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	Doctor Who: The Music


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Starring: Delia Derbyshire, Malcolm Clarke, Peter Howell & Roger Limb
By: Malcolm Clarke, Peter Howell, Roger Limb & Ron Grainer
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Note: Music soundtrack album containing a selection of Doctor Who incidental music from the 1970s and 1980s. Followed by Doctor Who: The Music II.

Edition: UK (LP)
Released: February 1983
Publisher: BBC Records
Format: 1 x LP
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Note: Catalogue number: REH 462.
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Track listing:
Side A:
Tardis — Dr. Who (original arrangement) — Ron Grainer
The Sea Devils — Malcolm Clarke
Meglos — Peter Howell
Nyssa’s Theme — Roger Limb
Kassia’s Wedding Music — Roger Limb
The Threat of Melkur — Roger Limb
Exploring the Lab — Roger Limb
Nyssa is Hypnotised — Roger Limb
The Leisure Hive — Peter Howell
Side B:
Omega Force Field — Roger Limb
Ergon Threat — Roger Limb
‘Termination’ of the Doctor — Roger Limb
Banqueting Music — Peter Howell
TSS Machine Attacked — Peter Howell
Janissary Band — Peter Howell
Subterranean Caves — Malcolm Clarke
Requiem — Malcolm Clarke
March of the Cybermen — Malcolm Clarke
Dr. Who (theme to the current series) — Peter Howell

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Edition: UK (1st cassette)
Released: February 1983
Publisher: BBC Records
Format: 1 x cassette
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Edition: UK (picture disc LP)
Released: February 1983
Publisher: BBC Records
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Note: Catalogue no: REH 462 (confusingly, the same as the original UK non-picture disc edition)
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Same as original UK LP edition.

Edition: US (LP)
Released: June 1983 (Exact date unconfirmed)
Publisher: BBC Records
Format: 1 x LP
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Note: Catalogue number: BBC 22462.
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The BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s long (and continuing) association with the Doctor Who series began with the Signature Tune [sic] for the very first programme. Ron Grainer provided the composition noted and the Workshop did the rest.
During the past twenty years, the Workshop has provided all the special sounds and latterly, the incidental music for the past three series. Most famous sounds are, of course, the Tardis materialisation and dematerialisation sounds (not an elephant in labour, but the strings of an old piano recorded and treated) and the treatment of speech which produced the Dalek voices. Brian Hodgson was creator of the sounds for the first nine years, since which time Dick Mills has continued the tradition still making full use of the Workshop’s synthesizers and acoustically recorded real sounds.
The incidental music is composed by Malcolm Clarke, Peter Howell and Roger Limb on a shared basis over the series, which accounts for the varying styles of composition but which are nevertheless just what the Doctor ordered.
Track Listing:
Same as UK LP edition, although the first track on Side B (Omega Force Field) is listed on the sleeve as “Omega Field Force”, a mistake which also made its way onto the picture disc edition below.

Edition: US (cassette)
Released: June 1983 (Exact date unconfirmed)
Publisher: BBC Records
Format: 1 x cassette
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Note: Catalogue number: C22462
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Edition: Australia (LP)
Released: June 1983 (Exact date unconfirmed)
Publisher: BBC Records
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Note: Catalogue number: 811 933-1.
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Edition: Australia (cassette)
Released: June 1983 (Exact date unconfirmed)
Publisher: BBC Records
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Edition: US (1st picture disc LP)
Released: February 1985 (Exact date unconfirmed)
Publisher: BBC Records
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Note: Catalogue number: BBC 22002. The track listing for this release consists of Side A of the original UK version above, plus Side A of Doctor Who Sound Effects. Two different versions seem to exist, one with the artwork “flipped” compared to the UK version (i.e. with the Fifth Doctor on the left) and one the right way round (with the First Doctor on the left).
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Edition: US (2nd picture disc LP)
Released: February 1985
Publisher: BBC Records
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Note: Catalogue number: BBC 22004. The track listing for this release consists of Side B of the original UK version above, plus Side B of Doctor Who Sound Effects.
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Edition: UK (CD)
Title: Earthshock: Classic Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1
Released: November 1992
Publisher: Silva Screen
Format: 1 x CD
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Note: Retitled Earthshock: Classic Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1. Contains 3 additional tracks compared to the original release: tracks 4, 5 and 12 — however, the 1980 Peter Howell version of the theme music (which was the final track on the original LP) has been replaced with the 1963 version.
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Track listing:
Doctor Who — Ron Grainer
The Sea Devils — Malcolm Clarke
Meglos — Peter Howell
The World of Doctor Who — Dudley Simpson
Inferno: Blue Veils and Golden Sands — Delia Derbyshire
The Keeper of Traken: Nyssa’s Theme — Roger Limb
The Keeper of Traken: Kassia’s Wedding Music — Roger Limb
The Keeper of Traken: The Threat of Melkur — Roger Limb
Four To Doomsday: Exploring the Lab — Roger Limb
Four To Doomsday: Nyssa is Hypnotised — Roger Limb
The Leisure Hive — Peter Howell
Inferno: The Delian Mode — Delia Derbyshire
Arc of Infinity: Omega Force Field — Roger Limb
Arc of Infinity: Ergon Threat — Roger Limb
Arc of Infinity: The Termination of the Doctor — Roger Limb
Warrior’s Gate: Banqueting Music — Peter Howell
Kinda: TSS Machine Attacked — Peter Howell
Snakedance: Janissary Band — Peter Howell
Earthshock: Subterranean Caves — Malcolm Clarke
Earthshock: Requiem — Malcolm Clarke
Earthshock: March of the Cybermen — Malcolm Clarke
Doctor Who (reprise) — Ron Grainer

Edition: UK (2nd cassette)
Title: Earthshock: Classic Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1
Released: November 1992
Publisher: Silva Screen
Format: 1 x cassette
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Track listing:
Same as CD edition. The break between Sides 1 & 2 comes after track 11 (The Leisure Hive).


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