Season 10 (Doctor Who 1963)

The tenth season of Doctor Who ran between 30th December 1972 and 23rd June 1973. It consisted of 5 serials, and 26 episodes. William Hartnell returned in a cameo as the First Doctor and Patrick Troughton in a more substantial role as the Second Doctor in the tenth anniversary story The Three Doctors. This story marked the end of the Doctor's exile on Earth, opening the series up to increased off-world adventures and beginning a gradual chasing out of UNIT-related storylines. Jo Grant leaves this season. Roger Delgado makes his final appearance as the Master (due to his death) and the character does not return as a recurring villain again until 1981.

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Stories

• The Three Doctors
• Carnival of Monsters
• Frontier in Space
• Planet of the Daleks
• The Green Death

Main Cast

• The Doctor - Jon Pertwee
• Jo Grant - Katy Manning

Recurring

• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney
• Sergeant Benton - John Levene
• Mike Yates - Richard Franklin

Adaptations and merchandising

Video

VHS

• The Three Doctors
• Carnival of Monsters
• Frontier in Space
• Planet of the Daleks (episode 3 is in B+W)
• The Green Death
• The Pertwee Years (Frontier in Space 6)

DVD

• The Three Doctors
• Carnival of Monsters
• The Green Death

Novelisations

• The Three Doctors
• Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters
• Doctor Who and the Space War
• Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks
• Doctor Who and the Green Death

Contemporaries

Other selected TV series launched during the 1972-73 season that included the run of Season 10:

• M*A*S*H
• Mastermind
• Maude
• Are You Being Served?'
• Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
• The Price is Right
• The Waltons
• Kung Fu
• Emmerdale Farm
• Colditz
• The Beachcombers
• Barnaby Jones
• The Young and the Restless

External Links

BBC website guide to Season 10

Previous season: Season 9

Next season: Season 11