Editing The Master (Doctor Who) (section)

==List of appearances==
The actors who have played the role of the Master in the series and the dates of their first and last televised appearances in the role are:

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! Actor !! No. of<br />episodes !! First appearance !! Date aired !! Last appearance !! Date aired
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|[[Roger Delgado]]|| 37 (8 stories) ||''[[Terror of the Autons]]''|| 2 January 1971 ||''[[Frontier in Space]]''|| 31 March 1973
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|[[Peter Pratt]]|| 4 (1 story) ||''[[The Deadly Assassin]]''|| 30 October 1976 ||''The Deadly Assassin''|| 20 November 1976
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|[[Geoffrey Beevers]]|| 4 (1 story) ||''[[The Keeper of Traken]]''|| 31 January 1981 ||''The Keeper of Traken''|| 21 February 1981
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|[[Anthony Ainley]]|| 28 (11 stories) ||''The Keeper of Traken''|| 21 February 1981 ||''[[Survival (Doctor Who)|Survival]]''|| 6 December 1989
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|[[Eric Roberts]]|| 1 (1 story) ||''[[Doctor Who (film)|Doctor Who]]''|| 27 May 1996 ||''Doctor Who''|| 27 May 1996
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|[[Derek Jacobi]]|| 1 (1 story) || "[[Utopia (Doctor Who)|Utopia]]" || 16 June 2007 || "Utopia" || 16 June 2007
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|[[John Simm]]|| 7 (3 stories) || "Utopia" || 16 June 2007 || "[[The Doctor Falls]]" || 1 July 2017
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|[[Michelle Gomez]]|| 15 (12 stories)<ref group="lower-alpha">Gomez is uncredited in two of these stories ("[[Into the Dalek]]" and "[[The Caretaker (Doctor Who)|The Caretaker]]").</ref>|| "[[Deep Breath (Doctor Who)|Deep Breath]]" || 23 August 2014 || "The Doctor Falls" || 1 July 2017
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|[[Sacha Dhawan]]|| 5 (3 stories) || "[[Spyfall (Doctor Who)|Spyfall]]" || 1 January 2020 || "[[The Power of the Doctor]]" || 23 October  2022
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