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1984 Doctor Who episode
137 - The Twin Dilemma
Cast
Doctor
Production
Directed byPeter Moffatt
Written byAnthony Steven
Script editorEric Saward
Produced byJohn Nathan-Turner
Executive producer(s)None
Production code6S
SeriesSeason 21
Running time4 episodes, 25 mins each
First broadcastMarch 22 - March 30, 1984
Chronology
← Preceded by
The Caves of Androzani
Followed by →
Attack of the Cybermen

The Twin Dilemma is is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from March 22 to March 30, 1984, the first to star Colin Baker in the title role.

Synopsis

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In a regenerative crisis, the Sixth Doctor attacks Peri

Template:Spoiler A race of giant slug-like creatures, the Gastropods, have taken over the planet Jaconda, and their leader Mestor has had a pair of young twin geniuses abducted from Earth. He intends to have them work out how to explode the planet's sun, which will spread Gastropod eggs throughout the universe.

Trying to stop them are the recently regenerated Doctor (who is experiencing wild mood-swings) and his companion Peri, Space Marine Hugo Lang, who has been assigned to rescue the geniuses, and Professor Edgeworth, the former leader of Jaconda (who is really Azmael, a Time Lord and former tutor of the Doctor).

Notes

  1. Maurice Denham makes a guest appearance as Azmael.
  2. Anthony Steven worked very slowly on the scripts, offering many strange excuses (purportedly saying that his typewriter had literally exploded) and turning them in at a very late stage. Compounding things were the fact that the scripts were viewed as being of poor quality and too much for the show's budget by script editor Eric Saward, who was forced to massively rework them in a very short amount of time.
  3. At least one aspect of Steven's original script featured the Joconda/Gastropods being dropped totally early in the fourth episode without any real resolution to the plot, with the final battle taking place in another dimension against a being called Azlan who was controlling Mestor all along.
  4. Fandom often holds the serial in a very low light, being regarded as one of - if not the - worst serials ever made. A 1997 poll by Doctor Who Magazine ranked the serial the second worst of all time (Dimensions in Time was number one), while a 2003 poll by fansite Outpost Gallifrey ranked it worst of all, below even Dimensions in Time.
  5. The Doctor is unusually violent at the start of this episode, even attempting to strangle Peri. The intention was to create a Doctor that was initially unlikeable, in contrast to the instantly likable Tom Baker and Peter Davison Doctors.

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