List of incidental music composers

The following people composed the incidental music for Doctor Who from An Unearthly Child to the 1996 telemovie. From Series 1 (2005) through Series 10 (2017), incidental music was composed by Murray Gold; from Series 11 (2018) on, the incidental music was composed by Segun Akinola.

Season 1

 * An Unearthly Child - Norman Kay
 * The Daleks - Tristram Cary
 * The Edge of Destruction - Library music. One track remains unidentified; the rest, in order of appearance:
 * Musique Electronique: Mood Three / Space Agitato [looped] / Anaesthesia / Conflict No. 2 - Eric Siday
 * The Day the Sky Fell In [slow] - Desmond Leslie
 * Musique Concrète Pt. 2 - Buxton Orr
 * Gong (apparently from Tristram Cary's Marco Polo score - unconfirmed)
 * NOTE: This story features two cues by Desmond Leslie - both come from "The Day the Sky Fell In" and this track is correctly listed on the PasB. Panini's 'Doctor Who - The Complete History' oddly claims these two cues are from separate sources - "The Stranger" and"The Stranger's Gift" from a completely different disc. This is incorrect - while those tracks both contain sections that were re-used in "The Day the Sky Fell In", neither of those tracks actually appear themselves. 
 * Marco Polo - Tristram Cary; also 2 tracks from the BBC Sound Library:
 * At the Palace Gates - Louis P. T. Chen
 * A Merry Old Gentleman's Song - Louis P. T. Chen
 * The Keys of Marinus - Norman Kay
 * The Aztecs - Richard Rodney Bennett
 * The Sensorites - Norman Kay
 * The Reign of Terror - Stanley Myers

Season 2

 * Planet of Giants - Dudley Simpson
 * The Dalek Invasion of Earth - Francis Chagrin
 * The Rescue - Tristram Cary
 * The Romans - Raymond Jones
 * The Web Planet - Library music - Les Structures Sonores, in order of appearance:
 * Rapsodie de Budapest / Moelle de Lion [unlisted on PasB] / Pieces Nouvelles / Sonatine / Marche / Suite / Spontanéité [unlisted on PasB] / Quatuor Pour Trois [unlisted on PasB].
 * The Crusade - Dudley Simpson
 * The Space Museum - Stock music. All tracks (bar "Jeux D'Ombres") came from 78 rpm library records; several were played slow at 45 rpm. In order of appearance:
 * Musique Electronique: Threat Attack - Eric Siday
 * Musique Electronique: Space Time [slow] - Eric Siday
 * Synchro-Stings 16 - Trevor Duncan
 * Aliens [slow] - Erik Nordgren [wrongly listed as "Bathysphere" on PasB]
 * Dramatic Bridges Pt. 2: Unseen Danger - The Telecast Orchestra (Denis Rycoth)
 * Musique Electronique: Space Agitato [slow] - Eric Siday
 * Asyndeton - Roberto Gerhard
 * Synchro-Stings 14 - Trevor Duncan
 * Mutations 1(c): Background [slow] - Trevor Duncan
 * The Ultra Sonic Perception: Suspended Animation - Eric Siday [wrongly listed as "Moonscape" on PasB]
 * The Ultra Sonic Perception: Ultimate - Eric Siday
 * World of Planets - The Hilversum Radio Orchestra (Jack Trombey) [this is the title that appears on the PasB and on the original library disc.]
 * Astronautics Suite: Pt.1 (Main Theme), Pt. 3 - Erich Sendel
 * Musique Electronique: Mood 7 - Eric Siday
 * The Ultra-Sonic Perception: The Laboratory 1 [slow] - Eric Siday
 * Six Short Dramas Pt. 3: Disaster and Tension - Roger Roger and his Champs Elysees Orchestra (Roger Roger)
 * Musique Concrete Pt. 2 - Buxton Orr
 * Scene Shifts 12(a) - Don Banks
 * Off Center: Dark Pursuit - New Concert Orchestra (Frank Talley)
 * Dramatic Brass Chords - Wolf Droysen
 * Off Center: Off Center / Quicksand / Panic in the Streets - New Concert Orchestra (Frank Talley) [wrongly listed as "Frank Tailey" on PasB.]
 * Kaputt - Desmond Leslie
 * Jeux D'Ombres [slow] - Les Structures Sonores [not listed on PasB; this single tone accompanies the establishing shot of Skaro]
 * The track "Space Age B.2" is listed on the PasB sheets: this is a typo for "Space Agitato". The following tracks are listing on the PasB sheets but do not appear in the story: Atoms and Mushrooms (F Talley) / Bathysphere (E. Nordgren) / Moonscape (E Siday) / Brass Chords Staccato Ending (W Droysen) / Sting Tintabuloid (D Leslie).
 * The Chase - Dudley Simpson
 * The Time Meddler - Drum effects by Charles Botterill; also library music tracks, in order of appearance:
 * The Ultra-Sonic Perception: Suspended Animation - Eric Siday
 * Mediaeval Drama Pt. 3(a) ("Tension and suspense") - Lawrence Leonard & his Orchestra
 * Dramatic Tableaux: Nirvane - Paul Gerard
 * Secundae Vesperas in Nativitate - Choir der Monche der Benediktiner (The Monk'  uses this for the faked monk chants in the monastery )
 * November Fog - Peter Hope
 * Scorched Earth - Trevor Duncan [incorrectly listed as "Scorches Earth" on PasB]
 * Mediaeval Drama Pt. 2(c) ("Short sting - slow build-up to end chord") - Lawrence Leonard & his Orchestra
 * Twelve-Tone Links: Group C, No. 7 - Harry Dexter
 * Twelve-Tone Links: Groups E, No. 6 - Harry Dexter [unconfirmed title]
 * Magnetic Field - Eric Siday
 * Mood Seven - Eric Siday
 * Meteoroids - Roberto Gerhard

Season 3

 * Galaxy 4 - Stock music - Les Structures Sonores
 * Les Structures Sonores: Sonatine / Mister Blues / Rapsodie de Budapest / Pieces Nouvelles / Marche / Suite / Spontanéité / Moelle de Lion / Altitude 10.000 [not listed on PasB] / Toccata Toccarde [incorrectly listed as "Invention A 2 Voix En Ré Mineur" on PasB] /
 * Synchro-Stings 17 - Trevor Duncan [not listed on PasB]
 * Mission to the Unknown - Stock music - Trevor Duncan: Synchro-Stings.
 * The Myth Makers - Humphrey Searle
 * The Daleks' Master Plan - Tristram Cary
 * The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve - Stock music - Pierre Arvay:
 * Pierre Arvay: Illustrations No. 4 (Hunted Man / Frightened Man / Little Prelude / Breath Of Fire [last title not listed on PasB])
 * The Ark - Tristram Cary / Drumdramatics 11(b): Tympani Beats - Robert Farnon
 * The Celestial Toymaker - Dudley Simpson
 * The Gunfighters - Tristram Cary
 * The Savages - Raymond Jones
 * The War Machines - Library music. (The opening drum cue at the start of each episode of the story is still unidentified) :
 * The Mood Modern: Frantic Fracas / The Eyelash / Beat to Begin / Browbeater / Latin Gear / Rhythm n' Beat - Johnny Hawksworth [all played as bacground music in the Inferno Club]
 * Hypnosis - Eric Siday
 * Asyndeton - Roberto Gerhard [not listed on PasB]
 * Synchrostings 16 - Trevor Duncan [not listed on PasB]

Season 4

 * The Smugglers - no incidental music used
 * The Tenth Planet - Library music:
 * Music for Technology Pt. 1 - Roger Roger & his Champs Elysees Orchestra (Walter Stott)
 * Drama in Miniature Pt. 2(a): Time for the Reaper - Wind & Percussion Ensemble; conducted by Robert Farnon (John Denis)
 * Power Drill - Wind & Percussion Ensemble; conductor: Douglas Gamley (Gamley)
 * Space Adventure Pt 2 & 3 - Norman Ramin Orchestra (Martin Slavin)
 * Machine Room - Wind & Percussion Ensemble; conductor: Douglas Gamley (Gamley)
 * Drumdramatics No. 6(e) ("Xylophone gathering speed, ending with drum crash and vibes chord") - Percussion Ensemble; conducted by Robert Farnon (Farnon)
 * Drumdramatics No. 7(a) ("Vibes and Tymps crash") - Percussion Ensemble; conducted by Robert Farnon (Farnon)
 * [Blast Off by Roger Roger and his Champs Elysees Orchestra is listed on the PasB but is not used.]
 * The Power of the Daleks - Tristram Cary
 * The Highlanders - BBC Sound Library: Seumas MacNeill: The Battle of Waternish (Pibroch). Three drum cues in episode 1 are still unidentified.
 * The Underwater Menace - Dudley Simpson
 * The Moonbase - Library music; also some cues re-used from The Daleks Master Plan. Some brief cues remain unidentified. The others, in order of appearance:
 * Anaesthesia - Eric Siday [mistakenly listed as "Sabre Dance" on PasB for Part 1]
 * Hypnosis [slow] - Eric Siday
 * Electronic Sound Pictures: Group Shapes (c): Arcs - Desmond Briscoe
 * Asyndeton - Roberto Gerhard [unlisted on PasB]
 * Threat Attack - Eric Siday [unlisted on PasB - played slow, a small section of this is used as the throbbing sound of the Gravitron.]
 * Growing Menace (from The Daleks Master Plan) - Tristam Cary [unlisted on PasB]
 * Space Adventure Pt. 3 & 2 - Norman Ramin Orchestra (Martin Slavin)
 * Sting III (from The Daleks Master Plan) - Tristam Cary [unlisted on PasB]
 * The Ultra Sonic Perception: Moonscape - Eric Siday
 * The Victim III (from The Daleks Master Plan) - Tristam Cary [unlisted on PasB]
 * The Ultra Sonic Perception: Suspended Animation - Eric Siday
 * Conflict No. 1 - Eric Siday
 * The Ultra Sonic Perception: Ultimate - Eric Siday [unlisted on PasB]
 * Synchro-Stings 13, 16, 10 - Trevor Duncan [unlisted on PasB]
 * Symphony for Chromatic Octograms - Desmond Leslie [unlisted on PasB]
 * Sting I (from The Daleks Master Plan) - Tristam Cary [unlisted on PasB]
 * Aliens [slow] - Erik Nordgren [unlisted on PasB]
 * The Macra Terror - Dudley Simpson / "Muzak" - John Baker (originally composed for the Out of the Unknown episode "Time in Advance")
 * The Faceless Ones - Library music:
 * Unidentified Low Frequency Electronic Tones (40" sequence, looped)
 * Unidentified Mid-Frequency Electronic Stings
 * High Frequency Electronic Stings (Re-used from Journey Into Space)
 * Fantasy in Orbit: Pacific Dawn - Tom Dissevelt
 * BBC Sound Library: Hindu Funeral Drumming - John Levy.
 * BBC Sound Library: Nigerian Drums - Composer unknown:
 * The Evil of the Daleks - Dudley Simpson / Young Beat: Mexican Beat - The International Studio Group (Jack Trombey) [Played on Bob Hall's radio in episode 1]

Season 5

 * The Tomb of the Cybermen - Library music, in order of appearance:
 * Telecineradio: Univers Sidéral - Paul Bonneau et Son Orchestre 
 * Astronautics Pt. 2 - Erich Sendel
 * Synchro-Stings 2, 13, 14, 15 - Trevor Duncan [titles not listed on PasB]
 * Desert Storm - The Crawford Light Orchestra (Heinrich Feischner)
 * Sting Tintabuloid 1 - Desmond Leslie [title not listed on PasB]
 * Palpitations - The Westway Studio Orchestra (John Scott)
 * Eerie Vaults - Steve Race [title not listed on PasB]
 * The Ultra Sonic Perception: Galaxy - Eric Siday
 * Off Center: Dark Pursuit - New Concert Orchestra (Frank Talley)
 * Space Adventure Pt. 3 - Norman Ramin Orchestra (Martin Slavin)
 * Off Center: Off Center - New Concert Orchestra (Frank Talley)
 * Astronautics Pt. 1 - Erich Sendel
 * Hypnosis - Eric Siday [unlisted on PasB]
 * Dramatic Brass Chords - Wolf Droysen [unlisted on PasB]
 * The Ultra Sonic Perception: Suspended Animation - Eric Siday
 * Space Adventure Pt. 2 - Norman Ramin Orchestra (Martin Slavin)
 * Off Center: Panic in the Streets - New Concert Orchestra (Frank Talley)
 * Off Center: Quicksand - New Concert Orchestra (Frank Talley) [Not listed on PasB - this tiny burst in Part 3 is so quick it could well be a mistake.]
 * Space-Time Music Pt. 1 [slow] - Westway Stdio Orchestra (Wilfred Josephs)
 * Telergic - Roberto Gerhard
 * The Abominable Snowmen - BBC Sound Library: Monks of the Sakya Sect - Morning Prayer / Offering to God of Sakya.
 * The Ice Warriors - Dudley Simpson
 * The Enemy of the World - Stock music - Béla Bartók:
 * The Miraculous Mandarin - Südwestfunkorchester Baden-Baden (Rolf Reinhardt)
 * Music for String Instruments, Percussion and Celesta - RIAS Symphony Orchestra (Ferenc Fricsay)
 * The Web of Fear - Assorted stings, Radiophonic Workshop. Also library music:
 * Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta - Berlin RIAS Orchestra (Béla Bartók)
 * Lunar Probe: Andromède - François Bayle [wrongly listed as "Lunar People"]
 * Space-Time Music Pt. 2 & 3 - Westway Studio Orchestra (Wilfred Josephs)
 * Palpitations - Westway Studio Orchestra (John Scott)
 * Impending Danger - European Sound Stage Orchestra (Syd Dale)
 * Spine Chillers 1(a) - Edwin Braden
 * Space Adventure Pt. 2 - Norman Ramin Orchestra (Martin Slavin)
 * Fury from the Deep - Dudley Simpson
 * The Wheel in Space - Brian Hodgson / Moneta Eagles: Tranquil Scene [played when the TARDIS is showing the pleasant images on the screen in episode 1]

Season 6

 * The Dominators - Brian Hodgson
 * The Mind Robber - Brian Hodgson / Anton Bruckner: Symphony no.7 (Scherzo).
 * The Invasion - Don Harper, Brian Hodgson, John Baker. Also two library tracks:
 * Organ Mania - Alan Hawkshaw & Keith Mansfield
 * Piccadilly Night Ride - Alan Hawkshaw & Keith Mansfield [These two tracks play on Jamie's transistor radio.]
 * The Krotons - Brian Hodgson
 * The Seeds of Death - Dudley Simpson
 * The Space Pirates - Dudley Simpson
 * The War Games - Dudley Simpson

Season 7

 * Spearhead from Space - Dudley Simpson
 * Doctor Who and the Silurians - Carey Blyton
 * The Ambassadors of Death - Dudley Simpson
 * Inferno - Library music. Two cues remain unidentified. The others, in order of appearance:
 * Souls in Space - Nikki St. George (Brian Hodgson)
 * Crazy Sounds No. 4 - Cecil Leuter (Roger Roger) [not listed on PasB]
 * Attack of the Alien Minds - Nikki St. George (Brian Hodgson) [not listed on PasB]
 * The Delian Mode - Delia Derbyshire
 * Battle Theme - Nikki St. George (Brian Hodgson)
 * Mysterious Pt. 1: Omen of Fear - Telecast Orchestra (Denis Rycoth) [not listed on PasB]
 * Gothic Submarine - Li De La Russe (Delia Derbyshire) / Nikki St. George (Brian Hodgson) [not listed on PasB]
 * Blue Veils and Golden Sands - Delia Derbyshire
 * Cosmic Sounds No.5 - Georges Teperino (Nino Nardini) [not listed on PasB]
 * Homeric Theme - Nikki St. George (Brian Hodsgon)
 * Build Up To... - David Vorhaus

Season 8

 * Terror of the Autons - Dudley Simpson
 * The Mind of Evil - Dudley Simpson
 * The Claws of Axos - Dudley Simpson
 * Colony in Space - Dudley Simpson
 * The Dæmons - Dudley Simpson

Season 9

 * Day of the Daleks - Dudley Simpson
 * The Curse of Peladon - Dudley Simpson
 * The Sea Devils - Malcolm Clarke
 * The Mutants - Tristram Cary
 * The Time Monster - Dudley Simpson

Season 10

 * The Three Doctors - Dudley Simpson
 * Carnival of Monsters - Dudley Simpson
 * Frontier in Space - Dudley Simpson
 * Planet of the Daleks - Dudley Simpson
 * The Green Death - Dudley Simpson

Season 11

 * The Time Warrior - Dudley Simpson
 * Invasion of the Dinosaurs - Dudley Simpson
 * Death to the Daleks - Carey Blyton
 * The Monster of Peladon - Dudley Simpson
 * Planet of the Spiders - Incidental music by Dudley Simpson. Also featured music from stock:
 * Front Row - Paul Gerard
 * Djinn Palace - Paul Gerard [not on PasB]
 * Bizarre Link 2 - Paul Gerard [not on PasB]
 * Music From the Himalayas: Lama Chhopa - Five Lamas from the Tibetan temple, Sarnath.
 * The PasB wrongly lists Hunted and Sneaky Sheik as appearing in this story.

Season 12

 * Robot - Dudley Simpson
 * The Ark in Space - Dudley Simpson
 * The Sontaran Experiment - Dudley Simpson
 * Genesis of the Daleks - Dudley Simpson
 * Revenge of the Cybermen - Carey Blyton and Peter Howell

Season 13

 * Terror of the Zygons - Geoffrey Burgon
 * Planet of Evil - Dudley Simpson
 * Pyramids of Mars - Dudley Simpson
 * The Android Invasion - Dudley Simpson
 * The Brain of Morbius - Dudley Simpson
 * The Seeds of Doom - Geoffrey Burgon

Season 14

 * The Masque of Mandragora - Dudley Simpson
 * The Hand of Fear - Dudley Simpson
 * The Deadly Assassin - Dudley Simpson
 * The Face of Evil - Dudley Simpson
 * The Robots of Death - Dudley Simpson
 * The Talons of Weng-Chiang - Dudley Simpson

Season 15

 * Horror of Fang Rock - Dudley Simpson
 * The Invisible Enemy - Dudley Simpson
 * Image of the Fendahl - Dudley Simpson
 * The Sun Makers - Dudley Simpson
 * Underworld - Dudley Simpson
 * The Invasion of Time - Dudley Simpson

Season 16

 * The Ribos Operation - Dudley Simpson
 * The Pirate Planet - Dudley Simpson
 * The Stones of Blood - Dudley Simpson and Liz Parker
 * The Androids of Tara - Dudley Simpson
 * The Power of Kroll - Dudley Simpson
 * The Armageddon Factor - Dudley Simpson

Season 17

 * Destiny of the Daleks - Dudley Simpson
 * City of Death - Dudley Simpson
 * The Creature from the Pit - Dudley Simpson
 * Nightmare of Eden - Dudley Simpson
 * The Horns of Nimon - Dudley Simpson
 * Shada - Keff McCulloch*

Season 18

 * The Leisure Hive - Peter Howell
 * Meglos - Peter Howell and Paddy Kingsland
 * Full Circle - Paddy Kingsland
 * State of Decay - Paddy Kingsland
 * Warriors' Gate - Peter Howell
 * The Keeper of Traken - Roger Limb
 * Logopolis - Paddy Kingsland

Season 19

 * Castrovalva - Paddy Kingsland
 * Four to Doomsday - Roger Limb
 * Kinda - Peter Howell
 * The Visitation - Paddy Kingsland
 * Black Orchid - Roger Limb
 * Earthshock - Malcolm Clarke
 * Time-Flight - Roger Limb

Season 20

 * Arc of Infinity - Roger Limb
 * Snakedance - Peter Howell
 * Mawdryn Undead - Paddy Kingsland
 * Terminus - Roger Limb
 * Enlightenment - Malcolm Clarke
 * The King's Demons - Jonathan Gibbs and Peter Howell
 * The Five Doctors - Peter Howell

Season 21

 * Warriors of the Deep - Jonathan Gibbs
 * The Awakening - Peter Howell
 * Frontios - Paddy Kingsland
 * Resurrection of the Daleks - Malcolm Clarke
 * Planet of Fire - Peter Howell
 * The Caves of Androzani - Roger Limb
 * The Twin Dilemma - Malcolm Clarke

Season 22

 * Attack of the Cybermen - Malcolm Clarke
 * Vengeance on Varos - Jonathan Gibbs
 * The Mark of the Rani - Jonathan Gibbs (replaced John Lewis)
 * The Two Doctors - Peter Howell
 * Timelash - Liz Parker
 * Revelation of the Daleks - Roger Limb

Season 23

 * The Trial of a Time Lord
 * The Mysterious Planet - Dominic Glynn
 * Mindwarp - Richard Hartley
 * Terror of the Vervoids - Malcolm Clarke
 * The Ultimate Foe - Dominic Glynn

Season 24

 * Time and the Rani - Keff McCulloch
 * Paradise Towers - Keff McCulloch (replaced David Snell)
 * Delta and the Bannermen - Keff McCulloch
 * Dragonfire - Dominic Glynn

Season 25

 * Remembrance of the Daleks - Keff McCulloch
 * The Happiness Patrol - Dominic Glynn
 * Silver Nemesis - Keff McCulloch
 * The Greatest Show in the Galaxy - Mark Ayres

Season 26

 * Battlefield - Keff McCulloch
 * Ghost Light - Mark Ayres
 * The Curse of Fenric - Mark Ayres
 * Survival - Dominic Glynn

Television movie

 * Doctor Who - John Debney, Louis Serbe and John Sponsler

Series 1-10

 * Rose (2005) – Twice Upon a Time (2017)
 * Murray Gold

Series 11 on

 * The Woman Who Fell to Earth (2018) on
 * Segun Akinola