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Mark Ayres
Composer, Producer, Actor, Additional Credits
Mark Ayres is an electronic musician, composer and audio engineer.
Ayres studied music and electronics at Keele University. He also worked as a sound engineer at TV-am between 1982 and 1987.
As a television composer, he became known for providing incidental music on the original series of Doctor Who. Ayres's work on broadcast Doctor Who was during Sylvester McCoy's era as the Seventh Doctor, comprising The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Ghost Light and The Curse of Fenric. Ayres was hired after he sent producer John Nathan-Turner a demonstration video containing music he had written to accompany Remembrance of the Daleks. Like most Doctor Who incidental music composers during the 1980s, Ayres created the music electronically, principally using digital synthesisers and samplers.
Ayres was also involved in the last days of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, cataloguing and archiving their recordings for future use. As part of the BBC's unofficial Doctor Who Restoration Team, Ayres has also done much of the audio restoration work for the later VHS Doctor Who releases, as well as many of the DVD releases, and all of the "Missing Soundtrack" CD releases since 1999.
Ayres studied music and electronics at Keele University. He also worked as a sound engineer at TV-am between 1982 and 1987.
As a television composer, he became known for providing incidental music on the original series of Doctor Who. Ayres's work on broadcast Doctor Who was during Sylvester McCoy's era as the Seventh Doctor, comprising The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Ghost Light and The Curse of Fenric. Ayres was hired after he sent producer John Nathan-Turner a demonstration video containing music he had written to accompany Remembrance of the Daleks. Like most Doctor Who incidental music composers during the 1980s, Ayres created the music electronically, principally using digital synthesisers and samplers.
Ayres was also involved in the last days of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, cataloguing and archiving their recordings for future use. As part of the BBC's unofficial Doctor Who Restoration Team, Ayres has also done much of the audio restoration work for the later VHS Doctor Who releases, as well as many of the DVD releases, and all of the "Missing Soundtrack" CD releases since 1999.
Mark Ayres Filmography
| 2023 | Tales of the Tardis (TV Series) · as Original Music Composer |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | |
| 2008 | |
| 2006 | The U.N.I.T Family: Part One · as Composer |
| 1999 | The Auton Diaries · as Composer |
| 1996 | PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne · as Original Music Composer |
| 1995 | The Innocent Sleep · as Composer |
| 1995 | PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne · as Original Music Composer |
| 1994 | Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans · as Original Music Composer |
| 1994 | PROBE: The Zero Imperative · as Original Music Composer |
| 1993 | UNIT Recruitment Film · as Composer |
| 1993 | Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS · as Original Music Composer |
| 1993 | The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' · as Original Music Composer |
| 1989 | Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric · as Original Music Composer |
| 1989 | Doctor Who: Ghost Light · as Original Music Composer |
| 1988 | Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy · as Original Music Composer |
| 1988 | Wartime · as Original Music Composer |
| 1986 | McDonnell Douglas Information Systems · as Original Music Composer |
| 2023 | Doctor Who at 60: A Musical Celebration · as Himself |
| 2013 | Doctor Who at the Proms · as Self |
| 2008 | Musical Scales · as Self |
| 2007 | Endgame · as Self |
| 2006 | The ONE Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | The Culture Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | The Alchemists of Sound · as Self |
| 2003 | Nebula 90 · as Self |
| 2011 | |
| 2011 | Horror on the High Rise · as Presenter |
| 2011 | The End of the Line? · as Additional Voices |
| 2006 | |
| 1997 | The Few Doctors · as Photographer |
| 1995 |
| 2024 | The War Games in Colour · as Sound Designer |
| 2023 | The Daleks in Colour · as Sound Designer |
| 2019 | Doctor Who: The Macra Terror · as Sound |
| 2017 | Doctor Who: Shada · as Sound |
| 2016 | Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks · as Sound |
| 2011 | The End of the Line? · as Sound |
| 2004 | Global Conspiracy? · as Sound |
| 2004 | Dæmos Rising · as Sound |
| 2003 | |
| 1999 | Comic Relief: Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death · as Music Consultant |
| 1998 | Doctor Who: The Missing Years · as Sound |
| 1991 | Just Who on Earth Is... Tom Baker · as Sound |