Alex Macqueen plays a new incarnation of the Master - existing after Eric Roberts' incarnation (and the subsequent corpse form played by Beevers) - in the Seventh Doctor release "" pretending to be a future version of the Doctor before his true identity is revealed. He goes on to become a recurring antagonist in the Eighth Doctor's "Dark Eyes" series where it is explained that the Time Lords resurrected the Master to fight in an approaching conflict, implied to be the Time War. The events surrounding the Master's resurrection were depicted in the "Ravenous" series five years later.