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Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma

(1984)

March 30, 1984• 1h 40m
32%
TMDB Score

Overview

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 III. 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.

Peter Moffatt

Director

Top Billed Cast

CB

Colin Baker

The Doctor

NB

Nicola Bryant

Peri Brown

MD

Maurice Denham

Edgeworth

ER

Edwin Richfield

Mestor

KM

Kevin McNally

Hugo Lang

DC

Dennis Chinnery

Sylvest

GC

Gavin Conrad

Romulus

AC

Andrew Conrad

Remus

SG

Seymour Green

Chamberlain

OS

Oliver Smith

Drak