TEXT: THE MACRA TERROR by IAN STUART BLACK first broadcast - 1st April 1967 [SCENE_BREAK] 1. OLD SHAFT (Jamie runs along the shaft away from the Macra. Ahead of him is another Macra. He is cut off.) [SCENE_BREAK] 2. GAS CENTRE (Fanfare.) CONTROL: Retain full pressure. (Fanfare.) OFFICIA: Full pressures being maintained on master control. Reserves are standing by. (The Doctor and Polly watch on.) DOCTOR: Let me see. Let me see. POLLY: Doctor, what could be happening to Jamie now? DOCTOR: I hate to think. It won't be anything very pleasant. Polly, go and see what the first dial on the control desk registers. POLLY: Right. DOCTOR: Hurry up. POLLY: Full pressure. DOCTOR: Full pressure. And the other one? Come on. POLLY: Zero. DOCTOR: Zero. Now I think there's only one thing for it. Plus must be made minus and minus must be made plus. POLLY: What's the matter? DOCTOR: The question is which is plus and which is minus? POLLY: Ooh. [SCENE_BREAK] 3. OLD SHAFT (Jamie is trapped between two Macra. Gas is slowly filling the old shaft, choking Jamie as it revives the Macra. Jamie finds a crevice in the rock wall and squeezes into it.) [SCENE_BREAK] 4. PIT HEAD (A maze of pipes emerge from the depths of the pit, and lead off into the gas centre. The Doctor inspects the pipes, tapping here and there. Officia comes out to investigate.) OFFICIA: What are you doing? DOCTOR: Oh, just checking. OFFICIA: Well, I don't need your help, thank you. DOCTOR: As you please. But, uh, I think you're going to run into trouble. OFFICIA: Why? What's the matter? DOCTOR: Well, according to my
SUMMARY:
The Doctor and Polly manage to save Jamie from the Macra and then try to show the Pilot who is really in charge of the colony.