The enduring character of the Master, a renegade Time Lord, was created by producer Barry Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks shortly after they began working together in 1969. They were inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle and felt the Doctor needed his own Moriarty. Letts always envisaged the character as being played by Roger Delgado, a British actor of Spanish ancestry who had already established a reputation for playing suave villains (and with whom Letts had worked when he had been an actor himself). Delgado made his debut in 1971 and became a popular member of the cast, appearing regularly until his death in a car accident in 1973. The character was briefly revived by Philip Hinchcliffe and Robert Holmes for the 1976 story "The Deadly Assassin" (played by Peter Pratt) but became a regular villain again throughout the 1980s (played by Anthony Ainley) when the series was produced by John Nathan-Turner. According to members of the cast, Ainley enjoyed the part so much he had no interest in playing anything else and would even answer the telephone in character as the Master.
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