Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-197.86.143.126-20200606192351/@comment-197.86.143.126-20200607055506

As stated in the OP, and as Scrooge MacDuck stated, they are two separate issues. Dicks and Hulke had no part in writing either The Time Meddler (TV story) or The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story).

However, they did write The War Games (TV story), and then, less than two years later, were two of the people who worked extensively on the Roger Delgado Master stories.

That's why I mentioned the Marinus/Mondas "connection" in the OP. Using the same logic, it would appear that they are the same. Except we can safely say that when The Tenth Planet (TV story) was being written, nobody was thinking "Let's write a sequel to The Keys of Marinus (TV story) ".

But with Dicks and co. The War Games (TV story) was made by the same people. And it wad still fresh in the memory, having come out shortly before. Terrance Dicks said that 'continuity' was 'what people could remember in the last two years", or something similar. In 1971 people remembered The War Games, and they remembered the other Time Lord, the one who knew the Doctor, the one who hypnotised people. Did they remember the character from five years before, and draw the same conclusion?

But basically, the same people who created The War Chief also 'created' The Master. They didn't create Butterworth's character.

Saying "The Monk is the Master" is like saying "Marinus is Mondas".

Saying "The War Chief is the Master" is like saying "Melody Pond is River Song".