''BBC Sound Effects No. 26: Sci-Fi Sound Effects'' is a 1981 compilation of sound effects and atmospheres created by the

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

. It was the second in the BBC Sound Effects series to be credited to the Workshop. It featured sounds from popular television series ''

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'' (all from

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) and ''

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'', as well as effects for the

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of the radio versions of

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' ''

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'' and

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's '' Earthsearch''. In 1991 it was re-released on CD as ''Essential Science Fiction Sound Effects Vol. 1''. Reissued on CD with its original title and cover as part of AudioGo's "Vintage Beeb" line 4 April 2013. Although seemingly a compilation of merely incidental effects, the album influenced pioneering

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" after one of its tracks.

Track listing

''
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(Mono effects by Dick Mills)

#"The Book's Activation Code" #" Slartibartfast's Aircar: Takeoff" #"Slartibartfast's Aircar: Constant run" #"Slartibartfast's Aircar: Lands" #"Magrathea Alarm" #"Magrathea Police guns" #"Space car park outside The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" #"The End of the Universe" #"Black spaceship oscillates" #"Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal: Eats" #"Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal: Walks" #"Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal: Roars" #"Penargilon Kangaroo Relocation Drive engaged" #"Penargilon Kangaroo Relocation Drive arrival" #"Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, Ship 'B' Bridge Background"

''
Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterre ...
'' (Stereo effects by Dick Mills)

#"Earth Shuttle Arriving" (from "

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") #"Argolis Exterior Atmosphere" (from "

") #"Flock Of Bats" (from " State of Decay") #"Laboratory Descends, Gaztak Spaceship Takes Off" (from " Meglos") #"Dodecahedron Energy Beams" (from " Meglos") #"Marshmen Emerge from the Mistfall" (from " Full Circle") #"Respirator Room background in Spaceship" (from "

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") #"Time Winds" (from "

") #"Alarm" (from "

The Keeper of Traken ''The Keeper of Traken'' is the sixth serial of the Doctor Who (season 18), 18th season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC One, BBC1 from 31 January to 21 February ...

") #"Electronic Storm" (from "

") #"Cloister Bell In The

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" (from "

Logopolis ''Logopolis'' is the seventh and final serial of the 18th season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 28 February to 21 March 1981. The serial is set on th ...

") #"The Master's

Lands" (from "

") #"The Master's

Take Off" (from "

") #"

'Out Of Time Slip'" (from "

") #"

'Into Time Slip'" (from "

''
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''
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(Stereo effects by Elizabeth Parker)

#"Dawn Of Emptiness" #"Space Bells Of Ceremonial Room" #"Scorpio Spaceship Lands" #"Dematerialisation" #"Rematerialisation" #"Scorpio Gun"

''
Blake's 7 ''Blake's 7'' is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. Four series of thirteen 50-minute episodes were broadcast on BBC1 between 1978 and 1981. It was created by Terry Nation, who also wrote the first series, prod ...
'' Series A-C (Mono effects by
Richard Yeoman-Clark Richard Yeoman-Clark was a British composer and sound engineer who worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop from 1970 to 1978. Richard joined BBC Radio direct from St Albans School as a Technical Operator at Broadcasting House, moving to the Ex ...
& Elizabeth Parker)

#"Orac Switch On" #"Orac Working" #"Orac Switch Off" #"Liberator Computer Mailfunction" #"Liberator Plasma Bolt Explosion" #"Liberator Laser" #"Federation Ship Laser Explosion" #"Liberator Life Capsule Ready to be Launched" #"Liberator Ship Background" #"Liberator Guns X3" #"Avon's Communicator Bracelet Transportation Sounds" #"Disappearance" #"Reappearance" #"Mysterious 'Being' Disappears in a Flame" #"Alien Gun" #"Appearance Of The Ovoid (A Stone Surrounded in Mystery and Magic)" #"Heavy Voltage Force" #"Glow From A Mysterious Ghost Who Haunts the Liberator" #"The Core, A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain which Rules from the Centre of Ultraworld" #"Interior Of Federation Patrol Ship" #"Going Through A Black Hole in the Liberator" #"Space Centre Medical Unit Hum" #"Machine Monster with a Black Sense of Humour! (who Chases our Heroes Around, Winking)" #"Break Down Of Machine Monster" #"Extra-terrestrial Heavenly Choir"

'' Earthsearch'' (Stereo effects by Lloyd Silverthorne)

#"UFO Landing" #"Computer Touch Panel Bleeps" #"Warbles" #"Alarm" #"Meteorite Alert Station" #"Rumbling Gurgle" #"Hand Held Ray Guns" #"Space Bombs" #"Space Police" #"Outer Airlock Door Open and Close" #"Inner Airlock Door Open and Close" #"Plasma Discharge Weapons" #"Underworld Animation Chamber" #"Bleeps for Suspended Animation Chamber" #"Electric Warning Gong" #"Three Harmonic Strings Followed by Explosion" #"Sharp Hum With Trail Out" #"Rapid Fire Laser Guns" #"Space Hurricane" #"Spacecraft Crash Into Sea"

References

External links

mb21 Discography entry
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bbc Sound Effects No. 26 - Sci-Fi Sound Effects BBC Radiophonic Workshop albums 1981 compilation albums BBC Records compilation albums Sound effects albums

Track listing

''Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterre ...'' (Stereo effects by Dick Mills)

'' Earthsearch'' (Stereo effects by Lloyd Silverthorne)

References

External links

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Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the adventures of an extraterre ...
'' (Stereo effects by Dick Mills)