The Macros (audio story)
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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 Brown.
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
- Presidente Osloo - Linda Marlowe
- Commander Ezz - Jack Galagher
- Lady 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
- The riggers refer to the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
- Peri read a book about the Philadelphia Experiment when she was a child.
- Presidente Osloo is the ruler of Kapron. She imprisons her stepson Commander Ezz on a trumped charge of treason.
- Professor Tessler compares the Doctor as H. G. Wells.
- The Doctor compares the colourful sky of Kapron to the Aurora Borealis.
- Ezz's father served as the Presidente of Kapron prior to Osloo. Shortly after they were married, his father died under suspicious circumstances, having seemingly been murdered on Osloo's orders. After all of the potential candidates for the presidency disappeared, Osloo declared herself the Supreme Leader of Kapron. The people of the northern provinces resisted her rise to power but they wiped out.
- Peri cannot sing. However, she attempts to sing Row, Row, Row Your Boat for Osloo and her guests.
- The Doctor describes Peri as having "a bit of an attitude."
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 TV: Warriors of the Deep in 1984. Pitt also played Galleia in TV: 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]
- Vincent Pirillo (Professor Tessler) previously played Daniel Woods in AUDIO: The Reaping.
- This audio drama was recorded on 2 and 3 November 2009.
Continuity
- Peri requested that the Doctor take her to visit her mother Janine Foster and her stepfather Howard Foster in Baltimore, Maryland in 1984 to let them know that she is alright after she left them on Lanzarote to travel with the Fifth Doctor. (TV: Planet of Fire) They would eventually do so after Peri learned that Anthony Chambers, her best friend Katherine Chambers' father, had been murdered. (AUDIO: The Reaping)
- The Doctor tells Peri that the TARDIS was once accidentally reduced in size. (TV: Planet of Giants)
- The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond would later visit the U.S.S. Eldridge during the 23rd century. (GAME: Shadows of the Vashta Nerada)
External links
- Official The Macros page at bigfinish.com
- The Macros at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
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