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| Art by Lee Binding for the Doctor Who - The Collection: Season Ten release, available on Blu-ray. Image: BBC STUDIOS. |
Honouring the B/W past whilst celebrating a colourful future, the Tenth Anniversary season of Doctor Who was a spectacular and acclaimed success for series star Jon Pertwee during 1973, at a time when the 'dandy' heroic Doctor engaged in new battles of morality and physicality against the dreaded Daleks, the lumbering Ogrons and the splendid Master, as played for the sadly final time by Roger Delgado.
Starting the season off in grand style, there was a superb amalgamation of the three Doctor incarnations combined to challenge, in their own inimitable style, the ominous threat of the tragic Time Lord figure of Omega, and there were new faces for millions of viewers to find wonder, delight and amusement with, including the so far one and only appearance of the noble Draconians, the satirical bureaucrat idiots of Inter Minor, and the charming Robert Holmes-created double act of interplanetary carnival entertainers Vorg and Shirna. And what a season ender to remember, with the unleashing of the Green Death, in a tale putting out a worthy ecological message to viewers concerning the horrors of nasty, over-sized poisonous maggots and industrial pollution, whilst also giving the series long-term companion Jo Grant, played by the ever-delightful Katy Manning, a truly poignant, if also very sad, departure from the series...
A new dawn awaited the series as the Doctor drove off in Bessie, but his adventures within Season Ten remained enduringly original, action-packed, impressive and distinctly brilliant!
Look for more celebrations of Season Ten to come on this site during the 2023 Sixtieth Anniversary...
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