The theme for the long-running BBC series, with its otherworldly pulsing bassline, was recorded by English musician Delia Derbyshire, it was written by Australian composer Ron Grainer.
Each note was painstakingly realized using musique concrète techniques - cutting, splicing, and manipulating analog tape recordings of white noise, a test-tone oscillator, and a single plucked string.
Grainer was a musical prodigy who moved to London in 1952 and was once hit on the head by a grand piano lid - an incident that threw him into an orchestra pit.
His IMDB profile lists him as also contributing to many Doctor Who episodes, Charlton Heston flick The Omega Man, and a program featuring UK comic Benny Hill.
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