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the twin dilemma

story 137 : season 21 : serial 6S : 4 episodes

Producer: John Nathan-Turner
Director: Peter Moffatt
Writer: Anthony Steven
Script Editor: Eric Saward
Designer: Valerie Warrender

cast information

Colin Baker (The Doctor); Nicola Bryant (Peri Brown); Maurice Denham (Edgworth/Azmael); Kevin McNally (Hugo Lang); Edwin Richfield (Mestor); Gavin Conrad (Romulus); Andrew Conrad (Remus); Dennis Chinnery (Sylvest); Barry Stanton (Noma); Oliver Smith (Drak); Helen Blatch (Fabian); Dione Inman (Elena); Seymour Green (Chamberlain); Roger Nott (Prisoner); John Wilson (Jocondan Guard);

crew information

Stephen Jeffery-Poulter (Assistant Floor Manager); Beth Millward (Assistant Floor Manager); Pat Godfrey (Costumes); John Baker (Film Cameraman); John Walker (Film Cameraman); Ian McKendrick (Film Editor); Malcolm Clarke (Incidental Music); Denise Baron (Make-Up); Christine Fawcett (Production Assistant); June Collins (Production Associate); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Don Babbage (Studio Lighting); Scott Talbott (Studio Sound); Peter Howell (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Stuart Brisdon (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 22 March 1984 at 18:40 24'42" 7.6mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 23 March 1984 at 18:40 25'09" 7.4mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 29 March 1984 at 18:40 24'27" 7.0mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 30 March 1984 at 18:40 25'04" 6.3mil PAL 1 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
    » Always held by the FVTL
  2. Part Two
    » Always held by the FVTL
  3. Part Three
    » Always held by the FVTL
  4. Part Four
    » Always held by the FVTL

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- The Twin Dilemma
Written by: Eric Saward
Number 103 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1985 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 491 03124 6
13 March 1986 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 426 20155 8
21 January 1993 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20155 8

plot synopsis

The Sixth Doctor proves to be erratic and wildly unpredictable, with Peri suffering the main brunt of his explosive temper. The TARDIS lands on a planet where the two of them find the wreckage of a space crash, and take the sole survivor on board, before travelling to Jaconda, where the slug-like Mestor and his Gastropods have enslaved the population. An old friend of the Doctor's, Azmael, a retired Time Lord, has been forced to kidnap a pair of twins who are mathematical geniuses, so Mestor can use their calculations to throw Jaconda into its sun, with the resulting explosion being large enough to spread Gastropod eggs throughout the galaxy...

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