Season 10 (Doctor Who 1963)

The tenth season of Doctor Who ran between 30 December 1972 and 23 June 1973. It starred Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor. The tenth anniversary story The Three Doctors aired during this season.

Overview

The season consisted of five serials and twenty-six 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 Three Doctors. This story marked the end of the Doctor's exile on Earth, opening up the series to more off-world adventures and beginning a gradual reduction of UNIT-related stories. Jo Grant left this season. Roger Delgado made his final appearance in the role of the Master in Frontier in Space. Owing to the actor's accidental death, the Master never had a proper send-off and would not return as a semi-regular character until 1981.

Television stories

#	Title	Writer	Episodes	Notes
1	The Three Doctors	Bob Baker Dave Martin	4	First appearance of the Second Doctor since 1969 and the First Doctor since 1966; final performance of William Hartnell as the Doctor. The Doctor's exile lifted by the Time Lords
2	Carnival of Monsters	Robert Holmes	4
3	Frontier in Space	Malcolm Hulke	6	Final performance of Roger Delgado as the Master
4	Planet of the Daleks	Terry Nation	6	First Terry Nation Daleks script since 1965
5	The Green Death	Robert Sloman Barry Letts (uncredited)	6	Final regular appearance of Jo Grant

Main cast

Regular

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

Recurring

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

Guest

• The First Doctor - William Hartnell
• The Second Doctor - Patrick Troughton
• The Master - Roger Delgado
• Omega - Stephen Thorne

Stories set during this season

• PROSE: The Wages of Sin (immediately after The Three Doctors)
• PROSE: The Suns of Caresh (after Carnival of Monsters)
• PROSE: Catastrophea (immediately after Planet of the Daleks)
• PROSE: Dancing the Code (between Planet of the Daleks and The Green Death)
• PROSE: Speed of Flight (after Dancing the Code)
• PROSE: Last of the Gaderene (between Planet of the Daleks and The Green Death)

Adaptations and merchandising

Home media

VHS

• The Three Doctors (1991/2002)
• Carnival of Monsters (1995)
• Frontier in Space (1995)
• Planet of the Daleks (1999) (episode 3 is in B+W)
• The Green Death (1996
• The Pertwee Years (1992) (Frontier in Space 6)

DVD

All serials of season 10 were released individually on DVD in between 2002 and 2009.

Serial name	Number and duration of episodes	R2 release date	R4 release date	R1 release date
The Three Doctors	4 × 25 min.	24 November 2003	12 November 2003	2 March 2004
The Three Doctors – Special Edition Only available as part of the Revisitations 3 box set in Regions 2 and 4. Only available individually in Region 1.	4 × 25 min.	13 February 2012	1 March 2012	13 March 2012
Carnival of Monsters	4 × 25 min.	15 July 2002	2 September 2002	1 July 2003
Carnival of Monsters – Special Edition Only available as part of the Revisitations 2 box set in Regions 2 and 4. Only available individually in Region 1.	4 × 25 min.	28 March 2011	5 May 2011	10 April 2012
Dalek War: Frontier in Space (6 episodes) Planet of the Daleks (6 episodes)	12 × 25 min.	5 October 2009	4 February 2010	2 March 2010
The Green Death	6 × 25 min.	10 May 2004	5 August 2004	1 March 2005

Novels

• Doctor Who - 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

External links

• BBC website guide to Season 10