The Macros (audio story)

The Macros formally the Macros Men is the Eighth and final Lost Story of Season 23 to be developed into an audio play, starring Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant as the Sixth Doctor and Peri.

Publisher's summary
The TARDIS materializes 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 realizes 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…

Cast

 * The Doctor – Colin Baker
 * Peri – Nicola Bryant
 * Osloo - Linda Marlowe
 * Ezz - Jack Galagher
 * 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

Continuity

 * This story was written by Ingrid Pitt and her husband Tony Rudlin. Ingrid had previosly been in Doctor Who twice before in the episodes The Time Monster and Warriors of the Deep.

Timeline

 * The story takes place immediately after BFA: The Song of Megaptera
 * The story takes place before BFA: Whispers of Terror