Mark Ayres

Mark Ayres
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Incidental music, Audio restorer
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	1987-present
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Mark Ayres was a composer for some of the stories of the final two seasons of classic Doctor Who.

Ayres has worked with the Doctor Who Restoration Team remastering soundtracks for DVD releases and for the BBC's CD releases of missing stories.

Additionally, he composed the music for Wartime, The Zero Imperative, The Devil of Winterborne, Unnatural Selection, Ghosts of Winterborne, Dæmos Rising and was a producer on Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans. In 2017, he returned for composing duties with the incidental score for the until-then incomplete serial Shada.

In March 2018 he took possession of sound recordings of missing episodes from fan Graham Strong before Graham sadly died later that year. He still remains the custodian of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's archive of music scores and sound effects.

In November 2023, Ayres' remastered work started appearing on BBC Sounds via The Missing Episodes.

Stories that Ayres composed music for

• Wartime
• The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
• Ghost Light
• The Curse of Fenric
• Who on Earth is Tom Baker
• The Zero Imperative
• The Devil of Winterborne
• Unnatural Selection
• Ghosts of Winterborne
• The Curse of Fatal Death
• TARDIS Cam No.6
• Dæmos Rising
• Shada (2017)

In addition, Ayres also composed music for the Myth Makers video series by Reeltime Pictures and the parody film Myth Runner.

Remastering work

For CD release

• The Massacre
• The Web of Fear
• Galaxy 4
• The Macra Terror
• The Highlanders
• The Myth Makers
• The Celestial Toymaker
• The Moonbase
• The Abominable Snowmen
• The Daleks' Master Plan
• The Faceless Ones
• The Smugglers
• The Enemy of the World
• The Savages
• The Space Pirates
• Doctor Who at the BBC
• Marco Polo
• Fury from the Deep
• The Wheel in Space
• The Evil of the Daleks
• The Power of the Daleks
• Doctor Who at the BBC Volume 2
• Doctor Who and the Pescatons
• The Underwater Menace
• The Crusade
• The Ice Warriors
• Doctor Who at the BBC Volume 3
• The Tenth Planet
• The Invasion
• The Reign of Terror
• The Tomb of the Cybermen
• The Ark
• The Gunfighters
• The Dominators
• The War Machines
• The Curse of Peladon
• Doctor Who and the Silurians
• The Sea Devils
• Warriors of the Deep
• The Monster of Peladon
• The Romans
• The Sensorites
• The Mind of Evil
• The Space Museum
• The Ambassadors of Death

For DVD

• The Invasion
• The Reign of Terror
• The Ice Warriors
• The Tenth Planet
• The Moonbase
• The Power of the Daleks
• The Wheel in Space: Episode 1 (mini episode)
• The Macra Terror
• The Faceless Ones
• Fury from the Deep
• The Web of Fear
• The Evil of the Daleks
• Galaxy 4
• The Abominable Snowmen
• The Underwater Menace

5.1 Theme Remasters

Ayres additionally worked a number of theme remasters for DVD's and Blu-rays including:

• Derbyshire (2006)
• Howell (2007)
• Glynn (2008)

External links

• Mark Ayres at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website