"Music Hath Charms" 18.9.50
- 4QR Australia radio show with Ron as pianist
with the Brisbane Concert Orchestra]
1951
"Ron Grainer pianist" 5.4.51/ 4.5.51/ 4.9.51
ABC Australia National Radio show 15 minute solo concert
1956
"Port Calypso" 11.7.56
ITV England variety program
1957
"Street Music" 31.10.56
ITV Advertising and Variety program
1958
"The House of Carols" 23.12.58
Ron Grainer had an acting role in this Christmas special as well as arranging the featured traditional carol tunes from Vienna, Naples, Venezuela , American Praires, Australian Outback, Mexico and Russia
1959 * = new entry
"Camera Test" 6.1.59 to 24.3.59 *
ITV variety show with Ron Grainer Trio
"Joanna" 21.8.59 *
Drive in Bank commercal?
"Flair" 6.10.59
Associated Rediffusion Advertising Show
Music arranged Ron Grainer
Music arranged Ron Grainer
1960
"The Facts of Life" 7.4.60
Episode 10 in the first season of ITV's dramatization of Somerset Maughan
short stories. During the play the Ron Grainer Quartet appear as a nightclub act
"Winter Cruise" 28.4.60
Associated Reduffusion TV play Ron appears as a performer
1961
"What Manner Of Child" 24.12.61
BBC TV Christmas graphic art special
1962
"It's A Square World" 26.5.62 episode
Ron performing as a pianist accompaning a male vocalist
and three cartoon backing singers in a quirky version of
the song "Me and My Shadow"
1963
"Master of the Signature Tune" 30 minute BBC documentary 25.5.1963
Ron Grainer conducting studio orchestra and being interviewed by Cliff Michelmore on the use of theme music in television -
Show Time "63 [bbc radio series performance] 2.6.63
The Englishman Abroad [bbc documentary appearance] 5.8.63
"Desert Island Discs"
BBC radio show 25.11.63
1965
"Roundabout"
Ron as performer in weekly radio series episode 1.1. 65
"The Mood Man" [interview and tv documentary] 15.4.65
1965
"The Australian Londoners" 28.11.65
Stefan Sargent documentary about expat Australians includes a brief interview with Ron Grainer where he explains why he had to leave Australia for career reasons
1968
"Home This Afternoon" [radio interview] 21.2.68
Ron Grainer talks about making music that fits
"Short Sleeve Composer" radio interview] 6.5.68
Ron Grainer talks about his early life in Australia
"Music Round The World" 25.6.68
[radio series featured guest]
1996
Dr Who: Origins
Documentary on "The Edge of Destruction" DVD [position 39.06 to 39.58]
possible photo of original Dr Who score - early Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire photos
1996
"Masters of Sound"
Documentary on "The Edge Of Destruction" DVD [position 3.50 - 9.22] and how Ron Grainer, Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop created the Dr Who theme
2021
"Maigret"
Complete Rupert Davies TV Series
14 Disc Set
Network DVD 7956171