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 gazes into the Time Vortex.


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


 * 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: 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.


 * 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
 * PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks
 * The Master is badly injured by a Dalek superweapon and leads directly into The Deadly Assassin.


 * TV: The Deadly Assassin
 * AUDIO: Trail of the White Worm
 * AUDIO: The Oseidon Adventure
 * AUDIO: The Light at the End
 * Leela knows who the Master is, placing it after The Oseidon Adventure, but the Master hasn't met Nyssa yet, placing it before The Keeper of Traken.


 * 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


 * 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 after the events of Planet of Fire.


 * TV: The Mark of the Rani
 * TV: The Ultimate Foe
 * PROSE: The Quantum Archangel
 * AUDIO: The End of the Line
 * The Valeyard tells the Master to stay away from the Doctor.


 * TV: Survival
 * PROSE: Stop the Pigeon
 * The Master is still infected with the Cheetah virus.


 * PROSE: Prime Time

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

1.
 * PROSE: First Frontier
 * The Master meets a younger Doctor, and therefore claims to have just escaped the Cheetah Planet. TV: Survival. He apparently becomes a "full" Time Lord after making a deal with the Tzun, who make him a new body.


 * PROSE: Housewarming
 * PROSE: Happy Endings
 * The Master's body is said to be breaking down.


 * 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 somehow not infected by 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.


 * TV: Doctor Who / PROSE: The Novel of the Film
 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors (cameo)
 * Set just after Doctor Who whilst the Master is trapped inside the Eye of Harmony.


 * COMIC: The Fallen
 * The Master falls into the Time Vortex immediately after Doctor Who.


 * COMIC: The Glorious Dead
 * The Master is presumably sent back to 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.


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


 * AUDIO: Mastermind
 * Set directly after Forgotten.

Eyes of the Master establishes that the Master is given a new set of regenerations by the Time Lords in exchange for his help.
 * AUDIO: Time's Horizon
 * AUDIO: Eyes of the Master
 * 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.


 * TV: Utopia
 * The Master regenerates into the form dubbed "Harold Saxon".


 * PROSE: Speech Day
 * TV: The Sound of Drums
 * The Master conquers the Earth with the Toclafane.


 * TV: Last of the Time Lords
 * Set a year after The Sound of Drums. The year is subsequently reversed, and the Master is killed and burned. A hand picks up the Master's ring.
 * PROSE: The Story of Martha
 * Set during the final scene of Last of the Time Lords.


 * TV: The End of Time
 * The Disciples of Saxon restore the Master to life using the ring from Last of the Time Lords. The Master vanishes after Gallifrey is sent back into the Last Great Time War.

Missy

 * According to Dark Water and Death in Heaven, after the Doctor left him behind in The End of Time, the Master somehow escaped the universe Gallifrey was placed in in The Day of the Doctor and regenerated into a female form, who goes by "Missy".


 * TV: Deep Breath
 * TV: Into the Dalek
 * TV: The Caretaker
 * TV: Flatline
 * TV: In the Forest of the Night
 * TV: Dark Water / Death in Heaven
 * TV: The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar
 * COMIC: The Five Masters / The Abominable Showmen

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
 * PROSE: Harvest of Time
 * COMIC: The Time Thief