Doctor Who: The Macra Terror (1967)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 11 March 1967 - 1 April 1967
Number of Episodes: 4
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Innes Lloyd

SCRIPT
Script: Ian Stuart Black
Story Editor: Gerry Davis

DIRECTION
Director: John Davies

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Frank Cresswell
Film Camera: Peter Hamilton

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Eddie Wallstab

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson
Jingles Arranged by: Wilfred Johns (uncredited)

SOUND
Studio Sound: Hugh Barker, Gordon Mackie
Special Sound: Brian Hodgson

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Gillian James, Jean Richmond
Costumes: Daphne Dare, Vanessa Clark

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Kenneth Sharp

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Chris D'Oyley John
Assistant Floor Manager: Ann Faggetter

CAST
Episode 1
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Peter Jeffrey (pilot)
Graham Armitage (Barney)
Ian Fairbairn (Questa)
Jane Enshawe (Sunaa)
Sandra Bryant (Chicki)
Maureen Lane (drum majorette)
Terence Lodge (Medok)
Gertan Klauber (Ola)
Graham Leaman (Controller)
Anthony Gardner (Alvis)
Denis Goacher (control voice)
Richard Beale (broadcast voice)
Robert Jewell (Macra operator)

Episode 2
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Peter Jeffrey (pilot)
Terence Lodge (Medok)
Gertan Klauber (Ola)
Graham Leaman (Controller)
Denis Goacher (control voice)
Richard Beale (broadcast and propoganda voice)
Robert Jewell (Macra operator)

Episode 3
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Peter Jeffrey (pilot)
Jane Enshawe (Sunaa)
Terence Lodge (Medok)
Gertan Klauber (Ola)
Graham Leaman (Controller)
Denis Goacher (control voice)
Richard Beale (broadcast voice)
Robert Jewell (Macra operator)
John Harvey (official)

Episode 4
Patrick Troughton (The Doctor)
Anneke Wills (Polly)
Michael Craze (Ben)
Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon)
Peter Jeffrey (pilot)
Jane Enshawe (Sunaa)
Karol Keyes (Chicki)
Maureen Lane (drum majorette)
Gertan Klauber (Ola)
Graham Leaman (Controller)
Denis Goacher (control voice)
Robert Jewell (Macra operator)
John Harvey (official)
John Caeser, Steve Emerson, Danny Rae (guards)
Ralph Carrigan, Roger Jerome, Terry Wright (cheerleaders)

UNCREDITED PERFORMERS
John Caeser, Steve Emerson (guards - uncredited in episodes 1-3)
Danny Rae (guard - uncredited in episodes 1-2)
Linda Reynolds (pilot's secretary)
Paul Phillips (scientist)
Nina Huby (girl)
Fiona Frazer, Avril Gaynor, Maris Hendrick, Janice Hoy, Jill Paris, Amanda Scott (band)
Joe Finlay, Maureen Hillman, Sheelah McGrath, Ted Merwood, Judy Nichols, Anthony Rayner (dancers - uncredited)Bill Beesley, Deryn Fisher, George Gibbs, Edwina King, Leonard Kingston, Maureen Morris, Leslie Pitt (citizens)
Walter Henry, Maureen Hillman, Leonard Kingston, Sheelah McGrath, Judy Nichols, Anthony Rayner, Tony Starr, Alan Troy (mine workers)

PLOT SUMMARY

The crew of the TARDIS arrive on a human colony that appears to be run along the lines of a gigantic holiday camp. At first, all seems to be happy and perfect, but The Doctor learns that the colony has been infiltrated by the Macra, a race of giant crab-like creatures, who have brainwashed the colonists and are forcing them mine a deadly gas.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC

1967
February
15: UK - location filming takes place
17: UK - studio filming at Ealing Stage 3 A/B

March
4: UK - studio recording at Lime Grove Studio D, London
11: UK - episode 1 television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording at Lime Grove Studio D, London
18: UK - episode 2 television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording at Lime Grove Studio D, London
25: UK - episode 3 television broadcast (on BBC1); studio recording at Lime Grove Studio D, London

April
1: UK - episode 4 television broadcast (on BBC1)

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BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Second Doctor pp.69-75
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers, Stephen James Walker)

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.119-121
credits, synopsis, review (by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker)

KEYWORDS

aliens, brainwashing, gas, mining, monsters, time travel

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008