The initial run of British television show Doctor Who (1963–1987) was remarkable for its use of music, sometimes produced by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. In what was nominally a children’s programme, it used avant-garde and cutting-edge electronic music. At least partly, this was functional, with the low production value of the series in visual and dramatic terms being bolstered significantly by its strange and exotic music. Like much science fiction, arguably, the music in Doctor Who’s first three decades did a lot of the ‘imagining’ for a show plagued by cheap set and atmosphere-free lighting. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which was showcased by the programme, increasingly appears to be the British counterpart to European electronic music experimentation, the UK equivalent of Darmstadt in (West) Germany or IRCAM in Paris.