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Peter Howell
Biography
Peter Howell (born 1949) is a musician and composer. He is best known for his work on Doctor Who as a member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Howell's musical career began in the late 1960s working with John Ferdinando in various psychedelic folk bands including Agincourt and Ithaca. Howell and Ferdinando recorded five albums before Howell became a member of the Radiophonic Workshop, with which he would remain associated until 1997. His work on Doctor Who began in 1975 when he provided some accompanying incidental music for Revenge of the Cybermen and special sound for Planet of Evil. When John Nathan-Turner became producer of Doctor Who in 1980, he decided that the music needed to be updated and commissioned Howell to provide a new arrangement of the Doctor Who theme to accompany a new title sequence. Howell's new arrangement first appeared in 1980 on The Leisure Hive, for which Howell had also recorded the incidental score, and was used throughout Tom Baker's final season on the programme as well as Peter Davison's tenure as the Doctor and Colin Baker's first season. Between 1980 and 1985 Howell also provided incidental music for ten stories of Doctor Who. In 1986, Nathan-Turner commissioned a new theme arrangement by Dominic Glynn, ending Howell's association with Doctor Who on television. Since 2013 he has been part of the Radiophonic Workshop Band, touring the UK and abroad with Radiophonic archivist Mark Ayres and other former members of the Workshop. In 2021, Howell published his autobiography Radiophonic Times via Obverse Books.
Known For
Filmography
Doctor Who at 60: A Musical Celebration
Himself
Dames of Classic Drama at the BBC
Sound
Return of the Unknown
Music
Doctor Who at the Proms
Self
The Ties That Bind Us
Theme Song Performance
A New Beginning
From Avalon to Argolis
Music
The Alchemists of Sound
Self
Adventures in Time and Spain
Music
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
Original Music Composer
The Ultimate Guide
Music
The Dream Machine
Original Music Composer
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
Music
Double Image
Music
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Timelash
Theme Song Performance
Who, Sir? Me, Sir?
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Two Doctors
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Planet of Fire
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Frontios
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: The Awakening
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Warriors of the Deep
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: The King's Demons
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Enlightenment
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Terminus
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Snakedance
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Time-Flight
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Earthshock
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Black Orchid
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: The Visitation
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Kinda
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Castrovalva
Theme Song Performance
K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: Logopolis
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: The Keeper of Traken
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate
Original Music Composer
Doctor Who: State of Decay
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Full Circle
Theme Song Performance
Doctor Who: Meglos
Original Music Composer
The Shock of the New
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