The Macra Terror

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PRODUCTION INFO

Name


The Macra Terror


Serial Code

JJ

First Transmitted

11 March 1967

Final Ratings

8.00m

DVD RELEASE

VHS RELEASE

VHS

GALLERY

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CAST

Regular Cast

Patrick Troughton (Dr Who), Micheal Craze (Ben), Anneke Wills (Polly), Frazer Hines (Jamie)


Guest Cast


Peter Jeffrey (Pilot), Graham Armitage (Barney) [1], Ian Fairbairn (Questa) [1], Jane Enshawe (Sunaa) [1, 3-4], Sandra Bryant [1], Karol Keyes [4] (Chicki), Maureen Lane (Drum Majorette) [1, 4], Terence Lodge (Medok) [1-3], Gertan Klauber (Ola), Graham Leaman (Controller), Anthony Garnder (Alvis) [1], Denis Goacher (Control Voice) [1-3], Richard Beale (Broadcast Voice/Broadcast and Propaganda Voices) [1-3]*, Robert Jewell (Macra Operator), John Harvey ( official) [3-4], John Caesar, Steve Emerson, Danny Rae (Guards) [4], Ralph Carrigan, Roger Jerome, Terry Wright (Cheerleaders) [4].

CREW

Written by Ian Stuart Black
Directed by John Davies
Produced by Innes Lloyd

SYPNOSIS

An Earth colony in the far future has all the look and feel of a holiday camp. But The Doctor, Polly, Ben and Jamie quickly become aware that a sinister force is lurking beneath the jolly veneerof the settlement, in the form of the mammoth crab-like Macra who have secretly infiltrated the colony administration and are using the settlers for slave labour. And already, Ben has fallen into the Macra’s power

NOTES

  • The Macra return in 2007 in Gridlock
  • All episodes are missing but audio recordings and telesnaps exist. The soundtrack has been released as part of the BBC Radio Collection.
  • Fourteen clips from Episodes 2 and 3 are known to exist. They are either from a reel of 8mm film shot at a TVscreen or among the censor clips discovered in the Australian TV archives in 1996.
  • Novelised as Doctor Who – The Macra Terror by Ian Stuart Black
  • The scripts of all episodes are available on the Scripts Project page
  • A photonovel of the story is available on the BBC Doctor Who website. Fan-produced photovideo reconstructions of the story have been made by Joint Venture and by Loose Cannon Productions.
  • Doctor Who Magazine Archive: Issue #308.
  • Order the DVD in the BBC DVD Guide
  • MEDIA CLIP

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