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It's time for another Doctor Who compilation video, and this time it's The Master's turn The BBC released a supercut of The Master over the decades, the Joker to The Doctor's Batman. Photo Credit: Ben Blackall/BBC Studios/BBC America The Master is a product of the James Bond and Avengers Cool Sixties genre trend[...]

Credit: Titan Comics The earliest incarnation of the Master is imprisoned in the Stormcage Containment Facility in the 52nd century On an all-too-regular basis, the Third Doctor, stuck in a smaller window of time, calls to make sure the Master remains behind bars That's where Missy shows up … pretending to be a later incarnation of[...]

And she may even give herself the idea in the first place. The Master first appeared in Doctor Who in 1970's Terror Of The Autons, alongside the returning alien invaders, and soon established himself as the Doctor's true nemesis, a fellow Time Lord with a shared history, and who has plagued the Doctor in almost all[...]

Titan Comics are publishing a new Doctor Who comic book in April, featuring the comics debut of Missy, the former incarnation of Doctor Who villain, The Master, as played on television and audio drama by Michelle Gomez. Missy wages war on the Doctor, but this time she's not alone! Can the combined brilliance of the Third[...]

One person who played an important role in all of this was the Master, excellently portrayed by Sacha Dhawan and making his dramatic reveal in Series 12 opener "Spyfall, Part 1." So in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Master's first small-screen appearance, Doctor Who Magazine asked Dhawan what the highlight has been of his[...]

This is considered a classic season for many old school fans, since it features the debut of Roger Delgado as The Master and includes classic stories like "Terror of the Autons", "The Mind of Evil", "The Claws of Axos", "Colony in Space" and "The Daemons". As the official synopsis goes, "Stranded on 20th Century Earth, the[...]

Doctor Who Lockdown producer Emily Cook updated fans on Saturday that the Steven Moffat-penned "The Best of Days" will post Sunday or Monday.

In addition, Doctor Who: Short Trips will feature two of the Master's incarnations in two separate audio dramas, narrated by Jon Culshaw. The Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Doctors, and Rose Tyler are set to be a part of Time Lord Victorious, courtesy of Big Finish and others. McGann's three stories will be released between October and December[...]

Oh, and Missy (Michelle Gomez), and the Master (John Simm) This was their swansong too. It felt like Moffat was ticking off the last items on his Doctor Who bucket list for what he could still do for The Doctor, where he could push him and how far There's the penultimate great speech for Capaldi to[...]

Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall did his part to ease fans' fears and concerns over the growing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on Wednesday, posting

All those cries of showrunner Chris Chibnall destroying the show, destroying 60 years of lore, sound and fury, hue and cry. To wit: The Master (Sacha Dhawan) has taken The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) back to Gallifrey to force her to confront her true origins This shatters everything she thought she knew about her own history[...]

Ahead of this weekend's season finale, fans have been wondering where the latest Master (played delectably by Sacha Dhawan) fits in the timeline. The last time we saw the Master was in the final episode of Series 10, where the Saxon Master, played by John Simm, fatally shot Missy (Michelle Gomez) after she fatally stabbed him[...]

BBC's Doctor Who Series 12 finale this coming Sunday promises big changes to the show’s lore. It’s all about Gallifrey and how everything we thought we

It's all been building up to this, folks: after a "summer blockbuster"-like run of nine episodes, the BBC's Doctor Who Series 12 is coming to a close with season finale "The Timeless Children" – and by the time the dust settles, The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker), Graham (Bradley Walsh), Yaz (Mandip Gill), and Ryan (Tosin Cole) are[...]

Once Doctor Who Series 12 brought the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and her companions Ryan (Tosin Cole), Yaz (Mandip Gill) and Graham (Bradley Walsh) back to BBC One and BBC America screens to kick off our new year, it wasted no time throwing our heroes into a grand adventure filled with spies, intrigue, world domination, and…[...]

Once Doctor Who Series 12 brought the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and her companions Ryan (Tosin Cole), Yaz (Mandip Gill) and Graham (Bradley Walsh) back to BBC One and BBC America screens to kick off our new year, it wasted no time throwing our heroes into a grand adventure filled with spies, intrigue, world domination, and…[...]

What is going on? Does it have something to do with The Master telling the Doctor that they'd been lied to their whole lives? And does this have something to do with the mystery of the Timeless Child? This was exhilarating It changes the lore of the show The new Doctor sets up a series of[...]

Once Doctor Who Series 12 brought the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and her companions Ryan (Tosin Cole), Yaz (Mandip Gill) and Graham (Bradley Walsh) back to BBC One and BBC America screens to kick off our new year, it wasted no time throwing our heroes into a grand adventure filled with spies, intrigue, world domination, and…[...]

Now we know that in the Doctor Who universe, "early 2020" means New Year's Day as the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and her companions Ryan (Tosin Cole), Yaz (Mandip Gill) and Graham (Bradley Walsh) materialized back on to BBC One and BBC America screens to kick off our new year with the first of the two-part[...]

Season 26 featured four epic adventures traversing a future Britain invaded by inter-dimensional knights, a strange Victorian house haunted by ghosts from Ace's past, an alien world populated by Cheetah People and a 1940s army camp under siege from monstrous vampires. With guest stars including Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart), Anthony Ainley (The Master), Jean Marsh, Nicholas[...]

When he reintroduced The Master in his second series, Davies revealed how Time Lords were made Gallifrey chooses their most brilliant children and trains them to become Time Lords These kids are forced to stare into the Time Vortex as their initiation to Time Lord training That must drive all of them to some level[...]

Even Missy, his new female reinvention of the Doctor's nemesis The Master, now has a flirtatious, sexual undertone in her relationship to The Doctor None of Moffat's female characters ever pass the Bechdel Test They only ever serve and orbit his male main characters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UsUSx8rfscVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Missy Kisses The Doctor[...]

As Doctor Who Series 11 draws to a close on January 1, we take a look at new series composer Segun Akinola's 13th Doctor theme and other "New Who" themes.

Can season 10 of Doctor Who server two Masters? They want to give it a go it seems as John Simm, the Master who played opposite of David Tennant's Tenth Doctor will be returning to battle with Peter Capaldi's Twelfth And that's to go with the already announced return of Michelle Gomez as Missy, the[...]

We get the Master-now-Mistress, Cybermen walking the streets of London and the return of Unit It will be interesting to see if some of the strange behavior we've seen from both the Doctor and Clara this season will pay off in the finale Seems like a lot to do in one episode though. [youtube]http://youtu.be/ZFZaqsaJ4eE[/youtube] [...]

Okay? Good. Let's join up a few dots. Yesterday, Bleeding Cool wrote about Sylvester McCoy talking about a new casting for the Master in the upcoming series. Add to that the news that Sam Anderson has been cast as a recurring cast member, Danny Pink. Add to that the considerable fuss and discussion about getting a black actor to[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes for Bleeding Cool; How The Master, Skyfall and Mad Men are linked. Finally saw The Master It's a true cinematic curio: a genuine American arthouse film Unlike mainstream Hollywood commercial movies, arthouse films aspire to lofty ideals, refusing to provide easy answers or user-friendly hints They thrive in mystery, which is something mainstream Hollywood[...]