The Master (The TV Movie)

The Master, following his execution by the Daleks, manifested as a snake-like creature known as a Morphant. He was involved in the fight for the Glory and also survived the first destruction of Gallifrey.

Preparations

 * The previous incarnation to this Master is hard to discern. One account suggests that it was the Tremas incarnation, (VG: Destiny of the Doctors) while others suggest that of an incarnation to came before this one.

The Master had earlier prepared for his execution on the Dalek homeworld Skaro by transferring his consciousness to a new host. Though both accounts credit him with having done so deliberately, one claims that he absorbed a deathworm (EDA: The Eight Doctors), another that he used a Skarosian life form called a morphant (DWM: The Fallen).'

The Seventh Doctor stored the ashes in a casket and set his TARDIS on course for Gallifrey. En route, the Master, whose consciousness had survived the death of his physical body, escaped from the casket and interfered with the TARDIS, causing a timing malfunction. The ship materialised in San Francisco during the final days of 1999.

On exiting the TARDIS, the Doctor got caught in the crossfire of a gang war and was picked up by an ambulance. As he lay wounded, he saw the Master's form exiting the TARDIS via its keyhole, but he was unable to communicate this information to the humans nearby. Bruce tended to the Doctor, but while he was loading him into the ambulance, the Master hid inside a bag. Later, after Bruce had gone home and to bed, the Master forced his way into Bruce's body through his mouth, killing him and taking over his body. (DW: Doctor Who)

Bruce Gerhardt
The next morning, the Master awoke, now inhabiting Bruce's body. He realised the decaying form would not last long, launched his scheme to steal the Doctor's remaining regenerations. His first act was to kill Bruce's wife, Miranda.

The transformation into Bruce involved some complications. His eyes retained the "cat's eye" appearance, a holdover from his experiences on the Cheetah World (DW: Survival), forcing him to wear sunglasses to remain inconspicuous. Also, Bruce's body began to decay rapidly.

The Master befriended Chang Lee, a young gang member who had been present when the Doctor was shot, and who had stolen the TARDIS key. With Chang Lee's help, he entered the Doctor's TARDIS and regaled Chang Lee with stories of the Doctor's supposed villainy (claiming, among other things, the Doctor had stolen the Master's regenerations). As part of his plan to take the Doctor's lives, he intended to open the Eye of Harmony, destroying the Earth in the process. With Chang Lee's further help, he was able to open the Eye. He discovered that the Doctor had regenerated into a new form, and that the Doctor was half-human. This answered a few of the Master's longstanding questions about his foe.

{C After fully regaining his memory, the Doctor and his companion, Dr. Grace Holloway, made their way back to the TARDIS where the Master, now dressed in Gallifreyan robes, greeted his enemy. In the ensuing battle, the Master used mind control on Grace. He also killed Chang lee by snapping his neck.

During a struggle next to the Eye of Harmony, the Master fell into it. The Doctor said he had been "eaten" by the TARDIS. (DW: Doctor Who)

Revenge
Shortly after his defeat, the Master laid a final trap for the Doctor, leaving a crystalline structure that would give the Doctor amnesia. (EDA: The Eight Doctors)

Fight for the Glory
After passing through the Eye of Harmony, the Master was rescued from the Time Vortex by a being named Esterath, the then-controller of the Glory, the focal point of reality. The Master was told that it was time for the Glory to gain another controller, but the power had to be fought for. The Master assumed that the battle would be between himself and his greatest foe, the Doctor. (DWM: The Glorious Dead)

With a new body in his possession, the Master trailed the Doctor for some time without his enemy suspecting - even after they had met face to face. He was present in London during the crisis resulting from Grace Holloway's attempt to merge human and Time Lord DNA (the alien DNA was in fact that of a morphant). He killed an MI6 agent with the TCE at this time, but fortunately for the Master the Doctor departed before his trademark was discovered. (DWM: The Fallen)

The Master later made contact with Sato Katsura, a Japanese samurai unwillingly rendered immortal as a result of his involvement in the Doctor's adventures. The embittered warrior became the Master's follower. At his behest, Sato adopted the identity of Cardinal Morningstar and became leader of the Church of the Glorious Dead, instigator of a holy war that altered the history of Earth, a planet now renamed "Dhakan".

Passing through the Eye had given the Master the ability to influence the flight of the TARDIS, which he used to send the craft to times and places which would weaken the Doctor's self-belief and confidence. This done, the two fought for the Glory, with the Master apparently triumphant.

However, the Master was mistaken: the true battle was between his companion, Sato, and the Doctor's, the Cyberman Kroton. Kroton was the ultimate winner of this contest, and amongst his first acts as controller of the Glory were to cleanse the TARDIS of the Master's influence, and to banish the Master somewhere that he could not escape. Whilst being banished, the Master declared he would survive and return. (DWM: The Glorious Dead)

Imprisionment
Imprisoned inside the Doctor's TARDIS, the Master offered the Eighth Doctor advice through a portrait, a mirror and later the Eye of Harmony. (EDA: Sometime Never..., The Deadstone Memorial, The Gallifrey Chronicles)

Edward Grainger's Dreams
The Master escaped the Doctor's TARDIS through the Eye of Harmony by influencing the dreams of Edward Grainger in order to be freed from the sealed Eye. The Master was now a being of energy that could travel through the air. (ST: Forgotten)

Escaping into London in 1906, the Master possessed the body of George Steer and tried to kill the newly born Edward Grainger to unravel the Doctor's timeline. The Master was stopped by the First Doctor and Violet after being hit with a rolling pin and being removed from the body he possessed. (ST: Prologue)

The Master evaded the Eighth Doctor and possessed the body of a man called Richard. (ST: Forgotten)

The First Destruction of Gallifrey
Many individuals impersonating the Doctor claimed that the Master had returned in an "unexpected capacity". However the meaning of this was never revealed. (EDA: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)

The Master travelled to Earth in the 18th century and sat with Scarlette in a pub during a brawl. He left before the Doctor arrived.

He later met Scarlette at the London docks, where he gave her a pair of rings for the Doctor's wedding. He attended the Doctor's wedding where he sat in the seat reserved for the Doctor's family. He did not interact with the other guests.

The Master later decided to meet the Doctor. As they stood on a hill, they talked about the state of the universe without Gallifrey in it. The Master told the Doctor that he would not fight him because there were only four Time Lords left in existence. He told the Doctor that Sabbath and his kind were now the future of the universe and quietly left.

The Master was present at the fall of the house on Henrietta Street, where he told Lisa-Beth Lachlan that he was leaving and would go to sleep until the universe was ready for him again. (EDA: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)

The Master was later seen in a vision by the Doctor and Marnal as one of the last surviving Time Lords. (EDA: The Gallifrey Chronicles)

Return for the Last Great Time War
The Master was resurrected by the Time Lords during the Last Great Time War. They believed that he would be a perfect warrior for the Time War. He was present when the Dalek Emperor took control of the Cruciform. (DW: The Sound of Drums)

Death
Frightened by the horror of the Time War, he ran away to the end of the universe, using a chameleon arch to hide himself as the human known as Yana. His next incarnation was found as a child, washed up on a beach. How this incarnation died is unknown. (DW: Utopia)

Personality
This incarnation of the Master retained his propensity for "camp" villainy, but was also capable of terrifying rage. When preparing to steal the Eighth Doctor's body, he donned a flamboyant Time Lord robe for no apparent reason. This Master spoke with an American accent, presumably because Bruce had, but his personality was otherwise mostly consistent. (DW: Doctor Who)

Behind the scenes

 * Though the script to Doctor Who referred to the Master in this form as a "morphant", this name does not appear onscreen.
 * Bruce's last name is never revealed on screen, though he is known as "Bruce Gerhardt" in the novelisation.
 * In Lance Parkin's A History, Parkin acknowledges that the creator of the Man with the Rosette, Lawrence Miles, intended the character to be the Master.