Season 10 (Doctor Who 1963)

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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

It 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 the series up to increased off-world adventures and beginning a gradual chasing out of UNIT-related storylines. Jo Grant left this season. Roger Delgado made his final appearance as the original incarnation 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

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

Recurring

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

Guest

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

Stories set during this season

• PDA: The Wages of Sin (immediately affer The Three Doctors)
• PDA: The Suns of Caresh (after Carnival of Monsters)
• PDA: Catastrophea (immediately after Planet of the Daleks)
• MA:Dancing the Code (between Planet of the Daleks and The Green Death)
• MA: Speed of Flight (affer to MA: Dancing the Code)
• PDA: Last of the Gaderene (betweenPlanet of the Daleks and The Green Death)
• CC:The Prisoner of Peladon (Between The Green Death and The Time Warrior)

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

• The Three Doctors (2003)
• The Three Doctors - Special Edition (2012)
• Carnival of Monsters (2002)
• Carnival of Monsters - Special Edition (2011)
• Frontier in Space (2009)
• Planet of the Daleks (2009)
• The Green Death (2004)

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