctor Who", a track recorded by Mills as a B-side to Dudley Simpson's 1973 "Moonbase 3" single, which featured a mix of music with sound effects from Planet of the Daleks before following with Simpson's "Master's Theme" and finishing with music from the serial The Mind of Evil . Selections from both this compilation and its follow-up, Doctor Who: The Music II, were also re-used on the 1994 Silva Screen compilation The Best of Doctor Who Volume 1: The Five Doctors.

## Track listing

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### Original 1983 track listing

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Track #  | Artist  | Track name  | Stories used in

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Side One
1  | Delia Derbyshire | "TARDIS - Doctor Who" [a] | —
2  | Malcolm Clarke | "The Sea Devils"[a] | The Sea Devils
3  | Peter Howell | "Meglos"[b] | Meglos
4  | Roger Limb | "Nyssa's Theme"[b] | The Keeper of Traken
5  | "Kassia's Wedding Music"[b]
6  | "The Threat of Melkur"[b]
7  | "Exploring the Lab"[b] | Four to Doomsday
8  | "Nyssa is Hypnotized"[b]
9  | Peter Howell  | "The Leisure Hive"[b] | The Leisure Hive
Side Two
1  | Roger Limb  | "Omega Field Force" [b] | Arc of Infinity
2  | "Ergon Threat"[b]
3  | "Termination of the Doctor"
4  | Peter Howell  | "Banqueting Music"[b] | Warriors' Gate
5  | "TSS Machine Attacked"[b] | Kinda
6  | "Janissary Band"[b] | Snakedance
7  | Malcolm Clarke  | "Subterranean Caves"[b] | Earthshock
8  | "Requiem"[b]
9  | "March of the Cybermen"
10  | Peter Howell  | "Doctor Who"  | various

### 1992 Earthshock track listing

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Track #  | Artist  | Track name  | Stories used in

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1  | Delia Derbyshire  | "TARDIS - Doctor Who"[a] | —
2  | Malcolm Clarke  | "The Sea Devils"[a] | The Sea Devils
3  | Peter Howell  | "Meglos"[b] | Meglos
4  | Dick Mills[c] | "The Worlds of Doctor Who"  | —
5  | Delia Derbyshire  | "Blue Veils and Golden Sands"  | Inferno
6  | Roger Limb  | "Nyssa's Theme"[b] | The Keeper of Traken
7  | "Kassia's Wedding Music"[b]
8  | "The Threat of Melkur"[b]
9  | "Exploring the Lab"  | Four to Doomsday[b]
10  | "Nyssa is Hypnotized"[b]
11  | Peter Howell  | "The Leisure Hive"[b] | The Leisure Hive
12  | Delia Derbyshire  | "The Delian Mode"[b] | Inferno
13  | Roger Limb  | "Omega Field Force"[b] | Arc of Infinity
14  | "Ergon Threat"[b]
15  | "Termination of the Doctor"[b]
16  | Peter Howell  | "Banqueting Music"[b] | Warriors' Gate
17  | "TSS Machine Attacked"[b] | Kinda
18  | "Janissary Band"[b] | Snakedance
19  | Malcolm Clarke  | "Subterranean Caves" [b] | Earthshock
20  | "Requiem"[b]
21  | "March of the Cybermen"[b]
22  | Delia Derbyshire  | "TARDIS - Doctor Who - Reprise"  | —

1. ^ a b c d Special Sound by Brian Hodgson
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae Special Sound by Dick Mills
3. ^ composed by Dudley Simpson

## External links

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* mb21 Discography entry
* Album information
* Doctor Who: The Music at Discogs

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BBC Radiophonic Workshop

* Desmond Briscoe
* Daphne Oram
* Dick Mills
* Maddalena Fagandini
* Brian Hodgson
* Delia Derbyshire
* John Baker
* David Cain
* Malcolm Clarke
* Paddy Kingsland
* Richard Yeoman-Clark
* Roger Limb
* Glynis Jones
* Peter Howell
* Elizabeth Parker
* Jonathan Gibbs
* Mark Ayres
* Richard Attree

Discography|

* "Time Beat"
* BBC Radiophonic Music
* Fourth Dimension
* The Radiophonic Workshop
* Out of This World
* Through A Glass Darkly
* BBC Sound Effects No. 19: Doctor Who Sound Effects
* BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 21
* BBC Sound Effects No. 26: Sci-Fi Sound Effects
* Doctor Who: The Music
* The Soundhouse
* The Living Planet: Music from the BBC TV Series
* Doctor Who: The Music II
* Doctor Who: 30 Years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
* Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
* Volume 1: The Early Years 1963–1969
* Volume 2: New Beginnings 1970–1980
* Volume 3: The Leisure Hive
* Volume 4: Meglos & Full Circle
* Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
* The John Baker Tapes – Volume 1: BBC Radiophonics
* BBC Radiophonic Workshop – A Retrospective
* Radiophonic Workshop
* The Vendetta Tapes
* Burials in Several Earths
* Possum
* Inventions for Radio

Related articles|

* BBC
* White Noise
* Dudley Simpson
* Maida Vale Studios
* Sound Effects No. 13 – Death & Horror

| Doctor Who|

* Theme music
* Audio releases
* Soundtracks

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Doctor Who soundtracks

Original series|

* BBC Sound Effects No. 19: Doctor Who Sound Effects
* The Music
* The Music II
* Space Adventures – Music from 'Doctor Who' 1963–1968
* 25th Anniversary Album
* The Curse of Fenric
* The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
* Ghost Light
* Pyramids of Mars
* 30 Years at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
* Music from The Tomb of the Cybermen
* Original Soundtrack Recording
* Terror of the Zygons/The Seeds of Doom
* Volume 1: The Early Years 1963–1969
* Volume 2: New Beginnings 1970–1980
* Music from the Tenth Planet
* Volume 3: The Leisure Hive
* Volume 4: Meglos & Full Circle
* Devils' Planets – The Music of Tristram Cary
* Cold Worlds
* Survival
* The Daleks
* The Invasion
* The Five Doctors
* The Sun Makers
* The Visitation
* Time and the Rani
* Revenge of the Cybermen
* The Daleks in Colour

Revived series|

* Original Television Soundtrack
* Series 3
* Series 4
* Series 4 – The Specials
* Series 5
* A Christmas Carol
* Series 6
* Series 7
* The Snowmen/The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe
* The Day of the Doctor/The Time of the Doctor
* Series 8
* Series 9
* Series 11
* Series 12
* Series 12 – Revolution of the Daleks
* Series 13 – Flux
* Series 13 – The Specials

Compilations|

* The Worlds of Doctor Who
* The 50th Anniversary Collection

Torchwood|

* Original Television Soundtrack
* Children of Earth

Other|

* Myths and Other Legends
* Dr. Who & the Daleks
* Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
* An Adventure in Space and Time
* Class

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* MusicBrainz release group
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