Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

Episode One

5/10/87

24.33

4.5

2

Episode Two

12/10/87

24.39

5.2

3

Episode Three

19/10/87

24.30

5.0

4

Episode Four

26/10/87

24.21

5.0

Season:

Doctor:

Producer:

Script Editor:

Writer:

Director:

Twenty Four

Sylvester McCoy

John Nathan-Turner

Andrew Cartmel

Stephen Wyatt

Nicholas Mallet

 

  

Sylvester McCoy - The Doctor

Bonnie Langford - Mel

 

  

Julie Brennan - Fire Escape

Richard Briers - Chief Caretaker

Clive Merrison - Deputy Chief Caretaker

Joseph Young - Young Caretaker

Brenda Bruce - Tilda

Elizabeth Spriggs - Tabby

Howard Cooke - Pex

Judy Cornwall - Maddy

Astra Sheridan - Yellow Kang)

Catherine Cusack - Blue Kang Leader

Annabel Yuresha - Bin Liner

 

  

"A visitor? Well it must be a long time since the Tower saw any of those."

 

Built towards the end of the twenty-first century, Paradise Towers is a massive housing block, stretching up towards the sky. With its beautiful decor, smart apartments, fantastic facilities and high standards of maintenance, it is hardly surprising that the architect, Kroagnon, won many professional awards.

 

Mel wants to go swimming and as the TARDIS pool has been jettisoned due to a leak, Paradise Towers seems to fit the bill. However, when she and the Doctor arrive, instead of the bright squares and charming cloisters the brochure promised, they find dark, rat-infested corridors full of uncontrollable cleaning machines, undisciplined street gangs and over-worked and belligerent caretakers, some of whom are disappearing in mysterious circumstances.

 

What has caused such terrible decay? How could such perfect accommodation have become so run down and dangerous? And why do the street-wise Kangs, apathetic caretakers, sinister Rezzies and Pex - the self-appointed warrior who puts the world of Paradise Towers to rights - all fear whatever terrible force dwells in the basement? Only the unpredictable Chief Caretaker knows what is down there - and the real secret behind the disappearances..

 

  

Working Title:

Paradise Tower

 

Things to look out for:

  • Coming Soon 

Archive:

All 4 episodes exist.

 

Bloopers:

Coming Soon

 

  

 

 

Title Information:

  • Paradise Towers
  • Episodic format
  • UK PAL - Released October 1995
  • BBC Video cat.#5686

 

 

Not yet released on DVD.

 

 

Not yet released on Audio.

 

 

 

Title Information:

  • Paradise Towers
  • Written by Stephen Wyatt
  • Manufactured by Target
  • Published 1988
  • No.134 in the Target, Doctor Who Library.

 

 

 

Title Information:

  • Paradise Towers
  • Written by Stephen Wyatt
  • Manufactured by Target
  • Published 1991
  • No.134 in the Target, Doctor Who Library.

**For further information on the Target Books, please visit On Target.


 

 

 

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