Season 10 (Doctor Who 1963)

Season 10 — 1972-73
Doctor:	Third Doctor
Companions:	Jo, the Brigadier, Benton, Yates
Key crew
Producer(s):	Barry Letts
Script editors:	Terrance Dicks
Series details
Start date:	30 December 1972
End date:	23 June 1973
Premiere network:	BBC1
Typical episode length:	25'
More info
Main DWMSE coverage in issues:	2, 15
Key reference books about the season:	The Discontinuity Guide, The Third Doctor Handbook, The Seventies, About Time 3, The Complete History 19, TCH 20
Key documentaries about the season:	Jon and Katy, PanoptiCon 93
Relevant Myth Makers interviews:	Nicholas Courtney, Jon Pertwee, Richard Franklin, Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks (part 1), Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks (part 2), Roger Delgado, Katy Manning, Bob Baker and Dave Martin, Robert Sloman, John Levene
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Season 10 of Doctor Who ran from 30 December 1972 to 23 June 1973. It starred Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor and Katy Manning as Jo Grant. The season opened with The Three Doctors and concluded with The Green Death.

Overview

It consisted of five serials comprised of 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, becoming the first companion to appear for three complete seasons. 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 ever multi-Doctor story. First appearance of Omega. Final performance by William Hartnell as the First Doctor. The Doctor's exile is lifted by the Time Lords.
2	Carnival of Monsters	Robert Holmes	4	First appearance of actor Ian Marter in a Doctor Who story.
3	Frontier in Space	Malcolm Hulke	6	Final performance by Roger Delgado as the Master. First appearance of the refitted sonic screwdriver model.
4	Planet of the Daleks	Terry Nation	6	First Daleks script written by Terry Nation since 1965.
5	The Green Death	Robert Sloman Barry Letts (uncredited)	6	First appearance of the planet Metebelis III and the Metebelis crystals. Final regular appearance of Jo Grant.

Cast

• Dr. Who - Jon Pertwee
• Jo Grant - Katy Manning

Recurring

• Dr. Who - Patrick Troughton
• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney
• Sergeant Benton - John Levene
• Mike Yates - Richard Franklin
• The Master - Roger Delgado
• Dalek Voice - Roy Skelton, Michael Wisher

Guest

• Dr. Who - William Hartnell
• Omega - Stephen Thorne
• Dr Tyler - Rex Robinson
• Mr Ollis - Laurie Webb
• President of the Council - Roy Purcell
• Major Daly - Tenniel Evans
• John Andrews - Ian Marter
• Vorg - Leslie Dwyer
• Shirna - Cheryl Hall
• Pletrac - Peter Halliday
• Kalik - Michael Wisher
• President of Earth - Vera Fusek
• General Williams - Michael Hawkins
• Draconian prince - Peter Birrel
• Professor Dale - Harold Goldblatt
• Draconian Emperor - John Woodnutt
• Taron - Bernard Horsfall
• Vaber - Prentis Hancock
• Codal - Tim Preece
• Rebec - Jane How
• Latep - Alan Tucker
• Wester - Roy Skelton
• Stevens - Jerome Willis
• Clifford Jones - Stewart Bevan
• Elgin - Tony Adams
• Ted Hughes - John Scott Martin
• Dai Evans - Mostyn Evans
• Bert - Roy Evans
• Dave - Talfryn Thomas
• BOSS - John Dearth

Stories set before this season

Audio

• Jo Grant's involvement in Masterful

to be completed

Stories set during this season

• PROSE: The Wages of Sin (immediately after The Three Doctors)
• The Third Doctor and Jo's involvement in AUDIO: The Light at the End (somewhere between The Three Doctors and The Green Death)
• Jo Grant and UNIT's involvement in AUDIO: The Defectors (somewhere between The Three Doctors and The Green Death)
• AUDIO: Time Tunnel (somewhere between The Three Doctors and The Green Death)
• PROSE: Hide and Seek (somewhere between The Three Doctors and The Green Death)
• PROSE: The Suns of Caresh (after Carnival of Monsters)
• AUDIO: The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (Between Carnival of Monsters and Frontier in Space)
• 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)
• AUDIO: The Transcendence of Ephros (between Planet of the Daleks and The Green Death)
• AUDIO: Conspiracy in Space (between Planet of the Daleks and The Green Death)

Adaptations and merchandising

Home media

VHS releases

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

DVD & Blu-ray releases

All serials of season 10 were released individually on DVD between 2002 and 2013. The complete season was upscaled in 1080i50 high definition and released on Blu-ray as Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 10 in the UK on 8 July 2019.

It was later released in Australia on 13 November 2019 and was released in the US under the title Doctor Who: Jon Pertwee - Complete Season Four on 15 October 2019.

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
The Green Death - Special Edition	6 x 25 min.	5 August 2013	7 August 2013	13 August 2013
The Collection - Season 10	26 x 25 min.	8 July 2019	13 November 2019	15 October 2019

Download/streaming availability

Serial name	Amazon Video	BritBox	iTunes
The Three Doctors (4 episodes)	UK, US	✓	✓
Carnival of Monsters (4 episodes)	UK, US	✓	Except France, Germany
Frontier in Space (6 episodes)		✓
Planet of the Daleks
The Green Death (6 episodes)	UK	✓	✓

BritBox is available only in the US. iTunes stores carry Doctor Who serials in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the UK and US, unless stated otherwise.

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