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* 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)|Ninth 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 Master's face appears on a screen and is described as "wise and whimsical with hard eyes and a beard flecked with grey," a more concise version of [[Paul Cornell]]'s description of the android Master in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (novelisation)|Scream of the Shalka]]''. This "ghost in the machine" Master reappears in ''[[The Deadstone Memorial (novel)|The Deadstone Memorial]]'' and ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]''. The link between this trapped Master 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]]'' " | * 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)|Ninth 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 Master's face appears on a screen and is described as "wise and whimsical with hard eyes and a beard flecked with grey," a more concise version of [[Paul Cornell]]'s description of the android Master in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Scream of the Shalka (novelisation)|Scream of the Shalka]]''. This "ghost in the machine" Master reappears in ''[[The Deadstone Memorial (novel)|The Deadstone Memorial]]'' and ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]''. The link between this trapped Master 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." | ||
* [[Derek Jacobi]], who voiced this version of the Master, would go on to play a new version of {{Jacobi}} in [[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', and later star in his own audio series, ''[[The War Master (audio series)|The War Master]]''. | * [[Derek Jacobi]], who voiced this version of the Master, would go on to play a new version of {{Jacobi}} in [[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'', and later star in his own audio series, ''[[The War Master (audio series)|The War Master]]''. | ||
* According to the production information text on the ''Scream of the Shalka'' DVD, in original drafts of the script, instead of an android of the Master being the TARDIS Defence System, it was going to be a hologram of the [[Fifth Doctor]]. This was later changed so that it would be the Master instead. | * According to the production information text on the ''Scream of the Shalka'' DVD, in original drafts of the script, instead of an android of the Master being the TARDIS Defence System, it was going to be a hologram of the [[Fifth Doctor]]. This was later changed so that it would be the Master instead. | ||
