Keff McCulloch is a British

United Kingdom

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 composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

. In 1987 created the Doctor Who theme music

Doctor Who theme music

The Doctor Who theme is a piece of music composed by Ron Grainer and realised by Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Created in 1963, it was one of the first electronic music signature tunes for television and after nearly five decades remains one of the most easily...

 for the Seventh Doctor

Seventh Doctor

The Seventh Doctor is the seventh incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He was portrayed by the actor Sylvester McCoy....

, Sylvester McCoy

Sylvester McCoy

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. The theme, drawing on the original by Ron Grainer

Ron Grainer

Ronald Erle “Ron” Grainer was an Australian-born composer who worked for most of his professional career in the United Kingdom. He is mostly remembered for his film and television music.- Biography :...

/Delia Derbyshire

Delia Derbyshire

Delia Ann Derbyshire was an English musician and composer of electronic music and musique concrète. She is best known for her electronic realisation of Ron Grainer's theme music to the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and for her work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.-Early...

 lasted for three years until the series was cancelled by the BBC

BBC

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 in 1989. The new theme music was accompanied with new titles and logo.
Keff McCulloch also contributed incidental music scores to six stories during the McCoy era, namely; Time and the Rani

Time and the Rani

Time and the Rani is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 7 September to 28 September 1987. This story was the first to feature Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor. It also features the last appearance of the Sixth...

; Paradise Towers

Paradise Towers

Paradise Towers is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 5 October to 26 October 1987.-Plot:...

; Delta and the Bannermen

Delta and the Bannermen

-Preproduction:*This was the first three-part story since Planet of Giants , not counting the 3 x 45 minute episodes of The Two Doctors, which had been broadcast two years previously, and the first intended to be this length....

; Remembrance of the Daleks

Remembrance of the Daleks

Remembrance of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 5 October to 26 October 1988....

; Silver Nemesis

Silver Nemesis

Silver Nemesis was the 25th anniversary serial of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast in the UK in three weekly parts from 23 November 1988, to 7 December 1988....

; Battlefield

Battlefield (Doctor Who)

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; and also the later Dimensions in Time

Dimensions in Time

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and Shada

Shada

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McCulloch also played a role on screen as one of the Lorells (a backing group) in Delta and the Bannermen (1987).

Alongside his work with the Doctor Who

Doctor Who

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 team, McCulloch was a musician and sound engineer, touring with many bands and engineering and producing singles and albums for artistes including Acker Bilk, Johnny Logan

Johnny Logan (singer)

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 and Russ Abbott. He also composed and recorded the incidental music for the video release of White Mischief

White Mischief

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