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Brian Hodgson

Brian Hodgson

Born January 1, 1938

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Biography

Brian Hodgson (born June 1938) is a former sound engineer who provided the special sounds, or sound effects, for Doctor Who beginning with An Unearthly Child and ending with The Sea Devils, after which he was succeeded by Dick Mills, although he did return to work on Carnival of Monsters. He is credited with creating the distinctive sound of the TARDIS dematerialising, which has been used throughout the Doctor Who television series.

Sound 14

2000s

  1. 2005

    Clarkson: Heaven and Hell

    Original Music Composer

  2. 2004

    Clarkson: Hot Metal

    Original Music Composer

  3. 2003

    Clarkson: Shoot-Out

    Original Music Composer

1990s

  1. 1997

    Apocalypse Clarkson

    Music

1970s

  1. 1979

    The Tempest

    Original Music Composer

    61
  2. 1973

    The Legend of Hell House

    Original Music Composer, Sound Effects

    65

  3. The Tomorrow People

    Original Music Composer

  4. 1970

    Doctor Who: Inferno

    Music

1960s

  1. 1969

    Doctor Who: The Krotons

    Original Music Composer

  2. 1968

    Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space

    Original Music Composer

  3. 1966

    The Machine Stops

    Original Music Composer

  4. 1965

    The Dead Past

    Sound Effects

  5. Out of the Unknown

    Original Music Composer

  6. Boy and Bicycle

    Sound Recordist

Other crew 44

2020s

  1. 2021

    Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks

    Special Sound Effects

2010s

  1. 2019

    Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

    Special Sound Effects

  2. 2017

    Doctor Who: Shada

    Special Sound Effects

  3. 2010

    Shawcraft: The Original Monster Makers

    Special Sound Effects

2000s

  1. 2009

    Roger Delgado: The Master

    Special Sound Effects

  2. 2006

    The Dalek Tapes

    Special Sound Effects

1980s

  1. 1983

    Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

    Special Sound Effects

1970s

  1. 1973

    Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters

    Special Sound Effects

  2. 1972

    Doctor Who: The Sea Devils

    Special Sound Effects

  3. Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks

    Special Sound Effects

  4. 1970

    Doctor Who: Inferno

    Special Sound Effects

  5. Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death

    Special Sound Effects

1960s

  1. 1969

    Doctor Who: The War Games

    Special Sound Effects

  2. Doctor Who: The Space Pirates

    Special Sound Effects

  3. Doctor Who: The Krotons

    Special Sound Effects

  4. 1968

    Doctor Who: The Invasion

    Special Sound Effects

  5. Doctor Who: The Wheel in Space

    Special Sound Effects

  6. Doctor Who: The Web of Fear

    Special Sound Effects

  7. Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World

    Special Sound Effects

  8. 1967

    Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors

    Special Sound Effects

  9. Doctor Who: The Tomb of the Cybermen

    Special Sound Effects

  10. Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks

    Special Sound Effects

  11. Doctor Who: The Macra Terror

    Special Sound Effects

  12. Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace

    Special Sound Effects

  13. 1966

    Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks

    Special Sound Effects

  14. The Machine Stops

    Special Sound Effects

  15. Doctor Who: The War Machines

    Special Sound Effects

  16. Doctor Who: The Gunfighters

    Special Sound Effects

  17. Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker

    Special Sound Effects

  18. Doctor Who: The Ark

    Special Sound Effects

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

    Special Sound Effects

  20. 1965

    Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan

    Special Sound Effects

  21. Doctor Who: The Myth Makers

    Special Sound Effects

  22. Doctor Who: Mission to the Unknown

    Special Sound Effects

  23. Out of the Unknown

    Special Sound Effects

  24. Doctor Who: The Chase

    Special Sound Effects

  25. Doctor Who: The Space Museum

    Special Sound Effects

  26. Doctor Who: The Crusade

    Special Sound Effects

  27. 1964

    Doctor Who: Planet of Giants

    Special Sound Effects

  28. Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror

    Special Sound Effects

  29. Doctor Who: Marco Polo

    Special Sound Effects

  30. Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction

    Special Sound Effects

  31. 1963

    Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child

    Special Sound Effects

  32. Doctor Who

    Special Sound Effects

    83

Acted in 4

2010s

  1. 2014

    Return of the Unknown

    Movie

  2. 2010

    Warriors of Mars

    Movie

2000s

  1. 2009

    Shades of Grey

    Movie

  2. 2003

    The Story of Doctor Who

    Movie

Appearances8

2020s

  1. 2021

    Sisters with Transistors

    Self (voice)

2000s

  1. 2009

    The Delian Mode

    Self

  2. 2006

    Creation of the Daleks

    Himself

  3. Doctor Who: Origins

    Self

  4. Inside the Spaceship: The Story of the TARDIS

    Self

  5. Masters of Sound

    Self (archive footage)

  6. Over the Edge: The Story of 'The Edge of Destruction'

    Self

  7. 2003

    The Alchemists of Sound

    Self