The Masters's TARDIS
Main aliases:	Melkur
Type:	Type 45 TARDIS
Place of origin:	Gallifrey
First seen in:	Terror of the Autons

The Master's TARDIS was the TARDIS of the renegade Time Lord known as the Master. He appears to have had more than one TARDIS during his engagements with the Doctor. This is because he stole Goth's TARDIS as well.

History Edit

The Master's first known TARDIS was a Type 45. (PROSE: The Dark Path) During his Earth-based vendetta against the Third Doctor and UNIT, the Master used a TARDIS with a Mark II dematerialisation circuit. (TV: Terror of the Autons) Unlike the Doctor's TARDIS, the Master's had a fully functioning chameleon circuit.

One of his TARDISes was destroyed on Traken. (TV: The Keeper of Traken)

Exterior Edit

During his rivalry with the Doctor, the Master changed his TARDIS into several different forms:

• An Adjudication flyer (PROSE: The Dark Path)
• An out-of-date space locker (PROSE: The Dark Path)
• A horsebox (TV: Terror of the Autons)
• A white cube (TV: The Claws of Axos)
• A spaceship (while he posed as the Adjudicator) (TV: Colony in Space)
• A black Rolls-Royce limousine with darkened windows (PROSE: The Face of the Enemy)
• A bulkhead door aboard HMS Redoubt (PROSE: The Face of the Enemy)
• The Stone of Sacrifice in the cavern of the church at Devil's End (PROSE: The Face of the Enemy, PROSE: The Eight Doctors)
• A computer bank (TV: The Time Monster)
• A control panel (PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks)
• A wardrobe (PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks)
• A grandfather clock (TV: The Deadly Assassin, The Keeper of Traken, PROSE: The Eight Doctors)
• The Melkur (TV: The Keeper of Traken)
• A police box (TV: Logopolis)

  

• A laurel bush (TV: Logopolis) (a cherry laurel, Prunus laurocerasus)
• A Doric column (TV: Logopolis, Castrovalva, Time-Flight)
• A marble fireplace (TV: Castrovalva)
• Speedbird Concorde 192 (TV: Time-Flight)
• An iron maiden (TV: The King's Demons)
• A three-sided column (TV: Planet of Fire)
• A wooden beach hut (TV: The Ultimate Foe)
• A statue of Queen Victoria (TV: The Ultimate Foe)

On Traken, the Master disguised a TARDIS as the Melkur. In this form, it was shown to be able to walk and could fire sonic beams from its eyes. When this TARDIS was destroyed, he fled in another he had kept in the former. This TARDIS also was disguised as a grandfather clock. (TV: The Keeper of Traken)

While preparing a trap for the Fourth Doctor, the Master temporarily changed his ship into a police box. He later hid it inside the Cloister room as a laurel bush and finally as a stunted, brown Doric column. (TV: Logopolis) He tended to use a column as his TARDIS's "default" exterior. (TV: Castrovalva, Time-Flight, Planet of Fire)

Interior Edit

The Master's TARDIS had a varied interior. Some interiors seemed to mimic the Doctor's re-designs of his own TARDIS at the time of the encounter. (TV: The Time Monster)

Much of the time, the interior was simply a sombre, black version of the interior of the Doctor's TARDIS, sometimes with special equipment such as the Hadron web which he used to hold Adric captive. (TV: Castrovalva)

The Master's library Edit

Like the Doctor, the Master's TARDIS had a well-stocked library. The Master's interests, however, tended toward the evil and arcane. Among the more diabolical works he owned were the Necronomicon, shelved between the Liber Inducens in Evangelium Aeternum and The Black Scrolls of Rassilon. It also included the Book of Vile and its Black Appendix, The Ambuehl Lores and the Insidium of Astrolabus. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel)

Specific systems Edit

Once, the Master tricked the Doctor into materialising his TARDIS around the Master's, creating a dimensionally recursive loop, (TV: Logopolis) repeating a situation that had previously occurred accidentally. (TV: The Time Monster)

Behind the scenes Edit

• The Master's console room and console tended to mirror the Doctor's due to the same set (temporarily repainted) and console being used for filming.
• A scene towards the end of TV: The Mind of Evil, in which the Master talks on the telephone to the Doctor and promises to destroy Earth one day, could be set in the Master's TARDIS. If this is indeed the case, we never see what form, if any, the ship is in.