Mark Ayres
Known for: Sound
Born: —
Place of birth: —
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.
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Filmography
51 movies · 2 TV shows, newest first
5.8
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024
NR
The Making of The Daleks in Colour
2024
6.1
Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour
2023
4.5
Doctor Who at 60: A Musical Celebration
2023
5.6
Tales of the Tardis
2023NR
Return to Skaro
2021
7.0
Doctor Who: Risen
2021
8.7
Doctor Who: The Evil of the Daleks
2021
NR
Doctor Who: Return of the Autons
2020
7.0
Doctor Who: Home Assistant
2020
7.5
Doctor Who: The Macra Terror
2019
NR
Doctor Who: Behind the Sofa
2018
7.1
Doctor Who: Shada
2017
7.5
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
2016
NR
Thunderbirds 1965: Introducing Thunderbirds
2015
NR
Thunderbirds 1965: The Abominable Snowman
2015
NR
Thunderbirds 1965: The Stately Homes Robberies
2015
NR
Return of the Unknown
2014
5.2
Scar Tissue
2013
8.0
Doctor Who at the Proms
2013
NR
The Making of Day of the Daleks: Special Edition
2011
NR
Horror on the High Rise
2011
NR
The End of the Line?
2011
NR
Come in Number Five
2011
NR
Roger Delgado: The Master
2009
8.0
Cybermen
2009
NR
Mounting the Rescue
2009
NR
The Ties That Bind Us
2008
NR
Musical Scales: An Era of Experimentation
2008
NR
Doctor Who: Endgame
2007
NR
Love Off-Air
2006
7.0
Global Conspiracy?
2004
6.5
Dæmos Rising
2004
6.5
The Alchemists of Sound
2003
9.0
Future Memories: Making 'The Dalek Invasion of Earth'
2003
7.4
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death
1999
9.0
Doctor Who: The Missing Years
1998
5.9
PROBE: Ghosts of Winterborne
1996
7.4
PROBE: Unnatural Selection
1996
8.4
PROBE: The Devil of Winterborne
1995
NR
The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
1995
6.4
Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
1994
7.2
PROBE: The Zero Imperative
1994
7.9
30 Years in the TARDIS
1993
10.0
The Making of 'The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'
1993
NR
Sophie’s Choice
1992
8.0
Who on Earth Is... Tom Baker
1991
8.4
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric
1989
8.4
Doctor Who: Ghost Light
1989
7.5
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
1988
5.1
Wartime
1988
10.0
Myth Runner
1987
NR
McDonnell Douglas Information Systems
1986