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You can watch every episode of  the classic Doctor Who series from 1963 until it ended in 1989....all 600+episodes are online .....in a Dailymotion channel (with animated episodes for those missing episodes where the tapes were wiped).....follow this channel here....

http://www.dailymotion.com/playlists/user/greendude33/1

The original master (Delgado) first arrived when the series changed from black and white into color in 1970 ....from season 7 onwards.....those episodes are from this page onwards

http://www.dailymotion.com/playlists/user/greendude33/8

Delgado was only in the series for 3 years before his tragic death while making a comedy film in Turkey ...and his demise was prophetic as was Nalalie Wood's death....i.e. she had a fear of water and drowning all her life, and she met her end the same way, and Delgado who was a close friend of Jon Pertwee had a fear of heights and refused to do any scenes where he was required to perform in high places, and had a stand in for those scenes....and he was reluctant to go to the mountain top location where he was making a comedy film in 1973, cos of the narrow mountain roads and his fear of heights, and Pertwee told the story of how Delgado was returning from a day of shootiing when the car he was in missed a turning on the dark mountain road and plunged over a cliff killing all on board. Pertwee was so distraught he decided to quit being Doctor Who and leave the show that same year, cos he had told Delgado not to worry about being driven alongt those high cliff roads in Turkey.

So.... Ainley basically mimicked Delgado's appearance out of respect for Delgado (just as Peter Cushing mimicked William Hartnell in the 2 Doctor Who feature films)....cos in real life Anthony Ainley looked nothing like that at all....whereas Delgado always looked like that in many other tv series he did in the 1960's.

MK.