The Macros

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The Macros
Album cover
Big Finish Productions audio drama
SeriesDoctor Who: The Lost Stories
Release no.8
FeaturingSixth Doctor
Peri Brown
Written byIngrid Pitt
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Directed by
Executive producer(s)Nicholas Briggs
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Production code6Y/AG
Release dateJune 2010

The Macros is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Plot[]

The Doctor and Peri arrive aboard the USS Eldridge and witness the results of the infamous Philadelphia Experiment, leading to journey to an alien universe.

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/1st Rigger/Calloway — Paul David-Gough
  • Bundth/2nd Rigger/Captain/Guard/Captain/Tannoy — Matt Addis

Production[]

Written by Ingrid Pitt and her husband Tony Rudlin, the story was originally conceived of as a four-part Fifth Doctor story[1] during the production of Season 21[1] before being quickly revised as a two-part Sixth Doctor tale.[1] A script for the first episode only was commissioned as The Macro Men on 19 January 1984.[2] It was later adapted by Pitt and Rudlin for Big Finish as part of their The Lost Stories series in June 2010.[3]

Continuity[]

  • Peri finally returns to visit her family in Baltimore in The Reaping.
  • The Zero Room was first seen in Castrovalva.
  • The Eleventh Doctor returns to the USS Eldridge three centuries into the future in Shadows of the Vashta Nerada.

Notes[]

  • Author Ingrid Pitt was also an actress in the classic series stories The Time Monster and Warriors of the Deep. She and her husband Tony Rudlin were asked to write this story while she was working on Warriors of the Deep. The script was originally titled The Macro Men. Pitt died five months after the release of this audio.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Sullivan, Shannon Patrick (2006), The Lost Stories (M-Q), A Brief History of Time (Travel), St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador: ShannonSullivan.com (published 25 November 2006), retrieved 27 February 2007
  2. ^ Howe, David J.; Stammers, Mark; Walker, Stephen James (1996), Doctor Who – The Eighties, London: Virgin Press, p. 72, ISBN 0-7535-0128-7
  3. ^ "1.8. Doctor Who: The Macros". Big Finish. Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 3 June 2019.

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