We don’t have any more new Doctor Who this year, since season 12 won’t be on our screens until 2020, but instead we’re lucky enough to have some new old Doctor Who.
As every fan knows, nearly 100 episodes of the show from the 1960s are lost in time but, thanks to the existence of the original soundtracks, the BBC occasionally recreates these missing stories using animation. And the latest to get the treatment is 1967’s “The Macra Terror.”
Starring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, “The Macra Terror” sees the Tardis visiting what appears to be a utopian vacation resort in the far future. The only hitch is that terrifying crab-like creatures stalk the camp at night, while the inhabitants are denying that the monsters exist. This sounds like a job for a Time Lord.
With “The Macra Terror” arriving on DVD and Blu-Ray soon, Digital Spy has now...
As every fan knows, nearly 100 episodes of the show from the 1960s are lost in time but, thanks to the existence of the original soundtracks, the BBC occasionally recreates these missing stories using animation. And the latest to get the treatment is 1967’s “The Macra Terror.”
Starring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, “The Macra Terror” sees the Tardis visiting what appears to be a utopian vacation resort in the far future. The only hitch is that terrifying crab-like creatures stalk the camp at night, while the inhabitants are denying that the monsters exist. This sounds like a job for a Time Lord.
With “The Macra Terror” arriving on DVD and Blu-Ray soon, Digital Spy has now...
- 3/19/2019
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
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