Theory:Timeline - The Master

This page lists appearances of The Master in the order in which he experienced them.

Limiting factors
What happened to the Master after Survival are hard to reconcile as there are three opposing accounts as to what happened. Events after Doctor Who are difficult to reconcile with each other as they offer contradictory accounts to what happened when the Master escaped the Eye of Harmony.

Series basics
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Timeline

 * TV: The Sound of Drums (flashback)
 * The Master is a child.


 * PROSE: Divided Loyalties (flashback)
 * The Master is at the Academy.

Koschei

 * AUDIO: The Toy
 * The Master is still living on Gallifrey.


 * PROSE: The Dark Path
 * The Master is already in his incarnation first seen in Terror of the Autons.


 * PROSE: The Nameless City
 * The Master is wearing the clothes of the incarnation seen in Terror of the Autons, but targets the Second Doctor, rather than the Third.


 * PROSE: Reconnaissance
 * Leads into Terror of the Autons.


 * TV: Terror of the Autons
 * PROSE: Deadly Reunion
 * TV: The Mind of Evil
 * TV: The Claws of Axos
 * TV: Colony in Space
 * TV: The Dæmons
 * PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy
 * The Master is imprisoned.


 * PROSE: Freedom
 * COMIC: The Man in the Ion Mask
 * PROSE: The Face of the Enemy
 * The Master is imprisoned.


 * PROSE: Harvest of Time
 * The Master is imprisoned.


 * PROSE: The Switching
 * The Master moves to Fortress island, leading into The Sea Devils


 * TV: The Sea Devils
 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors
 * The Master retrieves his TARDIS from where he hid it in The Face of the Enemy.


 * TV: The Time Monster
 * PROSE: Verdigris
 * The Master intends to go to Skaro and ally with the Daleks, leading into Frontier in Space.


 * TV: Frontier in Space
 * PROSE: Hidden Talent
 * PROSE: The Seismologist's Story
 * COMIC: Fogbound
 * PROSE: Smash Hit
 * COMIC: Character Assassin
 * COMIC: The Glen of Sleeping
 * PROSE: Last of the Gaderene
 * PROSE: The Duke of Dominoes
 * The Doctor has regenerated.


 * PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks
 * The Master is badly injured, leading into The Deadly Assassin.

Damien Scott

 * AUDIO: The Two Masters (Old Master flashbacks)
 * The Master's future self intervenes in the past, replacing Legacy of the Daleks with a detour in his timeline. The Old Master steals the New Master's body.


 * AUDIO: Vampire of the Mind

Van Houten

 * AUDIO: The Two Masters (Old Master)
 * The Master is badly injured, leading into The Deadly Assassin.


 * TV: The Deadly Assassin
 * AUDIO: The Museum of Curiosities
 * AUDIO: Jago & Son (cameo)
 * AUDIO: Maurice (cameo)
 * AUDIO: The Woman in White (cameo)
 * AUDIO: Masterpiece
 * The Master left Gallifrey straight for Earth looking for the Doctor.


 * AUDIO: Trail of the White Worm
 * AUDIO: The Oseidon Adventure
 * AUDIO: The Light at the End
 * The Master hasn't met Nyssa yet, placing it before The Keeper of Traken. Release order position for original Four/Leela Big Finish audios.


 * AUDIO: The Evil One
 * AUDIO: Requiem for the Rocket Men
 * AUDIO: Death Match
 * TV: The Keeper of Traken
 * The Master gains the body of Tremas

Tremas

 * TV: Logopolis
 * TV: Castrovalva
 * AUDIO: Smoke and Mirrors
 * The Master is trying to reconstitute his body after it was broken down when Castrovalva was destroyed.


 * TV: Time-Flight
 * TV: The King's Demons
 * TV: The Five Doctors
 * PROSE: The Creation of Camelot
 * TV: Planet of Fire
 * PROSE: A Town Called Eternity
 * The Master is scarred because of Planet of Fire.


 * TV: The Mark of the Rani
 * TV: The Ultimate Foe
 * PROSE: The Quantum Archangel
 * AUDIO: The End of the Line
 * TV: Survival
 * PROSE: Stop the Pigeon
 * The Master is still infected with the Cheetah virus from Survival.

The Master's timeline takes three conflicting routes after Prime Time and before Doctor Who.
 * PROSE: Prime Time

1.

Kreer

 * PROSE: First Frontier
 * The Tzun attempt to give him a new regeneration cycle, and his first regeneration cures the cheetah virus.


 * PROSE: Housewarming
 * PROSE: Happy Endings
 * The Master's supposed new regeneration cycle has not worked, and his body is breaking down.

Mr. Seta

 * AUDIO: Dust Breeding
 * The Master's previous body has broken down, turning him into the same form seen in The Keeper of Traken.


 * AUDIO: Master

2.
 * COMIC: Prisoners of Time
 * The Master is wearing the same costume as in Destiny of the Doctors. He is no longer infected with the Cheetah virus.


 * GAME: Destiny of the Doctors

3.
 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors (cameo)
 * The Master stays infected with the Cheetah virus until TV: Doctor Who.

Bruce

 * TV: Doctor Who / PROSE: The Novel of the Film
 * COMIC: The Glorious Dead (flashback)
 * The Master falls into the Eye of Harmony during the climax of Doctor Who.


 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors (cameo)
 * The Master is still trapped inside the Eye of Harmony.


 * PROSE: Sometime Never... (cameo)
 * PROSE: The Deadstone Memorial (cameo)
 * PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles (cameo)
 * The Master is still trapped inside the Eye of Harmony.

Don Maestro

 * PROSE: Forgotten
 * A Master escapes the Eye of Harmony.
 * PROSE: Prologue
 * Set during the events of Forgotten.


 * AUDIO: Mastermind
 * Set directly after Forgotten. At the end, the Master is free and has a TARDIS.

A Street Preacher

 * COMIC: The Fallen
 * A Master escapes the Eye of Harmony.


 * COMIC: The Glorious Dead
 * The Master is banished to parts unknown by Kroton.


 * AUDIO: Nevermore
 * The Master doesn't appear, but it's mentioned that he's currently out of action.

Harcourt De'ath

 * AUDIO: Time's Horizon
 * AUDIO: Eyes of the Master
 * The Master was rescued by the Time Lords from "a predicament" - i.e. where Kroton placed him.


 * AUDIO: The Death of Hope
 * AUDIO: The Reviled
 * AUDIO: Masterplan
 * AUDIO: Rule of the Eminence
 * AUDIO: The Monster of Montmartre
 * AUDIO: Master of the Daleks
 * AUDIO: UNIT: Dominion
 * The Master is working in direct opposition to the Time Lords.


 * AUDIO: The Two Masters (New Master flashbacks)
 * AUDIO: And You Will Obey Me
 * AUDIO: The Two Masters (New Master)

Missy

 * TV: Deep Breath (cameo)
 * TV: Into the Dalek (cameo)
 * TV: The Caretaker (cameo)
 * TV: Flatline (cameo)
 * TV: In the Forest of the Night (cameo)
 * TV: Dark Water
 * TV: Death in Heaven
 * The Master says that Gallifrey's in its normal position, has a TARDIS, and the last meeting she refers to doesn't match The End of Time.


 * TV: The Magician's Apprentice
 * TV: The Witch's Familiar
 * COMIC: The Five Masters
 * COMIC: The Abominable Showmen

Time War

 * The Then and the Now
 * The Organ Grinder
 * The Master is in the body of a small child.

Professor Yana

 * TV: Utopia
 * The Master has just left the Time War. He doesn't have a TARDIS. He regenerates into his "Harold Saxon" incarnation..

Harold Saxon

 * PROSE: Speech Day
 * TV: The Sound of Drums
 * TV: Last of the Time Lords
 * PROSE: The Story of Martha
 * Set during the final scene of Last of the Time Lords.


 * TV: The End of Time

Unplaced

 * PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 (cameo)
 * PROSE: ''The Astronomer's Apprentice
 * PROSE: Doorway into Nowhere
 * PROSE: Listen - the Stars
 * PROSE: Out of the Green Mist
 * PROSE: Night Flight to Nowhere
 * PROSE: The Time Savers
 * PROSE: The Fellowship of Quan
 * PROSE: The Radio Waves
 * PROSE: Doctor Who Fights Masterplan "Q"
 * PROSE: The One Second Hour
 * PROSE: Birth of a Renegade
 * PROSE: The Spear of Destiny
 * COMIC: The Time Thief