| 034 – The Macra Terror | |||
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| Doctor Who serial | |||
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| Production | |||
| Directed by | John Davies | ||
| Written by | Ian Stuart Black | ||
| Script editor | Gerry Davis | ||
| Produced by | Innes Lloyd | ||
| Music by | Dudley Simpson | ||
| Production code | JJ | ||
| Series | Season 4 | ||
| Running time | 4 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||
| Episode(s) missing | All episodes | ||
| First broadcast | 11 March 1967 | ||
| Last broadcast | 1 April 1967 | ||
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The Macra Terror is the completely missing seventh serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 11 March to 1 April 1967.
In this serial, the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton), Ben (Michael Craze), Polly (Anneke Wills) and Jamie (Frazer Hines) attempt to unravel a mystery within a human colony on an unnamed planet in the future, which leads to them becoming prisoners as opposed to guests. It also introduces the alien race known as the Macra, who reappear in "Gridlock" (2007). Although audio recordings, still photographs, and clips of the story exist, no episodes of this serial are known to have survived.
In March 2019, BBC Studios released an animated version of the serial using its surviving audio.[1] It became the seventh incomplete Doctor Who serial to receive full-length animated reconstructions of its four missing episodes.