Country of origin United Kingdom No. of episodes 26 | No. of stories 5 Original network BBC One | |
Starring Jon Pertwee
Patrick Troughton
William Hartnell
Katy Manning
Nicholas Courtney
John Levene
Richard Franklin Original release 30 December 1972 (1972-12-30) – 23 June 1973 (1973-06-23) | ||
The tenth season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 30 December 1972 with the 10 anniversary special The Three Doctors, and ended with Katy Manning's final serial The Green Death.
Contents
Main cast
Jon Pertwee continues his role as the Third Doctor, and Jo Grant played by Katy Manning makes her final appearance in The Green Death. Previous Doctors William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton return to play the First Doctor and the Second Doctor.
Recurring stars
Nicholas Courtney, John Levene and Richard Franklin continue their roles of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Sergeant Benton and Captain Mike Yates respectively.
Roger Delgado makes his final appearance as The Master in Frontier in Space. Delgado 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.
DVD releases
All serials of season 10 were released individually on DVD in between 2002 and 2009.