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Delia Derbyshire

Delia Derbyshire

1937–2001 · Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK

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Biography

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.

Sound 124

2020s

  1. 2025

    dust collector

    Music

  2. 2024

    Doctor Who at the Proms

    Music

  3. Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker

    Theme Song Performance

  4. 2022

    Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen

    Theme Song Performance

  5. 2021

    Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks

    Theme Song Performance

  6. Doctor Who: The Web of Fear - Episode 3

    Theme Song Performance

2010s

  1. 2019

    Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

    Theme Song Performance

  2. 2018

    Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes

    Music

1980s

  1. 1980

    Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon

    Theme Song Performance

1970s

  1. 1979

    Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden

    Theme Song Performance

  2. Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit

    Theme Song Performance

  3. Doctor Who: City of Death

    Theme Song Performance

  4. Doctor Who: Destiny of the Daleks

    Theme Song Performance

  5. Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor

    Theme Song Performance

  6. Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll

    Theme Song Performance

  7. 1978

    Doctor Who: The Androids of Tara

    Theme Song Performance

  8. Doctor Who: The Stones of Blood

    Theme Song Performance

  9. Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet

    Theme Song Performance

  10. Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation

    Theme Song Performance

  11. Doctor Who: The Invasion of Time

    Theme Song Performance

  12. Doctor Who: Underworld

    Theme Song Performance

  13. 1977

    Doctor Who: The Sun Makers

    Theme Song Performance

  14. Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl

    Theme Song Performance

  15. Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy

    Theme Song Performance

  16. Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock

    Theme Song Performance

  17. Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang

    Theme Song Performance

  18. Doctor Who: The Robots of Death

    Theme Song Performance

  19. Doctor Who: The Face of Evil

    Theme Song Performance

  20. 1976

    Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin

    Theme Song Performance

  21. Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear

    Theme Song Performance

  22. Doctor Who: The Masque of Mandragora

    Theme Song Performance

  23. Doctor Who: The Seeds of Doom

    Theme Song Performance

  24. Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius

    Theme Song Performance

  25. 1975

    Doctor Who: The Android Invasion

    Theme Song Performance

  26. Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars

    Theme Song Performance

  27. Doctor Who: Planet of Evil

    Theme Song Performance

  28. Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons

    Theme Song Performance

  29. Doctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen

    Theme Song Performance

  30. Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks

    Theme Song Performance

  31. Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment

    Theme Song Performance

  32. Doctor Who: The Ark in Space

    Theme Song Performance

  33. About Bridges

    Music

  34. Doctor Who: Robot

    Theme Song Performance

  35. 1974

    Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders

    Theme Song Performance

  36. Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon

    Theme Song Performance

  37. Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks

    Theme Song Performance

  38. Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs

    Theme Song Performance

  39. Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

    Theme Song Performance

  40. 1973

    Doctor Who: The Green Death

    Theme Song Performance

  41. The Legend of Hell House

    Original Music Composer, Sound Effects

    65

  42. Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks

    Theme Song Performance

  43. Doctor Who: Frontier in Space

    Theme Song Performance

  44. Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters

    Theme Song Performance

  45. Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

    Theme Song Performance

  46. 1972

    Doctor Who: The Time Monster

    Theme Song Performance

  47. Doctor Who: The Mutants

    Theme Song Performance

  48. Doctor Who: The Sea Devils

    Theme Song Performance

  49. Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon

    Theme Song Performance

  50. Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks

    Theme Song Performance

  51. Ways of Seeing

    Music

  52. 1971

    O Fat White Woman

    Music

  53. Doctor Who: The Dæmons

    Theme Song Performance

  54. Doctor Who: Colony in Space

    Theme Song Performance

  55. Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos

    Theme Song Performance

  56. Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil

    Theme Song Performance

  57. Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons

    Theme Song Performance

  58. 1970

    Doctor Who: Inferno

    Music Score Producer, Theme Song Performance, Music

  59. Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death

    Theme Song Performance

  60. Doctor Who and the Silurians

    Theme Song Performance

  61. Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space

    Theme Song Performance

1960s

  1. 1969

    Doctor Who: The War Games

    Theme Song Performance

  2. Doctor Who: The Space Pirates

    Theme Song Performance

  3. Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death

    Theme Song Performance

  4. The Naked Sun

    Original Music Composer

  5. Doctor Who: The Krotons

    Theme Song Performance

  6. 1968

    Doctor Who: The Invasion

    Theme Song Performance

  7. Doctor Who: The Mind Robber

    Theme Song Performance

  8. Doctor Who: The Dominators

    Theme Song Performance

  9. Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space

    Theme Song Performance

  10. Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep

    Theme Song Performance

  11. Doctor Who: The Web of Fear

    Theme Song Performance

  12. Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World

    Theme Song Performance

  13. 1967

    Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors

    Theme Song Performance

  14. Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen

    Theme Song Performance

  15. Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks

    Theme Song Performance

  16. Doctor Who: The Faceless Ones

    Theme Song Performance

  17. Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

    Theme Song Performance

  18. Doctor Who: The Moonbase

    Theme Song Performance

  19. Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

    Theme Song Performance

  20. Doctor Who: The Highlanders

    Theme Song Performance

  21. The Prophet

    Original Music Composer

  22. 1966

    Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks

    Theme Song Performance

  23. Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet

    Theme Song Performance

  24. Doctor Who: The Smugglers

    Theme Song Performance

  25. Doctor Who: The War Machines

    Theme Song Performance

  26. Doctor Who: The Savages

    Theme Song Performance

  27. Doctor Who: The Gunfighters

    Theme Song Performance

  28. Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker

    Theme Song Performance

  29. Doctor Who: The Ark

    Theme Song Performance

  30. Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

    Theme Song Performance

  31. 1965

    Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan

    Theme Song Performance

  32. Doctor Who: The Myth Makers

    Theme Song Performance

  33. Out of the Unknown

    Original Music Composer

  34. Doctor Who: Galaxy 4

    Theme Song Performance

  35. Doctor Who: The Time Meddler

    Theme Song Performance

  36. Doctor Who: The Chase

    Theme Song Performance

  37. Doctor Who: The Space Museum

    Theme Song Performance

  38. Doctor Who: The Crusade

    Theme Song Performance

  39. Doctor Who: The Web Planet

    Theme Song Performance

  40. Doctor Who: The Romans

    Theme Song Performance

  41. Doctor Who: The Rescue

    Theme Song Performance

  42. 1964

    Doctor Who: The Dalek Invasion of Earth

    Theme Song Performance

  43. Doctor Who: Planet of Giants

    Theme Song Performance

  44. Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror

    Theme Song Performance

  45. Doctor Who: The Sensorites

    Theme Song Performance

  46. Doctor Who: The Aztecs

    Theme Song Performance

  47. Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus

    Theme Song Performance

  48. Doctor Who: Marco Polo

    Theme Song Performance

  49. Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction

    Theme Song Performance

  50. Doctor Who: The Daleks

    Theme Song Performance

  51. 1963

    Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child

    Theme Song Performance

  52. Doctor Who

    Theme Song Performance

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No release date

  1. Went the night well?

    Music

Appearances5

2020s

  1. 2021

    Sisters with Transistors

    Self (archive footage)

  2. 2020

    Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And Legendary Tapes

    Self

2000s

  1. 2009

    The Delian Mode

    Self (archive footage)

  2. 2006

    Masters of Sound

    Self (archive footage)

  3. 2003

    The Alchemists of Sound

    Self