The Final Game (unproduced TV story)
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The Final Game was an unproduced serial intended to end Season 11. It would have revealed that the Third Doctor and the Master were actually brothers, explaining why the Master never sought to actually kill the Doctor. It would have ended with the Master sacrificing his life for the Doctor then the Doctor regenerates. However, the episode was never produced due to the death of Roger Delgado (the Master) and Planet of the Spiders replaced this story as the final episode for Jon Pertwee (Third Doctor).
Notes
- Several elements from this episode have recycled over the years:
- The part where the Master is responsible for the Doctor's regeneration is shown when the Master was responsible for the Fourth Doctor's regeneration into the Fifth Doctor.
- The part where the Master is either the Doctor's evil side or his brother is refferened in Planet of Fire in dialogue between the Fifth Doctor and the Master.
- The part where the two Time Lords are thought to be brothers occurred in The Sound of Drums when Martha Jones tells the Tenth Doctor she thought he and the Master were brothers which he dismissively replies "You watch too much TV".
- The part where they're thought to be two aspects of the same Time Lord would be reused in The End of Time with the Tenth Doctor and the Master wondering they'd be like without each other and the Master sacrificing himself to save the Tenth Doctor from Rassilon.
