An exciting 'lost' television adventure, now with digitally remastered soundtrack, starring second Doctor Patrick Troughton with linking narration by Colin Baker.

When the Doctor, Polly, Ben and Jamie visit a human colony that appears to be one big holiday camp they think they have come across a truly happy place.  But a shadowy presence soon makes them realize that the surface contentment is carefully controlled.  The colony's inhabitants have been brainwashed by giant crab-like creatures - the Macra.  Insidious propaganda, broadcast by the Controller, forces the humans to mine a gas that is essential for the Macra to survive - but fatal to them.

The colony must be saved - but how?  The Doctor and his team are up against it, particularly when Ben falls under the influence of the Macra.  Can he be rescued from their evil clutches?  Can the gas pumping equipment be destroyed, getting rid of the Macra for good?

The soundtrack to this suspenseful adventure, which was first broadcast in 1967, has been digitally remastered to recreate a very popular story from the Troughton era.

• The Macra Terror was first released on audio back in 1993 along with several other Troughton stories.  At the time, however, the audio recordings in the possession of the BBC were of very poor quality.  Several years later better recordings were brought forward by several fans.  This CD release uses these much improved audio recordings.

• The original narrating links in 1993 were done by Colin Baker, and were used again for this release.

• Beyond this audio recording the only surviving footage of this story is a series of short, silent 8mm clips filmed by a fan pointing a movie camera at the TV screen while the episodes were airing and several short clips removed by Australian TV censors prior to its transmission there.

• The audio recording of this story was done separately by Graham Strong and Richard Landen using home audio equipment. 

• Mark Ayres, of the Doctor Who Restoration Team, did extensive work on this audio release by digitally remastering these recordings.