Ron Grainer

Ron Grainer
Birth date:	11 August 1922
Death date:	21 February 1981
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Composer
Main time period active:	1963
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	Steptoe and Son, That Was the Week That Was, The Prisoner, Paul Temple, The Omega Man
IMDb profile

Ron Grainer (11 August 1922-21 February 1981) was an Australian composer who worked for the BBC in 1963.

After Desmond Briscoe recommended Grainer to the Doctor Who production team, he wrote the Doctor Who theme/score, which Delia Derbyshire went on to perform. He has been credited in every Doctor Who episode in the original and new series except for the 1996 television movie.

He also wrote the theme music for other noted series such as Maigret, Steptoe and Son, Man in a Suitcase, The Prisoner and Paul Temple. His film credits include The Omega Man.

He is still constantly credited for "original theme" in Doctor Who after his death.

On Screen Credits for Doctor Who

Season 1 (1963-1964)

• An Unearthly Child
• The Daleks
• The Edge of Destruction
• Marco Polo
• The Keys of Marinus
• The Aztecs
• The Sensorites
• The Reign of Terror

Season 2 (1964-1965)

• Planet of Giants
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth
• The Rescue
• The Romans
• The Web Planet
• The Crusade
• The Space Museum
• The Chase
• The Time Meddler

Season 3 (1965-1966)

• Galaxy 4
• Mission to the Unknown
• The Myth Makers
• The Daleks' Master Plan
• The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
• The Ark
• The Celestial Toymaker
• The Gunfighters
• The Savages
• The War Machines

Season 4 (1966-1967)

• The Smugglers
• The Tenth Planet
• The Power of the Daleks
• The Highlanders
• The Underwater Menace
• The Moonbase
• The Macra Terror
• The Faceless Ones
• The Evil of the Daleks

Season 5 (1967-1968)

• The Tomb of the Cybermen
• The Abominable Snowmen
• The Ice Warriors
• The Enemy of the World
• The Web of Fear
• Fury from the Deep
• The Wheel in Space

Season 6 (1968-1969)

• The Dominators
• The Mind Robber
• The Invasion
• The Krotons
• The Seeds of Death
• The Space Pirates
• The War Games

Season 7 (1970)

• Spearhead from Space
• Doctor Who and the Silurians
• The Ambassadors of Death
• Inferno

Season 8 (1971)

• Terror of the Autons
• The Mind of Evil
• The Claws of Axos
• Colony in Space
• The Daemons

Season 9 (1972)

• Day of the Daleks
• The Curse of Peladon
• The Sea Devils
• The Mutants
• The Time Monster

Season 10 (1972-1973)

• The Three Doctors
• Carnival of Monsters
• Frontier in Space
• Planet of the Daleks
• The Green Death

Season 11 (1973-1974)

• The Time Warrior
• Invasion of the Dinosaurs
• Death to the Daleks
• The Monster of Peladon
• Planet of the Spiders

Season 12 (1974-1975)

• Robot
• The Ark in Space
• The Sontaran Experiment
• Genesis of the Daleks
• Revenge of the Cybermen

(THIS IS NOT YET COMPLETE)

External links

• Ron Grainer at the Internet Movie Database