Doctor Who: 12 Greatest Master Moments Of All Time

3. Everyone In The World Is Me

After the Master is resurrected by his acolytes, thanks to the intervention of his scorned wife, Lucy, he is cursed by supernatural abilities and an insatiable hunger. It sends him even more insane than ever. The megalomaniac is no longer fighting against the sound of drums, confessing to the Doctor that he’d be nothing without them.

Completely self-obsessed, in what has to be the vainest alien takeover bid ever devised, the Master plans to turn every single human being into his clone, creating a master-race. In the original series, the revelation of such a dastardly plan would have been enough for an end of episode cliff hanger. But Russell T Davies, not one to hold back, shows those plans being realised.

The scene goes on… and on… and on, upping the ante all the way up to President Obama, but the impact of people all over the world being transformed into copies of John Simm is wonderfully camp and disturbing.

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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.