Dick Mills

Yes.

David Cain and Dick Mills were responsible for the special sound effects and voice treatments for all the non-human characters.

The Radiophonic Workshop basically invented modern electronic music, right? Using tape loops and early oscillators?

Exactly.

Yes, exactly.

And Dick Mills, another legendary figure at the workshop, handled the special voice treatments.

He would take the actors' recorded voices and run them through ring modulators and delay units, distorting them into monsters.

I'm struggling to picture how this actually sounded in the living room in 1968, though.

And then you have Wolf Morris' Gollum placed intimately close in the stereo field.

The voice treatment on Gollum here is extraordinary.

Dick Mills in the workshop manipulated the recording so Gollum sounds like something that has forgotten the mechanics of being a person.

It's a wet, clicking, echoing sound.

Technology-wise, yes, it's so much easier.

I mean, what did it take? Delia Derbyshire and Dick Mills took them at least 20 days to create three minutes of music for the original Doctor Who theme.

Whereas, you know, we can do that.

We might take three days, but to actually put it together is so much easier.