Doctor Who: 12 Greatest Master Moments Of All Time

11. I've Brought Some Old Friends Along To Meet You

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Delgado’s tragic death brought a premature end to his run as the Master. The producer had planned for a final showdown between the villain and the Doctor, but instead, in his final scenes, the Master gives way to an even more powerful foe, with the surprise revelation that he’d formed an unholy alliance with the Daleks.

At first it appears that he has achieved the ultimate coupe, with the Daleks being wheeled out as if they are working for him. But we quickly find out who the real masters are when he is forced to beg them not to exterminate the Doctor.

It’s not the first nor last time that the Master has saved the Doctor’s life, and his desire to see the Doctor live on to witness the destruction of the Earth and everything he holds dear is hardly an act of kindness. But at the end of the day, the Master’s whole existence is governed by his obsessive rivalry with the Doctor, and he knows that he simply cannot live without him.

“A cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about.” (The Five Doctors).

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Paul Driscoll is a freelance writer and author across a range of subjects from Cult TV to religion and social policy. He is a passionate Doctor Who fan and January 2017 will see the publication of his first extended study of the series (based on Toby Whithouse's series six episode, The God Complex) in the critically acclaimed Black Archive range by Obverse Books. He is a regular writer for the fan site Doctor Who Worldwide and has contributed several essays to Watching Books' You and Who range. Recently he has branched out into fiction writing, with two short stories in the charity Doctor Who anthology Seasons of War (Chinbeard Books). Paul's work will also feature in the forthcoming Iris Wildthyme collection (A Clockwork Iris, Obverse Books) and Chinbeard Books' collection of drabbles, A Time Lord for Change.