N.B. there might (or might not) be spoilers in this article!

Perhaps my lack of fondness for season twenty-one is due to having no nostalgia for it (unlike seasons nineteen and to a lesser extent, twenty).

Going into it, the only story I looked forward to seeing again was The Caves of Androzani and I’ve already been over my complicated relationship with that story (if ‘relationship’ is not too high-fallutin a description to use).

The season in general might well have been improved if they’d lopped an episode off Frontios or Planet of Fire and given it to The Awakening. I can’t say that tacking the Sixth Doctor’s first story on to the end of it was a particularly good idea either, especially when it turned out to be such a stinker. If nothing else, it going to cause a headache for the Blu-ray box set compilers!

Such apathy probably explains why it’s taken my son and I so long to get through this season. Nothing much has changed in my attitude towards the stories in it. The Caves of Androzani remain one of Doctor Who‘s greatest stories, The Twin Dilemma one of its poorest and the rest are still a little bit ‘meh’!

Perhaps the switch to 45-minute episodes for season twenty-two will liven things up a bit?

One thing I can say with certainty: this will be the only point in the marathon at which The Twin Dilemma is my favourite Sixth Doctor story.