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
The Master's appearances can be roughly categorised by what incarnation he was in when the story took place and what medium the story took place in.

TV

 * The Master (UNIT years)
 * The Master (Tremas)
 * The Master (Bruce)
 * The Master (Yana)
 * The Master (Harold Saxon)

Comics

 * The Master (The Fallen)

Novels

 * The Master (First Frontier)

Audio

 * The Master (Dust Breeding)

Timeline

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


 * MA: The Dark Path
 * Regenerates into the UNIT Years Master.


 * DW: Terror of the Autons
 * DW: The Mind of Evil
 * DW: The Claws of Axos
 * DW: Colony in Space
 * DW: The Dæmons
 * DW: The Sea Devils
 * PDA: The Face of the Enemy
 * EDA: The Eight Doctors
 * Retrieves his TARDIS from where he hid it in The Face of the Enemy.


 * DW: The Time Monster
 * PDA: Verdigris
 * The Master intends to go to Skaro and ally with the Daleks.


 * DW: Frontier in Space
 * EDA: Legacy of the Daleks
 * Is badly injured by a Dalek superweapon and leads directly into The Deadly Assassin


 * DW: The Deadly Assassin
 * BFA: Trail of the White Worm
 * DW: The Keeper of Traken
 * DW: Logopolis
 * DW: Castrovalva
 * DW: Time-Flight
 * DW: The King's Demons
 * DW: The Five Doctors
 * DW: Planet of Fire
 * ST: A Town Called Eternity
 * The Master is scarred after the events of Planet of Fire.


 * DW: The Mark of the Rani
 * DW: The Ultimate Foe
 * DW: Survival
 * DW: Doctor Who
 * EDA: The Eight Doctors (cameo)
 * Set just after Doctor Who whilst the Master is trapped inside the Eye of Harmony.


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


 * DW: ''Utopia
 * DWF: Speech Day
 * DW: The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords''
 * NSA: The Story of Martha (cameo)
 * Set during the final scene of Last of the Time Lords.


 * DW: The End of Time

Unplaced
The following stories deature the UNIT years' Master.
 * MA: Who Killed Kennedy
 * PDA: Deadly Reunion
 * PDA: Last of the Gaderene
 * PHS: Smash Hit
 * DWY: Reconnaissance
 * TVC: The One Second Hour
 * DWAN: Doorway into Nowhere
 * DWAN: Listen - The Stars
 * DWAN: Out of the Green Mist
 * VD: The Duke of Dominoes
 * ST: The Seismologist's Story
 * ST: Hidden Talent
 * ST: The Switching
 * ST: Freedom
 * Doctor Who Fights Masterplan "Q"
 * PHS: Fogbound
 * DWM: The Man in the Ion Mask
 * DWM: Character Assassin

The following stories feature the Tremas' Master.
 * VG: Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror
 * VG: Destiny of the Doctors
 * PDA: Prime Time
 * PDA: The Quantum Archangel
 * RT: Birth of a Renegade
 * DWAN: Night Flight to Nowhere
 * DWAN: The Creation of Camelot
 * DWAN: The Time Savers
 * DWAN: The Fellowship of Quan
 * DWAN: The Radio Waves
 * ST: Stop the Pigeon

These stories feature the First Frontier Master.
 * NA: First Frontier
 * NA: Happy Endings
 * VD: Housewarming

These stories feature the Dust Breeding Master.
 * BFA: Dust Breeding
 * BFA: Master

These stories are set sometime after Doctor Who and offer opposing accounts as to how the Master escaped the Eye of Harmony.
 * ST: Prologue (deathworm)
 * ST: Forgotten (deathworm)


 * DWM: The Fallen
 * DWM: The Glorious Dead


 * EDA: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street