A Call from the Master (TV story): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Story SMW

|image         = ACFTM.JPG

|doctor         = Sixth Doctor

|featuring      = Nicola Bryant (in-universe)

|featuring2    = Mike Read

|enemy          = {{Ainley|c}}

|broadcast date = 3 January 1985

|network       = BBC One

|series         = ''[[Saturday Superstore (series)|Saturday Superstore]]''

}}

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'''''A Call from the Master''''' was a story that was broadcast on the children's phone-in show ''[[Saturday Superstore (series)|Saturday Superstore]]'' in [[1985 (releases)|1985]], to tie-in with ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]''. It featured an in-character voice-over cameo by [[Anthony Ainley]] as {{Ainley}}.

The [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Nicola Bryant (The Trial)|Nicola Bryant]] are answering questions from callers during a phone-in on ''Saturday Superstore'', until {{Ainley|n=a familiar voice}} suddenly comes on the line...

On ''[[Saturday Superstore]]'', [[Nicola Bryant (A Call from the Master)|Nicola Bryant]] from [[Wrexham]] calls in to ask "the other" [[Nicola Bryant (The Trial)|Nicola Bryant]] about why she chose to be an actress. After the call concludes, presenter [[Mike Read]] alerts them that an individual known as {{Ainley|n=the Master}} is on the line.

 

The caller is indeed the Doctor's Time Lord arch-enemy, who proclaims that "[he] is the Master, and you will obey [him]", but the [[Sixth Doctor]] is taken aback as [[Fifth Doctor|he]], or rather, we, [[Planet of Fire (TV story)|had previously watched the Master die]]. The Master tells him that he would "come from the depths of [[hell]]" to haunt the Doctor, and he replies succinctly that the Master can't, as he's dead.

 

The Master laughs, but Nicola reaffirms that she saw him die — the Master casts doubts on this, however. He then challenges the Doctor to settle things once and for all, to finally decide their [[feud]]. The Doctor accepts the challenge, but the Master only laughs and hangs up. Mike mentions that the Master didn't say where he was calling from while, on the desk in front of him, a small robot named SieveHead shakes his head. "I bet he reversed the charges!" exclaims the Doctor.

* [[Sixth Doctor]] - [[Colin Baker]]

* [[Nicola Bryant (The Trial)|Nicola Bryant]] - [[Nicola Bryant]]

* {{Ainley|c}} - [[Anthony Ainley]] ''(voice only)''

* [[Mike Read]] - Himself

== Worldbuilding ==

* This story was made to tie-in with {{Ainley}}'s return in [[TV]]: ''[[The Mark of the Rani (TV story)|The Mark of the Rani]]'', almost a month later.

 

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