DOCTOR WHO: TIMELASH

Timelash is the fifth serial of the 22nd season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in two weekly parts on BBC1 on 9 and 16 March 1985. It is, to date, the only television Doctor Who story to have a score been composed by a woman. In the serial, the Borad (Robert Ashby), the mutated leader of the planet Karfel, plots to start a war with the Bandril race which would wipe out both the Bandrils and Karfel's population so that the Borad could repopulate it with his own kind to rule the planet.

Elizabeth Parker is a British composer and sound designer best known for her work at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, where she was a leading figure in electronic music for television and radio from 1978 until the Workshop's closure in the 1990s. Her compositions and sound designs for productions including The Living Planet, Blake's 7, Doctor Who, and numerous BBC radio dramas established her as one of the principal composers of the Workshop's later period. Following her BBC career, she continued as a freelance composer for documentary, television, and film productions.

"I wanted the music for Timelash to be true grit. I needed the score to be edgy, spiky, strident and powerful, emerging from a distinctive angular sound palette which I took huge time and effort to create, largely using the PPG Wave synth and some of its glorious gutsy sounds. I could hear the score in my head before I started composing - I knew exactly where I was going with the sound and I am immensely proud of the way it turned out - some great combinations of electronic sounds... to me it sounds pretty contemporary, even 40 years later." - Elizabeth Parker

Part One

1 Doctor Who Opening Titles (Colin Baker Version, Mark Ayres Stereo Mix)

2 Karfel

3 Inner Sanctum

4 Fanfare: The Maylin Renis

5 Banishment

6 How’s That Line? / Belt Up

7 Time for Another Election

8 Fanfare: The Maylin Tekker

9 The Timelash

10 Time Just Flies

11 Feminist Sting

12 The Flower of Many Faces

13 The Morlox

14 Herbert

15 The Rebels

16 1885 A.D.

17 Amulet

18 Unpleasant Journey

Part Two

19 Unpleasant Journey reprise

20 Where Are You Taking Me?

21 The Edge of Oblivion

22 Wired

23 Kontron Crystals

24 Peri Incarcerated

25 Fidelity

26 Doctor, Where Are You?

27 Time Loop with Android

28 The Bandrils are Coming

29 The Borad

30 Time Loop with Borad

31 Herbert to the Rescue

32 A Brave But Foolish Thing

33 The Writing on the Wall

34 Doctor Who Closing TItles (Colin Baker Version, Mark Ayres Stereo Mix)

Bonus Tracks

35 Timelash Suite (2025 Remaster)

36 Timelash - Proto=Suite

37 Timelash Suite [B.A.S.E. processed) (2025 Remaster)