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'' (all from Season 18) and '' Blake's 7'', as well as effects for the

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of the radio versions of Douglas Adams' '' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' and

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's ''

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''. In 1991 it was re-released on CD as ''Essential Science Fiction Sound Effects Vol. 1''. Reissued on CD with its original title and cover as part of AudioGo's "Vintage Beeb" line 4 April 2013. Although seemingly a compilation of merely incidental effects, the album influenced pioneering electronic band

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enough for them to name their 1989 single "

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" after one of its tracks.

Track listing

'' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''
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(Mono effects by
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)

#"The Book's Activation Code" #"

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's Aircar: Takeoff" #"

's Aircar: Constant run" #"

's Aircar: Lands" #"Magrathea Alarm" #"Magrathea Police guns" #"Space car park outside The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" #"The End of the Universe" #"Black spaceship oscillates" #"Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal: Eats" #"Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal: Walks" #"Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal: Roars" #"Penargilon Kangaroo Relocation Drive engaged" #"Penargilon Kangaroo Relocation Drive arrival" #"Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, Ship 'B' Bridge Background"

''
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'' (Stereo effects by
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)

#"Earth Shuttle Arriving" (from "

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") #"Argolis Exterior Atmosphere" (from "

") #"Flock Of Bats" (from " State of Decay") #"Laboratory Descends, Gaztak Spaceship Takes Off" (from "

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") #"Dodecahedron Energy Beams" (from "

") #"Marshmen Emerge from the Mistfall" (from " Full Circle") #"Respirator Room background in Spaceship" (from "

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") #"Time Winds" (from "

") #"Alarm" (from "

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") #"Electronic Storm" (from "

") #"Cloister Bell In The TARDIS" (from "

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") #"The Master's TARDIS Lands" (from "

") #"The Master's TARDIS Take Off" (from "

") #" TARDIS 'Out Of Time Slip'" (from "

") #" TARDIS 'Into Time Slip'" (from "

'' Blake's 7''
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(Stereo effects by Elizabeth Parker)

#"Dawn Of Emptiness" #"Space Bells Of Ceremonial Room" #"Scorpio Spaceship Lands" #"Dematerialisation" #"Rematerialisation" #"Scorpio Gun"

'' Blake's 7'' Series A-C (Mono effects by
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& Elizabeth Parker)

#"Orac Switch On" #"Orac Working" #"Orac Switch Off" #"Liberator Computer Mailfunction" #"Liberator Plasma Bolt Explosion" #"Liberator Laser" #"Federation Ship Laser Explosion" #"Liberator Life Capsule Ready to be Launched" #"Liberator Ship Background" #"Liberator Guns X3" #"Avon's Communicator Bracelet Transportation Sounds" #"Disappearance" #"Reappearance" #"Mysterious 'Being' Disappears in a Flame" #"Alien Gun" #"Appearance Of The Ovoid (A Stone Surrounded in Mystery and Magic)" #"Heavy Voltage Force" #"Glow From A Mysterious Ghost Who Haunts the Liberator" #"The Core, A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain which Rules from the Centre of Ultraworld" #"Interior Of Federation Patrol Ship" #"Going Through A Black Hole in the Liberator" #"Space Centre Medical Unit Hum" #"Machine Monster with a Black Sense of Humour! (who Chases our Heroes Around, Winking)" #"Break Down Of Machine Monster" #"Extra-terrestrial Heavenly Choir"

''
Earthsearch ''Earthsearch: A Ten-Part Adventure Serial in Time and Space'' is a science fiction radio series written by James Follett. It consists of ten half-hour episodes. It was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between January and March 1981. There is also ...
'' (Stereo effects by Lloyd Silverthorne)

#"UFO Landing" #"Computer Touch Panel Bleeps" #"Warbles" #"Alarm" #"Meteorite Alert Station" #"Rumbling Gurgle" #"Hand Held Ray Guns" #"Space Bombs" #"Space Police" #"Outer Airlock Door Open and Close" #"Inner Airlock Door Open and Close" #"Plasma Discharge Weapons" #"Underworld Animation Chamber" #"Bleeps for Suspended Animation Chamber" #"Electric Warning Gong" #"Three Harmonic Strings Followed by Explosion" #"Sharp Hum With Trail Out" #"Rapid Fire Laser Guns" #"Space Hurricane" #"Spacecraft Crash Into Sea"

References

External links

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