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Release details
| Title | Doctor Who - The twin dilemma | ||||||||
| Artist(s): | Anthony Steven | ||||||||
| Category: | BBC - BBCDVD (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - BBCDVD DVD's.) | ||||||||
| Label and catalogue number: |  BBC DVD - BBCDVD 2598 | ||||||||
| Format: | Disc DVD's | ||||||||
| Country: | UK  | ||||||||
| Released: | 1984 | ||||||||
| Genre: | Dramas - Sci-fi View all other tracks listed as Dramas - Sci-fi. | ||||||||
| Run-off codes: | A0101333218-B911 03 IFPI L556 Sony DADC | ||||||||
| Item deleted? | No | ||||||||
| Distributed / printed by |  2 entertain | ||||||||
| Page views: | 2045 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 2716, rank in dvds is 122. | ||||||||
| My rating: | ***** | ||||||||
| Guest rating: | ***** | ||||||||
My copies information
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| Cover condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
| Record condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
| BBC records label code | - | ||||||||||
| Number have | 1 | ||||||||||
| What type of seller was used | Physical shop | ||||||||||
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Tracks
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| Side & track no | Track and Artist | Length | |||||||||
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| A1 | Part 1 | 24.42 | |||||||||
| A2 | Part 2 | 25.09 | |||||||||
| A3 | Part 3 | 24.27 | |||||||||
| A4 | Part 4 | 25.04 | |||||||||
| A5 | The star man - Title sequences | 6.04 | |||||||||
| A6 | Look 100 years younger - Costumes of the Doctor | 11.46 | |||||||||
| A7 | Stripped for action - The story of the Doctor Who comics - The sixth Doctor | 17.46 | |||||||||
| A8 | Breakfast time | 9.54 | |||||||||
| A9 | Blue Peter | 10.02 | |||||||||
| A10 | Continuity | 3.13 | |||||||||
| A11 | Photo gallery | 8.05 | |||||||||
| A12 | Radio Times billings [PDF] | ||||||||||
| A13 | Coming soon - The keys of Marinus | 1.12 | |||||||||
| Total length of media 2:47:24. | |||||||||||
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Reviews
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| My rating | 3 | |
| Guest rating | Current average value is 3. To vote, please select one of these buttons: | |
Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts | ||
StarringColin Baker (Sixth Doctor) Nicola Bryant (Peri Brown) 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 Written byAnthony Steven Produced byJohn Nathan-Turner Directed byPeter Moffatt SynopsisThe 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 travellers soon uncover a plot that threatens the entire galaxy. But why has an alien Gastropod kidnapped twins and will the Doctor recover in time to find out? BackgroundThe Twin Dilemma had a lot to live up to. Appearing at the end of a successful and popular set of adventures, viewers in 1984 had been treated to crowd-pleasing monsters from the past during Warriors of the Deep and Resurrection of the Daleks; arch-nemesis the Master had returned in Planet of Fire; Tegan, Turlough and Kamelion left the TARDIS, and a promising new character, Peri, joined the Doctor on his travels; and finally, in the previous story, Peter Davison regenerated in the closing moments of the gritty The Caves of Androzani. A first for Doctor Who, viewers were promised a complete adventure with a new Doctor to round off that series - without having to wait a whole year to see their favourite Time Lord in action. Other than the Hartnell to Troughton handover, it became normal for Doctors to regenerate in his last story of their final season. Sadly, The Twin Dilemma was a story beset with problems and it is perhaps not the most auspicious start for Colin Baker's much-underrated Doctor. The original script didn't work, and had to be rewritten by script editor Eric Saward, industrial action at the BBC played havoc with studio recording and the decision to make the new Doctor thoroughly unlikable and dangerous after regenerating is, in retrospect, a bad move. However, it is an ambitious story, with some genuinely tense opening scenes in the TARDIS and a great (and loud!) performance by Colin Baker. Whether viewers liked it or not, one thing was certain - the sixth Doctor had arrived ... | ||
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