From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Master (audio drama)
Master (audio drama)
Big Finish Productions audio play dentally killed a boy who was bullying the young Master.
When Death came to him, the young Doctor gave his
childhood friend over to Death (personified as a woman)
rather than become its slave himself, causing his friend
to take on all the guilt and aftereffects for his crime and
ultimately become the Master.
However, as a result of this, neither the Master nor
the Doctor remembered the truth, instead having the
false memory of the Master being responsible for the
death. The deal the Doctor made involved Death allowing
the Master to be what he would have been if he had not
become her avatar, but in return the Doctor would have
to kill him ten years later.
Rendered amnesiac and thinking his name was John
Smith, the Master becomes a benevolent doctor on
Master Perfugum. At the end of those years, however, Doctor is
unable to bring himself to kill him. This causes Death to
Series Doctor Who
become personally involved, unleashing a night of hor-
Release number 49 rors upon the household. The truth of the Master’s past
is revealed, but "John Smith" forgives the Doctor for this.
Featuring Seventh Doctor
Master However, the end implies that the Master will once again
become Death’s servant.
Writer Joseph Lidster
Director Gary Russell Cast
Producer(s) Gary Russell • The Doctor — Sylvester McCoy
Jason Haigh-Ellery
• The Master — Geoffrey Beevers
Executive producer(s) Jacqueline Rayner • Man — Daniel Barzotti
• Child — Joe Bassett
Set between A Death in the Family and
Return of the Daleks • Jade — Charlie Hayes
• Victor Schaeffer — Philip Madoc
Length 2 hrs 13 mins • Jacqueline Schaeffer — Anne Ridler
Release date October 2003
Master is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on
Notes
the long-running British science fiction television series • This story is part of a trilogy with Omega and Davros
Doctor Who. It forms a trilogy with Omega and Davros to to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Doctor Who.
celebrate the 40th anniversary of the show. It features • Geoffrey Beevers reprises the role of the Master,
the Seventh Doctor as its main character. whom he previously played in the 1981 story The
Keeper of Traken and the Big Finish Productions audio
play Dust Breeding.
Synopsis • The Master spends most of the play in his "John
The Seventh Doctor arrives at an old house on the colony Smith" personality. However, when his true
world of Perfugium where he has, through a deal with personality briefly surfaces, he is quite
Death, sent the Master to live without memory of his evil contemptuous of the idea that Death had anything to
for several years. do with his creation. The Master scoffs at the idea of
It is eventually revealed that while the Doctor was being Death’s Champion, casually tells her to be
Time’s Champion, the Master was Death’s. This was a re- quiet and generally dismisses her. This may imply
sult of an incident in their youth, when the Doctor acci- that Death is exaggerating her role in the Master’s
formation.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Master (audio drama)
• Since the Master is using the Doctor’s usual appeared in two Second Doctor serials,The Krotons
pseudonym, the latter professes his name to be and The War Games and in the 1970s he appeared in
Vaughan Sutton, the villain he faced in Excelis two Fourth Doctor serials, The Brain of Morbius and
Decays. The Power of Kroll. He returned to Big Finish in the
• The personification of Death had previously 2008 Sixth Doctor story Return of the Krotons.
appeared in the Virgin New Adventures line of
books, and this story, although it is set after that line
of books, shares much of its tone with them.
External links
• Death tells the Doctor that she knows what is inside • Master (audio story) on TARDIS Index File, an
his head and sings a paraphrased version of the external wiki
Zagreus nursery rhyme, foreshadowing future • Big Finish Productions - The Master
events. • Master reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
• Philip Madoc appeared in the Doctor Who movie • Master at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD. He also had several • Master reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide
roles in the television series. In the 1960s he
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