List of Doctor Who composers

This is a list of composers for science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is sortable by a number of different criteria. The list defaults to ascending alphabetical order the composer's last name.

Doctor Who composers[]

Composer	No. stories	First date	First story	Last date	Last story
Segun Akinola	22	2018	"The Woman Who Fell to Earth"	N/A	N/A
Mark Ayres^[a]	3	1988	The Greatest Show in the Galaxy	1989	The Curse of Fenric
Richard Rodney Bennett	1	1964	The Aztecs	1964	The Aztecs
Carey Blyton	3	1970	Doctor Who and the Silurians	1975	Revenge of the Cybermen
Geoffrey Burgon	2	1975	Terror of the Zygons	1976	The Seeds of Doom
Tristram Cary^[b]	8	1963	The Daleks	1972	The Mutants
Francis Chagrin	1	1964	The Dalek Invasion of Earth	1964	The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Malcolm Clarke^[c]	7	1972	The Sea Devils	1986	Terror of the Vervoids
John Debney	1	1996	Doctor Who	1996	Doctor Who
Louis Febre	1	1996	Doctor Who	1996	Doctor Who
Jonathan Gibbs^[c]	4	1983	The King's Demons	1985	The Mark of the Rani
Dominic Glynn	5	1986	The Mysterious Planet	1989	Survival
Murray Gold	120	2005	"Rose"	2017	"Twice Upon a Time"
Don Harper	1	1968	The Invasion	1968	The Invasion
Richard Hartley	1	1986	Mindwarp	1986	Mindwarp
Brian Hodgson^[c]	2	1968	The Wheel in Space	1969	The Krotons
Peter Howell^[c]^[d]	9	1980	The Leisure Hive	1985	The Two Doctors
Raymond Jones	2	1965	The Romans	1966	The Savages
Norman Kay	3	1963	An Unearthly Child	1964	The Sensorites
Paddy Kingsland^[c]	8	1980	Meglos	1984	Frontios
Roger Limb^[c]	8	1981	The Keeper of Traken	1985	Revelation of the Daleks
Keff McCulloch^[e]	6	1987	Time and the Rani	1989	Battlefield
Stanley Myers	1	1964	The Reign of Terror	1964	The Reign of Terror
Elizabeth Parker^[c]	1	1985	Timelash	1985	Timelash
Humphrey Searle	1	1965	The Myth Makers	1965	The Myth Makers
Dudley Simpson	62	1964	Planet of Giants	1980	The Horns of Nimon
John Sponsler	1	1996	Doctor Who	1996	Doctor Who

Stock music[]

Instead of using specially composed music, some serials were scored completely with pre-recorded stock music. Some of these serials used music by one composer as noted below.

The Edge of Destruction
The Web Planet - Music by Les Structures Sonores
The Space Museum
The Time Meddler
Galaxy 4 - Music by Les Structures Sonores
Mission to the Unknown - Music by Trevor Duncan
The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve - Music by
The War Machines
The Tenth Planet
The Highlanders
The Moonbase
The Faceless Ones
The Tomb of the Cybermen
The Enemy of the World - Music by Béla Bartók
The Web of Fear
The Mind Robber - Music by Anton Bruckner
Inferno

Spinoff composers[]

Composer	Spinoff title
Mark Ayres	Wartime, Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans, P.R.O.B.E. (The Zero Imperative, The Devil of Winterborne, Unnatural Selection, Ghosts of Winterborne)
Nicholas Briggs	Mindgame
Edmund Butt	An Adventure in Space and Time
Christopher Elves	K-9
Ben Foster	Torchwood
Alan Glass	White Witch of Devil's End
Linzi Gold	White Witch of Devil's End
Murray Gold	The Sarah Jane Adventures (theme tune), Torchwood (theme tune and incidental music)
Barry Gray	Dr. Who and the Daleks, Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
Peter Howell	K-9 and Company
Erwin Keiles	Downtime
Ian Levine	K-9 and Company (theme tune), Downtime
Alistair Lock	Auton Trilogy, Dæmos Rising, Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough, Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor
Malcolm Lockyer	Dr. Who and the Daleks
Bill McGuffie	Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
Blair Mowat	Class
Nigel Stock	Downtime
Olivia Thomas	P.R.O.B.E. (When to Die)
Fiachra Trench	K-9 and Company (theme tune)
Dan Watts	The Sarah Jane Adventures
Sam Watts	The Sarah Jane Adventures

Notes[]

^ Also composed music for the 2017 version of Shada
^ Three serials credited to Cary (The Rescue, The Ark, and The Power of the Daleks) just reuse music originally recorded for The Daleks with no new music.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Composed as part of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
^ Also provided uncredited incidental music for Revenge of the Cybermen.
^ Also composed music for the 1992 video release of Shada and the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time

[1] Also composed music for the 2017 version of Shada

[2] Three serials credited to Cary (The Rescue, The Ark, and The Power of the Daleks) just reuse music originally recorded for The Daleks with no new music.

[BBCRW-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Composed as part of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

[4] Also provided uncredited incidental music for Revenge of the Cybermen.

[5] Also composed music for the 1992 video release of Shada and the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time

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