Delia Derbyshire (1937-2001)

Alias:
Delia Ann Derbyshire

Birthplace:
Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK

Born:
May 5, 1937

Died:
July 3, 2001

Delia Ann Derbyshire was an English musician and composer of electronic music. She carried out pioneering work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s, including her electronic arrangement of the theme music to the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who.

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Music:
1971  O Fat White Woman
1972  Circle of Light
1975  About Bridges
2018  Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes
2024  Doctor Who at the Proms
????  Went the night well?

Music Score Producer:
1970  Doctor Who: Inferno
1971  O Fat White Woman
1972  Circle of Light
1975  About Bridges
2018  Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes
2024  Doctor Who at the Proms
????  Went the night well?

Original Music Composer:
1970  Doctor Who: Inferno
1971  O Fat White Woman
1972  Circle of Light
1973  The Legend of Hell House
1975  About Bridges
2018  Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes
2024  Doctor Who at the Proms
????  Went the night well?

Sound Effects:
1970  Doctor Who: Inferno
1971  O Fat White Woman
1972  Circle of Light
1973  The Legend of Hell House
1975  About Bridges
2018  Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes
2024  Doctor Who at the Proms
????  Went the night well?

Theme Song Performance:
1963  Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child
1964  Doctor Who: Marco Polo
1964  Doctor Who: Planet of Giants
1964  Doctor Who: The Aztecs
1964  Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth
1964  Doctor Who: The Daleks
1964  Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction
1964  Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus
1964  Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
1964  Doctor Who: The Sensorites
1965  Doctor Who: Galaxy 4
1965  Doctor Who: The Chase
1965  Doctor Who: The Crusade
1965  Doctor Who: The Myth Makers
1965  Doctor Who: The Rescue
1965  Doctor Who: The Romans
1965  Doctor Who: The Space Museum
1965  Doctor Who: The Time Meddler
1965  Doctor Who: The Web Planet
1966  Doctor Who: The Ark
1966  Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
1966  Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan
1966  Doctor Who: The Gunfighters
1966  Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
1966  Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
1966  Doctor Who: The Savages
1966  Doctor Who: The Smugglers
1966  Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet
1966  Doctor Who: The War Machines
1967  Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
1967  Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
1967  Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones
1967  Doctor Who: The Highlanders
1967  Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors
1967  Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
1967  Doctor Who: The Moonbase
1967  Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace
1968  Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep
1968  Doctor Who: The Dominators
1968  Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World
1968  Doctor Who: The Invasion
1968  Doctor Who: The Mind Robber
1968  Doctor Who: The Web of Fear
1968  Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space
1969  Doctor Who: The Krotons
1969  Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death
1969  Doctor Who: The Space Pirates
1969  Doctor Who: The War Games
1970  Doctor Who and the Silurians
1970  Doctor Who: Inferno
1970  Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space
1970  Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1971  Doctor Who: Colony in Space
1971  Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
1971  Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
1971  Doctor Who: The Dæmons
1971  Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
1971  O Fat White Woman
1972  Circle of Light
1972  Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
1972  Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon
1972  Doctor Who: The Mutants
1972  Doctor Who: The Sea Devils
1972  Doctor Who: The Time Monster
1973  Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
1973  Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
1973  Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
1973  Doctor Who: The Green Death
1973  Doctor Who: The Three Doctors
1973  The Legend of Hell House
1974  Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks
1974  Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
1974  Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
1974  Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon
1974  Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
1975  About Bridges
1975  Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks
1975  Doctor Who: Planet of Evil
1975  Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars
1975  Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen
1975  Doctor Who: Robot
1975  Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons
1975  Doctor Who: The Android Invasion
1975  Doctor Who: The Ark in Space
1975  Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment
1976  Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
1976  Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin
1976  Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear
1976  Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora
1976  Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom
1977  Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock
1977  Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl
1977  Doctor Who: The Face of Evil
1977  Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy
1977  Doctor Who: The Robots of Death
1977  Doctor Who: The Sun Makers
1977  Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang
1978  Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara
1978  Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time
1978  Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
1978  Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
1978  Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood
1978  Doctor Who: Underworld
1979  Doctor Who: City of Death
1979  Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks
1979  Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden
1979  Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
1979  Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit
1979  Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll
1980  Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon
2018  Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes
2019  Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
2021  Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
2021  Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3
2022  Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
2024  Doctor Who at the Proms
2024  Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker
????  Went the night well?

Music:
1972  Ways of Seeing

Original Music Composer:
1972  Ways of Seeing
2005  Doctor Who

Theme Song Performance:
1963  Doctor Who
1972  Ways of Seeing
2005  Doctor Who

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