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| ==Behind the Scenes==
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| ===Conception and development of the character===
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| When conceiving the character, the production team had originally considered the idea of the Doctor having a female, rather than male, arch-nemesis. Later, they thought of the Master as the evil half of a single personality.
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| In the final [[Third Doctor]], the Master would have redeemed himself and given his life to have saved the Doctor, after which the Doctor would have [[regenerate]]d. The accidental death of [[Roger Delgado]], who had played the [[The Master (UNIT years)|original version of the Master]] made it so that this development never happened.
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| In ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'', writer (and then [[Script Editor]]) [[Robert Holmes]] deliberately chose to show the Master in a "transitional" form in case future production teams wanted to bring back the character.
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| ===Actors who have portrayed the Master===
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| :''Apart from the incarnations below, other incarnations of the Master have appeared in novels and comics.''
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| ====''Doctor Who'' television appearances ([[1971]]-[[1989]])====
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| *[[Roger Delgado]] (as [[The Master (UNIT years)|the first version of the character]] to appear on ''[[Doctor Who]]''. He first appeared in the role in [[1971]]'s ''[[Terror of the Autons]]''.
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| *[[Peter Pratt]] and [[Geoffrey Beevers]] (as [[The Master (Tersurus)|his next incarnation]] (both actors played the same incarnation of the character). They appeared in ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'' and ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'', respectively.
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| *[[Anthony Ainley]] as [[The Master (Tremas)|The Master in the body of Tremas]] from the last moments of ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'' through the last original series story ''[[Survival]]'', making him the longest running actor to portray the Master up to the present day. Note that the character had several extended absences from the series.
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| =====Television movie and mini-episode ([[1996]] and [[1999]])=====
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| *[[Eric Roberts]] played the Master in the body of [[Bruce]], in ''[[Doctor Who: The TV Movie]]''.
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| *In the same production, [[Gordon Tipple]] appeared in a non-speaking role as the Master's previous incarnation.
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| *[[Jonathan Pryce]] played "[[The 17th Master]]" in a non-[[canon]]ical spoof mini-episode, ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death]]''.
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| =====New series ([[2007]])=====
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| *[[Derek Jacobi]] played [[Professor Yana]], actually a [[Human]] version of the Master, as well as the Master himself once he turned back into a Time Lord.
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| *[[John Simm]] played the Master's [[Harold Saxon|next incarnation]]. Both actors debuted in ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', though only Simm appeared in the follow-up episodes ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'' and ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]''.
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| *[[William Hughes]] had a non-speaking cameo as a child version of the Master during a flashback sequence in ''[[The Sound of Drums]]''.
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| ====Other media====
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| =====Animation=====
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| *Derek Jacobi also played [[The Master (Scream of the Shalka)|another incarnation of the Master]] in the web-based animation ''[[Scream of the Shalka]]''.
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| =====Audio=====
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| *[[Geoffrey Beevers]] reprised the role in the audio plays ''[[Dust Breeding]]'' and ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]''.
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| *[[Mark Gatiss]] played an [[The Master (Unbound) |alternative version of the character]] in ''[[Sympathy for the Devil]]''.
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| ====Video game====
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| *Anthony Ainley reprised the role in videotaped scenes included in the game ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]''. These sequences appear as extras on the DVD version of ''[[Survival]]'', his last television story.
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| ===Continuity===
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| *''[[The Doctor Who Role Playing Game]]'' from the American gaming company [[FASA]] identified [[the Monk]] and the [[War Chief]] as earlier incarnations of the Master, causing a few fans to mistakenly believe that ''[[Doctor Who]]'' itself had stated a connection, when it had not done so. Novel and comic continuity specifically indicates otherwise.
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| *The [[Big Finish Productions]] audio play ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'' and the television episode ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'' have the Doctor telling two different and apparently contradictory explanations for how the Master turned evil (Although it may be that both the schism and the deal with Death were responsible, with the deal with Death making the Master's madness more powerful).
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| *Although novels have been written establishing [[the Master (UNIT years)|the "first" Master]]'s activities between the final televised appearance of [[Roger Delgado]] ''[[Frontier in Space]]'' and the character's return in ''[[The Deadly Assassin]]'' in a [[The Master (Tersurus)|degenerated form]], the latter adventure makes no direct link. Therefore it can't be said for certain (based upon on-screen evidence) whether this incarnation is the same one played by Delgado.
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| *In the 2009 Easter special of doctor who [[Planet of the Dead (TV story)]], the psychic character states at the end that the doctor's song will soon end, (a possible reference to the fact that the current doctor David Tennant would soon be leaving and regenerating into Matt Smith), and that "it is returning" (a reference to maybe a former enemy returning to the show), and that "he will knock 4 times". This appears to be a sign that the master may return as the last appearance of the master was in the series finally of the new series 3, where he was constantly seen tapping a rhythm of drums that had only four beats.
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| ===Anagrams===
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| During [[Anthony Ainley]]'s tenure as the Master, [[pseudonym]]s made from anagrams of the actor's name were often used in the credits for the Master's disguises, such as Neil Toynay for [[the Portreeve]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story) |Castrovalva]]''. [[Tremas]] is itself an anagram of Master.
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| At the same time, in [[Series 3 (Doctor Who)|Series 3]] (season 29), the Master takes on two new identities: Professor Yana in [[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', and Mr. Harold Saxon in [[DW]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'' and [[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'' (as it happens, "Mister Saxon" is a (possibly unintentional) anagram of "Master No. Six" as "Sam Tyler" (John Simm's ''[[Wikipedia:Life on Mars (TV series)|Life on Mars]]'' character) is an anagram of "masterly").
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| *The next Doctor Who Special, [[The Waters of Mars]], is an anagram of "Wars of The Master" and "The Master of Wars" and "The War of Masters". It has been heavily hinted that the Master is returning in the last episodes to feature [[David Tennant]] as The [[Tenth Doctor]]. This may be another hint at his return.
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