''Doctor Who: The Music'' is a 1983 compilation of music from the

BBC Radiophonic Workshop The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was one of the sound effects units of the BBC, created in 1958 to produce incidental sounds and new music for radio and, later, television. The unit is known for its experimental and pioneering work in electron ...

featuring incidental music from the popular science-fiction television series ''

Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the ...

''. 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

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and music by Malcolm Clarke from the 1972 serial "

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", 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 ''

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'' before following with Simpson's " Master's Theme" and finishing with music from the serial ''

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'' . 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

Original 1983 track listing

1992 ''Earthshock'' track listing

External links

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