Peter Howell
Sound
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
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movieThe Ties That Bind Us
2008
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
1999
Original Music Composer
tvThe Dream Machine
1991
Original Music Composer
movieDoctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks
1985
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Timelash
1985
Theme Song Performance
Who, Sir? Me, Sir?
1985
Original Music Composer
movieDoctor Who: The Two Doctors
1985
Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: The Mark of the Rani
1985
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Vengeance on Varos
1985
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Attack of the Cybermen
1985
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: The Wrath of Eukor
1984
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
1984
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: The Caves of Androzani
1984
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Planet of Fire
1984
Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Resurrection of the Daleks
1984
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Frontios
1984
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: The Awakening
1984
Theme Song Performance, Original Music Composer
movieDoctor Who: Warriors of the Deep
1984
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: The Five Doctors
1983
Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: The King's Demons
1983
Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Enlightenment
1983
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Terminus
1983
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
1983
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Snakedance
1983
Theme Song Performance, Original Music Composer
movieDoctor Who: Arc of Infinity
1983
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Time-Flight
1982
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Earthshock
1982
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Black Orchid
1982
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: The Visitation
1982
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Kinda
1982
Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Four to Doomsday
1982
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Castrovalva
1982
Theme Song Performance
movieK-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend
1981
Original Music Composer
movieDoctor Who: Logopolis
1981
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: The Keeper of Traken
1981
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Warriors' Gate
1981
Original Music Composer
movieDoctor Who: State of Decay
1980
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Full Circle
1980
Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Meglos
1980
Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: The Leisure Hive
1980
Original Music Composer, Theme Song Performance
movieDoctor Who: Revenge of the Cybermen
1975
Original Music Composer
tvDoctor Who
1963
Theme Song Performance
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movieDoctor Who: Planet of Evil
1975
Special Sound Effects