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Tristram Cary was a versatile and prolific composer of music in a variety of
genres who reached a wide audience through his inventive, electronic scores
for early episodes of Doctor Who, many featuring the Doctor’s most iconic
and deadly adversaries, the Daleks. Although the incidental music was
collectively credited to the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, it was in fact Cary
who scored the first Dalek episode, The Dead Planet, in 1963, and his eerie
sinusoidal inventions perfectly captured not only the bleak landscape of the
eponymous Skaro, but also helped to imprint the deadly menace of its most
famous residents on to the national psyche.
Source: Times
