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Classic Who S4 • Serial 7 · (0/4 episodes intact)

The Macra Terror

Other variations of this story: The Macra Terror (Animated Reconstruction), The Macra Terror (BBC Audio Soundtrack) (2012), The Macra Terror (BBC Audio Soundtrack)

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First aired Saturday, March 11, 1967
Production Code JJ
Written by Ian Stuart Black
Directed by John Davies
Runtime 100 minutes
Time Travel Future
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Synopsis

When the Second Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie visit a human colony that appears to be one big holiday camp, they think they have come across a truly happy place. Yet a shadowy presence soon makes them realise that the surface contentment is carefully controlled.

4 Episodes:

First aired Saturday, March 11, 1967
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Ian Stuart Black
Directed by John Davies
UK Viewers 8 million
Appreciation Index 50

Synopsis

The TARDIS arrives at a holiday camp company with the crew worried by a prediction of giant crabs and the Doctor becomes interested in the apparent madman Medok's stories of creatures that roam the colony at night.

First aired Saturday, March 18, 1967
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Ian Stuart Black
Directed by John Davies
UK Viewers 7.9 million
Appreciation Index 48

Synopsis

The Doctor is unable to convince the colonists that the Macra exist and an attempt to brainwash his companions results in Ben betraying his friends.

First aired Saturday, April 1, 1967
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Ian Stuart Black
Directed by John Davies
UK Viewers 8.4 million
Appreciation Index 49

Synopsis

The Doctor and Polly manage to save Jamie from the Macra and then try to show the Pilot who is really in charge of the colony.

First aired Saturday, March 25, 1967
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Ian Stuart Black
Directed by John Davies
UK Viewers 8.5 million
Appreciation Index 52

Synopsis

The Doctor, Polly and Jamie are sentenced to work in the pits and an escape attempt sees Ben's loyalties called into question again.

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