The Twin Dilemma (TV story)

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Plot

The Doctor - a Time Lord- has regenerated. Can he recover in time to solve a crime?

The Doctor behaves very strangely after his traumatic regeneration. He tries to strangle Peri, and wants to live like a hermit, but The Doctor inadvertently becomes involved in solving a crime, and must prevent destruction to the planet Titan 3.

Synopsis

A race of giant gastropods has taken over the planet Jaconda. Their leader, Mestor, now intends to cause an enormous explosion in order to spread his people's eggs throughout the galaxy, and he kidnaps juvenile twin geniuses from Earth to work out the necessary mathematical equations. Space fighters led by Lieutenant Hugo Lang are dispatched to get the twins back, but they come under attack and Lang is the sole survivor when his ship crashes on the asteroid Titan 3.

A newly regenerated Doctor and Peri become involved and help Jaconda's elderly former ruler Professor Edgeworth, who is really a Time Lord named Azmael, to defeat Mestor and free the planet's bird-like indigenous people from the gastropods' reign of terror. Azmael, however, sacrifices his life in the process.

The danger over, The Doctor tells Peri, "I'm the Doctor - whether you like it or not!"

Cast

Crew

References

Story Notes

  • This story had working titles of; A Stitch In Time, A Switch In Time.
  • New opening and closing title sequences make their debut a more colourful version than the previous one, incorporating Colin Baker's face rather than Peter Davison's designed by Sid Sutton and Terry Handley.
  • The cat badge worn by the Doctor in his lapel for this story was hand-made and painted by Suzie Trevor, and purchased for the programme from a specialist badge shop in central London.
  • Fabian was originally envisaged as a male character, and the Jocondan Chamberlain as a female one.
  • The Doctor attempting to strangle Peri marks the first time on television that the Doctor has intentionally attacked a companion (discounting the accidental death of Sara Kingdom).

Ratings

  • Part 1 - 7.6 million viewers
  • Part 2 - 7.4 million viewers
  • Part 3 - 7.0 million viewers
  • Part 4 - 6.3 million viewers

Myths

  • The Edgeworth character was originally intended to be the first Doctor. (He wasn't.)

Filming Locations

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

  • The altered revitaliser machine sends Peri 10 seconds back in time, and thus... back to the TARDIS? The revitaliser itself does not achieve this. However, the Doctor is fully aware that the TARDIS would detect any unusual time/space disturbance in its viscinity and redirect it to the control room for the Doctor to study (See Pyramids of Mars, The Awakening, Timelash, and The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, to name a few).

Continuity

to be added

DVD and Video Releases

  • Released on video in episodic format, initially as a Woolworth's exclusive. Not yet released on DVD
  • As of April 2008, Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, and Kevin McNalley, have recorded a commentary for this story, however a release date has not been set.
  • The coming soon trailer for DVD release has been confirmed by the BBFC.

The Twin Dilemma will be released on DVD in 2009. This will also be the last realese of the Colin Baker Year's

Novelisation

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Main article: The Twin Dilemma (novelisation)

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