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=== Becoming a threat ===

[[File:Change the Polarity.jpg|thumb|left|Sensing betrayal, the Master helps the Doctor repel the Nestenes. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'')]]

The Master returned again, posing as the scientist who had "developed" the Keller Machine. He used prisoners as a plan to hijack the [[Thunderbolt]], a missile containing [[nerve gas]] and use it to destroy the [[World Peace Conference]], which would trigger a [[nuclear war]]. The Doctor, with the help of [[George Patrick Barnham|Barnham]], stopped the Master with the Keller Machine, and the Doctor reactivated the missile's abort mechanism. [[UNIT]] also destroyed the missile along with the Keller Machine, but the Doctor later discovered he had lost the Master's dematerialisation circuit in his altercation with the Master. Shortly after, the Master telephoned to let it be known that he had found the circuit and was free now to come and go as he pleased, while the Doctor had to remain in exile. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'')

[[File:Clawsofaxos ep4.JPG|thumb|left|To escape Axos, the Master joins the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'')]]

[[File:DelgadoMasks.jpg|thumb|The Master reveals his considerable talent for disguise. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Man in the Ion Mask (comic story)|The Man in the Ion Mask]]'')]]

The Master was held at [[Aylesbury Grange Detention Centre]]. Demanding the Doctor visit him, he engaged the Doctor in conversation, insisting he had changed. However, the Doctor refused to believe him, and the Master reluctantly revealed that he had drawn the Doctor to the facility as part of an escape attempt and that the Doctor was speaking to a hologram. The Master nearly escaped but was stopped by UNIT soldiers accompanying the Doctor, who revealed he had been a hologram as well. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Man in the Ion Mask (comic story)|The Man in the Ion Mask]]'')

In another escape attempt, the Master created a device that switched his mind with the Doctor's. He went to [[the Doctor's TARDIS]], where he learned that the Time Lords had made the TARDIS ineffective to the Doctor's piloting. Before returning to his own body, he asked the Brigadier to move him to a new holding facility with a good view, and also encouraged [[Mike Yates]] to ask Jo Grant out on a date. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Switching (short story)|The Switching]]'')

[[File:The Master and 2 Sea Devils.jpg|thumb|left|Seeking freedom, the Master allies with Sea Devils. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'')]]

=== At large again ===

Sometime after his escape, the Master took control of the [[Glasshouse]], a facility for traumatised UNIT soldiers, taking particular control of Private [[Francis Cleary]]. He planned to use [[The Master's Time Ring|a Time Ring]] to have Cleary go to [[1963]] to prevent the [[Kennedy assassination]], thereby altering Earth's history to make it more vulnerable to invasion. The plan failed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who Killed Kennedy (novel)|Who Killed Kennedy]]'')

The Master discovered the mind parasite known as the [[Nurazh]] on a desolate planet. Weakened, the creature failed to take control of him, and begged him to take it off the planet. The Master agreed, taking it to the UNIT hospital [[Kenstone Hall]], where he planned to have it take control of the invalids, healing their injuries in the process, in order to give him an army of brainwashed slaves. The Nurazh, secretly planning to devour the Earth, eventually turned on the Master, who was last seen ducking into [[The Master's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] after releasing [[Jo Grant]] from the Nurazh' s control. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Touch of the Nurazh (short story)|The Touch of the Nurazh]]'')

[[File:Master disguised as Brigadier.jpg|thumb|The Master "infiltrates" UNIT by dressing as [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Out of the Green Mist (short story)|Out of the Green Mist]]'')]]

The Master set up a talent show called ''Make a Star'', based on the anagram "AKA MASTER", which he used to disrupt the timeline by making the contestants cover songs that weren't yet written. He intended to use the relatively minor disruption caused to allow him to take control of Earth, but this plan was foiled by the Third Doctor and Jo Grant. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Hidden Talent (short story)|Hidden Talent]]'')

=== Distancing himself from UNIT ===

[[File:Character Assassin Tiger.jpg|thumb|left|The Master takes down [[Shere Khan]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Character Assassin (comic story)|Character Assassin]]'')]]

The Master travelled to the [[Land of Fiction]], where he intended to steal an advanced piece of technology from the Land, and defeated [[James Moriarty|Professor Moriarty]], ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Character Assassin (comic story)|Character Assassin]]'') and became involved in "a galactic fracas" relating to "a number of large tortoises". The Doctor and Jo put a stop to this scheme. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last Fairy Tale (audio story)|The Last Fairy Tale]]'') He attended [[Bonjaxx]]'s birthday party at [[Maruthea]]. When a fight broke out, the Master was seen crouching to avoid the confrontation, evidently annoyed. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Party Animals (comic story)|Party Animals]]'')

The Master used [[time travel|time-displaced]] [[Scotland|Scottish]] warriors to seize a [[nuclear submarine]] and threaten Britain with obliteration if he wasn't given the Doctor's TARDIS; he ended up temporarily trapped in the [[18th century]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Glen of Sleeping]]'')

For a short while, the Master adopted the identity of "Duke Dominus", a gangster on early [[20th century]] Earth, but his plan was foiled by the [[Fourth Doctor]] without either realising the others' involvement. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Duke of Dominoes]]'')

[[File:The_Judas_Goatee_The_Master_and_Sontarans.jpg|thumb|left|The Master creates a new sect of Sontarans simply by arriving. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Judas Goatee (comic story)|The Judas Goatee]]'')]]

The Master traveled to a [[Sontaran]]-occupied planet and convinced several of the locals that he was a deity. This would form a new sect of proud, beard-toting column-worshipping Sontarans, which would decades later lead to the destruction of the entire planet by Sontaran command. The Master left decades before this, delighted simply by the idea of the chaos he had created. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Judas Goatee (comic story)|The Judas Goatee]]'')

The Master tried to rob [[the Repository]] on a water planet to retrieve from his Vault a map to the [[Boneyard of Knives]]. In doing so, he used a de-evolutionary gun he took from a jungle planet to kill the guards, by reducing them to a previous state in evolution; however, the new forms of life proved to be personality [[leech|leeches]], and started to feed on him. The Master barely managed to get back to his TARDIS and leave a message to himself to recover from his memory loss and instructed himself to use the map to find the Boneyard, before collapsing to the ground and losing consciousness. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master Thief (audio story)|Master Thief]]'')

=== Final exploits ===

The Master planned to release a fog in [[Tadcaster]] by using [[Sarkan]] [[mist-flower]]s to generate a fog that would engulf the Earth in a dense fog. Attempting to catch up with the Master, the Doctor commandeered a pier train that crashed into the Master and the mist-flowers, sending all of them into the ocean, where the flowers were destroyed and the Master disappeared. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Fogbound (comic story)|Fogbound]]'')