Another MissingDoctor WhoStory Is Being Revived With Animation

Ninety - seven episodes from the early eras of Doctor Who persist confounded , after old BBC archival policies meant the original film copies weredestroyed to write space . Slowly but surely , parts of that miss TV history are being recovered — and when they ca n’t be , the BBC is turning to vivification to bring them to life .

TheBBChas revealed that the 1967 Second Doctor serial publication “ The Macra Terror”—all four episodes of which were lose as part of the BBC ’s archive junking — will be getting an renovation for a domicile press release next class . The tarradiddle saw the Doctor and his companion Ben , Jamie , and Polly hazard to a human colony in the far time to come , a seeming vacation promised land where guests dwell unworried and glad lives . But , of course of study , this is Doctor Who , and all was not as it seemed — because the colonists were being brainwashed by giant killer crabs known as the Macra , and were forced to mine a toxic gas the Macra need to survive . “ The Macra Terror ” was the Macra ’s only Who presence for a very long metre , until 2007 ’s “ Gridlock ” re - introduced them as an branch colony that had transform into ferine monsters after gormandise on the pollution because of New Earth ’s subsurface traffic colonies .

Using a surviving audio recording of the floor , “ The Macra Terror ” will be completely renovate , and available in both color and black and white when it pip Blu - ray and videodisk in March 2019 . Alongside the animation of the history , there ’ll be new special features include commentary and a behind - the - scenes look at bringing the lost serial to biography .

Neither “ Terror ” nor “ Gridlock ” peculiarly did a great Book of Job of name the Macra , well , a terror . In fact , the original essence for the Macra were infamously a bit dodgy , with a mostly inactive statue of a crab with ginormous claws being used to menace the cast from off - photographic camera . But if the teaser for the animated rendition of the story is anything to go by , this novel imagining could at the very least wrick the Macra into the creepy scuttling incubus they always should ’ve been :

Those branch ! Yep , already agency creepier .

Hopefully the Macra ’s reign of terror will begin anew , when “ The Macra Terror ” hits DVD , Blu - ray , and digital download on March 18 , 2019 .

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