7E. Paradise Towers

  • Script Editor: Andrew Cartmel;
  • Produced by: John Nathan-Turner;
  • Writer: Stephen Wyatt;
  • Director: Nicholas Mallett;
  • Designer: Martin Collins;
  • Incidental Music: Keff McCulloch;
  • Stunt Arranger: Roy Scammel (uncredited);

Programme Description

The swimming pool in the TARDIS has been jettisoned due to leaking, so the Doctor takes Mel to Paradise Towers to use the swimming pool there.

When the arrive they find that Paradise Towers has become run down and dilapidated, and looks nothing like the video guide in the TARDIS. Instead of being a friendly place, gangs of girls roam the streets, whilst caretakers with robotic cleaners try to clean up afterwards.

Everyone in the towers, residents, Kangs and caretakers, are terrified. The cleaners are going wild, killing people, and taking them down into the basement. The Doctor ventures down into the basement, and finds the a disembodied Kroagnon, the Great Architect and designer of Paradise Towers.

Kroagnon takes over the body of the Chief Caretaker and starts a killing spree. He was against people using the towers for fears that they would dirty it, so the original occupants trapped him in the basement. The Doctor finally managed to unite the residents, caretakers and Kangs to fight against Kroagnon.

Regular Cast

  • Melanie Bush: Bonnie Langford;

Guest Cast

  • Chief Caretaker: Richard Briers;
  • Deputy Chief Caretaker: Clive Merrison;
  • Bin Liner: Annabel Yuresha;
  • Fire Escape: Julie Brennon;
  • Blue Kang Leader: Catherine Cusack;
  • Pex: Howard Cooke;
  • Tilda: Brenda Bruce (1-3);
  • Tabby: Elisabeth Spriggs (1-3);
  • Yellow Lang: Astra Sheridan (1);
  • Young Caretaker: Joseph Young (1);
  • Maddy: Judy Cornwell (2-4);
  • Video Commentator: Simon Coady (3);

  • UNCREDITED CAST:
  • Red Kangs: Christine Clark, Louise Clifford, Helen Fung, Elizabeth Gardner, Nisha Nayar, Julietta Norde, Jennie Slade, Martha Stylianou. Roberta Wells, Lottie Winter;
  • Blue Kangs: uzanna Crdash, Iona Dean, Tanya Davidson-Jones, Harriet Eedle, Leigh Funnell, Heather Mair Thimas, Liz Wood; Ressies: Nancy Adams, Kathleen Bidmead, Shelana Marshal, Muriel Wellesley;
  • Caretakers: Rupert Clive Barrimore, Andrew J. Bush, James Carrington, William Perrie, Don Weinstein;
  • Double for Mel: Ellie Bertram;

Transmissions

ChannelEpisodeTitleDateViewersPosition
BBC 1 658 Part One Mon 5 Oct 1987 519:35 - 20:00 4.5M 88th
BBC 1 659 Part Two Mon 12 Oct 1987 1219:35 - 20:00 5.2M 84th
BBC 1 660 Part Three Mon 19 Oct 1987 1919:35 - 20:00 5.0M 79th
BBC 1 661 Part Four Mon 26 Oct 1987 2619:35 - 20:00 5.0M 93rd

Repeat Transmissions

This programme has not been repeated.

Locations

  • Elmswell House, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks;

Studios

  • Television Centre Studio 1;

Bloopers and Mistakes

When one of the Ressies throws a knife at Pex the line along which it travels is visible.

Notes and Trivia

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