Seven full-cast BBC TV soundtracks

Doctor Who: Classic TV Adventures Collection One

Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker star as the Doctor in these seven narrated full-cast TV soundtracks of classic Doctor Who TV serials.

Kit Pedler (1927-1981) wrote three scripts for Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet (with Gerry Davis), The Moonbase and The Tomb of the Cybermen. He also submitted the story outlines that became The War Machines, The Wheel in Space and The Invasion. He formed a writing partnership with Gerry Davis and together they created the Cybermen. Gerry Davis (1930-1991) was a British television writer, best known for his contributions to the science-fiction genre. He also wrote for the soap operas Coronation Street and United! In the mid-1960s he was story editor for Doctor Who.

Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker star as the Doctor in these seven narrated full-cast TV soundtracks of classic Doctor Who TV serials. The stories are The Tomb of the Cybermen (narrated by Frazer Hines); Doctor Who and the Silurians (narrated by Caroline John); The Sea Devils (narrated by Katy Manning); The Curse of Peladon (narrated by Katy Manning); The Monster of Peladon (narrated by Elisabeth Sladen); The Pirate Planet (narrated by John Leeson) and Destiny of the Daleks (narrated by Lalla Ward). Also includes bonus interviews with the narrators in which they each recall their time as the Doctor's companion in the BBC TV series. Duration: 14 hours approx.

Doctor Who: The Tomb Of The Cybermen (TV Soundtrack)

Patrick Troughton faces the dreaded Cybermen in the digitally remastered soundtrack of a classic BBC TV story, with linking narration by Frazer Hines.

THE PROGRAMME: The action of The Tomb of the Cybermen follows directly on from that of the preceding serial The Evil of the Daleks, with the Doctor and Jamie welcoming the newly orphaned Victoria aboard the TARDIS. Commissioned as Doctor Who and the Cybermen Planet, this was the third encounter between the Doctor and his half-human, half-machine foes. It was co-written by Kit Pedler, who devised the Cybermen in The Tenth Planet, and Gerry Davis, the story editor who had helped develop them. The serial was also known as The Ice Tombs of Telos during development. The Tomb of the Cybermen was recorded immediately after Victoria's debut story, The Evil of the Daleks, and before the summer break in production. Early scenes on the surface of Telos were filmed at Gerrards Cross Sand &amp; Ballast Company at Wapsey's Wood in Buckinghamshire on 12 June 1967. The serial benefited immensely from some impressive and atmospheric filming for action and effects sequence over the following week at the BBC Television Film Studios at Ealing. Here the full size tomb complex was built for the chilling sequence where the dormant Cybermen return to life. The bulk of the serial was then recorded from 1 to 22 July 1967 in Studio D of the BBC's Lime Grove premises. As with many episodes during this period of Doctor Who's history, The Tomb of the Cybermen did not have a music composer assigned to it. Instead, director Morris Barry worked closely with the sound department to create an atmospheric and evocative background of classic library tracks and Radiophonics, courtesy of Brian Hodgson and Dick Mills. Grams operator Laurie Taylor performed a technical tour-de-force playing this into the studio recordings, with the result that this story is particularly effective on audio. Of the music heard in the story, one particularly distinctive cue is Space Adventure by Martin Slavin, heard as the Cybermen return to life; this had already been associated with the creatures in their two previous appearances. The Tomb of the Cybermen launched the 1967/8 series of Doctor Who, promoted by a striking cover image of the metal menace facing the Doctor on the cover of the Radio Times. The serial was criticised for graphic violence, with Kit Pedler defending his script against concerned parents on the BBC1 feedback programme Talkback on 26 September. Ascribed a legendary status by the fans, the serial was believed lost for many years until a full print of the series was recovered from Hong Kong in 1992 and is currently available on DVD. After the closing credits rolled on Episode 4, BBC1 viewers were shown a short trailer for the next adventure in which two men, camped out on a mountainside, came under a vicious attack. A week later, the Doctor would still be in the cold, encountering The Abominable Snowmen... Programme notes compiled by Andrew Pixley and Mark Ayres.

'You will be like us...' On the planet Telos, the Doctor and his friends encounter a party of archaeologists intent on uncovering the mythical tomb of the Cybermen. Only the Doctor seems aware of the folly of this venture, but suddenly it’s too late - the ice tombs are open and the Cybermen are coming back to life... Trapped underground with the Cyber Controller and his acolytes, including the vermin-like Cybermats, the Doctor and company learn that they are to be turned into a new generation of Cybermen. To make matters worse, there is treachery and double-crossing amongst the humans. Can the Cyber menace be made dormant before it spreads out to the galaxy once again - and will the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria escape with their lives? Frazer Hines, who played Jamie in these four BBC TV episodes from 1967, provides linking narration for the story. In a bonus interview, he also recalls the making of The Tomb of the Cybermen.

Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet (TV Soundtrack)

The Cybermen make their first ever appearance whilst William Hartnell's Doctor nears the end of his first incarnation, in this classic soundtrack adventure with linking narration by Anneke Wills.

'Millions of years ago, there was a twin planet to Earth...' The year is 1986, and at the South Pole the crew of the Snowcap Base have detected a new planet on their radar. The arrival of the Doctor, Ben and Polly at the Base coincides with another landing - that of a spaceship whose humanoid passengers have used cybernetics to replace their limbs and vital organs. The new arrival in the solar system is in fact a tenth planet, and Earth's twin. Its return has brought with it the emotionless Cybermen, their sole aim to ensure the survival of their race. To this end they plan to drain Earth's energy into the dying Mondas, whilst using the human population as fodder for a continuing programme of cyber-conversion. Battling alongside the humans to save their planet, the Doctor appears to weaken and age before the eyes of his companions. An ultimate collapse appears to signal his death - but then... In an exclusive bonus interview, Anneke Wills - who also narrates the story's soundtrack - recalls her memories of making The Tenth Planet.

Brian Hayles

Kit Pedler

Gerry Davis

David Whitaker

Geoffrey Orme

William Hartnell

Patrick Troughton

Anneke Wills

Frazer Hines

Michael Craze

1st and 2nd Doctor TV Soundtracks

Six narrated TV soundtrack adventures starring William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton as the First and Second Doctors - plus bonus features. 
 
Absent from the TV archives, these stories survive in their entirety only as soundtrack recordings. Now remastered, with additional linking narration, you can enjoy them again: plus bonus interviews with Anneke Wills, and the BBC Radio 3 programme Dance of the Daleks. 
 
In The Smugglers, the travellers have an adventure in 17th Century Cornwall with pirates and hidden treasure; in The Tenth Planet Earth's twin planet enters the solar system and brings with it the Cybermen; in The Power of the Daleks a new Doctor must fight the Daleks on the swamp planet Vulcan; in The Highlanders the TARDIS arrives in Scotland after the battle of Culloden; in The Underwater Menace it lands above the long-lost city of Atlantis; in The Moonbase a weather control station is in the grip of plague - caused by the Cybermen. 
 
In the bonus feature Dance of the Daleks, Matthew Sweet investigates the weird and wonderful sound world of Doctor Who.

Kit Pedler

Books by Kit Pedler

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