The Macros (audio story)

The Macros (audio story)

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The Macros
Doctor:	[[doctor::Sixth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Peri Brown
Main enemy:	Osloo
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Big Finish Productions]]
Writers:	Ingrid Pitt and Tony Rudlin
Director:	John Ainsworth
Release details
Release number:	1.08
Release date:	June 2010
Format:	2 Episodes on 2 CDs
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-84453-451-1

The Macros, formerly "The Macro Men", is the eighth and final Lost Story of Season 23 to be developed into an audio play. It stars Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant as the Sixth Doctor and Peri.

Publisher's summary

The TARDIS materialises on the USS Eldridge, after the Philadelphia Experiment has gone disastrously wrong. Most of the crew are dead, the ship is disintegrating, and the Doctor soon realises that the problem comes from another dimension…

As they attempt to find a way to get the ship home, the Doctor and Peri visit the distant planet Capron and meet its tyrannical ruler Osloo. But the search for a possible solution only creates increasingly dire problems. Osloo's horizons have been widened – and space and time are hers for the taking…

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor – Colin Baker
• Peri Brown – Nicola Bryant
• Osloo - Linda Marlowe
• Ezz - Jack Galagher
• Yka - Rachael Elizabeth
• Professor Tessler - Vincent Pirillo
• Bosun/Guard - Stewart Alexander
• Mers/Calloway/1st Rigger - Paul David-Gough
• Bundth/2nd Rigger/Captain/Guard/Tannoy - Matt Addis

References

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Notes

• The Macros, originally The Macro Men, was an unproduced story for Doctor Who written by Ingrid Pitt and her husband Tony Rudlin after the former played Solow in DW: Warriors of the Deep in 1984. Pitt also played Galleia in DW: The Time Monster in 1972.
• The couple first got the idea from reading Charles Berlitz' The Philadelphia Experiment, a story about an experiment conducted by the United States during World War II in the attempts to try and make the USS Eldridge invisible to RADAR.
• After meeting with Eric Saward numerous times, The Macro Men became The Macros and many revisions only resulted in a draft first episode script before all work was stopped.
• This audio drama was recorded on 2 and 3 November 2009.

Continuity

• The U.S.S. Eldridge would later appear in VG: Shadows of the Vashta Nerada.

Timeline

• The story takes place immediately after BFA: The Song of Megaptera
• The story takes place before BBCR: Slipback

External links

• Official The Macros page at bigfinish.com
• The Macros at the Doctor Who Reference Guide