TEXT: THE MACRA TERROR by IAN STUART BLACK first broadcast - 11thMarch, 1967 5:50pm - 6:15pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1: MEDOK (A slight bearded man, MEDOK...) THE MACRA TERROR (...stares intently into space.) BY IAN STUART BLACK (A heartbeat sound reverberates through his head...) (...and his eyes open wide in terror...) [SCENE_BREAK] 2: EXT. COLONY ENTRANCE (The entrance to the colony is a futuristic archway at the top of a short flight of steps. Two brightly illuminated pillars stand in welcome either side of the entrance. Cheerful music is being played as happy crowd of colonists, including a young man called QUESTA and two young girls called SUNNAA and CHICKI, are watching a DRUM MAJORETTE and her six assistants perform to the accompaniment of a band playing a chirpy synthesised electronic tune. Everyone seems happy. The leader of the colony, PILOT, turns to the organiser of the display, BARNEY. All of the people gathered wear uniform-like tunics.) PILOT: Oh, splendid! Splendid! You've got a very good band there, Barney. BARNEY: Thank you, Pilot PILOT: Mind you, I don't say you'll come first at the festival, but never say die, hmm, what? Nothing succeeds like success, ha! (He looks to the smiling people around him.) PILOT: "If at first you don't succeed...?" ALL: (Enthusiastically.) "...Try, try, try again!" PILOT: That's right. (There is a sudden commotion.) OLA: (OOV.) Stop him! Don't let him get out! BARNEY: What's the matter? (MEDOK suddenly runs into view, bursting out of the colony. He is obviously being pursued. Wide-eyed, he struggles through the people gathered at the entrance
SUMMARY:
The TARDIS arrives at a holiday camp company with the crew worried by a prediction of giant crabs and the Doctor becomes interested in the apparent madman Medok's stories of creatures that roam the colony at night.