This article is about the Doctor Who serial. For the Nancy Drew story, see The Twin Dilemma (novel).
1984 Doctor Who serial
136[1] – The Twin Dilemma
Doctor Who serial
Cast
Doctor
Colin Baker – Sixth Doctor
Companion
Nicola Bryant – Peri Brown
Others
Maurice Denham – Edgeworth
Edwin Richfield – Mestor
Kevin McNally – Hugo Lang
Dennis Chinnery – Sylvest
Gavin Conrad – Romulus
Andrew Conrad – Remus
Seymour Green – Chamberlain
Oliver Smith – Drak
Barry Stanton – Noma
Dione Inman – Elena
Helen Blatch – Fabian
Roger Nott – Prisoner
John Wilson – Jacondan Guard
Production
Directed by
Peter Moffatt
Written by
Anthony Steven
Script editor
Eric Saward
Produced by
John Nathan-Turner
Music by
Malcolm Clarke
Production code
6S
Series
Season 21
Running time
4 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast
22 March 1984 (1984-03-22)
Last broadcast
30 March 1984 (1984-03-30)
Chronology
← Preceded by The Caves of Androzani
Followed by → Attack of the Cybermen
List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989)
The Twin Dilemma is the seventh and final serial of the 21st season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from 22 March to 30 March 1984.
In the serial, the alien Gastropod Mestor (Edwin Richfield) plots to explode the sun of the planet Jaconda to scatter his eggs throughout the universe to conquer it.
It was the first to star Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor[2] uniquely being the final story of the season.
^From the Doctor Who Magazine series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). The Discontinuity Guide, which counts the unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this as story number 137. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.
^Miles, Lawrence; Wood, Tat (2005). About Time 5: 1980–1984: Seasons 18 to 21. Illinois: Mad Norwegian Press. pp. 310–22. ISBN 0975944649.
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