Roger Delgado's untimely death was a real shame - not only because we lost a much loved actor, but also because it left the original plan for the Master's story arc unfinished
Originally it was planned that he would appear in an unfilmed story entitled 'The Final Game', which was to be the last story of Jon Pertwee's era. It was to reveal that The Doctor and The Master were actually brothers, and at the end of the story, The Master was to have sacrificed himself to 'save' The Doctor, albeit The Doctor in a new body.
Sadly, this never happened, and his final appearance in 'Frontier In Space' is a real anti-climax, and not the triumphant swansong the character deserved
My favourite story about Roger Delgado concerns 'The Daemons'. At the end of the story, when The Master has been arrested, all the children in the village of Devils End were supposed to boo and jeer him as he was taken away... but they insisted on cheering him instead!
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