Comic Relief 1999 - Doctor Who

This page gives details of the music and sound effects used in "The Curse of Fatal Death" a short, spoof Doctor Who adventure produced for and as part of BBC Television's Comic Relief broadcast of 12 March 1999.
The page is presented by Mark Ayres, Music and Special Sound Consultant on the programme.
The sketch was a comedy - if you want to know more about "real" Doctor Who, follow some links.

Comic Relief is a fund-raising exercise, and proceeds are put towards charitable works both in the UK and elsewhere in the world. Cast and crew contribute to the broadcast in their own time and for no fee. This page is presented in the same spirit, so if you find it interesting or useful, please think hard about contributing. The button below takes you to the Comic Relief web site where you'll find details of how to make a donation. Note that this page is not officially linked to Comic Relief in any way, it merely documents one contribution to the effort.

If you've linked directly to this page from another site - welcome! Mark Ayres also wrote the music for three Doctor Who stories ("The Greatest Show in the Galaxy", "Ghost Light", and "The Curse of Fenric") and other Doctor Who-related
video productions. You may wish to visit Mark's main Doctor Who page for a listing of other Doctor Who material on this site. Please also visit Mark Ayres' Homepage and read more about Mark's work for Doctor Who and other productions while you're here!

Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death starred Rowan Atkinson as The Doctor, with Julia Sawalha as Emma and Jonathan Pryce as The Master. Guest appearances by Richard E Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant and Joanna Lumley. Written by Steven Moffat. Producer Sue Vertue. Director John Henderson.

This article is divided into 5 sections:

Introduction
The Music (Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four)
Special Sound
Music and Special Sound credits
Commercial availability of music tracks used

1. Introduction

One of the things that has occupied much of my time over the past couple of years is the preservation and cataloguing of the library of the now-defunct BBC Radiophonic Workshop, for which I have become the official archivist and historian. This I do mostly in my spare time, alongside trying to keep my own writing career buoyant! It was my work in this area, as much as my credentials as a Doctor Who composer, that led to me being contacted to work on "The Curse of Fatal Death".

The transmission date for Comic Relief 1999 was set at Friday 12 March, and it wasn't until the 2nd (a Tuesday) that I was first contacted with a view to putting the soundtrack together. I was busy on the 3rd, so first met with director John Henderson on the 4th. The dub (when all the sound elements - dialogue, music and effects - are mixed together) was set for two days starting just two days later, on Saturday 6th. On the 6th itself we would tracklay (place all elements into their correct places relative to the action) and on the 7th, mix the final stereo master. This gave me two days and nights to assemble my contribution. My final reference VHS copies of the locked pictures arrived on Friday lunchtime (the 5th), so it was a case of continuous work - I slept for about five hours on Friday night, then worked solidly from Saturday morning until Sunday late evening. I actually tracklaid my elements in my own studio (Digidesign ProTools III hardware, ProTools 4 and Emagic Logic Audio software, Power Macintosh Computer), creating synced DATs of the music and special sounds which I delivered on the Sunday morning. In the meantime the sound editors (the estimable Glenn Calder and Philip Meehan at VideoSonics) had been working on the dialogue and non-radiophonic effects.

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The overall running time for the sketch was something over 20 minutes, and John wanted a lot of music, partly because he is well aware of the production values that a good score adds to a film, and partly because that was in keeping with Doctor Who itself. It was obvious that there was not time to compose a full new score (we could have done a quick hack job, but that's not my style, nor would it have been appropriate), so we decided to score the programme from existing tracks.

It must be said that this is an unusual approach for Doctor Who. While many other "classic" science fiction series habitually scored new episodes with edited cues from previous programmes (Star Trek, Space 1999, and Thunderbirds for starters), Doctor Who, for most of its life, had new music written for each episode. Indeed, leaving aside the use of licensed-in library music, only one original Doctor Who score was ever reused - Tristram Cary's "The Mutants" from 1963 (aka "The Daleks" or "The Dead Planet", and not to be confused with "The Mutants" from 1972, also scored by Tristram!).

As "The Curse of Fatal Death" was self-consciously modelled on the Tom Baker era, that is where we started our search for music. Sadly, most of the masters of Dudley Simpson's music, which defines that era for me, are long-lost, and there was not time to clear reuse on the few that remain. The Radiophonic Workshop tapes from the end of Tom Baker's time, and into Peter Davison's, all still exist however, and are BBC copyright. I'd also composed a number of scores myself, of course, both for the programme itself and for documentaries based upon it, and could donate these.

I've always felt that comedy works best when played straight. Many of those who worked on the sketch are Doctor Who fans themselves (writer Steven Moffat and myself for a start), and everyone wanted to produce a sketch that laughed with the programme, not at it. So I played it straight with the music - there's not a single cue used for "comedic effect". At all levels of the production there was an effort to get things right, even if not all of this effort made it to the final master. The Tom Baker titles were used, and at the head of this article is a frame grab from the offline edit showing the title "The Curse of Fatal Death" in the typeface and layout style of Tom's period. (Actually, as has been pointed out, the typeface is not exactly correct, but is the nearest that was easily found at the time!). This was replaced with an altogether more bland caption during transmission (the online being captionless). More examples of "things that didn't quite make it" are detailed in the section Special Sound.

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2. The Music

Having decided the direction to take with the music, and with a lack of time, I had to make some basic decisions. I know my Doctor Who history pretty well, certainly where the music is concerned, so made a couple of initial rules. Firstly, I would, wherever possible, score scenes with music from conceptually accurate sources (music from Dalek stories for Daleks, regeneration music for regenerations). Secondly, I would limit myself to sourcing music from the two Doctor Who - The Music CD remasters, the "Logopolis" masters, and my own Doctor Who music. If I could find nothing to match from these sources, I would write new cues. There was a practical reason for this - the masters for these, or working copies, are all in my own archive, and the time element dictated that a trip to the BBC archive on the other side of London, and subsequent restoration and remedial work on tapes, was not possible. With these decisions made, I put the pictures on the monitor, and started tracklaying. Many transitions and edits were necessary to make the music fit the action of the sketch - I ended up with 53 individual music cues, many of which contained a number of edits within themselves. But I found most of what I needed within the chosen sources, and I only had to compose three very short new cues.

The tables give details of the music used. The following fields need some explanation:

Cue. The number of the music cue in the programme (all four parts counted as one).
Timecode. The starting timecode of the cue. I have adjusted this so that the time is in MM:SS (Minutes:Seconds) from the start of each part. Note that the timings here refer to the original transmitted 4-part version, not the 2-part version released on videotape.
Source. For copyright purposes.
Use. S=Signature Tune; B=Background (incidental); F=Featured (part of the action); X=Specially written.
Note in green describes the use of the music in the programme.
Note in yellow describes the music source.

The Music - Part One

Cue	Timecode	Cue Title	Composer	Publisher	Performer	Source	Use	Duration
1	00:00	Doctor Who Theme	Ron Grainer	Warner Chappell	Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	S	0:23
This is the original Doctor Who theme in its revised "Jon Pertwee" version. The electronic "spangles" had been added during Patrick Troughton's tenure; the main changes during the Jon Pertwee era were the addition of the "repeat-to-fade" at the end of the opening title and the cliff-hanger "zing" into the closing title. During this time the closing titles were properly timed as well, always ending with the low "cloud" effect. This version of the theme lasted until 1980 (through to Tom Baker's last season), which is why we used it on "The Curse of Fatal Death". I took the recording from the original (mono) master tape, denoised and declicked it, and gave it a subtle pseudo-stereo effect. Different edits had to be made to open and close each episode.
2	00:20	Doctor Who: More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS (excerpt)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres (MCPS/PRS)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres	B	0:10
Used over the opening shot of the TARDIS in space. This cue was originally composed for the video documentary Doctor Who: More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS, where it was used over the shot at the end in which the Brigadier is driven away by an Auton chauffeur. It was lifted from the original master tape.
3	00:28	Doctor Who: The Sea Devils (excerpt)	Malcolm Clarke	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Malcolm Clarke, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:07
As we first see Jonathan Pryce as the Master, a bit of The Master's Theme. Originally composed by Dudley Simpson, here it is as adapted by Malcolm Clarke for "The Sea Devils". I took it from my masters of the CD reissue of Doctor Who: Earthshock - Classic Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1 (Originally Doctor Who - The Music). In the original adventure, this cue appears in episode 1, over an establishing shot of the island prison in which the Master is incarcerated.
4	00:34	Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday (Nyssa is Hypnotised)	Roger Limb	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Roger Limb, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:08
Segueing out of the previous cue, this plays over the start of the scene with the Master in his TARDIS. I originally laid this cue throughout the entire scene up until the next cue, but we truncated it during dubbing. The cue is also taken from the Earthshock CD master (see note for cue 3).
5	01:31	Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (excerpt)	Peter Howell	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Peter Howell, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:19
As the Master says "Mock me while you may, Doctor". This cue taken from "The Five Doctors", and lifted from the master for the CD Doctor Who: The Five Doctors - Classic Music from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 2 (Originally Doctor Who - The Music II). In "The Five Doctors", this cue occurs some 40 minutes into the adventure (in its original movie-length version) as Borusa orders the search of the Castellan's office and living quarters.
6	01:47	Doctor Who: Logopolis (excerpt)	Paddy Kingsland	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Paddy Kingsland, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:09
Segues out of the previous cue, over the Master's manic laugh. Truth be told, this cue is pretty much lost under effects. The cue is taken from the original mono master tape of the "Logopolis" score, and given a pseudo-stereo effect. This is cue 32 from episode 3 of the original story (3m32), and plays over the cliff-hanger as the Doctor and the Master make their pact.
7	01:54	Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep (excerpt)	Jonathan Gibbs	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Jonathan Gibbs, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:47
Used over the establishing shot of the castle on Tersurus and the arrival of the Doctor and Emma. The music is taken from the Five Doctors CD master, with the first 13 seconds of the cue actually being played twice. The music originally occurs about 4.5 minutes into episode 1 of "Warriors of the Deep", as the Silurians discuss their Sea Devil cousins.
8	01:59	TARDIS	Brian Hodgson	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Brian Hodgson, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	F	0:08
The TARDIS lands. You may consider this to be a sound effect, and indeed it is used as such. But it was composed using electronic music techniques and is registered as a musical work, so should (but rarely does) appear on cue sheets.
9	02:39	Doctor Who: Meglos (excerpt)	Peter Howell	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Peter Howell, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:38
Starts as the Master's force beam throws the Doctor and Emma against the wall. Taken from the Earthshock CD Master, and slightly edited. In the original show the cue occurs towards the end of episode 2 of "Meglos" as the "cactus" Doctor hides and the real Doctor arrives and is arrested.
10	03:32	Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday (Nyssa is Hypnotised)	Roger Limb	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Roger Limb, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:16
After the Master's "Or so you think...", through the descent of the trick wall. From the same source as cue 4.
11	03:47	Doctor Who: Meglos (excerpt)	Peter Howell	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Peter Howell, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:24
Segue to this as the Doctor and Emma emerge from the door in the side of the fallen wall. This is a 12-second section played twice. From the same source as cue 9.
12	04:06	Bellboy and Flowerchild	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres (MCPS/PRS)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres	B	0:58
Segue as the Doctor says "But you know, I have grown weary..." and discloses his plans to settle down and get married. This cue is taken from my master tapes of my own score for the Doctor Who story "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy", where it appears in episode 1 as the desperate Bellboy and Flowerchild separate. It appears under this title on the "Greatest Show" soundtrack CD.
13	05:00	Doctor Who: More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS (excerpt)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres (MCPS/PRS)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres	B	0:33
Segue to this cue as the Master says "I shall travel back in time once more...", and continue to the end of the episode. This music is taken from the additional cues I wrote to extend the opening sequence of Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS when we made the video version (More than...). The music is extensively reedited here.
14	05:32	Doctor Who Theme	Ron Grainer	Warner Chappell	Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	S	0:12
Closing title. See note for cue 1 for more details.

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The Music - Part Two

Cue	Timecode	Cue Title	Composer	Publisher	Performer	Source	Use	Duration
15	00:00	Doctor Who Theme	Ron Grainer	Warner Chappell	Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	S	0:42
Opening title. See note for cue 1 for more details.
16	00:41	Doctor Who: More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS (excerpt)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres (MCPS/PRS)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres	B	0:34
Reprise cliff-hanger. See note for cue 13.
17	01:31	Doctor Who: More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS (excerpt)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres (MCPS/PRS)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres	B	0:21
Starts as the door opens and the Master reappears - having spent 312 years climbing out of a sewer. This cue was part of my additional music for Doctor Who: More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS, where it appeared about 40 minutes into the programme over the shots of the Draconians and Ogrons in London's South Bank arts complex. Segues to the next cue...
18	01:48	Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks (excerpt)	Malcolm Clarke	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Malcolm Clarke, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:45
Segue as the Doctor says "Naturally you found your TARDIS and travelled back in time to the present day." The music, part of the opening sequence of episode 1 of "Resurrection of the Daleks", was taken from the Five Doctors CD master, and reedited to fit the action here.
19	02:31	Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (excerpt)	Peter Howell	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Peter Howell, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:12
Another segue as the Master states "I am no longer merely a Time Lord." The music here is from the Dalek sequence in "The Five Doctors" (as the Dalek enters the mirrored chamber where it succeeds in shooting itself!), and taken from The Five Doctors CD master.
20	02:47	Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (excerpt)	Peter Howell	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Peter Howell, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:04
As the Daleks move towards the Doctor. Music from the Dalek sequence in "The Five Doctors". Source as cue 19.
21	02:50	Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks (excerpt)	Malcolm Clarke	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Malcolm Clarke, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:14
Segue as the Master shouts "Stop!". Music from part 1 of "Resurrection of the Daleks", where it was used on the transition to the shot of the space craft after the opening massacre. Source as cue 18.
22	02:54	Doctor Who: More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS (excerpt)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres (MCPS/PRS)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres	B	0:49
Long segue from the previous cue to this one as the Master discusses his time in the sewer. This cue is another part of my Doctor Who: More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS music, and accompanied the final sequence of Debbie Watling and Frazer Hines entering the Emperor Dalek's chamber.
23	03:25	Doctor Who: The Five Doctors (excerpt)	Peter Howell	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Peter Howell	BBC Archive	B	0:07
This cue is actually mixed with cue 22, which continues through and after this one. Cue 23 starts after the Master's "...with my own bare hands" and continues until he falls down the hatch. Origin and source as cues 19 & 20.
24	03:51	Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks (excerpt)	Malcolm Clarke	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Malcolm Clarke, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:19
After "This way!" as the Doctor and Emma run from the Daleks, until the Master falls down the hatch (again!). The music originally featured in part 1 of "Resurrection of the Daleks" during the first Dalek attack on the space station. Taken from the Five Doctors CD master.
25	04:27	Doctor Who: More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS (excerpt)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres (MCPS/PRS)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres	B	0:15
Used as the Doctor and Emma run through the corridors. Originally this short cue was used in Doctor Who: More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS during the sequence discussing the Daleks in comics, over the shot of the Dalek climbing the stairs. Due to the way this comics sequence was edited, I rescored this shot (taken from "Remembrance of the Daleks") but made it a pastiche of Keff McCulloch's original cue.
26	04:36	Doctor Who: More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS (excerpt)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres (MCPS/PRS)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres	B	0:14
Segue from the previous cue as the Doctor and Emma think they've found a way out ("These corridors all look the same...") but open a door on a room full of Daleks - the cliff-hanger! Originally from Doctor Who: More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS, written for the first cliff-hanger in that documentary as Jon Pertwee is attacked by dinosaurs.
27	04:41	Daleks! (excerpt)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres (MCPS/PRS)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres	B	0:07
On the shot of the room full of Daleks - this cue is mixed with cue 26, both playing simultaneously. The music is taken from my album Myths and Other Legends, and is part of a track originally intended to underscore a pilot for an animated "Daleks!" series in the mid-1980's. The pilot was never finished.
28	04:48	Doctor Who Theme	Ron Grainer	Warner Chappell	Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	S	0:12
Closing title. See note for cue 1 for more details.

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The Music - Part Three

Cue	Timecode	Cue Title	Composer	Publisher	Performer	Source	Use	Duration
29	00:00	Doctor Who Theme	Ron Grainer	Warner Chappell	Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	S	0:31
Opening title. See note for cue 1 for more details.
30	00:30	Doctor Who: More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS (excerpt)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres (MCPS/PRS)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres	B	0:15
Reprise cliff-hanger - see cue 25.
31	00:39	Doctor Who: More than Thirty Years in the TARDIS (excerpt)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres (MCPS/PRS)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres	B	0:12
Reprise cliff-hanger - see cue 26.
32	00:44	Daleks! (excerpt)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres (MCPS/PRS)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres	B	0:07
Reprise cliff-hanger - see cue 27.
33	01:00	Doctor Who: Logopolis (excerpt)	Paddy Kingsland	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Paddy Kingsland, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:06
Introduce the rejuvenated Master. The music is cue 1m1 from "Logopolis", originally used over the sequence of the confusedly doomed Policeman trying to use a TARDIS as a Police Box. I originally laid the entire cue against the pictures, but we truncated it in the dub. Taken from the original master tape of the "Logopolis" score, and given a pseudo-stereo effect.
34	01:34	Doctor Who: Logopolis (excerpt)	Paddy Kingsland	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Paddy Kingsland, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:37
On "Why are the Daleks helping you?". More from "Logopolis" cue 1m1 - source as cue 33.
35	02:13	Doctor Who: Logopolis (excerpts)	Paddy Kingsland	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Paddy Kingsland, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:22
Starts before "If the Master knew that the Daleks intend to kill him...". Taken from "Logopolis", cue 4m2 (near the start of part 4 as the TARDIS leaves Tegan on Logopolis) followed by 3m32 (the cliff-hanger of part 3). Source as cue 33.
36	02:38	Zectronic Beam Machine	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres (MCPS/PRS)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres	X, F	0:12
Heard as the Master "plays" the Zectronic Beam Machine. More of a sound effect really, but a composed one! One of only three short original cues in "The Curse of Fatal Death".
37	03:46	Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks (excerpt)	Malcolm Clarke	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Malcolm Clarke, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:21
On the Daleks' tantrum as they notice the Doctor and the Master communicating, shoot wildly and hit the Zectronic Beam Machine. More Dalek music from "Resurrection of the Daleks", source as cue 24.
38	04:17	Doctor Who: Logopolis (excerpt)	Paddy Kingsland	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Paddy Kingsland, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:40
On Emma's "Help him - he's dying" up to the cliff-hanger. This is "Logopolis" cue 4m22 (the mortally injured Doctor lies beneath the Radio Telescope). Source as cue 33.
39	04:51	Doctor Who Theme	Ron Grainer	Warner Chappell	Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	S	0:12
Closing title. See note for cue 1 for more details.

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The Music - Part Four

Cue	Timecode	Cue Title	Composer	Publisher	Performer	Source	Use	Duration
40	00:00	Doctor Who Theme	Ron Grainer	Warner Chappell	Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	S	0:44
Opening title. See note for cue 1 for more details.
41	00:40	Doctor Who: Logopolis (excerpt)	Paddy Kingsland	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Paddy Kingsland, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:17
Reprise cliff-hanger - see cue 38.
42	00:40	TARDIS	Brian Hodgson	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Brian Hodgson, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	F	0:11
TARDIS sound over the Doctor's regeneration from Rowan Atkinson to Richard E Grant. See note for cue 8.
43	00:49	Doctor Who: Meglos (excerpt)	Peter Howell	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Peter Howell, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:12
The Richard E Grant Doctor comes round. Part of the previously-used cue from "Meglos" (see note for cue 9).
44	02:07	Zectronic Beam Machine	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres (MCPS/PRS)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres	X, F	0:08
The Richard E Grant Doctor "plays" the Zectronic Beam Machine. See note for cue 36.
45	02:15	Doctor Who: Meglos (excerpt)	Peter Howell	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Peter Howell, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:10
The Jim Broadbent Doctor emerges from behind the Zectronic Beam Machine. Part of the previously-used cue from "Meglos" (see notes for cues 9 & 43). Cuts to...
46	02:24	Doctor Who: Logopolis (excerpt)	Paddy Kingsland	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Paddy Kingsland, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:05
...cuts onto end of cue 45 to provide a full stop. A tiny part of "Logopolis" cue 4m3 (originally used near the beginning of part 4, as Tegan runs through the rubble looking for the Doctor). Source as cue 33.
47	02:58	Doctor Hugh (The New Doctor Appears)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres (MCPS/PRS)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres	X, B	0:21
The Hugh Grant Doctor appears. A new cue.
48	03:26	Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani (excerpt)	Roger Limb	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Roger Limb, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	1:01
Starts as the Zectronic Beam Machine discharges; continues to the "death" of the Doctor. This is the regeneration music from the end of "The Caves of Androzani" part 4. Taken from the Five Doctors CD master.
49	04:52	Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS (excerpt)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres (MCPS/PRS)	Mark Ayres	Mark Ayres	B	0:52
Starts on the Master's line "From this day forward I will renounce evil", and continues until the regeneration of the Doctor into Joanna Lumley. The music was written for the "Back to the TARDIS" sequence at the end of the original TV version of Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS, and is taken from the original master tape.
50	05:20	TARDIS	Brian Hodgson	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Brian Hodgson, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	F	0:20
TARDIS sound over the Doctor's regeneration from Hugh Grant to Joanna Lumley. See note for cue 8.
51	05:36	Doctor Who: Meglos (excerpt)	Peter Howell	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Peter Howell, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:10
The Joanna Lumley Doctor. Part of the previously-used cue from "Meglos" (see notes for cues 9 & 43).
52	06:31	Doctor Who: Logopolis (excerpt)	Paddy Kingsland	BBC Radiophonic Workshop	Paddy Kingsland, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	B	0:33
Starts on "Doctor, I have to say you are rather gorgeous" and continues to the end of the episode. This is cue 4m23 from "Logopolis", used as the Watcher fuses with the Tom Baker Doctor and the regeneration into Peter Davison takes place. Source as cue 33.
53	07:00	Doctor Who Theme	Ron Grainer	Warner Chappell	Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop	BBC Archive	S	0:12
Closing title. See note for cue 1 for more details.

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3. Special Sound

As well as sourcing and tracklaying the music, I wanted to make sure that the "Special Sound" element was right. The sound crew at VideoSonics (dubbing editors Glenn Calder and Philip Meehan) concentrated on the more naturalistic sounds (thunder, falling rocks, trapdoors and so on) while I dealt with the radiophonic element. We located usable copies of the TARDIS landing and the Dalek guns easily. We also laid in the Dalek machine pulsing in the Dalek spacecraft scenes. For the regeneration sequences, we took inspiration from the Hartnell-Troughton changeover, and I created a new regeneration background from the original TARDIS takeoff master. For the Master's remote control for his traps, I used Dick Mills's effect for the Master's Tissue Compression Eliminator, and treated it to create a new sound. The Zectronic Beam Machine was a new effect I created. (Actually, I cheated here, as it's a modification of the Holographic Rigging Machine sound I created for Shakedown - Return of the Sontarans!)

Three things didn't make it. Firstly, I wasn't very happy with the Tersurus planet & castle atmospheres, which just weren't Doctor Who-enough, so I spent a number of hours creating a set of backgrounds for these locations. Secondly, we needed a background for the Master's TARDIS. Brian Hodgson and Dick Mills had specific sounds for the Doctor's and Master's TARDISes depending on whether they were stationary or in flight. Philip Meehan tracked in an effect he had to hand, which was the Doctor's TARDIS, stationary. He was aware this wasn't correct (he's a bit of a fan himself!), so I tried to locate a usable copy of the Master's TARDIS backgrounds. This wasn't possible in the time, so I recreated them from scratch using the original makeup materials. Thirdly, whilst we'd laid a Dalek background pulse into the Dalek spacecraft scenes, the general background wasn't right, so I found the "Remembrance of the Daleks" effects master and laid in the Dalek ship background from there. All of this effort came to naught as, while everyone loved these sounds, lack of time on the dubbing stage meant they didn't get used, and the Master's TARDIS stayed wrong - one of those small disappointments one has to put up with!

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4. Music and Special Sound Credits

Music and Special Sound Consultant/Music Editing
Mark Ayres

Doctor Who theme composed by
Ron Grainer

Realised by
Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Incidental Music by
Mark Ayres
&
Malcolm Clarke, Jonathan Gibbs, Peter Howell, Paddy Kingsland, Roger Limb
BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Special Sound
Mark Ayres
&
Brian Hodgson, Dick Mills
BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Supervising Sound Editor
Philip Meehan

Dubbing Mixer
Glenn Calder

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5. Commercial availability of music tracks used

Only some of the music used in "The Curse of Fatal Death" is available commercially. "Logopolis" is not (yet) available, and neither are most of my own tracks (the exception being the "Daleks!" track). Nevertheless, here is a list of what is available:

"Doctor Who - Earthshock
(Classic Music from The BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 1)"
(Silva Screen FILMCD 710, 1992).
Contains cues 1, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 28, 29, 39, 40, 43, 45, 51, 53.

"Doctor Who - The Five Doctors
(Classic Music from The BBC Radiophonic Workshop Vol. 2)
(Silva Screen FILMCD 709, 1992).
Contains cues 5, 7, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 37.

"Myths and Other Legends"
(Silva Screen FILMCD 088, 1991).
Contains cues 27, 32.

"Doctor Who - The Greatest Show in the Galaxy"
(Silva Screen FILMCD 114, 1992). &
"The Best of Doctor Who Volume 2 -
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy"
(Silva America SSD 1042, 1994).
Both albums contain cue 12.

"The Worlds of Doctor Who"
(Silva Screen FILMCD 715, 1994).
Compilation, contains cues 1, 3, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 28, 29, 39.

For further details of these and other Doctor Who-related releases, and other music by Mark Ayres, please see the Doctor Who Compact Disc Catalogue and Mark Ayres's Discography.

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