The Macra Terror sees the Doctor, Ben, Polly, and Jamie arrive on an unnamed planet where an insane man claims to have seen the Macra, crab-like creatures everyone else says don't exist. The Doctor believes the man, and soon sees a Macra for himself. It becomes apparent that the Controller of the planet has hypnotised everyone else in the Colony to obey commands and believe that the Macra don't exist. Ben succombs to the hypnotism and lands his companions in trouble for their meddling. Sent to work in the mines, mining for poisonous gas, they discover that the Macra are in control of the leaders of the Colony and need the gas to survive. The unearth the Macra, free the population, and leave before they can be congratulated.
The officials: Ola, and the Pilot, are great characters with some great lines, and with them, the plot moves quickly along, with never a boring moment. It's important that it does this, or you might notice that the Macra don't have that much to do with the serial at all, the plot instead revolving around overthrowing the hypnotism and freeing everything.
Therefore, it isn't as you'd expect, and could have been a lot scarier and interesting.
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