Mark Ayres
Sound
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.
Filmography
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024 · Movie
The Making of The Daleks in Colour
2024 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour
2023 · Movie
Dad's Army: The Missing Episodes
2023 · Series
Tales of the Tardis
2023 · Series
Doctor Who at 60: A Musical Celebration
2023 · Movie
Return to Skaro
2021 · Movie
Doctor Who: Risen
2021 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
2021 · Movie
Doctor Who: Return of the Autons
2020 · Movie
Doctor Who: Home Assistant
2020 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
2019 · Movie
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
2018 · Series
Doctor Who: Shada
2017 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
2016 · Movie
Thunderbirds 1965: The Stately Homes Robberies
2015 · Movie
Thunderbirds 1965: Introducing Thunderbirds
2015 · Movie
Thunderbirds 1965: The Abominable Snowman
2015 · Movie
Return of the Unknown
2014 · Movie
Scar Tissue
2013 · Movie
Doctor Who at the Proms
2013 · Movie
The Making of Day of the Daleks: Special Edition
2011 · Movie
Horror on the High Rise
2011 · Movie
The End of the Line?
2011 · Movie
Come in Number Five
2011 · Movie
Roger Delgado: The Master
2009 · Movie
Cybermen
2009 · Movie
Mounting the Rescue
2009 · Movie
The Ties That Bind Us
2008 · Movie
Musical Scales: An Era of Experimentation
2008 · Movie
Doctor Who: Endgame
2007 · Movie
Love Off-Air
2006 · Movie
Global Conspiracy?
2004 · Movie
Dæmos Rising
2004 · Movie
The Alchemists of Sound
2003 · Movie
Future Memories: Making 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth'
2003 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
1999 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Missing Years
1998 · Movie
PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne
1996 · Movie
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
1996 · Movie
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
1995 · Movie
The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
1995 · Movie
Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
1994 · Movie
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
1994 · Movie
30 Years in the TARDIS
1993 · Movie
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
1993 · Movie
Sophie’s Choice
1992 · Movie
Who on Earth Is... Tom Baker
1991 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
1989 · Movie
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
1989 · Movie
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
1988 · Movie
Wartime
1988 · Movie
Myth Runner
1987 · Movie
McDonnell Douglas Information Systems
1986 · Movie