Doctor Who: Every Master Story In The New Series Ranked Worst To Best

Doctor Who under showrunner Russell T Davies often struck a delicate balance between horrifying dread for humanity’s future and boundless optimism for all the possibilities it held. Few episodes show that duality more than the Series 3 episode Utopia.

Featuring the return of Captain Jack Harkness to the main show, the TARDIS crew find themselves hurtled to the very end of the universe itself where the last of humanity are desperately clinging on to the dream of Utopia. The kindly Professor Yana is attempting to get a rocket working that will send the remaining humans to the fabled planet and hopefully save the species.

But he has a fob watch, very similar to the one the Doctor used to disguise himself as a human earlier in the series. It whispers to him throughout the episode and eventually he opens it. And in one of the most electric moments of the new series, he murders his lab assistant while proclaiming that he is The Master, reborn.

Derek Jacobi plays the kind Yana and the deranged Master to perfection and it’s a shame that his time in the role on television was so brief.