Series 10 (Doctor Who)

Series 10 of Doctor Who ran from 25 December 2016 to 25 December 2017. It starred Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor, Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts, Matt Lucas as Nardole and Michelle Gomez as . The regular series was preceded by , opened with , concluded with and followed by .
In early 2018, Murray Gold announced his departure from Doctor Who at the Gallifrey One convention, confirming that the 2017 Christmas Special, Twice Upon A Time, was his last episode.
In April 2015, Steven Moffat confirmed that Doctor Who would run for at least another five years, extending the show until 2020.https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-32202633
In 2020, Chris Chibnall wrote and released a sequel to this series' following Christmas special called Things She Thought While Falling on the Doctor Who website, set directly before as a treat during "strange times" due to outbreak of COVID-19 worldwide.https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/entries/97411dd5-13e3-45a8-9ed2-dbf97ef85516
== Overview ==
It consisted of twelve stories and fourteen episodes. The series introduced Bill Potts as a new companion of the Doctor, the first openly gay companion alongside the Doctor on TV with Nardole continuing to travel with him. The series was most noticeable for reintroducing the "Saxon" incarnation of and the First Doctor. Also seen was the first ever female Ice Warrior on television and the original design for the Cybermen, only seen beforehand in . Alpha Centauri also made a cameo in . This series also introduced the first female incarnation of the Doctor.
The first confirmation of plans for this series were revealed in the BBC Worldwide Annual Review on 14 July 2015. On 6 November 2015, in an interview with the Radio Times, Steven Moffat confirmed a full series as well as a Christmas special. Series 10 was the last for both Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctorhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/entries/43787cd6-f1de-4264-a509-d387d9a89c4b and Steven Moffat as head writer and executive producer of the show.
The series story arc primarily focused on and how the Twelfth Doctor made a deal to guard her in a vault for 1000 years. Despite Nardole's protests to not adventure or interact with her while lecturing at St Luke's University, the Doctor desired to change Missy's outlook on life, away from her evil ways in the hopes of renewing their strong friendship from long ago.
While here, the Doctor met Bill Potts, who strangely went to his lectures despite not studying at the university. The Doctor personally offered to tutor her and, after helping her in an encounter with a mysterious creature, decided to take her on adventures in his TARDIS.
The series concluded with the Doctor's attempts to transform Missy ultimately failing after encountering her predecessor on a Mondasian Colony ship, where she joined him against the Doctor.
The Doctor and Bill were killed in battle defending the residents from the Master's Cybermen army while Nardole was condemned to the upper floors to keep defending the children should the Cybermen ever reach them. Bill managed to survive the ordeal after her friend Heather transformed her into sentient oil like her. As for the Doctor, he managed to survive through regeneration, though he temporarily delayed it.
After one last adventure with his original incarnation, the Twelfth Doctor regenerated into a female incarnation. She soon fell from her TARDIS because it malfunctioned after suffering critical damage during the regeneration, falling to Earth.
== Cast ==
* The Doctor - Peter Capaldi
* Bill Potts - Pearl Mackie
* Nardole - Matt Lucas
* - Michelle Gomez
* The Doctor - David Bradley
: and introducing Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor
=== Recurring ===
* Heather - Stephanie Hyam
* Moira - Jennifer Hennessy
* Daleks - Nicholas Briggs
* The Monks - Jamie Hill, Tim Bentinck
* Rusty - Nicholas Briggs
* Clara Oswald - Jenna Coleman
=== Guest ===
* Grant - Justin Chatwin, Logan Hoffman, Daniel Lorente
* Lucy Fletcher - Charity Wakefield
* Brock - Tomiwa Edun
* Dr Sim - Aleksandar Jovanovic
* Kezzia - Kiran L Dadlani
* Goodthing - Mina Anwar
* Steadfast - Ralf Little
* Nate - Kalungi Ssebandeke
* Sutcliffe - Nicholas Burns
* Kitty - Asiatu Koroma
* Pie-Man - Peter Singh
* Overseer - Simon Ludders
* Dowell - Tomi May
* Spider - Austin Taylor
* Dot - Ellie Shenker
* Harriet - Kishaina Thiruselvan
* Perry - Badger Skelton
* The Landlord - David Suchet, Tate Pitchie-Cooper
* Eliza - Mariah Gale
* Shireen - Mandeep Dhillon
* Felicity - Alice Hewkin
* Paul - Ben Presley
* Harry - Colin Ryan
* Pavel - Bart Suavek
* Estate agent - Sam Benjamin
* Ivan - Kieran Bew
* Tasker - Justin Salinger
* Dahh-Ren - Peter Caulfield
* Abby - Mimi Ndiweni
* Ellie - Katie Brayben
* Cardinal Angelo - Corrado Invernizzi
* Pope - Joseph Long
* Penny - Ronke Adekoluejo
* Rafando - Ivanno Jeremiah
* Piero - Francesco Martino
* Pentagon woman - Alana Maria
* Nicolas - Laurent Maurel
* Secretary General - Togo Igawa
* Commander - Nigel Hastings
* Colonel Don Brabbit - Eben Young
* Erica - Rachel Denning
* Douglas - Tony Gardner
* Ilya Svyatoslavovich - Andrew Byron
* Xiaolian - Daphne Cheung
* Bill Potts' mother - Rosie Jane
* Jane Bishop - Emma Handy
* Group Commander - Beatrice Curnew
* Alan - Stewart Wright
* Richard - Solomon Israel
* Godsacre - Anthony Calf
* Neville Catchlove - Ferdinand Kingsley
* Friday - Richard Ashton
* Iraxxa - Adele Lynch
* Sergeant Major Peach - Glenn Speers
* Jackdaw - Ian Beattie
* Vincey - Bayo Gbadamosi
* Alan Knibbs - Ian Hughes
* Coolidge - Lesley Ewen
* Alpha Centauri - Ysanne Churchman
* Kar - Rebecca Benson
* Ban - Daniel Kerr
* Lucius - Brian Vernel
* Simon - Rohan Nedd
* Thracius - Ben Hunter
* Vitus - Sam Adewunmi
* Cornelius - Billy Matthews
* Marcus - Aaron Phagura
* Judy - Jocelyn Brassington
* Brother - Lewis McGowan
* - John Simm
* Jorj - Oliver Lansley
* Surgeon - Paul Brightwell
* Nurse - Alison Lintott
* Cybermen - Nicholas Briggs
* Hazran - Samantha Spiro
* Captain Lethbridge-Stewart - Mark Gatiss
* Ben Jackson - Jared Garfield
* Polly Wright - Lily Travers
* Helen Clay - Nikki Amuka-Bird
* Soldier - Toby Whithouse
===== The Tenth Planet =====
* The Doctor - William HartnellArchival footage from TV: during TV: .
* Polly - Anneke Wills
* Ben - Michael Craze
== Production ==
The first readthrough began on 14 June 2016, with filming beginning on 20 June.
On 23 August 2016, it was rumoured that filming on series 10 would continue to 31 March 2017.http://www.cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/doctor-who-season-10-wont-finish-filming-until-end-march-2017 This proved not to be true, as filming wrapped on 7 April 2017.https://twitter.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/850411339659055105
=== Crew ===
==== Producers ====
Peter Bennett produced , , , and . He also produced the series finale and as well as the Christmas special .
Nikki Wilson produced the rest of the episodes, namely , , , and .
==== Writers ====
Steven Moffat, as head writer, wrote the series opener , episode six , and the two part finale episodes and . He also wrote the Christmas special for 2017, as Chris Chibnall decided against starting his Doctor's tenure with the special.
Mark Gatiss wrote for the tenth series. Jamie Mathieson wrote episode five, .
New writer Mike Bartlett penned episode four, . Sarah Dollard penned the third episode, .
Classic series writer Rona Munro, known for the episode Survival, wrote the tenth episode titled . This marks the first time a writer of the original series contributed to the revived series. Munro told Doctor Who Magazine that: "Writing Survival was my dream job, but it was a mournful time in the show's history. This has been a very different experience. There's more of everything; people, resources, confidence, success… but the same constantly renewing and indefinable wonder that is Doctor Who," and added, "When I was very small and watching the First Doctor, I had a special cushion known as 'Rona's Doctor Whocushion'. I would hide my face in it when the Daleks or other monsters appeared on screen! The Eaters of Light is my version of other stories that have haunted me for almost as long."DWM 506
Peter Harness wrote episode seven, and Toby Whithouse wrote episode eight, . In the magazine's June 2017 issue, Moffat told Doctor Who Magazine that he personally wrote the final draft of episode seven close to filming of the episode's production block.DWM 512
==== Directors ====
Lawrence Gough directed episodes 1 and 2, and ; Bill Anderson directed episodes 3 and 4, and ; Charles Palmer directed episodes 5 and 10, and ; Daniel Nettheim directed episodes 6 and 7, and ; Class director Wayne Yip directed episodes 8 and 9, and ; and Rachel Talalay directed episodes 11 and 12, and .
=== Filming ===
Although originally reported as beginning in May 2016, filming commenced on the 20th of June.
To avoid online leaks, the production team used the codeword "Mean Town", an anagram of "Ten Woman", when talking about Bill, casting director Andy Pryor revealed to the Radio Times. This was a reference to the fact that Bill is the companion of series 10.
The working title of was A Star In Her Eye.https://twitter.com/d0od/status/767445794781790208https://twitter.com/HDProductions70/status/766751107116896256
In the line-up to the beginning of series 10, a bunch of small videos were released with Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor, in which three of these featured a description that Steven Moffat himself used for the Doctor in 2013.http://www.thehollywoodnews.com/2013/11/24/matt-smith-steven-moffat-more-talk-doctor-who-at-official-50th-celebration/https://www.facebook.com/DoctorWho/videos/1803691109644908/
On 24 June, 2017, Benjamin Cook, writer of Doctor Who Magazine, confirmed on that the pre-titles sequence in was shot two weeks prior to broadcast, during the production of the 2017 Christmas specialhttps://twitter.com/benjamin_cook/status/878765850433597441
At a Live Q&A on 24 June, 2017, after the broadcast of World Enough and Time, Steven Moffat said that the second part had not finished filming, leading to a possible delay in the broadcast.http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/821067/Doctor-Who-season-10-Finale-Missy-Bill-Potts-dead-Master-John-Simm-threatened-DELAY-why Peter Capaldi's final scene on set had been his regeneration scene, just as his first scene in TV: had been him emerging from the TARDIS.http://racheltalalay.tumblr.com/post/163516797449/the-time-of-our-lives-steven-moffats-final-dwm By the end of July 2017, Moffat stated that Jodie Whittaker had already filmed her half of the regeneration scene.https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz-tv/hot-tv/633706/doctor-who-new-doctor-british-television-programme-jodie-whittaker
 was originally rumoured to be titled The Doctors.http://doctorwhonews.net/2017/07/doctor-who-at-san-diego-comic-con.htmlhttp://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/869081-doctor-who-the-13th-doctor-will-be-revealed-this-sunday
== Television stories ==
=== Christmas special ===
EpisodeNumber	Title	Writer 	Director 	Notes
N/A 	 	Steven Moffat	Ed Bazalgette	The Doctor and Nardole have just left Darillium.
=== Regular series ===
EpisodeNumber	Title	Writer 	Director 	Notes
1 	 	Steven Moffat 	Lawrence Gough 	First appearance of Bill Potts, Moira, St Luke's University, and the Vault. Brief reintroduction to the Movellans.
2 	 	Frank Cottrell-Boyce 	Lawrence Gough 	
3 	 	Sarah Dollard 	Bill Anderson 	
4 	 	Mike Bartlett 	Bill Anderson 	
5 	 	Jamie Mathieson 	Charles Palmer 	First time Nardole travels alongside the Doctor and Bill. The Doctor is rendered irreversibly blind.
6 	 	Steven Moffat 	Daniel Nettheim	Explanation of how Nardole became a companion. is revealed to be in the vault. First appearance of the Monks. Part one of the "Monks Trilogy".
7 	 	Peter Harness & Steven Moffat	Daniel Nettheim	The Doctor has his eyesight restored. Part two of the "Monks Trilogy".
8 	 	Toby Whithouse 	Wayne Yip 	Part three of the "Monks Trilogy".
9 	 	Mark Gatiss 	Wayne Yip 	First female Ice Warrior depicted in the television series. Brief reintroduction to Alpha Centauri.
10 	 	Rona Munro 	Charles Palmer 	First "New Series" story written by a "Classic Series" writer.
11 & 12 	/ 	Steven Moffat 	Rachel Talalay 	Reintroduction of the Mondasian Cybermen. Bill is converted into a Cyberman. Return of . Death of Missy and the Master. Final regular appearances of Bill Potts and Nardole. The Doctor begins regenerating. Cameo appearance by the First Doctor.
=== Christmas special ===
EpisodeNumber	Title	Writer 	Director 	Notes
N/A 	 	Steven Moffat	Rachel Talalay	Final regular appearance of the Twelfth Doctor. Guest appearance by the First Doctor. First appearance of the Thirteenth Doctor. The First Doctor also regenerates into the Second Doctor.
=== Episode notes ===
* On 25 May 2017, the BBC announced the episode would air in edited form, with a line of dialogue about terrorism removed. This is in the wake of the preceding Monday's terrorist bombing in a Manchester arena during an concert.http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-05-25/doctor-who-episode-edited-for-saturday-airing-following-manchester-bombing The version of the episode broadcast in Canada and the U.S. also contained this edit.
* It had previously been believed that there was to be a Casualty crossover and this was speculated to be a Children in Need-special.http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/doctor-who/news/a809426/are-doctor-who-and-casualty-crossing-over However it now seems that this was to be part of the episode , but was cut from said episode.http://www.cultbox.co.uk/news/headlines/the-doctor-whocasualty-crossover-that-never-happened
* Benjamin Cook, writer of Doctor Who Magazine, confirmed on Twitter, on 24 June 2017 that the pre-titles sequence in was shot two weeks prior to broadcast, during the production of the 2017 Christmas special Steven Moffat and Rachel Talalay confirmed this on The Fan Show.
* Like the previous series, there was an instance where post-production effects were missing on the Scottish airing of the episode. The edit of World Enough and Time shown on BBC Scotland was missing some lighting effects that'd been added to torchlights in post-production.
* Due to technical problems some viewers watching on BBC Scotland HD lost the sound during watching of the Series 10 finale , in the last part of the episode.http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-07-02/bbc-apologises-for-doctor-who-series-10-finale-sound-problems
* Steven Moffat, showrunner for this series, used the finale World Enough and Time and (even more so) The Doctor Falls to pay a subtle tribute to former showrunner Russell T Davies, by having the Doctor's last stand take place on Floor 0507 of the colony ship. He explained that RTD's go-to number was always "57".http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-07-04/doctor-who-series-10-finale-included-an-incredibly-subtle-tribute-to-russell-t-davies--did-you-spot-it
* The beginning of features a "Previously" sequence from with William Hartnell, Anneke Wills and Michael Craze. The sequence slowly morphs Hartnell into David Bradley, and then Lily Travers and Jared Garfield appear as Ben and Polly, reenacting the missing last bits on Snowcap of said episode. The ending of Twice Upon A Time from the First Doctor's view also starts with Bradley starting to regenerate and the episode slowly morphs back into that of Hartnell's First Doctor regenerating into Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor.
* This is the first series since Series 6 in which the title sequence appears the same in every episode of the main series, apart from episode titles.
*Series 10 remains the only series to not have a soundtrack released. Murray Gold has hinted that one is in the works as of April 2020 but to this day no further information has arisen. It is unknown why this series soundtrack was never released, despite the high demand for a release from the fandom. Whether it is down to Gold, the BBC or Silva Screen, it is often dubbed as 'The Series 10 Soundtrack Mystery.'
== Aliens/enemies ==
* Shoal of the Winter Harmony
* Sentient oil
** Heather (possessed)
* Movellans
* Daleks
* Vardies
** Emojibots
* Sea creature
** Lure fish
* Lord Sutcliffe
* The Landlord
* Dryads
* Ganymede Systems
** Smartsuits
** Human corpses (controlled)
** Capitalism
* 
* The Monks
* Ice Warriors
** Ice Queen
*** Iraxxa
* Alpha Centauri
* Light-eating locust
* Cybermen
** Patients
** Mondasian Cybermen
* 
* The Testimony
** Glass avatars
* Kaled mutants
* Rusty
== Adaptations and merchandising ==
=== Home media ===
==== DVD / Blu-ray ====
All episodes of Series 10 were released on a DVD box set on 13 November 2017.
The episodes were split over five discs with a special sixth disc containing special features, notably the deleted scenes. The box set also included the 2016 Christmas Special .
Name 	Number and durationof episodes	R2 release date	R4 release date	R1 release date
Doctor Who: Series 10, Disc 1	1 x 60 min 1 × 50 min 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA
Doctor Who: Series 10, Disc 2	1 × 50 min2 × 45 min 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA
Doctor Who: Series 10, Disc 3	1 x 50 min 2 × 45 min 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA
Doctor Who: Series 10, Disc 4	3 × 45 min 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA
Doctor Who: Series 10, Disc 5	1 x 45 min 1 × 60 min 	TBA 	TBA 	TBA
Series 10 released on 21 November 2023 in a limited edition Blu-ray box set containing every "New Who" series up to Series 13.https://www.ign.com/articles/doctor-who-limited-edition-complete-new-who-blu-ray-set-is-up-for-preorder
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== Stories set before this season ==
=== Audio ===
* Missy and the Saxon Master's involvement in Masterful
== Stories set during this season ==
=== Novels ===
* The Shining Man
* Diamond Dogs
* Plague City
=== Audiobooks ===
to be added
=== Comics ===
* The Wolves of Winter
== Footnotes ==
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