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The Master is a recurring character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He is a renegade Time Lord who is the greatest individual enemy of the Doctor. He should not be confused with the Master of the Land of Fiction, who appeared in the Second Doctor serial The Mind Robber.

When the Master first appeared in 1971, he was played by Roger Delgado, who continued in the role until his death in 1973. Afterwards, Peter Pratt and Geoffrey Beevers played a physically decayed version of the Time Lord, until Anthony Ainley assumed the part in 1981. He remained until Doctor Who's cancellation in 1989. In 1996, the Master was played by Gordon Tipple (briefly) and Eric Roberts in the TV movie. In the revived series, Derek Jacobi provided the character's re-introduction, before handing over to John Simm, who portrays the Master as of 2007.

History within the show

Origins

The creative team conceived the Master as a recurring villain, a "Professor Moriarty to the Doctor's Sherlock Holmes.". He first appeared in Terror of the Autons (1971). The Master's title was deliberately chosen by producer Barry Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks as evocative of supervillain names in fiction, but primarily because, like the Doctor, it was a title conferred by an academic degree.

Barry Letts had one man in mind for the role: Roger Delgado. Delgado had a long history of screen villainy and had already made three attempts to break into the series. He had worked previously with Barry Letts and was also a good friend of Jon Pertwee.

A would-be universal conqueror, the Master's stated goal is to control the universe (in The Deadly Assassin his ambitions were described as becoming "the master of all matter"), with a secondary objective of eliminating the Doctor. His most distinctive ability is that of hypnotising people by fixing them with an intense stare, often accompanied by his catchphrase, "I am the Master, and you will obey me." The original (and most common before 1996) look of the character was similar to that of the classic Svengali character; a black Nehru outfit with a beard and moustache.

In the 2007 revival of Doctor Who, a crucial piece of the Master's childhood is shown in a flashback in the episode The Sound of Drums. In this flashback, the Master is shown as a young boy, and the Doctor explains that at the Time Lord Academy, each novice is shown the Time Vortex at the age of eight. The Doctor states that after looking into the vortex, some Time Lords are inspired, some run away, and some go mad. The implication is that the sight of the raw power of time and space caused the Master to go insane. When Martha asked how the Doctor was affected, he confirms that he was one of the ones who ran away, and that he has never stopped running.

The Master has owned at least two TARDISes, one of which was described as a more advanced model than the Doctor's. Unlike the Doctor's, the Master's TARDIS has a functioning chameleon circuit, allowing it to change its external appearance to better fit in with its environment. A favoured weapon of the Master is his Tissue Compression Eliminator, which reduces its targets to doll-size, usually killing them in the process. The Master also has a fondness for disguise, and sometimes operated under aliases which are variations on his title, such as "Colonel Masters" (in Terror of the Autons), the Reverend Mr. Magister (in The Dæmons, "Magister" is Latin for "Master"), Professor Thascales (in The Time Monster, "Thascales" is Greek for "Master"), Proffessor Yana (in Utopia, Yana standing for 'You are not alone', the Face of Boe's last words in Gridlock) and Mister. Saxon (in The Sound of Drums, Mister Saxon being an anagram for Master No. Six, which Simm's portrayal is described as in the fact file for Utopia).

In his three seasons beginning with Terror of the Autons, the Master (as played by Delgado) appeared in eight out of the fifteen serials. Indeed, in his first season the Master is involved in every adventure of the Doctor's, always getting away at the last minute before he is finally captured in The Dæmons. Delgado's portrayal of the Master was as a suave, charming and somewhat sociopathic individual, able to be polite and murderous at almost the same time.

Delgado's last on-screen appearance as the Master was in Frontier in Space, his final scene ending with him shooting the Doctor and then disappearing with the panicking Ogrons. Delgado wanted the Master to make one more appearance, in a story titled The Final Game (also planned as the Third Doctor's last story), in which the character would be killed off, with an ambiguity as to whether he had in fact died to save the Doctor. Tragically, before that serial could even be scripted, Delgado was killed in a car accident in Turkey on June 18 1973, while on his way to shoot footage for the French comedy The Bell of Tibet. The story was replaced by Planet of the Spiders (1974).

Quest for new life

With Delgado's death, the Master disappeared from the series for several years. In his next appearance, in The Deadly Assassin (1976), the Master (played by Peter Pratt under heavy make-up) appears as an emaciated, decaying wreck, at the end of his thirteenth and final life.

Given the severity of his situation, this Master is much darker than Delgado's version. No longer considering his clashes with the Doctor a game, his goal is survival at all costs, manipulating people from behind the scenes. He attempts to seize control of the Eye of Harmony, the nucleus of a black hole kept on the Time Lords' home planet of Gallifrey, in an attempt to give himself a new cycle of regenerations. After being defeated by the Doctor, the Master disappears from the series for another four seasons.

In 1981, the Master returned as a recurring villain. In The Keeper of Traken, the Master (Geoffrey Beevers under different heavy make-up, playing the same incarnation as Pratt) briefly gains control of another ancient power source, using it to transplant himself into the body of a Trakenite named Tremas (the father of Nyssa), overwriting Tremas's original mind in the process. Now played by Anthony Ainley, the Master appeared on and off for the rest of the series. He had many goals but still also sought to extend his life — preferably with a new set of regenerations.

In many of his appearances opposite the Fifth Doctor, the Master shows his penchant for disguise once again, on one occasion operating under concealment for no clear plot reason. The character's association with playful pseudonyms also continued both within the series and in its publicity: when the production team wished to hide the Master's involvement in a story, they credited the character under an anagrammatic alias such as "Neil Toynay" (Tony Ainley) or "James Stoker" (Master's Joke).

Ainley's portrayal was closer to Delgado's, but his Master's tendency to burst out into peals of malicious laughter was criticised by some fans as being too over-the-top. However, this was more a function of the scripts and direction that Ainley received than of his own interpretation of the character. Visitors to the recording of the story Planet of Fire recall Ainley giving a serious, understated performance in an initial take only to be overruled and asked to go more "over the top" for the final one. Like the villainous Davros, the Ainley Master also showed a knack for returning from death or eternal imprisonment, although how precisely he survived those seemingly final fates was never explained.

Ainley's final appearance in the role, in Survival, was more restrained. In that performance, Ainley depicted the Master as a sadistic character with a penchant for dark humour and subtle menace. He was also given a more downbeat costume, reminiscent of the suits and ties worn by Delgado's Master.

Life after death

The Master also appeared in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie that starred Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor. In the prologue, the Master's current body (portrayed for mere seconds in the final edit by Gordon Tipple) was exterminated by the Daleks as a punishment for his "evil crimes". It is not known if Tipple was portraying Ainley's incarnation of the Master or a new incarnation, although the BBC website at least suggests that it was the same as Ainley. All the novelisations and comics published around the same time as the release of the movie indicate that it is Ainley's Master; however, there is nothing in the movie to specifically confirm or deny this beyond the general look of Tipple's Master (which is only seen from a distance). First Frontier, an earlier Doctor Who novelisation, has a conflicting story where the Master regenerates into a new body (see notes regarding First Frontier below), fans have suggested this may be the version Tipple is portraying.

The Master's final request is that the Doctor is to take his remains back to Gallifrey. In the Virgin New Adventures novel Lungbarrow by Marc Platt, the Doctor is given this task by the High Council of Time Lords. However, the Master manages to somehow survive his execution in the form of a small, snake-like, amorphous entity. This entity escapes from a casket in which the Doctor had stowed his remains and slithers inside the TARDIS console, shorting out the navigational systems and forcing the vessel to crash land in San Francisco, leading into the events of the rest of the television movie.

The novelisation of the television movie by Gary Russell posits that the modifications and alterations that the Master has made to his body over the years in attempts to extend his lifespan had allowed this continued existence, and the implication is that the "morphant" creature is actually another lifeform that the Master's consciousness possesses. This interpretation is made explicit in the first of the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels, The Eight Doctors by Terrance Dicks, and also used in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story The Fallen (DWM #273-#276). In The Fallen, it is revealed that the morphant was a shape-shifting animal native to Skaro.

The morphant form is unsustainable and requires a human host, and it possesses the body of Bruce, a paramedic (played by Eric Roberts). However, Bruce's body is also unsustainable and begins to slowly degenerate, although he has the added ability to spit an acid-like bile as a weapon. The Master once again attempts to access the Eye of Harmony to steal the Doctor's remaining regenerations, but instead is bodily sucked into the Eye.

Roberts' Master is easily the most flamboyant of all the portrayals. Upon acquiring his new body, the Master dons a leather trenchcoat and aviator glasses (although he later swaps them for ceremonial Time Lord robes). To date, he is the only Time Lord to speak with an American accent.

Return of the Master

When Doctor Who was revived in 2005, it was initially claimed in the episode "Dalek" that all the Time Lords except the Doctor were killed in a Time War with the Daleks. The Doctor stated that if other Time Lords had survived, he would have been able to sense them telepathically. In the 2007 episode "Gridlock", the Face of Boe foreshadows the Master's return by informing the Tenth Doctor, "You are not alone."

The Master finally returns in the 2007 episode "Utopia", the first of a three-part season finale, first portrayed by Derek Jacobi under the guise of Professor Yana (an acronym for "You are not alone"). He disguised himself as a human via the same process the Doctor himself used in "Human Nature" — a Chameleon Arch that stores his Time Lord nature and memories in a fob watch and allows him to become human — and hid at the end of the universe. Events conspire to bring the Doctor to the same point, and Martha Jones inadvertently causes Yana to question the "broken" fob watch that contains his Time Lord essence, allowing the Master persona to take hold once more. He is mortally wounded during a struggle with Yana's assistant, Chantho, regenerating into a new incarnation portrayed by John Simm. The Master then steals the Doctor's TARDIS and arrives in the present, having been forced to arrive there by the Doctor.

In "The Sound of Drums", it is revealed that the Time Lords resurrected the Master to serve as a soldier in the war. However, when the Dalek Emperor took control of the Cruciform, he fled the war in fear before its end, hence his ignorance of its outcome. Having arrived eighteen months before the 2008 election, soon after the fall of Harriet Jones, the Master uses his hypnotic powers to assume the identity of Harold Saxon, a high-ranking member of the Ministry of Defence; here he gained a wife, faked a past life history for himself, designed UNIT's floating aircraft carrier, the Valiant, and manipulated Martha Jones' family. Crucially, he helped launch the United Kingdom's Archangel satellite network, which allowed him to gain control of the country's mobile phone networks and insert subliminal messaging, hypnotising the population into voting him as prime minister. It also had the effect of preventing the Doctor from sensing that there was another Time Lord.

After becoming prime minister, he had the Doctor and his companions marked as wanted terrorists and faked a first contact situation with an alien race called the Toclafane (who, according to the Doctor, are the Time Lord equivalent of the bogeyman) which took place on the Valiant. Unable to use the TARDIS, the Master cannibalised it and built a Paradox Machine. Two minutes after the contact, the machine rips a hole in space, releasing six billion Toclafane upon Earth, which the Master casually orders to decimate a tenth of the human race. Martha Jones' family, Captain Jack, and the Doctor — who is aged 100 years by the Master — are all captured; Martha teleports to safety, vowing vengeance.

Parallels with the Doctor

The Master has in many ways been shown to be a parallel of the Doctor, and the series has occasionally suggested that the two are dependent on each other. After their first on-screen encounter in Terror of the Autons, the Doctor admits that he was "quite looking forward" to seeing the Master again. In The Five Doctors, the Master says, "A cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about", and the Third Doctor called the Master "my best enemy". This parallelism and interdependence gives the two characters a yin-yang quality.

TARDIS

The Master's TARDISes have fully functioning chameleon circuits and have appeared as many things, including a horsebox (Terror of the Autons), a computer bank (The Time Monster), a grandfather clock (The Deadly Assassin and The Keeper of Traken), a fluted architectural column (Logopolis, Time-Flight), an iron maiden (The King's Demons) and a fireplace (Castrovalva). Of the Master's TARDISes seen in The Keeper of Traken, one appears as the calcified, statue-like Melkur, able to move and even walk; the other appears as a grandfather clock. At one point in Logopolis, the Master's TARDIS appears as a police box, like the Doctor's, but in "Utopia", he simply resorts to stealing the Doctor's TARDIS, which, in "Rise of the Cybermen", the Tenth Doctor claims is the last one in existence.

Tissue Compression Eliminator

The Master's weapon of choice is the Tissue Compression Eliminator, which shrinks its target, killing them in the process. Its appearance is similar to that of the Doctor's favourite tool, the sonic screwdriver. Both the TCE and the sonic screwdriver resemble a short hand-held rod; at different times in the series, both tools have had an LED light on the end to signal its use. As an additional signal to its use, the ball-like shape on the end of the TCE opens up, while the LED lights up (in later appearances it also fired a beam of red light).

In "The Sound of Drums", the Master has a new handheld weapon: a laser screwdriver, which resembles the Doctor's sonic screwdriver and was apparently named as such just to mock the Doctor's version ("Laser screwdriver. Who'd have sonic?"). The Master's screwdriver is coloured gold and silver, as well as being slightly larger than the Doctor's with a trio of LEDs instead of just one. The device functions a laser weapon, but its main capacity is a miniaturised version of the LazLabs' genetic manipulation technology, which the Master uses to age the Doctor by a century.

Intelligence, psychic abilities and mental connection

The Master and the Doctor are shown to have similar levels of intelligence, and were classmates in the academy on Gallifrey. In The Five Doctors, when the Master sees the First Doctor, the elderly First Doctor asks, "Do I know you, young man?" The Master replies, "Believe it or not, we were at the academy together." Previously, in the Jon Pertwee story The Sea Devils, the Doctor reveals: "We were friends once; very good friends. In fact, you might almost say we were at school together". In the 2007 episode "Utopia", the Doctor calls the transformed and disguised Master a genius for being able to produce an advanced computing system out of various scraps, including food, and shows an immense admiration for his intellect before discovering his true identity.

Both the Doctor and the Master have been shown to be skilled hypnotists. In Logopolis the Doctor said of the Master, "He's a Time Lord. In many ways, we have the same mind". The significance of this comment is that the Master can anticipate the Doctor's every move. This is seen in stories like Castrovalva, The Keeper of Traken, Time-Flight and The King's Demons, where he plans elaborate traps for the Doctor, only revealing his presence at the key moment. In The Deadly Assassin, the Master was able to send a false premonition as a telepathic message to the Doctor, but it is unclear whether he performed this through innate psychic ability, or was aided technologically.

Other appearances

This section concerns the appearances of the Master in various spin-offs, which are of unclear canonicity and may not take place in the same continuity.

The Master has also been featured in spin-offs of the series, most notably David A. McIntee's "Master trilogy" of novels comprising The Dark Path and First Frontier in the Virgin Publishing lines and The Face of the Enemy for BBC Books, and the Doctor Who audio dramas produced by Big Finish Productions, in which Geoffrey Beevers has reprised the role.

Doctor Who Annual 2006

An article in the Doctor Who Annual 2006, describing the Time War and written by Doctor Who writer and producer Russell T. Davies, stated that Time Lord President Romana tried to make peace with the Daleks through something known as the "Act of Master Restitution". While this is not elaborated on, it has been speculated that the Act may be how the Master came to be put on trial by the Daleks at the start of the 1996 television movie, however it may equally be the use of the word to mean the "main" or "predominant" reparations for the war. It may also have been a referance to the ressurection of the Master by the Time Lords as a weapon.

Novels

The Master's past with the Doctor is explored somewhat in The Dark Path, which reveals that his name prior to taking the alias of the Master is Koschei. He turns evil and becomes the Master after he discovers that his companion and lover, Ailla, is an undercover agent of the Celestial Intervention Agency sent to spy on him.

During the course of the novel, Ailla is shot and killed. Not knowing she is a Time Lord and that she will simply regenerate, Koschei completes a time-based weapon in an attempt to bring her back and the weapon is used to destroy the planet Teriliptus and its inhabitants. When Ailla turns up alive, the knowledge that he has destroyed a planet for nothing, coupled with the revelation of Ailla's betrayal, proves too much. Koschei resolves to bring his own order to the universe at the expense of free will and becoming its Master. Trapped in a black hole at the end of the novel, Koschei uses up all of his regenerations trying to escape from it, establishing that the Delgado Master was his thirteenth and final incarnation had he not been able to artificially prolong his life.

The Face of the Enemy centres around the regular Delgado Master, but includes a cameo by a Koschei from an alternate timeline (originally featured in Inferno) who never became the Master. This version of Koschei is still a loyal Time Lord who becomes stranded on the alternate Earth after an alien attack. He is subsequently captured and forced to work for the fascist rulers of this Earth, who keep him alive, in agony, using life support systems. When the Master, crossing over from the other universe, learns of this, he ends his counterpart's life in a show of compassion.

Last of the Gaderene by Mark Gatiss and Deadly Reunion by Terrance Dicks and Barry Letts are both close homages to the Delgado/Pertwee stories. In the former, the Master, disguised as Police Inspector LeMaitre, assists an alien race called the Gaderene to invade Earth, starting with a small village. In the latter, he attempts to control powerful forces through a cult, but finds himself at the mercy of a godlike alien.

The reason the Master is so emaciated when he appears in The Deadly Assassin is explored in John Peel's novel Legacy of the Daleks, in which he attempts to capture the Doctor's granddaughter Susan Foreman, but is badly burned when she attacks him in self-defence and takes possession of his TARDIS. After Susan escapes, the dying Master is eventually found by Chancellor Goth on the planet Tersurus, which leads directly into the events of The Deadly Assassin.

The Ainley Master appears in the novel The Quantum Archangel by Craig Hinton, a direct sequel to The Time Monster. In this novel he poses as a Serbian businessman called Gospodar, prompting the Sixth Doctor to wonder if he's "running out of languages".

First Frontier shows the Master (apparently the Anthony Ainley version) finally acquiring a new body, who according to McIntee is based on the cinema persona of Basil Rathbone. This incarnation reappears in Happy Endings by Paul Cornell, Virgin Publishing's celebratory fiftieth Virgin New Adventures novel. After the broadcast of the television movie, some fans suggested that this is the incarnation briefly played by Gordon Tipple in the prologue, eventually succumbing once again to the cheetah virus in the first Eighth Doctor novel The Eight Doctors.

The short story Stop The Pigeon, and the Past Doctor Adventure Prime Time, both by Robert Perry and Mike Tucker and probably set before First Frontier, feature the Ainley Master looking for a cure for the Cheetah virus.

Gallifrey and the Time Lords are destroyed in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Ancestor Cell, but in The Adventuress of Henrietta Street a mysterious stranger wearing a rosette appears who could have been the Master, somehow surviving the cataclysm. Gallifrey's destruction here is not related to its subsequent destruction just prior to the new series (see Time Lord - Recent history). In Lance Parkin's The Gallifrey Chronicles, a surviving Time Lord named Marnal appears, and it is implied in dialogue that he may have been the Master's father. In the same novel (and earlier, in Sometime Never...), the Doctor talks with a malign entity within the TARDIS's Eye of Harmony, which could have been the Roberts Master, throwing the true identity of the Man with the Rosette into doubt. However, the entity within the Eye refers to itself as an "echo", thus leaving scope for the real Master to be elsewhere. (In his Doctor Who chronology book AHistory, Parkin suggests that Lawrence Miles intended the Man with the Rosette to be the Master, even if it was not explicitly stated.)

The Master is seen to escape the Eye of Harmony in the short story Forgotten by Joseph Lidster, published in Short Trips: The Centenarian. The story ends with him left in 1906 in possession of a human male's body.

Another version of the Master appears in The Infinity Doctors (also by Parkin), where he is known as the Magistrate and is, once again, the Doctor's friend, although when this takes place in continuity (or if it really takes place in an alternate reality) is unclear. Parkin, however has stated that the novel can fit into continuity and that its incarnation of the Master is based on Richard E. Grant.

During the Faction Paradox arc that runs through the Eighth Doctor Adventures, a character known as the War King is featured which is implied to be a future incarnation of the Master. The character is also referenced in The Book of the War, published by Mad Norwegian Press when the Faction Paradox stories spun-off into their own continuity.

Comic strips

The Master returns in a new body and guise, that of a street preacher, in the previously mentioned Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story The Fallen, although the Doctor does not recognise him. The Master reveals himself a few stories later, in The Glorious Dead (DWM #287-#296). The Master had survived the events of the television movie by encountering a cosmic being named Esterath in the time vortex. Esterath controls the Glory, the focal point of the Omniversal spectrum which underlies all existence. The Master's scheme to take control of the Glory fails, and he is banished to parts unknown (see Kroton).

This incarnation of the Master resembles a middle-aged black human. (No Time Lord in the television series was ever played by a black actor, although a black Time Lord appears in the spin-off novel The Shadows of Avalon by Paul Cornell, and Time Lord founder Rassilon is portrayed in several audio plays by black actor Don Warrington.)

In Character Assassin (DWM #311), the Delgado Master visits the Land of Fiction and steals part of the technology behind it, wiping out several nineteenth century fictional villains as he goes.

Audio plays

The Master appears in the Big Finish Productions audio play, Dust Breeding, where Geoffrey Beevers reprised the role. The story reveals that, at some point after Survival, The Master's Trakenite body is damaged and he becomes a walking corpse again, using the alias Mr Seta, another anagram of Master.

In the later Master, it is revealed that while the Seventh Doctor is Time's Champion, the Master is Death's. This is a result of an incident in their youth, where the Doctor gave his childhood friend over to Death (personified as a woman) rather than become its slave himself, creating the Master. The Master forgives the Doctor for this, understanding that he did not foresee the consequences, but the end of the play implies that the Master will once again become Death's servant.

An out-of-continuity Master is heard in the Big Finish audio play Sympathy for the Devil, voiced by "Sam Kisgart" (an anagram of Mark Gatiss). In this alternate version of events, the Third Doctor does not arrive for his exile on Earth until 1997 and the Master has been trapped on the planet while a series of extraterrestrial disasters occurred over the decades without the Doctor's help to stop them.

Others

The Master was also played by Jonathan Pryce in the Comic Relief skit Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death. Eric Saward included the Anthony Ainley version in his short story, "Birth of a Renegade," in the Doctor Who 20th Anniversary Special one-off magazine, published by Radio Times (and in the United States by Starlog Press) in 1983. In 2003, an android version of the character (resembling the Delgado Master and voiced by Derek Jacobi) appeared in the animated webcast, Scream of the Shalka. He also appears, with the "Shalka Doctor" (Richard E. Grant in the webcast), in a follow-up short story by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright, The Feast of the Stone. This Master is created by the Doctor and is apparently once again his friend — albeit a slightly sinister one. Exactly why the Doctor created an android duplicate of the Master is not revealed, but it is suggested that the Doctor somehow extended the Master's own life by doing so. The android is also able to pilot the Doctor's TARDIS, but is physically unable to leave the ship, perhaps as a safeguard. It can also be switched off.

The Master also appears in the Viz comic strip and Flash animation Doctor Poo, suffering from a case of diarrhoea.

Further appearances

Audio dramas

• The Killing Stone (BBV Audio, read by Richard Franklin)

Other

• Who Killed Kennedy (Virgin)
• Destiny of the Doctors (Computer game; played by Ainley; his last performance as The Master)

See also

• Svengali
• Professor Moriarty
• Doctor Mabuse
• Davros
• The Rani
• Meddling Monk

Footnotes

1. Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition #2, 5 September 2002, , page 14)
2. Fans have occasionally seized upon the two Time Lords' rivalry to speculate that the Master and the Doctor are, in fact, brothers. Such speculation was fueled by the Master's last line in Planet of Fire, which was originally scripted by Peter Grimwade (with permission from script editor Eric Saward) to allude to this as "Doctor, could you do this to your own..." However, this line was excised in post-production, and the Master's last words in the story are somewhat obscured. On the other hand, Lance Parkin's novel The Gallifrey Chronicles implies that the Doctor and the Master had different fathers. The Doctor Who episode The Sound of Drums also had the Doctor explicitely denying this was the case.
3. Fan speculation has also tried to link the Master with the Meddling Monk and/or the War Chief, renegade Time Lords and adversaries of the Doctor predating the Master's first appearance. Such speculation postulated that either the Monk or the War Chief eventually regenerated into the Master; however, the licensed spin-off novels have contradicted these theories by featuring return appearances by both renegades, as well as providing an origin story for the Master.
4. ^ Doctor Who Fact File: Utopia

External links

• "The Feast of the Stone" - short story featuring the Shalka Master on the BBCi website.
• The Canon Keeper's Guide to Doctor Who — "The Master's Travels" - a speculative chronology of the Master's appearances in television, novels and audio plays (scroll down)
• International Hero Profiles - a profile of the Master and his various identities
• A BBC viral website created to promote the election campaign

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