Ron Grainer (11 August 1922-21 February 1981[1]) 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
Season 13 (1975-1976)
- Terror of the Zygons
- Planet of Evil
- Pyramids of Mars
- The Android Invasion
- The Brain of Morbius
- The Seeds of Doom
Season 14 (1976-1977)
- The Masque of Mandragora
- The Hand of Fear
- The Deadly Assassin
- The Face of Evil
- The Robots of Death
- The Talons of Weng-Chiang
20th Anniversary Special (1983)
- The Five Doctors
Season 21 (1984)
- The Awakening
- Frontios
- Resurrection of the Daleks
- Planet of Fire
- The Caves of Androzani
- The Twin Dilemma
Season 22 (1985)
- Attack of the Cybermen
- Vengeance on Varos
- The Mark of the Rani
- The Two Doctors
- Timelash
- Revelation of the Daleks
The Trial of a Time Lord (1986)
- The Mysterious Planet
- Mindwarp
- Terror of the Vervoids
- The Ultimate Foe
Season 24 (1987)
- Time and the Rani
- Paradise Towers
- Delta and the Bannermen
- Dragonfire
Season 25 (1988-1989)
- Remembrance of the Daleks
- The Happiness Patrol
- Silver Nemesis
- The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Season 26 (1989)
- Battlefield
- Ghost Light
- The Curse of Fenric
- Survival
Series 1 (2005)
- Rose
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