The Master's vendetta against the Doctors
The Master repeatedly targets the Fourth and Fifth Doctors, their companions, and allies in a personal vendetta spanning multiple adventures.
Arc Timeline
Season 18
10 eventsConsul Katura completes unauthorized access to the Source, allowing Melkur to assert himself as the new Keeper. The Doctor immediately identifies Melkur as an impostor, countering his false authority with …
As the Doctor and Tremas finalize plans to disable the Source Manipulator, Melkur’s enforcer Neman arrives with armed guards to seize the documents. Under duress, Tremas relinquishes the schematics only …
The Doctor seizes the moment after stabilizing the Source to disrupt the cycle of corruption. With the existing Keeper’s hold broken, he turns to the nearby Consuls and formally transfers …
The Doctor realizes the Master has infiltrated the TARDIS using a second vessel to hijack Tremas’s identity, forcing an abrupt change of plan. With no safe destination and the Master’s …
The Doctor and Adric land the TARDIS at Cadogan Pier but immediately sense something is profoundly amiss. As the Doctor puzzles over the inexplicable nature of their arrival, a figure …
The Doctor and Master race through the collapsing city to find the Monitor before anyone can exploit the research. The Doctor insists the Monitor would never abandon them, but the …
The Master completes his hijacking of the Pharos Project’s antenna, aligning it with a charged vacuum emboitment to broadcast cosmic-scale demands. With dry precision he offers the Doctor the honor …
The Master takes control of the antenna walkway to turn the Pharos Project's dish upward towards the cosmos. He activates the tape recorder to broadcast a chilling ultimatum to every …
The Master seizes his final advantage, sabotaging the antenna’s alignment and sending the Doctor plunging from the walkway. With guards ascending and Logopolis collapsing, the Doctor’s last stand evaporates as …
The Doctor’s companions converge as he collapses below the antenna, their urgent calls blending into a chorus of desperation. Recognizing his imminent end, he utters a quiet resolve that the …
Season 19
11 eventsThe Doctor, struggling with the aftereffects of his regeneration and slumped in a wheelchair, urgently directs Nyssa and Tegan to delete a quarter of the TARDIS's internal architecture to convert …
The Master gloats over his victory after believing he has finally destroyed the Doctor, only for his scanner to flicker with interference and reveal the impossible. The TARDIS materializes once …
The TARDIS hangs at a forty-degree tilt, its interior groan echoing through the unstable vessel. Relief floods Tegan as she confirms survival, her fear turning to triumph. The landing may …
Nyssa presses Tegan to tell the weakened Doctor about Adric’s dire situation, arguing for the urgency of protecting him despite the Doctor’s fragile state and the Master’s lurking schemes. The …
Trussed in the Master’s psychic grip, Adric struggles to resist only to learn his feigned defiance merely masked the villain’s true trap. The Doctor, barely restored after regeneration, senses the …
Tegan and Nyssa uncover the Zero Cabinet repurposed as a washtub, stripping away Shardovan’s facade of neutrality. Tegan’s accusation unlocks the truth—that far more than the Doctor is trapped in …
Mergrave and Ruther confront the figure pretending to be the Portreeve, revealing the Master's deceptions. As he struggles to open the Zero Cabinet, Adric is suddenly revealed trapped in a …
The Doctor tears down the tapestry to reveal Adric trapped in the Master's energy web. The Master gloats over his trap, forcing the Doctor to beg for Adric’s life. Shardovan …
Mergrave seizes the moment to ensure the Doctor and his companions escape as the tunnel begins to collapse around them. Knowing Castrovalva’s recursive nature means certain destruction if they remain, …
Trapped in the tunnel beneath Castrovalva, the Doctor orders Mergrave to leave with him while the Master’s plan unravels. Castrovalva’s people seize the moment, dragging the Master back despite his …
With Castrovalva collapsing behind them, the Doctor and his companions reach the TARDIS hidden in the woodland. Adric’s pre-programming brings them to safety, revealing Tegan’s accidental role in their escape. …