Doctor Who (season 10)
The tenth season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 30 December 1972 with the tenth anniversary special The Three Doctors, and ended with Katy Manning's final serial The Green Death.
Casting
Main cast
- Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor
- Katy Manning as Jo Grant
Recurring and guest cast
- Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- John Levene as Sergeant Benton
- Richard Franklin as Mike Yates
- Roger Delgado as The Master
- Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor
- William Hartnell as the First Doctor
Previous lead actors William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton return to guest as the First and Second Doctors in the programme's tenth anniversary serial, The Three Doctors, although illness limited Hartnell's involvement. This was the first time that previous incarnations of the Doctor had returned to the programme, in what would become a regular feature of anniversary episodes.
Roger Delgado makes his final appearance as The Master in Frontier in Space. He died in a car crash in Turkey shortly after the story's transmission.
Serials
At the conclusion of The Three Doctors, the Doctor is finally released from his sentence of exile by the Time Lords, enabling him to travel through time and space once again. This ends the cycle of mostly Earth-bound stories where the Doctor was stranded that began at the conclusion of The War Games in 1969.The serials Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks both feature the Daleks and lead directly from the first into the second, forming a rough twelve-part epic.
Broadcast
The entire season was broadcast from 30 December 1972 to 23 June 1973.Home media
VHS releases
DVD and Blu-ray releases
In print
| Serial name | Novelisation title | Author | First published |
| The Three Doctors | The Three Doctors | Terrance Dicks | 20 November 1975 |
| Carnival of Monsters | Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters | Terrance Dicks | 20 January 1977 |
| Frontier in Space | Doctor Who and the Space War | Malcolm Hulke | 23 September 1976 |
| Planet of the Daleks | Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks | Terrance Dicks | 21 October 1976 |
| The Green Death | Doctor Who and the Green Death | Malcolm Hulke | 21 August 1975 |