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{{Infobox album|
| name       = BBC Sound Effects No. 26 - Sci-Fi Sound Effects
| type       = Compilation album
| artist     = [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop]]
| cover      = Sound Effects No 26 front cover.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = December 1981
| recorded   = 1977–1981
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Electronic music]], [[Sound effects]]
| length     = 43:50
| label      = [[BBC Records]]
| producer   =
| compiler   = William Grierson
| prev_title = [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop – 21]]
| prev_year  = 1979
| next_title = [[Doctor Who: The Music]]
| next_year  = 1983
| misc       = {{Extra chronology
 | artist     = [[Doctor Who Soundtrack|''Doctor Who'' soundtrack]]
 | type       = soundtrack
 | prev_title = [[BBC Sound Effects No. 19 - Doctor Who Sound Effects]]
 | prev_year  = 1978
 | title      = BBC Sound Effects No. 26 - Sci-Fi Sound Effects
 | year       = 1981
 | next_title = [[Doctor Who - The Music]]
 | next_year  = 1983
}}
}}
'''''BBC Sound Effects No. 26: Sci-Fi Sound Effects''''' is a 1981 compilation of sound effects and atmospheres created by the [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop]]. It was the second in the BBC Sound Effects series to be credited to the Workshop. It featured sounds from popular television series ''[[Doctor Who]]'' (all from [[Doctor Who (season 18)|Season 18]]) and ''[[Blake's 7]]'', as well as effects for the [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases|first series]] of the radio versions of [[Douglas Adams]]' ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' and [[James Follett]]'s ''[[Earthsearch]]''. 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.<ref>{{cite book|title=Sci-Fi Sound Effects (Vintage Beeb): Amazon.co.uk: BBC Radiophonic Workshop: 9781471322969: Books |publisher= |date= |id={{ASIN|1471322963|country=uk}} }}</ref>

Although seemingly a compilation of merely incidental effects, the album influenced pioneering [[electronic music|electronic]] band [[The Orb]] enough for them to name their 1989 single "[[A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld]]" after one of its tracks.

==Track listing==

===''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Primary and Secondary Phases|series 1]] (Mono effects by Dick Mills)===
#"The Book's Activation Code"
#"[[Slartibartfast]]'s Aircar: Takeoff"
#"Slartibartfast's Aircar: Constant run"
#"Slartibartfast'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"

===''[[Doctor Who]]'' (Stereo effects by Dick Mills)===
#"Earth Shuttle Arriving" (from "[[The Leisure Hive]]")
#"Argolis Exterior Atmosphere" (from "[[The Leisure Hive]]")
#"Flock Of Bats" (from "[[State of Decay (Doctor Who)|State of Decay]]")
#"Laboratory Descends, Gaztak Spaceship Takes Off" (from "[[Meglos]]")
#"Dodecahedron Energy Beams" (from "[[Meglos]]")
#"Marshmen Emerge from the Mistfall" (from "[[Full Circle (Doctor Who)|Full Circle]]")
#"Respirator Room background in Spaceship" (from "[[Warriors' Gate]]")
#"Time Winds" (from "[[Warriors' Gate]]")				
#"Alarm" (from "[[The Keeper of Traken]]")
#"Electronic Storm" (from "[[The Keeper of Traken]]")	
#"Cloister Bell In The [[TARDIS]]" (from "[[Logopolis]]")
#"The Master's [[TARDIS]] Lands" (from "[[Logopolis]]")
#"The Master's [[TARDIS]] Take Off" (from "[[Logopolis]]")
#"[[TARDIS]] 'Out Of Time Slip'" (from "[[Logopolis]]")
#"[[TARDIS]] 'Into Time Slip'" (from "[[Logopolis]]")

===''[[Blake's 7]]'' [[List of Blake's 7 episodes#Series four|Series D]] (Stereo effects by [[Elizabeth Parker (composer)|Elizabeth Parker]])===
#"Dawn Of Emptiness"
#"Space Bells Of Ceremonial Room"
#"Scorpio Spaceship Lands"
#"Dematerialisation"
#"Rematerialisation"
#"Scorpio Gun"

===''[[Blake's 7]]'' [[List of Blake's 7 episodes#Series one|Series A-C]] (Mono effects by [[Richard Yeoman-Clark]] & [[Elizabeth Parker (composer)|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]]'' (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 ==
<references />

==External links==
*[http://www.mb21.co.uk/ether.net/radiophonics/rec420.shtml mb21 Discography entry]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070320210922/http://www.millenniumeffect.co.uk/audio/soundeffects-comps.html#26 Album information]

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