Doctor Who: All The Masters Ranked Worst To Best

8. Gordan TippleWilliam Hughes

Never heard of them? Well that's because they both portrayed versions of the Master that appeared for mere seconds. But technically - like the David Tennant Metacrisis Doctor - they count as canon and should be included in this list. Before there was Eric Robert's pantomime Master, there was Gordan Tipple's version. He appeared in the prologue to the 1996 TV movie. Rather bizarrely, he is executed by the Daleks as a punishment for his 'evil crimes'. Just why the Daleks considered him evil - he did work with them in the Third Doctor story 'Frontier in Space' after all - is a mystery. But then much about the TV movie doesn't make sense. Tipple's Master makes one final request to have his remains brought back to Gallifrey by the Doctor and is then summarily exterminated. William Hughes' Master is a little more recognisable; he played the Master as an eight year old child in the Tenth Doctor story 'The Sound Of Drums'. It isn't known whether this is a younger version of Roger Delgado's Master in the same way that the child seen in the recent episode 'Listen' is the younger version of William Hartnell's Doctor. What fans do know is that he looked into a gap in the fabric of space and time known as the Untempered Schism during a Time Lord initiation ceremony, causing him to go mad and hear the drums of war as part of Rassilon's future plan to escape the Time Lock at the end of the Time War. Given the mystery behind the character, fans may never know how many versions of the Master there have been, but both these versions have given audiences a glimpse into his long life. Without more context they have to remain at the bottom of this list.