Theory:Timeline - The Master

This page lists appearances of The Master in the order in which they experienced them. It relies on much speculation to fit semi-contradictory sources together, and should absolutely not be seen as representative of this wiki's general policy.

Limiting factors
Events after Survival are difficult to reconcile with each other as they offer contradictory accounts to what happened afterwards for the Master. Events after Doctor Who can be reconciled by having the Master re-imprisoned within the Eye after the events of The Glorious Dead.

Early life

 * TV: The Sound of Drums
 * The young Master stares into the Untempered Schism, and reacts by being driven insane.


 * The Masters meets the First Doctor on his first day at the Academy. They later join the Deca. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties)


 * AUDIO: Master
 * The Master and the Doctor are bullied by Torvic. After Torvic is killed, the Master becomes Death's Champion.


 * PROSE: Tomb of Valdemar
 * The Master and the Doctor travel into Gallifrey's past in search of Valdemar.


 * PROSE: Harvest of Time
 * The Master and the Doctor work on the Consolidator.


 * The Master goes on an Academy research project while the Doctor is expelled from the Academy. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties)


 * The Master attends a ritual in Arcadia, where he gives Susan Foreman a communication node disguised as a toy. (AUDIO: The Toy)


 * PROSE: Birth of a Renegade
 * The Master flees Gallifrey after failing to start a rebellion against the High Council.

Renegade Time Lord

 * AUDIO: The Toy
 * Immediately after they flee Gallifrey, the Master tries to use the communication node to find the Doctor and Susan.


 * PROSE: Celestial Intervention — A Gallifreyan Noir
 * The Doctor has just fled Gallifrey, but the Master has not.


 * AUDIO: The Destination Wars
 * Immediately after he flees Gallifrey, the Master's TARDIS breaks down and he ends up trapped at the "earliest Segment of Time" on the planet Destination.


 * AUDIO: The Home Guard
 * The Master has a working TARDIS and encounters the Second Doctor. He ends up imprisoned awaiting trial with the Time Lords due to represent him.

Public enemy

 * PROSE: The Dark Path
 * Having begun calling himself "Koschei", and depicted as being the incarnation from Terror of the Autons, the Master meets the Second Doctor and, after learning that the Time Lords have been spying on him, gives into his evil temptation, only to end up trapped in a black hole.


 * PROSE: The Nameless City
 * The Master is wearing the clothes of the incarnation from Terror of the Autons, and is targeting the Second Doctor, setting this after The Dark Path.

Early times on Earth

 * PROSE: Prisoners of the Sun
 * The Master is freed from Shada by the Time Lords to battle the Third Doctor.


 * PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy
 * The Master observes the events of Season 7 from the background, and makes contact with journalist James Stevens.


 * PROSE: Reconnaissance
 * The Master infiltrates UNIT HQ and interrogates Liz Shaw.

Becoming a threat

 * TV: Terror of the Autons
 * The Master goes public with his battle with the Doctor and UNIT by teaming up with the Nestenes. The Doctor steals his dematerialisation circuit, preventing the Master from leaving Earth in his TARDIS.


 * COMIC: Prologue: The Third Doctor
 * In an alternate timeline created by Rassilon and the Cybermen, the Master is caught in a Cyber-conversion machine.


 * PROSE: Doorway into Nowhere
 * The Master is trapped on Earth, setting this before The Mind of Evil, where he recovers his dematerialisation circuit.


 * TV: The Mind of Evil
 * The Master reclaims his dematerialisation circuit during his plot with the Keller Machine, allowing him to leave Earth in his TARDIS.


 * PROSE: Deadly Reunion
 * The Master has only just got his TARDIS working, settling this shortly after The Mind of Evil.

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 * PROSE: ''[[UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce (short story)|UNIT Christmas Parties:
 * The Doctor and the Master recall the events of Deadly Reunion.


 * TV: The Claws of Axos
 * After a failed alliance with Axos, the Master is trapped in a time loop by the Doctor.


 * TV: Colony in Space


 * TV: The Dæmons
 * In village of Devil's End, the Master tries to summon the Dæmon Azal. When his plan fails, the Master is captured by UNIT.

In custody

 * PROSE: Freedom
 * Set after the Master's arrest in The Dæmons. The Master is awaiting trial.


 * PROSE: Harvest of Time
 * Set between The Dæmons and The Sea Devils, as the Master is still in prison. He is imprisoned at Dulston Heath, a former nuclear power plant.


 * COMIC: The Man in the Ion Mask
 * Following his trial, the Master is being held at Aylesbury Grange Detention Centre.


 * PROSE: The Face of the Enemy
 * The Master is still locked up at Aylesbury Grange Detention Centre.


 * PROSE: The Switching
 * After switching bodies with the Doctor, the Master makes arrangements to be moved to another holding facility on the coast after his plan to steal the Doctor's TARDIS fails.


 * TV: The Sea Devils
 * The Master builds an alliance with the Sea Devils to escape from Fortress Island.


 * PROSE: The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy
 * Set after the Doctor visits the Master in his cell during The Sea Devils.


 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors
 * Set immediately after The Sea Devil, with the Master retrieving his TARDIS from Devil's End.

At large again

 * PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy


 * PROSE: The Seismologist's Story


 * PROSE: Doctor Who Fights Masterplan "Q"


 * PROSE: The Touch of the Nurazh


 * TV: The Time Monster


 * PROSE: The Spear of Destiny


 * COMIC: The Heralds of Destruction


 * PROSE: Listen - The Stars


 * PROSE: Out of the Green Mist


 * COMIC: The Time Thief


 * AUDIO: The Same Face


 * PROSE: Hidden Talent


 * PROSE: The Christmas Inversion


 * PROSE: Last of the Gaderene


 * PROSE: The One Second Hour


 * COMIC: Fogbound


 * PROSE: Smash Hit

Distancing himself from UNIT

 * COMIC: Character Assassin


 * COMIC: The Glen of Sleeping


 * PROSE: The Duke of Dominoes
 * The Master encounters a new incarnation of the Doctor for the first time.


 * PROSE: Night Flight to Nowhere


 * PROSE: Anything You Can Do
 * Though his identity is vague, authorial intent confirms this as the "Roger Delgado Master". The Master uses the phrase "please attend carefully", setting this after The Heralds of Destruction.


 * COMIC: Party Animals


 * COMIC: The Judas Goatee


 * PROSE: Verdigris
 * Having had enough of Earth, the Master has arranged a meeting on Skaro, leading into Frontier in Space.


 * TV: Frontier in Space


 * PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks
 * In one account, the Master is severely deformed by his own Tissue Compression Eliminator and left in a moribund state on Tersurus, leading into The Deadly Assassin.


 * COMIC: Doorway to Hell
 * In another account, the Master regenerates during an encounter with the Twelfth Doctor that occurs immediately after Frontier in Space.

A body in decay

 * The Master is attacked by on Tersurus, and left in a decaying state. The Cult of the Heretic then switch the Masters' bodies. (AUDIO: The Two Masters)


 * AUDIO: Vampire of the Mind
 * Set during The Two Masters, with the Master in the body of his future incarnation.


 * AUDIO: The Two Masters
 * The Master hires the Transhuman Sisters of the Unholy Protocol and the Dragonhunters to kill the "Bald Master". After the Seventh Doctor switches the Masters back, the "Decayed Master" is put back on his path to The Deadly Assassin.


 * TV: The Deadly Assassin
 * The Master allies with Goth to use the Eye of Harmony and the Sash of Rassilon to restore his body, but he is defeated by the Fourth Doctor.

Targeting Jago and Litefoot

 * Fleeing from Gallifrey after his plot with Goth is foiled, the Master attempts to follow the Doctor's TARDIS through the transduction barrier, but this results in him being stuck in London during the 1890s. (AUDIO: Masterpiece)


 * AUDIO: The Museum of Curiosities
 * The Master successfully hypnotises Inspector Quick.


 * AUDIO: Jago & Son


 * AUDIO: Maurice


 * AUDIO: The Woman in White


 * AUDIO: Masterpiece
 * The Master's plot to drain Jago and Litefoot's energies are thwarted by the Sixth Doctor, and he is forced to flee.

Surviving in the universe

 * PROSE: The Scarlet Shadow
 * The Master attempts to steal Iris Wildthyme's body.


 * PROSE: Harvest of Time
 * The Master is captured by the Sild.


 * COMIC: The Abominable Showmen


 * COMIC: The Five Masters
 * Follows on from The Abominable Showmen.


 * AUDIO: Animal Instinct
 * The Master spends several hundred years in stasis. He has set a trap for the Doctor and is surprised when River Song turns up instead. He meets River for the first time.

Fighting the Fourth Doctor

 * AUDIO: The Oseidon Adventure


 * AUDIO: The Light at the End


 * AUDIO: The Evil One


 * AUDIO: Requiem for the Rocket Men


 * AUDIO: Death Match
 * Follows on from Requiem for the Rocket Men.


 * PROSE: Special Occasions: 1. The Not-So-Sinister Sponge


 * TV: The Keeper of Traken
 * After failing to become the Keeper of Traken due to the interference of the Fourth Doctor, Adric, and Nyssa, the Master regenerates himself by stealing the body of Tremas.

In Tremas' body

 * TV: Logopolis
 * Set almost immediately after The Keeper of Traken. The Master's thwarted plan to hold the universe at ransom results in the Fourth Doctor regenerating.

Battling the Fifth Doctor

 * TV: Castrovalva
 * Set immediately after Logopolis, with the Master trying to trap the Fifth Doctor in Castrovalva, only to end up trapped in there himself.


 * PROSE: The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy
 * Set immediately after the Master abducts Adric during Castrovalva.


 * PROSE: Toy
 * Set during Castrovalva, before the Doctor is brought to the city.


 * AUDIO: Smoke and Mirrors
 * The Master is still trapped in Castrovalva.


 * TV: Time-Flight
 * The Master has managed to escape from Castrovalva, but has damaged his TARDIS in the process. He attempts to use the Xeraphin gestalt to repair his ship, but is foiled by the Doctor and left trapped on Xeriphas.


 * TV: The King's Demons
 * The Master uses Kamelion, an android he found on Xeriphas, in an attempt to prevent the signing of the Magna Carta, but is thwarted when the Doctor takes Kamelion from him.


 * TV: The Five Doctors
 * The Master is summoned to Gallifrey by Borusa to assist the four trapped incarnations of the Doctor, but his help is denied and he attempts to kill the Doctor instead. After being subdued, the Master is sent away by Rassilon.


 * PROSE: The Velvet Dark
 * The Master has been stripped of his Trakenite body by the Time Lords for his failure in The Five Doctors, but he is able to regain it by siphoning energy from the Doctor.


 * PROSE: Birth of a Renegade


 * PROSE: The Creation of Camelot


 * TV: Planet of Fire
 * After he is shrunk by his own Tissue Compression Eliminator, the Master tries to use the Numismaton Gas of Sarn to restore himself, but is apparently disintegrated by the Doctor.


 * PROSE: A Town Called Eternity
 * Follows on from Planet of Fire, with the Master using the Fountain of Youth to restore his burned body.


 * AUDIO: Winter
 * Set concurrently with TV: The Caves of Androzani, with the Master using his link with Kamelion to sabotage the Fifth Doctor's regeneration, only to be thwarted by Nyssa.

Encountering the Sixth Doctor

 * TV: The Mark of the Rani
 * The Master is still being asked how he survived the events of Planet of Fire.


 * PROSE: The Time Savers


 * PROSE: A Handful of Stardust


 * AUDIO: The Hollows of Time
 * The Master encounters the Sixth Doctor and Peri under the guise of "Professor Stream". The Big Finish website lists The Hollows of Time as a part of their "Master Collection".


 * PROSE: The Fellowship of Quan


 * PROSE: The Radio Waves


 * GAME: Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror


 * TV: The Ultimate Foe
 * The Master assists the Sixth Doctor in his trial against the Valeyard.


 * PROSE: The Quantum Archangel


 * AUDIO: The End of the Line
 * The Master is threatened the Valeyard into leaving the Doctor alone.

Further exploits

 * PROSE: Master Faustus


 * COMIC: The Abominable Showmen


 * COMIC: The Five Masters
 * Follows on from The Abominable Showmen.


 * PROSE: Dr. Fifth


 * COMIC: Façades


 * COMIC: Cat and Mouse
 * The Master wears his cloak from Destiny of the Doctors, but has his youthful appearance and is unaffected by the Cheetah virus.


 * COMIC: The Choice
 * Follows on from Cat and Mouse, and leads directly into Endgame.


 * COMIC: Endgame

Facing the Seventh Doctor

 * The Master arrives on the Cheetah World, and takes control of the Cheetah People. (TV: Survival).


 * PROSE: Dr. Seventh
 * The Master is wearing his clothes from Survival, and is working with the Cheetah People, but does not appear to be infected with the Cheetah virus.


 * TV: Survival
 * As a Cheetah virus begins corrupting his systems, the Master has a final showdown with the Seventh Doctor, which ends with him being trapped on the exploding Cheetah World.


 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors
 * The Master's last encounter with the Doctor was on Cheetah World. The stress of that encounter drove the Master insane and inspired him to swallow a Deathworm Morphant as part of a plot intended to kill the Doctor.


 * PROSE: Stop the Pigeon
 * The Master has escaped Cheetah World, but is still infected with the Cheetah virus.


 * PROSE: Prime Time
 * The Master is trying to acquire a new body to escape the Cheetah virus, which will kill his Trakenite body within a year's time.


 * Under unkown circumstances, the Master was able to best the Cheetah virus, and would no longer be inflicted by the disease.


 * COMIC: Crossing the Rubicon


 * PROSE: Omegamorphosis
 * The Master has a black goatee and is trying to steal another body, due to being in his final incarnation.


 * GAME: Destiny of the Doctors
 * The Master is no longer infected with the Cheetah virus, and has a much older appearance, with greying hair. After his plan to trap the seven Doctors in the Determinant is foiled by the Graak, the Master is captured by an unknown enemy.

Reduced to an old body

 * AUDIO: Dust Breeding
 * The Master has been stripped of his Trakenite body by the Warp Core, and is reduced back to his decaying form. After the Seventh Doctor destroys the Warp Core, the Master is flung into time and space.


 * AUDIO: I Am The Master
 * Set after The Keeper of Traken.


 * AUDIO: Master
 * After living a peaceful life for ten years, the Master is offered a choice by Death.

A new regeneration

 * PROSE: First Frontier
 * The Master claims to have been trapped in 1957 immediately after escaping Cheetah World with a Kitling. After his body is repaired by the Tzun, the Master is able to regenerate after being shot by Ace. Recovering from his regeneration, the Master escapes by leaving a booby-trap for the Doctor in a nuclear warhead.


 * PROSE: Housewarming


 * PROSE: Happy Endings
 * The Master steals the Loom of Rassilon's Mouse to experiment with flesh looming as part of his attempt to create an idestructible clone body from the remains of Hemmings.

The Deathworm Morphant

 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors
 * According to one account, the "Tremas" Master travels to Skaro in order to goad the Daleks into killing him, as part of his plan to steal the Doctor's body using a Deathworm Morphant. He sends his TARDIS into the space-time continuum, to keep it safe until he can recover it later.


 * According to another account, a different incarnation of the Master is captured by the Daleks in the Valley of the Kings to be placed on trial on Skaro. (AUDIO: Mastermind)


 * PROSE: The Novel of the Film
 * The Master sends a psychic message to the Seventh Doctor before he is executed, asking him to retrieve his remains and return them to Gallifrey.

In Bruce's body

 * TV: Doctor Who
 * Having survived his execution on Skaro as a Deathworm Morphant, the Master forces the Doctor's TARDIS to land in 1999 San Francisco, where, after the Doctor is critically injured, the Master possesses the body of Bruce. Bribing Chang Lee, the Master hunts down the Eighth Doctor to steal his body and remaining regenerations. During a final fight with the Doctor in his TARDIS, the Master is sucked into the Eye of Harmony.


 * PROSE: The Eight Doctors
 * The Master leaves one final trap for the Doctor, in the form of a crystalline structure that erases the Doctor's memories.


 * After falling into the Eye of Harmony, the Eye attempts to convert the Master into pure energy, but he is able to escape into a spare room in the Doctor's TARDIS, which is then jettisoned into the Time Vortex. (AUDIO: The Lifeboat and the Deathboat)


 * AUDIO: The Lifeboat and the Deathboat
 * The Master has been trapped in the Time Vortex for hundreds of years. He escapes in a stasis capsule.


 * COMIC: The Abominable Showmen
 * The Master is still in possession of Bruce's body.


 * COMIC: The Five Masters
 * Follows on from The Abominable Showmen.


 * AUDIO: Day of the Master
 * Still in Bruce's body, the Master encounters the Eighth Doctor for the first time since his escape from the Eye of Harmony. Missy and the "War Master" plan to wipe his memory and throw him back into the Time Vortex after they give a future version of the "Deathworm Master" a new regeneration cycle.


 * The Master was eventually drawn back into the Eye of Harmony. (AUDIO: Planet of Dust)

Fight for the Glory

 * As his essence is left wandering the Time Vortex after passing through the Eye of Harmony, the Master is saved by Esterath to take part in the fight for the Glory, and is resurrected into the body of a deceased vagrant after Bruce's body decays beyond recovery. The Master's connection to the TARDIS brings him to Wormwood, where he witnesses the Doctor's fight against the Threshold. (COMIC: The Glorious Dead)


 * COMIC: The Fallen
 * The Master observes the Eighth Doctor combat Donald Stark.


 * COMIC: The Glorious Dead
 * Forming an alliance with Sato Katsura, the Master turns Earth into a dystopia to anger the Doctor into fighting him for the Glory. After besting the Doctor, the Master learns that the real contest was between Sato and the Doctor's companion, Kroton. When Kroton wins, he removes the Master's influence from the TARDIS and place the Master somewhere that he can not escape, implied by later releases to be the Eye of Harmony.

Escaping the Eye of Harmony

 * PROSE: Forgotten
 * The Master escapes the Eye of Harmony by influences the dreams of Edward Grainger.


 * PROSE: Prologue
 * Set during Forgotten. The Master is prevented from killing the infant Edward, by the Doctor, Violet and the adult Edward.


 * PROSE: Forgotten
 * The Master escapes by possessing the body of Violet's fiancée, Richard.


 * AUDIO: Mastermind
 * Following on from Forgotten, the Master survives by possessing various bodies until he is imprisoned in the UNIT Vault. Upon hypnotising UNIT officers Ruth Matheson and Charlie Sato, the Master retrieves his TARDIS and escapes from the Vault.

The War King of the Homeworld

 * PROSE: Judy's War
 * Under the guise of "Yardley James", he travels with Judy Collins for a time, before leaving her behind to inform his people about a great threat.


 * "A renegade" returns to the Homeworld with warnings of War and becomes an assistant to Lord President Umbaste. (PROSE: The Book of the War)


 * PROSE: The Infinity Doctors
 * Serving under an unnamed Lord President, the Magistrate fights Omega.


 * PROSE: The Book of the War
 * President Umbaste dies, and the renegade is crowned the War King. He remains leader of the Homeworld for the first fifty years of the War.


 * PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5
 * The War King sends Homunculette to investigate the Elder Things. Several clones of the Master are made through the hatchling project.


 * AUDIO: Body Politic


 * AUDIO: Words from Nine Divinities
 * The War King is consumed by what was originally his TARDIS, Lolita.


 * PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
 * Appearing as a man with a rosette, the Doctor's "oldest friend" has survived the War in Heaven by returning in an "unexpected capacity", and is determined to save Gallifrey. He speaks of politics with Scarlette.


 * The "man with the rosette" becomes on of the four surviving elementals, (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles) and ultimately dies during the Emperor's rule. (PROSE: Father Time)

Reaching the end

 * AUDIO: Planet of Dust
 * Dying and at the end of his life, the Master recalls his time trapped in the Eye of Harmony and how he was drawn back in after his escape in Bruce's body, until he found a way to escape permanently, setting this after Mastermind. He is killed by the Ravenous, leading directly into Day of the Master.


 * AUDIO: Day of the Master
 * The "Deathworm Master" is resurrected by his younger self, the "War Master" and Missy, posing as CIA agents, who use CIA technology to grant him a whole new regeneration cycle. He regenerates into a new body, implied to the "Bald Master".

Early exploits

 * AUDIO: Dominion
 * The Master is working against the Time Lords.


 * The Master attacks on Tersurus. The Cult of the Heretic then switch the Masters' bodies. (AUDIO: The Two Masters)


 * AUDIO: And You Will Obey Me
 * Set during The Two Masters, with the Master in the body of his "decayed" incarnation.


 * AUDIO: The Two Masters
 * The Masters are restored to normal by the Seventh Doctor, who undoes the damage they have done and sends the Master back to his rightful place in history. The "Bald Master" recalls the events of Dominion.

The Eminence experiments

 * AUDIO: Time's Horizon


 * AUDIO: Eyes of the Master
 * The Master recalls being in San Francisco on 31 December 1999, setting this after Doctor Who. He was anticipating facing the Seventh Doctor, and is surprised see the Eighth Doctor.


 * AUDIO: The Death of Hope


 * AUDIO: The Reviled


 * AUDIO: Masterplan


 * AUDIO: Rule of the Eminence

Further schemes

 * AUDIO: The Monster of Montmartre


 * AUDIO: Master of the Daleks

The Last Great Time War

 * At some point in the Last Great Time War, the Master somehow gets himself into the body of a small child. He also makes a pact with the War Doctor. (COMIC: The Organ Grinder)

Alliance with the War Doctor

 * COMIC: Outrun
 * The Doctor and the Master aren't aware of who coined the term "Exterminhate", setting this before they met the Volatix Cabal.


 * COMIC: The Then and the Now
 * The Doctor and the Master land on the Overcast homeworld.


 * COMIC: The Organ Grinder
 * Alice Obiefune arrives in the Master's TARDIS from the future. Ending leads into Kill God.


 * COMIC: Kill God
 * The Master attempts to flee the War in his future TARDIS, only to realise too late that he is causing a paradox, leading directly into Fast Asleep.


 * COMIC: Fast Asleep
 * Being at the centre of the paradox causes the Master to regenerate into the incarnation seen in Utopia.

Working alone

 * AUDIO: Call for the Dead


 * AUDIO: The Glittering Prize


 * AUDIO: The Persistence of Dreams
 * Recounts the closing events of Sins of the Father, from Martine's perspective.


 * AUDIO: Sins of the Father
 * The Master is using his laser screwdriver, and receives a Chameleon Arch from Narvin. The Time War has yet to be formally declared, but tensions are rising between the Time Lords and Daleks.


 * AUDIO: Code Silver
 * The Master's TARDIS arrives at UNIT HQ, leading directly into Master of Worlds.


 * AUDIO: Master of Worlds
 * The Master has been hiding from the Time War in another dimension. He aids UNIT in defeating the Cybermen while planning to steal parts to repair his TARDIS. He leaves intending to return to the Time War.


 * AUDIO: The Survivor
 * The Master collects Alice Pritchard, the first of a part of his genetic experiments.


 * AUDIO: The Coney Island Chameleon
 * The Master collects Giuseppe Sabatini as part of his genetic experiments.


 * AUDIO: Concealed Weapon
 * Authorial intent places this between The Coney Island Chameleon and The Missing Link. The Master is collecting genetic material for experiments, to rival the ones being conducted by the Time Lords and the Daleks.


 * AUDIO: The Missing Link
 * The Master is hiding from the Time War.


 * AUDIO: Darkness and Light


 * AUDIO: Day of the Master
 * The Master is working for the CIA, and claims to hail from a time where paradoxes occur "almost daily", implied to be the Time War.


 * The Master sets up his plan to steal the Anti-Genesis codes by setting up a mental link with his follower Crazlus, whom he asks to gain a position in the Celestial Intervention Agency. (AUDIO: He Who Wins)


 * AUDIO: From the Flames
 * The Master fakes his death to fool the Time Lords, before being revived by Crazlus and stealing the Anti-Genesis codes, leading directly into The Master's Dalek Plan.


 * AUDIO: The Master's Dalek Plan
 * Under the guise of "Master Sorvad", the Master takes control of Skaro and Dalek history. Ending leads directly into Shockwave.


 * AUDIO: Shockwave
 * Ending leads directly into He Who Wins.


 * AUDIO: He Who Wins
 * The Master recalls the events of Day of the Master. Having conquered the universe, the Master realises his Dalek allies will try to kill him. Working with the Dalek Time Strategist, and an alternate version of himself, the Master contacts himself shortly after he set up a mental link with Crazlus, whom he has exterminated, reverting the timeline to before From the Flames, and erasing himself from history. In an attempt to escape the Daleks, the earlier version of the Master sets his TARDIS to dematerialise to a random location, though he is separated from it via a transmat beam, leading directly into Beneath the Viscoid.


 * AUDIO: Beneath the Viscoid
 * After retrieving his TARDIS from Gardezza, the Master is summoned to Gallifrey.


 * AUDIO: The Devil You Know
 * Follows on from Beneath the Viscoid, with the Master arriving on Gallifrey, and referring to having gone to "a great deal of trouble" to recover his TARDIS. Once he throws Leela into the Time Vortex after a mission to recover vital information that might end the Time War, the Master decides to head for Arcking based on intelligence from Valentine, leading directly into The Good Master.

Escapades with Cole Jarnish

 * AUDIO: The Good Master
 * The Master begins traveling with Cole Jarnish after meeting him on Arcking.


 * AUDIO: The Sky Man
 * The Master is still traveling with Cole Jarnish, and had began using him in his scheme to end the Time War by allowing Cole to meddle in time as much as possible in order to create more energy from the paradox that he has became.


 * AUDIO: The Heavenly Paradigm
 * The Master is still traveling with Cole, and kills him in order to power up the Heavenly Paradigm, a weapon that can end the Time War, only for his use of it to backfire. After watching the Dalek Emperor take control of the Cruciform, the Master flees from the War and the Time Lords, planning to hide using a Chameleon Arch, leading into Utopia.

As "Yana"

 * Hiding at the end of the universe. as a human scientist named "Yana", the Master finds himself working on the Utopia Project on Malcassairo with Chantho. (TV: Utopia)


 * TV: Utopia
 * Upon the arrival of the Tenth Doctor, Jack Harkness and Martha Jones, Yana is spurred to open the Chameleon Arch and return to his true identity. The Master is shot by Chantho when he kills her, but he is able to commandeer the Doctor's TARDIS before he regenerates.

As Harold Saxon

 * TV: Utopia
 * Regenerating from his "Yana" body, the Master steals the Doctor's TARDIS.

Clashing with the Tenth Doctor

 * The Master lands in the early 21st century, and, under the alias "Harold Saxon", sets up a political career while converting the TARDIS into a paradox machine. By 2007, he marries Lucy Cole, and takes her the end of the universe to breach an alliance with the Toclafane. Serving as Minister of Defence, the Master begins a campaign to become Prime Minister after the downfall of Harriet Jones. (TV: The Sound of Drums)


 * TV: The Runaway Bride
 * "Saxon" orders for British Army to destroy the Empress of the Racnoss's webstar.


 * PROSE: Speech Day
 * The Master hypnotises a school into thinking he was a past student.


 * TV: The Lazarus Experiment
 * "Saxon" funds the rejuvenation experiments of Richard Lazarus, and sends a mysterious man to meet with Francine Jones, Martha's mother, to turn her against the Doctor


 * TV: 42
 * "Saxon" has an agent monitor a conversation between Francine and Martha through the superphone.


 * "Saxon" sends Torchwood Three on a wild-goose chase to the Himalayas. (TV: The Sound of Drums)


 * PROSE: Harvest of Time
 * The Master is captured by the Sild.


 * TV: The Sound of Drums
 * With the pieces in place, the Master wins the 2008 election, unveils the Toclofane to the public, and entraps the Doctor and Jack as he begins his dominion over the world, with only Martha escaping.


 * PROSE: The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy


 * PROSE: The Story of Martha


 * TV: Last of the Time Lords
 * Set one year after The Sound of Drums. Before he can begin his New Time Lord Empire, the Master is thwarted by Martha and the Doctor, and shot by his wife. He refuses to regenerate and dies.


 * TV: The End of Time
 * During December 2009, the Master is resurrected by the Disciples of Saxon, only for Lucy to sabotage the process, at the cost of her own life. After a talk with the Doctor, the Master is captured by Joshua Naismith to repair the "Immortality Gate". The Master instead uses the Gate to turn the humans into the "Master Race", and uses his new resources to bring Gallifrey out of the time lock of the Time War. When Rassilon makes to kill him, the Master fights him back into the Time War.

After leaving Gallifrey

 * Back on Gallifrey after it is saved by the thirteen Doctors, (TV: The Day of the Doctor) the Master forces Rassilon to regenerate, (TV: Hell Bent) and is then restored to health by the Time Lords, before leaving Gallifrey one again. (TV: The Doctor Falls)


 * COMIC: The Abominable Showmen
 * The Master still has his blonde hair and stumble. All he is willing to say is "the Drums".


 * COMIC: The Five Masters
 * Follows on from The Abominable Showmen.


 * The Master arrives on a Mondasian colony ship, and takes over the city on Floor 1056 until the Mondasians rebel against him. Unable to escape in his TARDIS due to being too close to a black hole, the Master disguises himself and hides amongst the people. (TV: The Doctor Falls)


 * TV: World Enough and Time
 * The Master meets Bill Potts, and learns about the Twelfth Doctor and, who is his future incarnation. Ending leads directly into The Doctor Falls.


 * PROSE: Alit in Underland
 * Set after the prologue of The Doctor Falls.


 * TV: The Doctor Falls
 * The Master is fatally injured by Missy, forcing him to regenerate into her, but he kills her before he makes his way back to his TARDIS.

A female body

 * The Master successfully regenerates into a female form. (TV: Dark Water)


 * PROSE: Dismemberment
 * The Master has only recently regenerated, but has already chosen her new outfit and begun calling herself "the Mistress", though she adopts the name "Missy" near the end of her campaign against the Scoundrels Club.


 * AUDIO: The Bekdel Test
 * Missy does not have a vortex manipulator and is instead using her TARDIS. She has yet to learn that the Eleventh Doctor survived the Silence's attempt to kill him.

3W scheme

 * Missy creates the 3W Institute in order to create a Cyberman army of the dead as part of her plan to rekindle her friendship with the Doctor. To further her plan, Missy arranges for Clara Oswald to join the Eleventh Doctor, (TV: The Bells of Saint John) and that they remain together when he regenerates into his twelfth incarnation. (TV: Deep Breath, Death in Heaven) To finalize her 3W plot, Missy kills Clara's boyfriend, Danny Pink, in a car accident, then returns to the Scoundrels Club to gloat at her successful vengeance. (PROSE: Dismemberment)


 * PROSE: The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy
 * Missy acquires three matrix data slices from Lucy.


 * TV: Deep Breath


 * TV: Into the Dalek


 * TV: The Caretaker


 * TV: Flatline


 * TV: In the Forest of the Night


 * TV: Dark Water
 * After watching the Doctor from afar, Missy meets the Twelfth Doctor when he and Clara visit the 3W Institute. She begins her Cyberman invasion and reveals her identity to the Doctor, leading directly into Death in Heaven.


 * TV: Death in Heaven
 * Missy's plan is thwarted by the Doctor and Danny Pink, and Missy is seemingly killed by a Cyber-converted Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, but in actuality just teleports away using her vortex manipulator.

Further schemes

 * PROSE: Lords and Masters
 * After spending some time looking for a replacement power source, Missy jettisons the Eye of Harmony from her TARDIS to gain further freedom from the Time Lords once she finds a useable replacement. She is carrying her vortex manipulator, sonic umbrella, and a TCE, and notes that she hasn't used a TCE in "donkey's years".


 * PROSE: Teddy Sparkles Must Die!


 * TV: The Magician's Apprentice
 * Missy comes out of hiding to reveal that she is still alive to the Doctor and Clara.


 * TV: The Witch's Familiar
 * Missy meets Davros for the first time in the Dalek City.

After Skaro

 * PROSE: The Liar, the Glitch and the War Zone
 * Missy has just escaped from the Daleks, setting this immediately after The Witch's Familiar. Missy repairs her TARDIS after it is damaged during a collision with a Gryphon ship.


 * Under unknown circumstances, Missy becomes separated from her TARDIS, and starts relying on her vortex manipulator to travel. (AUDIO: Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated)


 * COMIC: The Abominable Showmen


 * COMIC: The Five Masters
 * Follows on from The Abominable Showmen.


 * PROSE: Yes, Missy


 * PROSE: Dr. Twelfth
 * Missy is travelling via vortex manipulator.


 * PROSE: Doctor Who and the Horror of Coal Hill


 * COMIC: Missy Loves Ghostie


 * AUDIO: Day of the Master
 * Missy is using her vortex manipulator, which is her main means of travel. She recalls River's method of wiping memories, setting this after The Bekdel Test.

Recovering the Master TARDIS

 * AUDIO: A Spoonful of Mayhem
 * Missy is exiled to Victorian London by the Wardens for a future crime of hers. She is using her vortex manipulator and becomes the governess for the Davis family when a grandfather clock goes missing from their household, with her receiving the blame for the theft.


 * AUDIO: Divorced, Beheaded, Regenerated
 * Gallifrey has returned, and Missy is without a working TARDIS. She steals a component from the Monk's TARDIS.


 * AUDIO: The Broken Clock
 * Missy recovers the TARDIS she used during the Last Great Time War, but loses her vortex manipulator.


 * AUDIO: The Belly of the Beast
 * Missy recovers the Master TARDIS from inside a dead space creature and feeds her TARDIS from the Time War to its Eye of Harmony using the component she stole from the Monk's TARDIS. She has acquired another vortex manipulator.

Imprisoned in the Vault

 * TV: Extremis
 * Missy is captured by the "Enemies of Life" to be executed, but is saved by the Doctor and Nardole. She is placed in a Quantum Fold Chamber and taken to St Luke's University in the 20th century to be redeemed.


 * PROSE: Girl Power!
 * Missy is being held in the Vault, and is beginning to reform her ways, though still insists on doing good in a sadistic way.


 * TV: Thin Ice
 * In 2017, Missy realises the Doctor had begun traveling again, and bangs on the Vault doors.


 * TV: Knock Knock
 * The Doctor has dinner with Missy.


 * TV: The Lie of the Land
 * Missy meets Bill Potts when the Doctor comes to her for advice on how to defeat the Monks.


 * TV: Empress of Mars
 * Nardole releases Missy from the vault so she can help him return the TARDIS to 1881 Mars.


 * COMIC: The Great Shopping Bill
 * Nardole says Missy cannot be let outside of the Vault again.


 * COMIC: A Confusion of Angels


 * TV: The Eaters of Light
 * With the Doctor now trusting her more, Missy is asked to do maintenance on the TARDIS.


 * PROSE: Pain Management
 * The Doctor allows Missy to accompany him, Bill and Nardole on a trip in the TARDIS. However, when she kills someone's during the trip, the Doctor realises that she's not yet ready to accompany them fulltime.


 * TV: World Enough and Time
 * Missy is taken to colony ship to test if she can be redeemed, but instead finds herself face-to-face with her "Harold Saxon" incarnation, leading directly into The Doctor Falls.


 * COMIC: The Road To...
 * Set during World Enough and Time, when the Doctor, Nardole and Missy are taking the lift to Floor 1056.


 * PROSE: Alit in Underland
 * Set after the prologue of The Doctor Falls.


 * TV: The Doctor Falls
 * Despite a relapse in personality, Missy decides to join forces with the Doctor after fatally wounding the Master, but is killed by her past incarnation before she can.

In a male body again

 * TV: Spyfall
 * The Master confronts the Thirteenth Doctor and Team TARDIS.

The Other Master

 * AUDIO: Sympathy for the Devil


 * AUDIO: The Library in the Body


 * AUDIO: The Emporium At The End


 * AUDIO: The True Saviour of the Universe


 * AUDIO: Shockwave
 * The Master is the last being left alive in the universe and is trapped for ten thousand years before being rescued by his counterpart from another universe.


 * AUDIO: He Who Wins

"UNIT enemy" incarnation

 * PROSE: Winning

"Tremas" incarnation

 * PROSE: Winning

"Harold Saxon" incarnation

 * PROSE: Winning
 * The "Saxon Master" is wearing his clothes from The End of Time, but is clean-shaven.

As "Missy"

 * PROSE: The Master's Beard
 * PROSE: Winning