Don Harper OST Doctor Who: The Invasion

Third in a collectible set Eight Doctor Who Story Releases! Original TV Soundtrack
by Don Harper! Gatefold Sleeve by Clayton Hickman! The Invasion was an eight-part
Doctor Who story made and transmitted in 1968. Written by Derrick Sherwin (from
a story by Kit Pedler), it starred Patrick Troughton as the second Doctor and featured
the Brigadier, UNIT, and the Cybermen in a "modern Earth invasion" Doctor Who
story that became a hugely influential series at the time. At the helm was Douglas
Camfield, one of popular television's most maverick and talented directors of the
1960s and 1970s. The music was composed by Don Harper, the third Australian
émigré composer (after Ron Grainer and Dudley Simpson) to work on the
programme. Harper's soundtrack may have been influenced by John Barry's score for
The Ipcress File (1965). He uses the cimbalom in the score, and the artist was most
likely John Leach (a.k.a. Janos Lehar), who played on The Ipcress File, King Rat and
The Persuaders. The release also features "Muzak" by John Baker (referred to as such
in the cue sheets for episodes 1 and 2), which had its first outing in an Out of the
Unknown episode. The master tape of the music for `The Invasion' was lost soon
after transmission, but Harper retained a 7« ips `composer's copy' that forms the
basis of this release. Additionally, the score was augmented by extensive use of
electronic sounds by Brian Hodgson of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.