Police 5: The Master (TV story)

Police 5: The Master
Main character(s):	Shaw Taylor
Main enemy:	The Master
Main setting:	England, 1993
Key crew
Writer:	Kevin Davies
Director:	Kevin Davies
Producer:	Kevin Davies
Release details
Premiere broadcast:	10 December 1993
Premiere network:	BBC One
Format:	1x6 minute story

Police 5: The Master was a short crime file about "master criminal" the Master. The story was a DWU edition of Police 5.

It was broadcast for the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who and was also broadcast before a repeat airing of Planet of the Daleks episode five.

Synopsis

Shaw Taylor warns the viewers to be on the lookout for a dangerous criminal known as the Master.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• Shaw Taylor - himself

Archive footage

• The Master - Anthony Ainley
• The Master - Roger Delgado
• The Master - Peter Pratt
• Borusa - John Arnatt
• Azal - Stephen Thorne
• The Doctor - Jon Pertwee
• Jo Grant - Katy Manning
• The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy

Crew

• Writer - Kevin Davies
• Director - Kevin Davies
• Producer - Kevin Davies

References

• Wanted posters for Zygons, Cybermen and Sontarans are visible on the wall behind Shaw.
• According to Shaw Taylor, the Master is 700 years old. However, unlike the Doctor, no exact age for the Master was ever given in any of the character's appearances in any medium.

Continuity

to be added

Story notes

• Archive footage is used from many Doctor Who stories fromTerror of the Autons to Survival.
• This featurette has never been made available as a DVD extra due to copyright and clearance problems, and this is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future.

External links

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