Track Listing

1. Doctor Who (Original Theme) An Unearthly Child (Pilot Episode)
2. Original Tardis Effects
3. Original Tardis Effects
4. Original Tardis Effects
5. Doctor Who (Original Titles Music) An Unearthly Child
6. Tardis Takeoff
7. The Daleks
8. The Daleks
9. The Daleks
10. The Daleks
11. The Daleks
12. The Edge Of Destruction
13. The Keys Of Marinus
14. The Sensorites
15. The Chase
16. The Chase
17. Galaxy Four
18. Galaxy Four
19. Galaxy Four
20. Galaxy Four
21. Galaxy Four
22. The Daleks' Masterplan
23. The Savages
24. The Tenth Planet
25. The Power Of The Daleks
26. The Power Of The Daleks
27. The Underwater Menace
28. The Macra Terror
29. The Macra Terror
30. The Macra Terror
31. The Macra Terror
32. The Macra Terror
33. Doctor Who (New Opening Theme, 1967)
34. The Wheel In Space
35. The Web Of Fear
36. Fury From The Deep
37. The Wheel In Space
38. The Wheel In Space
39. The Wheel In Space
40. The Wheel In Space
41. The Wheel In Space
42. The Wheel In Space
43. The Wheel In Space
44. The Wheel In Space
45. The Wheel In Space
46. The Wheel In Space
47. The Wheel In Space
48. The Wheel In Space
49. The Wheel In Space
50. The Wheel In Space
51. The Wheel In Space
52. The Dominators
53. The Dominators
54. The Dominators
55. The Dominators
56. The Dominators
57. The Dominators
58. The Mind Robber
59. The Mind Robber
60. The Mind Robber
61. The Invasion
62. The Invasion
63. The Invasion
64. The Krotons
65. The Krotons
66. The Krotons
67. The Krotons
68. The Krotons
69. The Space Pirates
70. The War Games
71. The War Games
72. The War Games
73. The War Games
74. The War Games
75. The War Games
76. Doctor Who (Closing Titles)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43309 in Music
• Released on: 2005-05-23
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Soundtrack

Amazon.co.uk Review
It's been so easy to sympathetically think back on the series as budget-challenged chintz. Contemporary technology is like a comfort zone of superiority against TV of the past; what really mustn't be forgotten is how appreciated Dr. Who was in its day for technical innovation. And that's where this first volume comes in: the Hartnell and Troughton years-apart from being blessed with Ron Grainer's immortal theme--were often tracked with sourced library cues. The majority of playtime is thereby made up by the unique sound designers then resident at the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop (principally Brian Hodgson, Delia Derbyshire, and Dick Mills). While this hardly makes for any sort of light musical experience, it is nonetheless a fascinating record of electronic sound at its genesis. Twenty-two episodes are covered in various fashions, there's the old-piano-and-a-key "Original TARDIS Effect", but most importantly a chronicling of each stage of the Grainer theme. Preparing for the continuation on Volume Two is a final, unused rendition. --Paul Tonks

Customer Reviews

"Jarvis in a Dream State"
Overall this has very little music, but it's a fascinating listening experience nonetheless. You might have to skip past the theme tune, because you've heard it before, and it's on the record three times (four if you count the end theme). The rest is a mixture of unsettling ambient drones, disturbing space atmospheres, and cold, dispiriting pings and whooshes.

My favourite track is "Cybermats attracted to Wheel". It's a boing noise that repeats a few times, but it's a lovely boing noise, and I love the way it repeats. The selection from The Wheel in Space, which makes up tracks 37 - 51, is like a miniature early Tangerine Dream record, or a more peaceful Stockhausen. It is my favourite part of the album. "Floating Through Space" is sinister, "Interior Rocket (Suspense Music)" is menacing, and "Jarvis in a Dream State" is perturbing. Listening to the music without watching the show, I am left with a mental impression of avant-garde experimental black and white horror cinema. I have a mental impression of some very clever people in a stark, abandoned school hall, carefully preparing tapes and oscilloscopes. It's all very reminiscent of Gil Mellé's music from The Andromeda Strain.

I say "music", but this album often blurs the boundaries between noise and music, and indeed many of the tracks were commissioned as background atmospheres. Several of the consist of a single albeit often complicated effect, e.g. the various noises that accompany functions of the Tardis, whereas "Galaxy Atmosphere" is an evolving noise layered on top of itself. Other highlights of the record include "Machine and City Theme", which has an ominous, grinding feel; the peaceful, ambient "Musak", which should have been released as a single; and "White Void", which is cold, so cold, like the universe itself. Track 29, "Chromophone Band", is a relatively conventional tune with a melody and a beat. It sounds like the work of Joe Meek. It was written by Dudley Simpson, and arranged in typically inventive style by Delia Derbyshire. The "Chumbley" tracks are cute, and it's a shame that Chumbley has to die (with an electronic death gasp!).

As the title of the record states, this music was made between 1963 and 1969. It sounds timeless, as if from another universe where time does not exist.

It's worth looking on Google for Mark Ayres' website; he compiled the record, and on his website he writes about the tracks, telling us that e.g. "Cyber Invasion" was originally eight minutes long (it is a whooshing noise, the audio equivalent of a barber's pole, and it would be horrible to listen to for eight minutes).

The real deal
Listening to the original Dr Who theme on this compilation as originally intended by Delia Derbyshire et al made me realise why I do not like the present version of Who. New iWho s facile and flashy...too smooth and mechanical, whereas old Who was very organic....it was genuinely scarey & Delia's theme reflects this, the new synthed up theme is just plain awful. Buying this CD lead me further down the rabbit hole that is Delia's life...fascinating!

Interesting...
It should be called a sound effects CD as there are only a few pieces of music, and mostly the Who theme from the two different Doctors of the time. The real meat of this package is the sound effects, and these are particularly great if you happen to be a Who fanatic who dabbles in home movies. The background Dalek spacecraft sounds are excellent, as are much of the 'stingers', bleeps, heartbeats and other random bits of sound that you'll remember from the episodes in question. A particular highlight of mine is the painful Cyberman invasion signal from 'The Invasion'. It is a haunting piece and guaranteed to invoke insanity after prolonged listening. The only reason this doesn't reach 4 or 5 stars is that it isn't a musical score as aforementioned, but a sound effect collection. Don't let that out you off, however, as the sounds are spot on.