Comic Relief: Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death (1999) on Netflix
The Master gloats over a scheme to destroy the Doctor, but his microphone is still on, so the Doctor and Emma hear him. The Doctor invites him to a castle on Tersurus.
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The Master watches the Doctor and Emma on a screen and gloats over a plan to destroy him, but his microphone is on and they hear every word. He insists he meant them to listen. The Doctor invites his old enemy to a castle on Tersurus, a ruined planet whose former inhabitants communicated by flatulence and died out when they discovered fire. The Doctor says he is retiring, having fallen in love with Emma, and tells the Master he has rescued the planets of the known universe at least 27 times over.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Comic Relief: Doctor Who - The Curse of Fatal Death (1999)
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- Hugh Grant was later offered the role of the Doctor again, ahead of Christopher Eccleston, and said publicly that he regretted dismissing it without much thought once he saw how good the series was, adding that he hoped to play a villain in the programme.
- Joanna Lumley was the first woman to play an incarnation of the Doctor, followed by Arabella Weir in the Doctor Who Unbound Big Finish episode Exile; Jodie Whittaker was revealed on 16 July 2017 as the first woman cast in the role within the main series.
- This Comic Relief special contains the first televised Doctor Who script by Steven Moffat, along with the first post-production work on the programme by the visual effects house The Mill.
- It also carries the final performance by Roy Skelton, the longest-serving Dalek vocal artist, and marks the only time a woman produced an episode of the programme between Verity Lambert and Susie Liggat.
