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The twelfth series saw the reintroduction of the Master, this time played by Sacha Dhawan who recurred across the series. [89] Meanwhile, Barrowman briefly returned to Doctor Who as Harkness in "Fugitive of the Judoon", after a ten year absence from the series, and starred in the 2021 New Year's Day special, "Revolution of the Daleks". [90] "
[8] [9] The special is the 300th overall Doctor Who story since the first story was broadcast in 1963. [10] The Cybermen, the Daleks, and the Master all return in the special; it is the first time that all three featured in the same episode. [11] Chibnall stated that he had plans to include the Master in the next regeneration story since the ...
"The Stolen Tardis" (1979), a spin-off comic printed in issue No. 9 of Doctor Who Weekly (the original name of Doctor Who Magazine) also claims that "not everyone on Gallifrey is a Time Lord", [130] while a feature in issue No. 21 instead states that the Doctor is "a member of a race called the Time Lords". [131]
In "The Power of the Doctor", the Master returns alongside his CyberMasters in an alliance with the Daleks to eliminate the Doctor once and for all by stealing her body through a forced regeneration. Although defeated narrowly by Yaz and some of the Doctor's friends and past companions, the Master is able to land a fatal laser attack on the Doctor.
The Doctor is usually accompanied in his travels by one to three companions (sometimes called assistants). These characters provide a surrogate with whom the audience can identify, and further the story by asking questions and getting into trouble, (similar to Dr. Watson in the Sherlock Holmes mysteries.)
However, companion Yasmin "Yaz" Khan shoves him out of the TARDIS, and uses a failsafe holographic AI of the Doctor to help former companions Tegan Jovanka and Ace stop the Cybermen and the Daleks while she recaptures the Master, using the Master's own equipment and the energies of the Time Lord/Cyberman hybrids to reverse the regeneration ...
The Watcher, who manifests as a harbinger of the Fourth Doctor's regeneration before merging into the Doctor's dying body. [37] Richard Hurndall "The Five Doctors" 23 November 1983: Hurndall replaced Hartnell, who had died in 1975, as the First Doctor for the programme's 20th anniversary special.
The Doctor's regenerations are always involuntary, and they have no conscious control over the final appearance. In "The Parting of the Ways" (2005), the Ninth Doctor describes the process as "a bit dodgy"—i.e., somewhat dangerous or uncertain—and the Tenth Doctor refers to regeneration as "a lottery" ("The Day of the Doctor", 2013).