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

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
• The End of the World
• The Unquiet Dead
• Aliens of London
• World War Three
• Dalek
• The Long Game
• Father's Day
• The Empty Child
• The Doctor Dances
• Boom Town
• Bad Wolf
• The Parting of the Ways

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External links

• Ron Grainer at the Internet Movie Database