The Macros (audio story)

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

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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. ^{[source needed]}
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.^{[source needed]}

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

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