Vale Tristram Cary, Aka AAP Don’t Know Their Arses From Their ‘Doctor Who’ Composers

The geek in us shed a little tear this morning when we read that Tristram Cary had passed away aged 82.

The British born Australian resident was an electronic music composer and pioneer, musique concrète exponent, academic, and designer of sythesisers (he also had possibly the greatest 80th birthday cake ever).

But the geek in us also shed a little tear when we read the intro to this AAP piece that news.com.au were running:

Tristram Cary, the composer of the Dr Who theme tune and a pioneer of electronic music, has died in Adelaide aged 82.

Plenty of other news outlets have run with the story, including The Age.

Science fiction history, AAP, you’re doing it wrong!

Firstly, it’s Doctor Who, and secondly, the Doctor Who theme song was composed by Ron Grainer and Delia Derbyshire. Cary did compose for Who, but it was incidental music.

Honestly, do AAP know who they’re dealing with? Did they think the geeks just wouldn’t notice this sort of stuff up? Is it too much to ask for “The National News Agency” to get their facts straight before they offer them up for distribution and syndication?

Or do we just need to stop playing with our Dalek toys?