ORIGINAL BROADCAST: 18/03/1967
Forty-three years ago today, the Second Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie arrived in a holiday camp on a human colony planet in the future, where they had to investigate mysterious happenings. This story starred Patrick Troughton as the Doctor, and was the first story to introduce an alien race known as the Macra.
The Macra made a second television appearance forty years later, in the Tenth Doctor’s episode ‘Gridlock’. This time the Doctor met them, billions of years of evolution had reduced them to nothing more than vicious predators. They were able to survive on the gas fumes of the exhausts from the cars of New New York Motorway, in the capital of New Earth.
Working titles for this story included ‘The Spidermen’, ‘The Insect-Men’ and ‘The Macras’. This story introduced the first new opening title sequence since the series began. The new sequence was created by original titles designer Bernard Lodge and engineer Ben Palmer. For the first time, the face of the lead actor, Patrick Troughton, was incorporated around the patterns. This tradition continued throughout the remainder of the series' original run.
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