Brian Hodgson is a British television composer and sound technician. His main claims to fame are for producing the sound of TARDIS for the science fiction programme Doctor Who, and for coming second in the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest. He also composed music for the ITV science fiction rival to Doctor Who: The Tomorrow People. The Third Doctor emerging from the TARDIS (from the 1970 serial Spearhead from Space). ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Main article: History of Doctor Who Doctor Who first appeared on BBC television on November 23, 1963. ... Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC. In England and Wales the channel was recently rebranded ITV1 by ITV plc who own the regional broadcasting licences for the regions. ... The Tomorrow People was a childrens science fiction television series, devised by Roger Price and produced by Thames Television for Britains ITV network between 1973 and 1979. ...
His father, BrianHodgson, came of a family of country gentlemen, and his mother was a daughter of William Houghton of Manchester.
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