Shakedown - Return of the
Sontarans
Music and Sound Design by Mark Ayres
CD Tracklisting (Silva Screen FILMCD 718, 1995)
1. Shakedown: Main Title (2.05)
2. The War Wheel (0.55)
3. Working Dress (0.48)
4. Sail Drill (Virtual Rigging) (2.22)
5. The Storming of the "Tiger Moth" (4.41)
6. A Bit of This, A Bit of That (3.58)
7. Engine Room (2.18)
8. Return of the Sontarans (5.30)
9. Survival at all Costs (1.02)
10. Robar Remembered (1.46)
11. A Glorious Death (2.27)
12. Monster Hunt (1.23)
13. Worthy Enemies (5.19)
14. Epilogue and End Title (3.32)
15. Theme from Shakedown (5.53)
Total Playing Time 44.17
Composed, arranged, performed, and produced by
Mark Ayres
Copyright © 1994/1995 Mark Ayres (MCPS/PRS)
Shakedown and production photos copyright ©
1994 Dreamwatch Media
Shakedown - Return of the Sontarans is
available on home video from Dreamwatch Media.
A novel by Terrance Dicks, based on his screenplay, is
available in the Doctor Who New Adventures series
from Virgin Publishing.
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  The idea was this: Kevin Davies and I would
produce, on behalf of Dreamwatch Media, a low-budget film
for direct-to-video sale featuring some alien monsters from
the BBCtv series Doctor Who and a cast drawn from
Who and its stablemate Blake's Seven.
My involvement was to be as co-producer and
post-production sound designer. In the event, I ended up
doing the score as well. Circumstances necessitated a very
tight production schedule - it's a miracle that the film was
completed on time - and four short months after we started
we sat in a west London hotel on a Saturday evening during
1994's Dreamwatch Sci-Fi convention, and watched the
finished result.
Space racing yacht "Tiger Moth", crewed by a
mismatched and inexperienced party captained by the
resourceful Lisa Deranne, is boarded by a team of Sontaran
Stormtroopers hunting for an alien spy they believe to have
stowed away on board. When both Sontarans and humans start
being killed, the race is on to find the culprit.
In a long week at the very end of production I composed
some 37 minutes of original score plus the source cue "A Bit
of This, A Bit of That", which plays in the "Tiger Moth"'s
crew-room during three scenes. Whilst most of the score has
(I hope!) an expansive orchestral feel, this latter track is
a bit of contemporary jazz, the style decided on after
discussions with actor Brian Croucher (something of a modern
jazz fan himself) who felt that this is the kind of thing
that his character, Kurt, would listen to!
For this CD release I've trimmed some of the repetition
from the score and added a longer version of the main theme.
When writing the music, I tried to reflect the style of
the piece - 1970's Doctor Who (a direct story with a
beginning, a middle, and an end with no loose threads) with
a definite nod to Alien and The Thing. I think
that it was our scriptwriter, Terrance Dicks, who said that
Doctor Who (a show he script-edited for 5 years) was
at its best when its roots were showing. If this principle
were to hold universally true, then Shakedown should
be very good indeed - but that's for you to decide! (Mark
Ayres, 1995).
Additional movie information links provided
courtesy of the Internet Movie Database:
Shakedown
- Return of the Sontarans
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