Season 10



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 phasing out of UNIT-related storylines. Jo Grant left this season. Roger Delgado made his final appearance in his role as 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.

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 - Steven Thorne

Stories set during this season

 * PDA: The Wages of Sin (immediately after 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 (after Dancing the Code)
 * PDA: Last of the Gaderene (between Planet of the Daleks and The Green Death)

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.

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