Doctor Who: More Than 30 Years
in the TARDIS
  Music and
Sound Design by Mark Ayres.
Released in 1994, this is an extended version of a BBCtv
documentary first transmitted the previous year. Mark
Ayres's involvement was as composer and sound designer. New
music was composed for many sequences in both TV and video
versions, often having to link seamlessly with incidental
music on the featured clips from the 30-year history of
Doctor Who. Many new sound effects were also created,
and used alongside effects from the large dedicated
Doctor Who effects library created over some 30 years
by Brian Hodgson and Dick Mills at the BBC Radiophonic
Workshop. The soundtrack for some sequences was completely
rebuilt using the original FX elements and a new score, so
that new action could be linked with the old. For the TV
version, synchronous sound effects and music masters were
created in Mark Ayres's studio and taken on optical disk to
the final dub and mix at the BBC; for the extended video
version, completed sequences lifted from the TV version were
combined with newly-created ones, and the final master
prepared in Mark's own facility.
BBC Video sleeve notes
lt was sixteen minutes past five (Earth Time) on Saturday
the 23rd November 1963, the day after the assassination of
President Kennedy, when Doctor Who first materialised on to
BBC Television. Squeezed in between the football results and
the Telegoons, a legend was born.
So, from humble flickering beginnings more than 30 years
ago, began the eccentric Timelord's crusade against evil.
Now this fascinating documentary charts that remarkable
career in time travel.
There are dozens of classic excerpts featuring all seven
Doctors, clips from the widescreen trailers of the two Dalek
movies starring Peter Cushing, plus recently discovered
material.
More than just a nostalgic birthday programme, this
unique documentary made specially for BBC Video, features:
ARCHIVE GEMS
- Scenes from the missing 1965 Dalek episode 'DEVIL'S
PLANET'
- Colour film of WILLIAM HARTNELL at a 1966 airshow,
plus pictures from his own scrapbook
- Dalek creator TERRY NATION on 'WHICKER'S WORLD' in
1968
BEHIND THE SCENES
- Action from the studio floor including CARNIVAL OF
MONSTERS (1972), DEATH TO THE DALEKS (1973), THE CAVES OF
ANDROZANI (1984), GHOST LIGHT (1989)
PURE NOSTALGIA
- BLUE PETER - the Doctor Who monster competition
winners, the unveiling of the Whomobile and the War
Machine
- NATIONWIDE - the TOM BAKER interview
- Pebble Mill at One - interview with Patrick Troughton
and visual effects designer Bernard Wilkie
TREASURES FROM THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR
- Battlefield - the Brigadier meets Ace for the first
time
- Sophie Aldred and the water tank stunt that went
wrong
- Remembrance of the Daleks - is there more to the
Doctor?
All this plus two exclusive Doctor Who commercial breaks,
spoofs by CRACKERJACK and SPIKE MILLIGAN, candid moments and
bloopers from across the years, specially shot interviews,
and an all star cast of favourite Doctors, assistants and,
of course, monsters.
An ultimate celebration of the world's longest running
science fiction TV series, this special BBC Video includes
footage from Thirty Years in the TARDIS, originally
transmitted on 29 November 1993.
Running time 87 minutes approx
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