Ainley tends to get overshadowed by the likes of Roger Delgado and John Simm but I think that people tend to forgot how amazing he really is in the role.
Ainley was a juggernaut of evil playing the Master, and yet he played the character full of compassion, anger, comedy timing and he will be sorely missed 😔
Beautifully overplayed by Anthony Ainley. The longer the Master's hateful speech, the sooner you knew he was going to get screwed by the backfire of his convoluted plans.
Love his Master and how he always comes back 😁 in the classic series. Glad and lucky we had Anthony Ainley play this character and poor Tremas - wonderful actor. I loved all of them (every actor has been perfect so far as the Master).
@Marvin Groß There was no menace to him when the master was a monster be it a burned zombie that could morpth into people a cheetah man who can teleport or a blue lightning shooting cannibal at least menace surrounded him but the green eyed spitter master had 0 menace
Probably the most chaotic and evil Master. Thats what makes him my favourite. So evil and insane. What he lacked in menace, he made up for with his chaos and destruction. Ainley was so good as the Master. The best!
I really like Anthony Ainley's take on The Master. You can see he absolutely adored playing the part, and the slightly melodramatic, campy way he played it, mixed with an undercurrent of vicousness and sadism that occasionally bubbled to the surface was just right for the tone of the stories he was in. If they'd brought The Master back properly around Season 13/14 instead of the one-off appearance hinting for a future return in The Deadly Assassin, then a heavier and more weighty villain actor like Philip Madoc would have undoubtedly been better, but he was the right Master for the 80s, absolutely. It's a shame that he was a bit off the boil in his stories with Colin Baker (although, naturally Pip and Jane gave him some bloody awful stuff to work with), but he played against Peter Davison well and he puts in his best performance in Survival for sure.
@@jaymorrison4886 That was easily his swansong. He combined all of the camp from his earlier performances with the menace he brought in Survival. That game was a testament to how good this man was in this role.
Superb trailer for this incarnation of the Master & tribute to Ainley! Picked out some great clips I've not seen used, frighting & epic look into his reign. Amazing work btw of the new effects from Mark of the Rani you teased on twitter btw!!!
Ainley's Master was amazing, he took over the body of Nyssa's father, was responsible for the death of the 4th Doctor, survived being shrunk by his tissue compressor, teamed up with the Rani one time and battled the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Doctors(the 1st and the 3rd he met in "The Five Doctors").
Imagine if we had a special like Five Doctors and the like, but with the incarnations of the Master. Course with Roger Delgado and Anthony Ainley dead that might be difficult, but Big Finish and even the show can get great impersonators. Come on it would be so hammy and cool to have Delgado and Ainley Master’s working together on a scheme.
"You are one of the most evil and corrupt beings this Timelord race has ever produced. Your crimes are without number, and your villainy without end" The Master: "Why thank you."
Join the club as far as not standing Simm Goes. Though I do think Dhawan and Roberts remarkably managed to be worse. With Simm I just want the Brigadier to show up and punch him like he did Ainley. I was relieved when we got Missy. Although something has to be said for Jacobi who scared the heck out of me and was a better Master than Simm, Roberts, or Dhawan in five minutes then they were over the course of multiple episodes. I hadn't found a Master that threatening since Delgado. As for Ainley. In my list he falls in fourth place right below Jacobi (my third favourite only beaten out by Missy and Delgado). However, I will not deny that he was good in the role he at least had some level of charisma and threat. My main problem was that he was almost always written as a pantomime villain with little to no character development (Not a fault on the part of Ainley who admitted this himself) I rarely felt that he and the Doctor had once been friends and saw almost no signs of that friendship even slightly being there the way it was with Delgado and Pertwee. And it's that remaining friendship (which I saw in Missy/Capaldi) that I feel sets the Master apart. To be clear I don't think he was a bad Master I liked his scene where he said (A cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about) But he didn't feel quite as consistently threatening as Jacobi, Gomez, and Delgado.
Also grew up with Simm, found him actually good, but when I started watching Classic Who, I began to slowly dislike him more and more. I think Missy is the best incarnation of New Who. Delgado is still my favourite Master.
@@madeleine5561 Dhawan's pretty good in his own way, I personally just couldn't warm up to him because he erased Gomez's character arc, and Roberts is actually quite good on Big Finish. Seriously, some of his performances on audio are just terrifying. He's pretty much the Master's answer to Colin Baker.
@@yehiahuzayyin7972 yeah the eraser of Missy was what really pissed me off about him otherwise I just would have been moderately annoyed on the same Level I was with simm. Also since posting the comment I've listened to roberts on audio and while I still think his movie performance is awful his audio work is quite good and sinister
@Madeleine Honestly, Simm was the best possible Master to go up against Tennant. He shares Tennant's energy, humor, and love of life with none of his kindness or redeeming qualities. He's a dark parody of his Doctor, just like Delgado was for Pertwee, and Ainley was for Davison, Baker, and McCoy. The issue is that Tennant is at his most reserved and stoic in the Master's episodes, so his Doctor Falls portrayal would've worked better, he's still camp and silly, but much more composed, but Davies pushed for the Series 3 portrayal. And Dhawan showcases an aspect of the Master that most people overlook: his self-hatred. This incarnation is regretful and even suicidal. This was very interesting... until it was shown to be over something so extremely petty. I've always chalked up Chibnall's era as being a valiant effort by a man who clearly loved the show. It was just poorly executed. But he does have his gems. Villa Diodati, the Dalek episodes, and Power of the Doctor come to mind. And I honestly find Jodie's performance to be pretty good for what she's been given. Just my take, at any rate. Capaldi's era will always be the high point of Doctor Who for me, even after experiencing Tom Baker.
For me there is only one Master and he is played by Anthony Ainley. No other Actor can step into his Glory. His Style with this Costume he had on and his Art, he even outshines the Rani, which I like also (but only as played by Kate O´Mara).
A man who could sign the death warrants of millions,destroy whole planets and after the business of the day have lunch with friends. Because we all know its important to have good friends. :)
love the video as i wondering if you do terror of the daleks,terror of the siluarians after the dalek trailers and can you add a part for your next master tribute when a sea devil pulls back the third doctor
Anthony's Master I help add to an old Triva thing for Doctor Who. Because I said he was the first and only incarnation to have meet with different incarnations of the Doctor. With the five Doctor He faced 1-3. He was in many of the fifth Doctor episodes. He faced off with the Fouth Doctor in Logopolis. He faced the sixth doctor a few times and He faced Seventh Doctor. This is the Master both Tegan and Ace remember. So as this incarnation he fought with 1-7. Roger's was only with 3. Simms meet 10 and 12. Missy only faced 12. Master Yana meet 10. Though he was also the War Master the Doctor and he must not have meet during the War. Eric's Doctor only faced the 8th.The most recent Master Meet the Fugitive and 13th Doctor. So Anthonys Doctor faced most of the incarnations.
I grew up watching the classic series on PBS, so to me Ainley is #2, only behind Delgado. While Ainley's version did also have the intelligence and cunning like Delgado, his was much more sadistic.
I'd love the 14th master to look like the Roger and Anthony kinda master, thats how I always recognised the master, small beard with a villainish face.
Amazing work dude. The start is great. But there is a frame I am wondering about, at 1:18 what is happening to the Tardis because I don't know why but it makes me feel sad for the Tardis. Like its being hurt.
Anyone knows what happens to Anthony's Master? Did he stole another body ? Also bothering me is did the previous Master died when he stole Tremas' body?
Spoiler Alert" . . . . . . . . . . In dust breeding (big finish) one of his plans backfires burning out his tremas form and he reverts back to the corpse Master. He then goes on continuing to steal bodies but always reverting back to that form before his eventual death prior to the Timelords resurrecting him for the Time War
TARDISELLIOT TRAILERS YAY!!!!!! I’ll be watching out for it!!! Your John Simm one is amazing and all your other videos are just absolutely brilliant!!! Keep up the spectacular work
I think Ainleys Master did get wasted in some 80s stories like Time Flight Kings Demons Mark of the Rani and the ultimate Foe I in some ways cannot help thinking that Planet of Fire might have been the vehicle for the Masters demise and IMO I had it been up to me would hve not brought the Master back after Planet of Fire given how poorly utilised in Mark of the Rani and the Ultimate Foe and with Time Lord villains such as the Rani and the Valeyard who were far more interesting villains than the Master much as I liked Roger Delgados Master the Master got overused as a villain in the Pertwee and Davison years and it was liked in Blake's Seven with the arch-villain Servalan who was a woman and in season 4 of Blake's Seven Servalan much as she was the arch-villain and Blake's arch-enemy in B7 was overused and useful and likeable a villain as Servalan was she like Ainleys Master got poorly used in some episodes that she was in . I do think in billions of ways Survival the final story of classic Who with Slyvester Mccoys 7th Dr although it is not a favourite story of mine and never will be it showed Ainleys ,Master as the main villain and also that year I entered the first year of my 20s and given how Dr Who ended after Survival I can looking back after 33 years understand why it was axed and I think it was the right thing to do
What’s the good with out the bad . The heroes with out the villains. Who’s says the good guys are really good and not just some oppressive control freaks and the villains really “ Freedom fighters” just painted in a negative light by the “ Goodie Goodies”
Ainley tends to get overshadowed by the likes of Roger Delgado and John Simm but I think that people tend to forgot how amazing he really is in the role.
People forget Anthony Ainley played the Master the longest
He's sorta the 4th doctor of master incarnations, since he's been on the show for a while until the end, God bless Anthony ainley
Ainley was a juggernaut of evil playing the Master, and yet he played the character full of compassion, anger, comedy timing and he will be sorely missed 😔
Beautifully overplayed by Anthony Ainley. The longer the Master's hateful speech, the sooner you knew he was going to get screwed by the backfire of his convoluted plans.
One of the best pantomime villain performances ever, he was the master I grew up with,he had the best stories by. far a great actor.
Met him at the Jarvis Piccadilly hotel Manchester in the 90s at the doctor who conference he was scary in real life 😍
Would have loved to have met him
Both he and Delgado were both masters I grew up with.
Anthony Ainley is to the Master as Jeremy Brett is to Sherlock Holmes. Not the first, and far from the last, but the *definitive*.
Love his Master and how he always comes back 😁 in the classic series.
Glad and lucky we had Anthony Ainley play this character and poor Tremas - wonderful actor.
I loved all of them (every actor has been perfect so far as the Master).
Eric Roberts was terrible
@Marvin Groß There was no menace to him when the master was a monster be it a burned zombie that could morpth into people a cheetah man who can teleport or a blue lightning shooting cannibal at least menace surrounded him but the green eyed spitter master had 0 menace
The latest master is awful
@@liammcdougall7483 Eric Robert’s master is still ok to me, but not number 1
@@cguy4131 Dhawan did fine wdym
He was the Master when I was growing up. He'll always be my favourite actor who's played the part.
@@MichaelM28 of course I have.
Mine too
Probably the most chaotic and evil Master. Thats what makes him my favourite. So evil and insane.
What he lacked in menace, he made up for with his chaos and destruction. Ainley was so good as the Master. The best!
Could not agree more, he struck me as the best Master in all of DW... I still cannot after all these years believe he is gone... We miss you Anthony!
The greatest version of the Master. Nice tribute, thank you for it!
@@MichaelM28 Grow up.
The original master was the best version of master.
I grew up watching Anthony where they talk about the master his face always appears best master ever
Camper than Christmas and easily one of the BEST things about that era of the show. 💖💖
The one and ONLY Master!
Anthony Ainley was MY Master, from 1981-1989!
I really like Anthony Ainley's take on The Master. You can see he absolutely adored playing the part, and the slightly melodramatic, campy way he played it, mixed with an undercurrent of vicousness and sadism that occasionally bubbled to the surface was just right for the tone of the stories he was in. If they'd brought The Master back properly around Season 13/14 instead of the one-off appearance hinting for a future return in The Deadly Assassin, then a heavier and more weighty villain actor like Philip Madoc would have undoubtedly been better, but he was the right Master for the 80s, absolutely.
It's a shame that he was a bit off the boil in his stories with Colin Baker (although, naturally Pip and Jane gave him some bloody awful stuff to work with), but he played against Peter Davison well and he puts in his best performance in Survival for sure.
He was also magnificent in destiny of the doctor
@@jaymorrison4886 That was easily his swansong. He combined all of the camp from his earlier performances with the menace he brought in Survival. That game was a testament to how good this man was in this role.
Excellent tribute, your edits are always amazing!
Superb trailer for this incarnation of the Master & tribute to Ainley! Picked out some great clips I've not seen used, frighting & epic look into his reign. Amazing work btw of the new effects from Mark of the Rani you teased on twitter btw!!!
Cheers mate, been a while since I tweaked some effects, forgot how fun they are to do
The best by far in my humble opinion.
Amazing tribute i want this sort of Mater to return to doctor who how amazing will that be
One of my favourite Masters! :)
Ainley's Master was amazing, he took over the body of Nyssa's father, was responsible for the death of the 4th Doctor, survived being shrunk by his tissue compressor, teamed up with the Rani one time and battled the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Doctors(the 1st and the 3rd he met in "The Five Doctors").
what about the 2nd, he was there
man Anthony Ainley was so underrated as the Master but for me he's the best Master
"For the final meeting of the Doctor with his Master!"
Great video!!! Awesome tribute :D
Imagine if we had a special like Five Doctors and the like, but with the incarnations of the Master. Course with Roger Delgado and Anthony Ainley dead that might be difficult, but Big Finish and even the show can get great impersonators. Come on it would be so hammy and cool to have Delgado and Ainley Master’s working together on a scheme.
Crimson Dynamo Jon Culshaw would be up for it
René Moncayo which Master could he pull off well
Crimson Dynamo we recently got the Day of the Master two parter in Ravenous 4 and we’ll be getting a 50th anniversary release for the Master next year
PC Andy Infinite it’s a Master Renaissance
This is my favourite version of the Master and always has been.
second best master to rodger..high praise indeed!
"You are one of the most evil and corrupt beings this Timelord race has ever produced. Your crimes are without number, and your villainy without end"
The Master: "Why thank you."
Grew up with John Simm and went back to watch the Classics. Couldn't stand Simm, myself, but Ainley's Master grew on me pretty quickly
Join the club as far as not standing Simm Goes. Though I do think Dhawan and Roberts remarkably managed to be worse. With Simm I just want the Brigadier to show up and punch him like he did Ainley. I was relieved when we got Missy. Although something has to be said for Jacobi who scared the heck out of me and was a better Master than Simm, Roberts, or Dhawan in five minutes then they were over the course of multiple episodes. I hadn't found a Master that threatening since Delgado. As for Ainley. In my list he falls in fourth place right below Jacobi (my third favourite only beaten out by Missy and Delgado). However, I will not deny that he was good in the role he at least had some level of charisma and threat. My main problem was that he was almost always written as a pantomime villain with little to no character development (Not a fault on the part of Ainley who admitted this himself) I rarely felt that he and the Doctor had once been friends and saw almost no signs of that friendship even slightly being there the way it was with Delgado and Pertwee. And it's that remaining friendship (which I saw in Missy/Capaldi) that I feel sets the Master apart. To be clear I don't think he was a bad Master I liked his scene where he said (A cosmos without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about) But he didn't feel quite as consistently threatening as Jacobi, Gomez, and Delgado.
Also grew up with Simm, found him actually good, but when I started watching Classic Who, I began to slowly dislike him more and more. I think Missy is the best incarnation of New Who. Delgado is still my favourite Master.
@@madeleine5561 Dhawan's pretty good in his own way, I personally just couldn't warm up to him because he erased Gomez's character arc, and Roberts is actually quite good on Big Finish. Seriously, some of his performances on audio are just terrifying. He's pretty much the Master's answer to Colin Baker.
@@yehiahuzayyin7972 yeah the eraser of Missy was what really pissed me off about him otherwise I just would have been moderately annoyed on the same Level I was with simm. Also since posting the comment I've listened to roberts on audio and while I still think his movie performance is awful his audio work is quite good and sinister
@Madeleine Honestly, Simm was the best possible Master to go up against Tennant. He shares Tennant's energy, humor, and love of life with none of his kindness or redeeming qualities. He's a dark parody of his Doctor, just like Delgado was for Pertwee, and Ainley was for Davison, Baker, and McCoy. The issue is that Tennant is at his most reserved and stoic in the Master's episodes, so his Doctor Falls portrayal would've worked better, he's still camp and silly, but much more composed, but Davies pushed for the Series 3 portrayal. And Dhawan showcases an aspect of the Master that most people overlook: his self-hatred. This incarnation is regretful and even suicidal. This was very interesting... until it was shown to be over something so extremely petty. I've always chalked up Chibnall's era as being a valiant effort by a man who clearly loved the show. It was just poorly executed. But he does have his gems. Villa Diodati, the Dalek episodes, and Power of the Doctor come to mind. And I honestly find Jodie's performance to be pretty good for what she's been given. Just my take, at any rate. Capaldi's era will always be the high point of Doctor Who for me, even after experiencing Tom Baker.
He stole another man’s skin, underrated villainy
For me there is only one Master and he is played by Anthony Ainley. No other Actor can step into his Glory. His Style with this Costume he had on and his Art, he even outshines the Rani, which I like also (but only as played by Kate O´Mara).
Thank you
A man who could sign the death warrants of millions,destroy whole planets and after the business of the day have lunch with friends. Because we all know its important to have good friends. :)
I love Antony alinely as the master he is my second favourite version of the master in doctor who
Not my favorite version of the master but he is the version that probably did the most damage to the doctor than anyone else
Anthony was the best master
MY Master! Ta, for this.
Love the fact that I share Anthony Ainley birthday epic :D
Greatest master of all
Oh, Nicely done! Bravo!
Brilliant edit
love the video as i wondering if you do terror of the daleks,terror of the siluarians after the dalek trailers and can you add a part for your next master tribute when a sea devil pulls back the third doctor
It will just come down to when I find the right track to inspire me. A Daleks update is most definitely on the list
which missy/master tribute should i watch?
good stuff again,thanks for sharing
Anthony's Master I help add to an old Triva thing for Doctor Who. Because I said he was the first and only incarnation to have meet with different incarnations of the Doctor. With the five Doctor He faced 1-3. He was in many of the fifth Doctor episodes. He faced off with the Fouth Doctor in Logopolis. He faced the sixth doctor a few times and He faced Seventh Doctor. This is the Master both Tegan and Ace remember. So as this incarnation he fought with 1-7. Roger's was only with 3. Simms meet 10 and 12. Missy only faced 12. Master Yana meet 10. Though he was also the War Master the Doctor and he must not have meet during the War. Eric's Doctor only faced the 8th.The most recent Master Meet the Fugitive and 13th Doctor.
So Anthonys Doctor faced most of the incarnations.
John Simm is by far the best but Ainley was 2 or 3, but then Missy came and actually they are all great, no need for lists
The master is my favorite and Doctor Who
Brilliant video for a great master 😀
I grew up watching the classic series on PBS, so to me Ainley is #2, only behind Delgado. While Ainley's version did also have the intelligence and cunning like Delgado, his was much more sadistic.
I'd love the 14th master to look like the Roger and Anthony kinda master, thats how I always recognised the master, small beard with a villainish face.
He mentioned there are three rings in a marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring and the bickering.
The GOAT
The best Master, *after* Roger Delgado, of course, the best Master of them all
I wish Ainley had been avillain in Blake,s Seven he would have been superb in B7
Great video
Amazing work dude. The start is great. But there is a frame I am wondering about, at 1:18 what is happening to the Tardis because I don't know why but it makes me feel sad for the Tardis. Like its being hurt.
It's narrowly escaping the big bang
@@tardiselliottrailers ohh. Thank you. this video is a masterpiece.
I like Anthony Ainley as The Master
Very nice. Wonder which Master is next?
you and me both. It's rather difficult to make ones for the others as they have fairly short appearances.
TARDISELLIOT TRAILERS guess some of them would have to be partially non-visual due to their heavier Big Finish involvement
i thought anthony ainley was the best actor to be the master in the eighties sad he died he was a great master like Roger Delgado.
Simm plays it well but Ainley was the Don (too young for Delgado, don't hate)
Just look at Sacha Dhawan and Eric Roberts , that's what you call over the top to the point of looking like some deranged lunatic
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excellent , but second to the first !
Anthony ainley & Michelle Gomez are my favorite master
My favourite Master is the same as my favourite Doctor. It's the one I'm watching at the time.
Anyone knows what happens to Anthony's Master? Did he stole another body ? Also bothering me is did the previous Master died when he stole Tremas' body?
Spoiler Alert"
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In dust breeding (big finish) one of his plans backfires burning out his tremas form and he reverts back to the corpse Master. He then goes on continuing to steal bodies but always reverting back to that form before his eventual death prior to the Timelords resurrecting him for the Time War
You going to make one on the new master?
IamPumma most definitely - just need to right the right music first
TARDISELLIOT TRAILERS YAY!!!!!! I’ll be watching out for it!!! Your John Simm one is amazing and all your other videos are just absolutely brilliant!!! Keep up the spectacular work
I think Ainleys Master did get wasted in some 80s stories like Time Flight Kings Demons Mark of the Rani and the ultimate Foe I in some ways cannot help thinking that Planet of Fire might have been the vehicle for the Masters demise and IMO I had it been up to me would hve not brought the Master back after Planet of Fire given how poorly utilised in Mark of the Rani and the Ultimate Foe and with Time Lord villains such as the Rani and the Valeyard who were far more interesting villains than the Master much as I liked Roger Delgados Master the Master got overused as a villain in the Pertwee and Davison years and it was liked in Blake's Seven with the arch-villain Servalan who was a woman and in season 4 of Blake's Seven Servalan much as she was the arch-villain and Blake's arch-enemy in B7 was overused and useful and likeable a villain as Servalan was she like Ainleys Master got poorly used in some episodes that she was in . I do think in billions of ways Survival the final story of classic Who with Slyvester Mccoys 7th Dr although it is not a favourite story of mine and never will be it showed Ainleys ,Master as the main villain and also that year I entered the first year of my 20s and given how Dr Who ended after Survival I can looking back after 33 years understand why it was axed and I think it was the right thing to do
What’s the good with out the bad . The heroes with out the villains. Who’s says the good guys are really good and not just some oppressive control freaks and the villains really “ Freedom fighters” just painted in a negative light by the “ Goodie Goodies”
The music is too loud and difficult to hear what is being said.