When I think about all the Doctor Who stories that I’ve loved since I first saw them, and there are a few, in amongst my Earthshocks, Spearhead from Spaces, and The Stolen Earths is a quaint little story called The Dæmons. Now I’m not going to sit here and make you read that The Dæmons isn’t a very popular story; indeed the opposite is true — to my knowledge, it’s the only story where fans…

When it comes to animating the missing episodes of the William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton eras, first, we of course should just be grateful we get anything. We get old stories in both black and white and a colour version. It’s not necessary but it’s a nice option to have, as some adventures work a bit better in black and white, some better in colour. When they animate episode 3 of The Web of…

During the heart of the Third Doctor era, Roger Delgado’s Master was everywhere. He made so many appearances through Seasons 8, 9, and 10, that Delgado had to seriously consider stepping away from the show. Other producers just assumed he was always unavailable because of Doctor Who and it probably cost the actor some work. So there was a tentative plan in the works for a big confrontation that…

Doctor Who Magazine #560 is celebrating an astounding 50 years of the Master, the Doctor’s equal and opposite. The evil Time Lord debuted in Terror of the Autons, which aired from 2nd to 23rd January 1971, and was played by Roger Delgado. Since then, the character has returned in various guises, plaguing numerous incarnations of the Doctor, and even turning good (albeit for a short-lived…

Doctor Who Magazine #560 is celebrating an astounding 50 years of the Master, the Doctor’s equal and opposite. The evil Time Lord debuted in Terror of the Autons, which aired from 2nd to 23rd January 1971, and was played by Roger Delgado. Since then, the character has returned in various guises, plaguing numerous incarnations of the Doctor, and even turning good (albeit for a short-lived…

Two of the Master’s television incarnations being brought back to life in performance for the first time since their broadcast appearances, and in the same release, makes Big Finish’s Time Lord Victorious Short Trips special a very attractive release. But what of the two stories that lie within it?

The A-side (if this were a vinyl, rather than a digital download) is Master Thief and brings…

Doctor Who Season 8, Jon Pertwee’s second series as the Third Doctor, will be released on Blu-ray as part of The Collection range on 23rd February 2021.

The set collects together stories which introduce Jo Grant (Katy Manning) and the Master (Roger Delgado): Terror of the Autons, The Mind of Evil, The Claws of Axos, Colony in Space, and The Daemons.

The season finds the Doctor still…

Much like the Silurians, their land-loving cousins, the Sea Devils lived on Earth millions of years before humans evolved. And like the Silurians, they went into hibernation when a planet came into Earth’s orbit. They didn’t wake up after the catastrophe that had been forecast because that small planet became the Moon. Over the millions of years that they were in hibernation, apes evolved into…

The covers for Big Finish’s celebration of the Master, to commemorate 50 years of the Doctor’s best enemy, have been revealed, as have extra details of Masterful‘s limited edition deluxe set. The latter will also include Short Trips: I Am The Master and Short Trips: The Switching (both previously available on download only), and Terror of the Master by Trevor Baxendale, a brand new, narrated…

The Time Lords of the planet Gallifrey. High-collared curmudgeons who pledged to do nothing more than observe other, lower races, looking down upon them and mostly wagging their fingers. No one ever dared leave this domed cradle of civilisation until one day when this one troublesome sort had the audacity to do something that no onehad ever done. He and his granddaughter stole a TARDIS and ran…

Ever wonder what the Master gets up to when the Doctor isn’t around? A new charity anthology reveals all, asking whether how one can exist without the other.

Master Piecesfeatures 21 stories by 19 authors, and features an astonishing 14 Masters – and yes, that does include incarnations we’ve never even met before. Published by Altrix Books, the weighty 307-page tome is edited by Paul Driscoll (

A group of Doctor Who fans have got together to produce their interpretation of what would have been the original finale to Jon Pertwee’s fifth season: The Final Game.

The Final Game was a story devised by Roger Sloman who, with producer Barry Letts, had already co-written The Daemons, The Time Monster, and The Green Death. The story as intended was for the Doctor to face up to the Master one…

Classic children’s characters The Clangers are to be given a Doctor Who-themed makeover, with the news that a new range of goodies will feature one of the moon-dwelling aliens in the garb of the Fourth Doctor.

Launched to celebrate the Clangers’ 50th anniversary, the new range of ‘DoppelClangers’ items is set to feature the first eight Doctors. It’s fitting that Tom Baker’s Doctor and Major…

“My Life at Your Command!”

It’s been a long time since we heard that phrase. First uttered in Episode 5 of Frontier in Space as the Draconian emperor and his son interrogated the Doctor, Jo Grant, and the Master on the eve of war between the human and Draconian empires – a war, of course, manufactured by the Master.

The story has a lot going for it. It starts with a solid script by Malcolm…