Stories Book Target Collection Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews Statistics Related Stories Quotes 1 Overview Released Thursday, March 13, 1986 Written by Eric Saward Publisher Target Books Pages 138 Story Type New Doctor Introduction, Series Finale Time Travel Future Location (Potential Spoilers!) Titan III, Jaconda Synopsis The Doctor has regenerated, having sacrificed his fifth persona to save Peri's life. But things are not going well... On this occasion the process of regeneration is by no means smooth, for the even-tempered, good-humoured fifth Doctor has given way to a rather disturbed and unsettled successor. In a particularly irascible moment the new Doctor comes dangerously close to committing a shocking crime. Overwhelmed with guilt for his violent behaviour, the repentant Time Lord decides to become a hermit... Read Read Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Sixth Doctor Mestor Azmael Peri Brown Show All Characters (4) How to read Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma: Books The Twin Dilemma Reviews Add Review Edit Review Submit a Review Statistics AVG. Rating223 members 3.00 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating223 votes 3.00 / 5 Member Statistics Read 28 Favourited 1 Reviewed 0 Saved 0 Skipped 7 Related Stories Other adaptations of this story: We define an adaptation as a recreation of a similar story but on a different medium or with different characters. Classic Who S21 • Serial 7 · (4 episodes) The Twin Dilemma Rating: 2.05 Story Skipped Television Reviews(10) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Doctor Who Season 21 Set of Stories: Doctor Who (1963-1996) Set of Stories: Sixth Doctor Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite Tags: Funny DOCTOR: Even as a child, my gift [for investigation] was well-developed. With the use of pure logic and observation I deduced where babies came from. Peri yawned, hoping it would distract the Doctor from his fantasy. But if he noticed he didn’t respond, continuing as though every word was true. DOCTOR: My mother had always insisted that the stork brought babies, but living in a large city I found that difficult to believe, as the arrival of infants was frequent but the sighting of storks was very rare. In fact, it wasn’t until the age of ten that I saw my first stork - and that was in a zoo! So once and for all I decided to solve the mystery. Word had it that a baby was due next door, so I set about watching our neighbour’s house. Apart from someone called a mid-wife, no-one else entered or left that dwelling until I heard the cry of a new-born babe. PERI: No stork either, huh? DOCTOR: Not even a sparrow. Now it had not gone unnoticed by me that the mid-wife had arrived carrying a large satchel. She had no sooner entered the house than I had heard an infant crying. I therefore deduced that the mid-wife had brought the baby in her bag! A bemused smile spread across Peri’s face. PERI: Brilliant. A very clever deduction for an unenlightened child. She paused. The look on the Doctor’s face told her that she had said the wrong thing. DOCTOR: So I was wrong on that occasion! I couldn’t help it if my idiot parents had refused to tell me the facts of life. — Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma