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Roger Delgado (1 March 1918 - 18 June 1973), full name Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto, was a British actor, who will forever be known for being the first actor to play The Master in Doctor Who. Born in Whitechapel, within the sound of Bow Bells, to a Belgian mother and a Spanish father, Delgado was brought up in Bedford Park and attended the LSE before WWII was declared. His war service saw him rise to the rank of a major, serving with both the Leicestershire Regiment and the Royal Signals, despite his dislike of guns. He made his TV debut in 1948 and starred in several TV and film productions before his untimely death at the age of 55 in a car accident whilst filming the Franco/German TV production La Cloche tibétaine in Turkey. He had married twice, firstly to Olga Anthonisz and then, following his divorce. to Kismet Shahani who survived him.
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01 January 1957
From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger.
13 July 1954
An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.
26 August 1958
The captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement with a young girl at the behest of her father, in the hope of getting his hands on the vessel.
07 October 1970
An American intelligence agent attempts to kidnap a top Nazi general.
09 June 1953
Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers.
10 September 1956
When Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a man in the London airport, the trail leads to Lisbon and a international currency smuggling gang.
03 March 2008
A look at the subtle (and not so subtle!) links to the show's past and future contained within the story of The Five Doctors.
01 September 1957
The wife of a condemned man tries to save him in England by finding the real killer.
01 February 1959
The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside.
30 October 1956
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.
19 June 1971
On the eve of May Day, dark elemental forces begin to disturb the village of Devil's End as the Master summons the demon Azal: unexplained murders, a stone gargoyle come to life, and a nigh-impenetrable infernal energy dome.
09 June 1966
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister.
10 January 1953
When a hit and run patient is murdered an attending doctor is placed under suspicion.
30 September 1972
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.
15 May 1971
When the Master steals the Time Lords' secret file on the Doomsday Weapon, they grant the Doctor a temporary reprieve from his exile on Earth to deal with the crisis.
18 March 1972
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play.
09 March 1969
In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice.
23 July 1970
During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them as guards for a secret transport.
11 June 1977
Two jet-setting playboys, Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde, investigate crimes. Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie.
26 December 1955
In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England.
01 December 1962
Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the children's shipwrecked sea captain father.
04 December 1959
In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments of the British East-Indian Tea Company.
07 January 1973
A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win the love of the fair Dulcinea.
31 March 1973
In the 26th century, the Doctor and Jo uncover a plot by the Master to provoke an interplanetary war between Earth and Draconia.
01 May 1956
Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
10 March 1964
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
01 October 1963
An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator.
09 February 1983
A warp ellipse draws the TARDIS off course. The Fifth Doctor's companions are separated from him not in space, but in time, and he has to deal with a treacherous schoolboy named Turlough.
01 April 1972
The Doctor and Jo visit the Master in his high-security prison on an island off the south coast of England.
15 March 1961
In 1910, Hong Kong, under the rule of the British Empire, is a prosperous and bustling city, but, hidden in the shadows of its many narrow streets, the hideous members of the Red Dragon gang, a branch of the evil Chinese secret society of the Tongs, lurk and murder those who oppose to their tyranny, which thrives on vice, crime and the fear of the weakest.
13 April 1965
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
18 July 1957
James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s sick to death of carting goods back and forth across the world.
05 January 1961
A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
15 July 1966
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
29 March 1962
When Chester accidentally memorises and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new and improved rocket fuel, he and Harry are thrust into international intrigue, trying to stay alive while keeping the formula out of enemy hands.
08 March 1956
1950s BBC Drama
08 September 1960
In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to open up a desert resort in Arabia.
15 March 1967
Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum.
08 October 1954
Vacationing at a resort hotel in Spain, a man discovers he is the only one not mixed up one way or another in murder, drugs and microfilm smuggling.
03 April 1971
A group of gold-skinned aliens known as the Axons land on Earth and offer wondrous technology in exchange for fuel.
06 March 1971
Professor Emil Keller has created a machine that can pacify even the most dangerous of criminals. But when the Doctor and Jo arrive at Stangmoor Prison for a demonstration, things start to go horribly wrong - especially when they discover that the Doctor's old enemy the Master is responsible for the machine.
10 October 1953
Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.
01 February 1963
A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself.
31 October 1958
A jewel thief finds himself a target when a smuggled cigarette case made from a stolen new metal falls into his hands.
23 January 1971
The Master, an old adversary of the Doctor, has arrived on Earth to destroy humanity with the aid of the Nestene Consciousness and their army of Autons and killer plastic daffodils - unless the Doctor, joined by new assistant Jo Grant, can stop them.
10 December 1993
Shaw Taylor warns viewers to be on the lookout for a dangerous individual known as the Master.
24 June 1972
The Master, in the guise of Professor Thascalos, has constructed at the Newton Institute in Wootton a device known as TOMTIT - Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time - to gain control over Kronos, a creature from outside time.
05 October 2009
A biography of actor Roger Delgado, featuring previously unseen photographs, rare excerpts from his many BBC TV appearances and interviews with those who knew and loved him.
07 February 1967
Tension increases among French settlers in Algeria. A secret ultranationalist group decides to take action against a doctor who treats Muslim patients.
