Eyes of the Master (audio story)

Eyes of the Master
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Molly, Liv
Featuring:	David, Dalek Time Controller
Main enemy:	The Reborn Master
Main setting:	London, 1972
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Matt Fitton
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Producer:	David Richardson
Music:	Wilfredo Acosta
Sound:	Wilfredo Acosta
Cover by:	Damien May
Release details
Number of parts:	1
Release number:	4
Part of:	Dark Eyes 2
Release date:	12 February 2014
Format:	1 CD Download 4th of 4 stories
Production code:	BFPDWCDMG036
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-78178-304-7
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Eyes of the Master was the fourth and final story in the audio anthology Dark Eyes 2, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Matt Fitton and featured Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, Ruth Bradley as Molly O'Sullivan and Nicola Walker as Liv Chenka.

Publisher's summary

The Doctor, Liv and Molly arrive back on Earth in the 1970s to investigate the Ides Institute. The timelines have shifted since the Doctor and Molly first travelled here and all is not as it was. Dr Sally Armstrong is still working for the Ides, but her associate has a devastating plan in mind.

Soon, Molly's "dark eyes" prove to be at the centre of a plot to seize control of all life in the universe.

Plot

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Paul McGann
• Molly O'Sullivan - Ruth Bradley
• Liv Chenka - Nicola Walker
• The Master - Alex Macqueen
• Dr Sally Armstrong - Natalie Burt
• David Walker - David Shaw-Parker
• Mrs Gantry - Jacqueline King
• Soldier - Frank Skinner

Worldbuilding

• The Master runs the vision clinic in Harley Street.
• David Walker married a woman named Isabelle and they raised their two sons in 107 Baker Street. One of them is named Nigel who lives in Manchester while the other lives in Australia and has three daughters.
• Sally Armstrong is armed with the Master's Tissue Compression Eliminator.
• David stopped driving in 1962.
• The Master states his many encounters with the Third Doctor happening in the 1970's.

Notes

• This is the first non-multi-Doctor audio drama in which the Eighth Doctor confronts the Master. They previously encountered each other in the audio story The Light at the End.
• David Sibley and Nicholas Briggs are not credited for their roles as the Eminence and the Dalek Time Controller respectively.
• This was the last Dark Eyes story to feature the Daleks until The Monster of Montmartre, as they made no appearance in Dark Eyes 3.
• Liv says she comes from 1000 years in the future, meaning she's from approximately the 29th century.
• While the story itself doesn't indicate which year it's set in, Liv recalls living in 107 Baker Street in 1972 in AUDIO: Lost Property.

CD Booklet interior illustration of the Doctor and Molly facing off against the Master and Sally.

Continuity

• Molly refers to working as a chambermaid for the Donaldson family in Eaton Place in London. (AUDIO: The Great War) She tells Liv that she has not walked the streets of London for more than fifty years, since 1918. (AUDIO: The White Room)
• Liv mentions that it took centuries for her to travel across the universe. (AUDIO: Time's Horizon)
• Molly and Liv discuss the latter's illness. (AUDIO: Time's Horizon)
• The Doctor refers to the fact that Kotris never existed. (AUDIO: X and the Daleks)
• The Doctor tells Liv that he and Molly met on a battlefield. (AUDIO: The Great War)
• The Doctor owns a purple Volkswagen Beetle. (PROSE: Vampire Science, Longest Day, Seeing I)
• David Walker has lived in 107 Baker Street since 1918. (AUDIO: The White Room)
• Liv refers to her Orpheus crewmates Dal Brock, Vi Kruger and Bron Kell. (AUDIO: Time's Horizon)
• The Master is aware that Liv worked for the Daleks on Nixyce VII. (AUDIO: The Traitor)
• The Master notes that the Eighth Doctor has cut his hair and changed his clothes since they last met in San Francisco on 31 December 1999. (TV: Doctor Who)
• The Master recalls when the Doctor wore a cape and frills while he had a "rather more sophisticated wardrobe" and a beard. (TV: Terror of the Autons, et al.)
• The Master has been rescued from a "predicament" by the Time Lords. (AUDIO: Day of the Master)
• The Master thinks that the Time Lords are preparing him for something. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
• After seeing the Doctor's TARDIS, the Master thinks it might be "that tiresome little man with the umbrella". (AUDIO: Dominion)
• The Doctor recalls his first meeting with Sally Armstrong in an alternative timeline in 1972. (AUDIO: Fugitives)
• The Master discusses the Doctor's mission to avert the creation of the Daleks, as well as the Time Lords' (actually Narvin's) prediction of a future where the only surviving life is Dalek. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks; AUDIO: Ascension)
• The Master refers to the Doctor stealing the TARDIS from Gallifrey (TV: The Name of the Doctor; AUDIO: The Beginning) and his first visit to Skaro during his first incarnation. (TV: The Daleks)
• The Master tells the Doctor that Molly's retro-genitor particles were reactivated when they were reunited in 1918. (AUDIO: The White Room)
• While on Nixyce VII, the Doctor uses the pseudonym "Bert Higgins." (AUDIO: The Traitor)

External links

• Official Eyes of the Master page at bigfinish.com