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Know your Master - Radio Times, June 2007 |
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RT takes a fond look back over the actors who have brought the villainous Time Lord to life.
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A 70s original
RT introduced the Master to the world in 1971.
"More than a Moriarty" was actor Roger
Delgado's description of the suave Time Lord
villain. With his hypnotic "you will obey me",
he opposed Jon Pertwee's Doctor eight times.
Delgado died in a car crash in 1973, before
a planned final story could be made.
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Rotten luck
Decaying at the end
of his regenerative
powers, the Master
(Peter Pratt) came
back in 1976 to frame
Tom Baker's Doctor
for the murder of the
Time Lord president.
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New body at last
He rematerialised
in 1981 (a different
actor, Geoffrey
Beevers) and
merged with the body
of Tremas (anagram
of Master), played by
Anthony Ainley…
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Back on form
Anthony Ainley saw
off Tom Baker's
Doctor and became
the longest-serving
Master (1981-89),
lasting to the end of
the original run under
Sylvester McCoy.
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Altered states
In a one-off 1996
Anglo-American
co-production, Eric
Roberts (Julia's
brother) gave a US
spin to the character
and took on Paul
McGann's Doctor.
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Dark knight
Derek Jacobi's kindly
Professor Yana
was really the Master
in human guise, hiding at the very ends of the universe. Shot
by his own assistant,
he regenerated and
made off in the
Doctor's Tardis…
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Demon child
In The Sound of Drums, the Doctor revealed how the Master had been driven insane as a child (William Hughes) after staring into the Time Lords' Untempered Schism and witnessing the raw power of the space/time vortex.
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Simm-ply evil
John Simm's take on the villain was "masterly" (an anagram of Sam Tyler, his Life on Mars character). His insane plot was foiled by David Tennant's Doctor and, facing death, he refused to regenerate - but did he really die?
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