List of incidental music composers

The following people composed the incidental music for Doctor Who from An Unearthly Child to the 1996 telemovie. After that point, composition was handled by Murray Gold.

Season 1

 * An Unearthly Child - Norman Kay
 * The Daleks - Tristram Cary
 * The Edge of Destruction - Stock music - Eric Siday: Musique Electronique (three pieces with the same title). Desmond Leslie: Musique concrete (music from the film The Day the Sky Fell In). Buxton Orr: Musique concrete (part II).
 * Marco Polo - Tristram Cary
 * 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 - Stock music - Les Structures Sonores: Rhapsody Budapest; Pieces Nouvelles; Sonatine; Marche; Suite
 * The Crusade - Dudley Simpson
 * The Space Museum - Stock music - Eric Siday: Threat Attack; Space Time; Space Agitato; The Laboratory; Mood 7 B.2; Space Age B.2. Trevor Duncan: Synchro Stings; Mutations. E. Nordgren: Bathysphere. Denis Rycoth: Dramatic Bridges. Robert Gerhard: Asyndeton. Jack Trombey: World of Planets. Roger Roger: Six Short Dramas. Buxton Orr: Musique concrete (part II). W. Droyson: Dramatic Brass Chords; Brass Chords - Staccato Ending. Don Banks: Scene Shifts. Frank Tailey: Off Centre; Panic in the Streets; Dark Pursuit; Quicksand; Atoms and Mushrooms. Desmond Leslie: Sting Tintabuloid; Kaputt. E. Sendel: Astronautics Suite. Composer unknown: The Ultra Sonic Perception.
 * The Chase - Dudley Simpson
 * The Time Meddler - Stock music - Lawrence Leonard & his Orchestra: Medieval Drama parts 1-3. Light Symphonia: Nuvane. Choir der Monche der Benediktiner: Secundae vesperas in nativitate (The Monk uses this for the faked monk chants in the monastery). Trevor Duncan: Scorches Earth. Charles Botterill: Drum Effects. Peter Hope: November Fog. Harry Dexter: Twelve Tone Links Groups C & E. Eric Siday: Magnetic Field Mood Seven. Roberto Gerhard: Meteoroids. Composer unknown: Suspended Animation.

Season 3

 * Galaxy 4 - Stock music - Les Structures Sonores: Sonatine; Mister Blues; Pieces Nouvelles; Marche; Spontaneite; Moelle de Lion; Rapsodie de Budapest; Suite; Invention à 2 voix en ré mineur.
 * Mission to the Unknown - Stock music - Trevor Duncan: Synchro Stings.
 * The Myth Makers - Humphrey Searle
 * The Daleks' Master Plan - Tristram Cary
 * The Massacre - Stock music - Pierre Arvay: Illustrations No. 4 (Hunted Man; Frightened Man; Little Prelude)
 * The Ark - Tristram Cary
 * The Celestial Toymaker - Dudley Simpson
 * The Gunfighters - Tristram Cary
 * The Savages - Raymond Jones
 * The War Machines - Stock music - Jerry Hawksworth: Frantic Fracas; The Eyelash; Beat to Begin; Browbeater; Latin Gear; Rhythm n' Beat. Eric Siday: Hypnotic.

Season 4

 * The Smugglers - no incidental music used
 * The Tenth Planet - Stock music - Roger Roger and his Champs Elysees: Blast Off; Music for Technology. Douglas Gamley: Power Drill; Machine Room. Martin Slavin: Space Adventure. John Denis: Drama in Miniature part 2. Robert Farnon: Drumdramatics Nos 7 & 10.
 * The Power of the Daleks - Tristram Cary
 * The Highlanders - Stock music - Seumas Macneill: Pibroch.
 * The Underwater Menace - Dudley Simpson
 * The Moonbase - Stock music - Eric Siday: Sabre Dance; Moonscape; Anaesthesia; Suspended Animation; Hypnosis; Conflict no 1. Desmond Briscoe: Group Shapes. Martin Slavin: Space Adventure.
 * The Macra Terror - Dudley Simpson
 * The Faceless Ones - Stock music - John Levy: Hindu Funeral Drumming. Composer unknown: Nigerian Drums; Pacific Dawn.
 * The Evil of the Daleks - Dudley Simpson

Season 5

 * The Tomb of the Cybermen - Stock music - Paul Bonneau: Universe Sideral. Desmond Leslie: Unknown title. Martin Slavin: Space Adventure. J. Scott: Palpitations. Steve Race: Unknown title. Frank Talley: Dark Pursuit; Off Centre. E. Sendel: Astronautics Suite. Heinrich Feischner: Desert Storm. Trevor Duncan: Unknown titles. Eric Siday: Suspended Animation; Galaxy. W. Josephs: Space Time Music. Roberto Gerhard: Telergic.
 * The Abominable Snowmen - Stock music - Monks of Sakya Set: Morning Prayer; Offering to God of Sakya.
 * The Ice Warriors- Dudley Simpson
 * The Enemy of the World - Stock music - Béla Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin; Music for String Instruments, Percussion and Celesta.
 * The Web of Fear - Stock music - Béla Bartók: Music for String Instruments, Percussion and Celesta. F. Bayle: Lunar Probe; Andromede. W. Josephs: Space Time Music parts 1 & 2. S. Dale: Impending Danger. Edwin Bradan: Spine Chillers.
 * Fury from the Deep - Dudley Simpson
 * The Wheel in Space - Stock music - Moneta Eagles: Tranquil Scene. Sound Effects by Brian Hodgson.

Season 6

 * The Mind Robber - Stock music - Anton Bruckner: Symphony no.7 (Scherzo).
 * The Invasion - Don Harper, Brian Hodgson, John Baker
 * 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 - Stock music - Delia Derbyshire: Blue Veils and Golden Sands; The Delian Mode.

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 - Dudley Simpson

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

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