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== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
* [[Derek Jacobi]], who voiced the "Android Master", would go on to play a new version of | * [[Derek Jacobi]], who voiced the "Android Master", would go on to play [[War Master|a new version]] of [[the Master]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', and later star in his own audio series, ''[[The War Master (audio series)|The War Master]]''. | ||
* In his intended backstory, the Master came to the assistance of the [[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|Ninth Doctor]] when Gallifrey was invaded by an unknown alien race. While the other Time Lord retreated to [[the Matrix]], the Doctor and the Master "sent the aliens packing", destroying the Master's final form in the process, causing the Doctor to construct an [[android]] body confined to [[the Doctor's TARDIS (Scream of the Shalka)|his TARDIS]]. The Time Lords then used their power to "send the Doctor off to solve the most dangerous problems in the universe", with the Master along for the ride. ([[DWM 464]]) | * In his intended backstory, the Master came to the assistance of the [[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|Ninth Doctor]] when Gallifrey was invaded by an unknown alien race. While the other Time Lord retreated to [[the Matrix]], the Doctor and the Master "sent the aliens packing", destroying the Master's final form in the process, causing the Doctor to construct an [[android]] body confined to [[the Doctor's TARDIS (Scream of the Shalka)|his TARDIS]]. The Time Lords then used their power to "send the Doctor off to solve the most dangerous problems in the universe", with the Master along for the ride. ([[DWM 464]]) | ||
* With the ''[[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures|Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'' being an ongoing series at the time of ''Scream of the Shalka''{{'}}s release, range editor [[Justin Richards]] connected the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s continuity to that of the [[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|"Shalka" Doctor]]'s via the Master. As Richards confirmed in [[DWM 338]], the novel ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'' tied in to ''Scream of the Shalka'' with a scene in "the room in the TARDIS where the Doctor never goes," wherein the Eighth Doctor encounters the Master's essence trapped in [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] since [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''. The link between the 'ghost and the machine' and the 'Android Master' was later clarified by [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'', which stated that "some rumours" said that after the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'' "[the Master] remained trapped in the Doctor's TARDIS, his mental resources transferred into an android, acting as the Doctor's companion or pet." | * With the ''[[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures|Eighth Doctor Adventures]]'' being an ongoing series at the time of ''Scream of the Shalka''{{'}}s release, range editor [[Justin Richards]] connected the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s continuity to that of the [[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|"Shalka" Doctor]]'s via the Master. As Richards confirmed in [[DWM 338]], the novel ''[[Sometime Never... (novel)|Sometime Never...]]'' tied in to ''Scream of the Shalka'' with a scene in "the room in the TARDIS where the Doctor never goes," wherein the Eighth Doctor encounters the Master's essence trapped in [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] since [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''. The link between the 'ghost and the machine' and the 'Android Master' was later clarified by [[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'', which stated that "some rumours" said that after the events of [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'' "[the Master] remained trapped in the Doctor's TARDIS, his mental resources transferred into an android, acting as the Doctor's companion or pet." | ||