Patrick Troughton - (The Doctor)

Anneke Wills - (Polly)

Michael Craze - (Ben)

Frazer Hines - (Jamie)

Peter Jeffrey - (Pilot)

Graham Armitage - (Barney)

Ian Fairbairn - (Questa)

Jane Enshawe - (Sunaa)

Sandra Bryant, Karol Keyes - (Chicki)

Maureen Lane - (Drum Majorette)

Terence Lodge - (Medok)

Gertan Klauber - (Ola)

Graham Leaman - (Controller)

Anthony Garnder - (Alvis)

Denis Goacher - (Control Voice)

Richard Beale - (Broadcast Voice / Broadcast and Propaganda Voices)

Robert Jewell - (Macra Operator)

John Harvey - (Official)

John Caesar, Steve Emerson, Danny Rae - (Guards)

Ralph Carrigan, Roger Jerome, Terry Wright - (Cheerleaders)

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

The colony's inhabitants have been brainwashed by giant crab-like creatures - the Macra. Insidious propaganda, broadcast by the Controller, forces the humans to mine a gas that is essential for the Macra to survive - but fatal to them.

The colony must be saved - but how? The Doctor and his team are up against it, particularly when Ben falls under the influence of the Macra. Can he be rescued from their evil clutches? Can the gas pumping equipment be destroyed, getting rid of the Macra for good?

Working Title:

The Macras, The Spidermen, The Insect-Men.

Things to look for:

• Coming Soon.

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Bloopers:

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Not yet released on Video.

Not yet released on DVD.

- UK release August 2000. The Macra Terror  (BBC ISBN cat.#0 491 03227 7)

- This was released as part of a 2-CD set.

- The Macra Terror, written by Ian Stuart Black, Published 1975 - [Target no.123]

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