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Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
Starring: Nicola Bryant
Directed by: Peter Moffatt
Produced by: John Nathan-Turner
Written by: Anthony Steven
Confused after his recent regeneration, the sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) and his companion Peri (Nicola Bryant) travel to a desolate asteroid, where they uncover a plot that threatens the galaxy. Extras: audio commentaries, interviews and featurettes.
Item Number: 15565
- Format:
- DVD Fullscreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 1 1/2 Hours
- Number of Discs:
- 1
- Special Features:
English Subtitles for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired
Audio Commentary by actors Colin Baker (the Doctor), Nicola Bryant (Peri) and Kevin McNally (Hugo)
The Star Man Interview with title sequence designer Sid Sutton (6 mins)
Looking 100 Years Younger Colin Baker and comedian Amy Lamé discuss the Doctor's costumes over the years (11 mins)
Stripped for Action - The Sixth Doctor Comic strip retrospective (17 mins)
Breakfast Time BBC interview with Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant (10 mins)
Blue Peter Colin Baker interview (10 mins)
Continuity announcements (3 mins)
Photo Gallery (8 mins)
Easter egg (4 mins)
Radio Times listings
Production Note Subtitles
Digitally remastered picture and sound quality
The Doctor has regenerated and all is not well. Confused, angry and acting strangely, the new Doctor decides to become a hermit, so takes his concerned companion Peri to a desolate asteroid where he plans to live for several centuries.
The time travelers soon uncover a plot that threatens the entire galaxy. But why has an alien gastropod kidnapped twin boys from Earth, and will the Doctor recover in time to find out?
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.
The 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 Doctor | --- | Colin Baker |
| Peri | --- | Nicola Bryant |
| Chamberlain | --- | Seymour Green |
| Drak | --- | Oliver Smith |
| Edgeworth | --- | Maurice Denham |
| Elena | --- | Dione Inman |
| Fabian | --- | Helen Blatch |
| Hugo Lang | --- | Kevin McNally |
| Jocondan Guard | --- | John Wilson |
| Mestor | --- | Edwin Richfield |
| Noma | --- | Barry Stanton |
| Prisoner | --- | Roger Nott |
| Remus | --- | Andrew Conrad |
| Romulus | --- | Gavin Conrad |
| Sylvest | --- | Dennis Chinnery |
Directed by Peter Moffatt
Written by Anthony Steven
Produced by John Nathan-Turner
Original Music by Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, arranged by Peter Howell
Costume Design by Pat Godfrey
New opening and closing title sequences make their debut - somewhat gaudier versions of the previous ones, incorporating Colin Baker's face rather than Peter Davison's - designed by Sid Sutton and Terry Handley.
Distinguished actor Maurice Denham plays Edgworth.
Fabian was originally envisaged as a male character, and the Jocondan Chamberlain as a female one.
