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The Twin Dilemma is the first Doctor Who serial to star Colin Baker in the title role.
Synopsis
A race of giant slug-like creatures, the Gastropods have taken over the planet Joconda, 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 Joconda (who is really Azmael, a Time Lord and former tutor of the Doctor).
Notes
- The serial was written by Anthony Steven and directed by Peter Moffatt. 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 "unmakable" by script editor Eric Saward, who was forced to massively rework them in a very short amount of time.
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| Preceded by: The Caves of Androzani |
List of Doctor Who serials | Followed by: Attack of the Cybermen |