7E. Paradise Towers
Writer: Stephen Wyatt
Director: Nicholas Mallett
Designer: Martin Collins
Incidental Music: Keff McCulloch
Stunt Arranger: Roy Scammel (uncredited)
TRANSMISSION DETAILS:
658. Part One 05.10.87 7.35pm - 8.00pm 4.5M/88th/61%
659. Part Two 12.10.87 7.35pm - 8.00pm 5.2M/84th/58%
660. Part Three 19.10.87 7.35pm - 8.00pm 5.0M/79th/58%
661. Part Four 26.10.87 7.35pm - 8.00pm 5.0M/93rd/57%
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: ELizabeth Spriggs (1-3); YELLOW KANG: Astra Sheridan (1); YOUNG CARETAKER: Joseph
Young (1); MADDY: Judy Cornwell (2-4); VIDEO COMMENTATOR: Simon Coady (3). UNCREDITED: RED KANGS:
Christine Clark, Louise Clifford, Helen Fung, Elizabeth Gardner, Nisha Nayar, Julietta Norde, Jennie Slade, Martha Stylianou,
Roberta Wells, Lottie Winter; BLUE KANGS: Suzanna Crdash, Iona Dean, Tanya Davidson-Jones; Harriet Eedle, Leigh Funnell,
Heather Mair Thomas, Liz Wood; REZZIES: (all 4) 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
STORY:
The swimming pool in the TARDIS has been jettisoned due to it 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 dilapodated, 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 disembidment of Kroagnon, the Great
Architect and designer of Paradise Towers.
The Cheif Caretaker is taken over by Kroagnon, 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.
BLOOPERS:
Episode ?: When one of the old ladies throws a knife at Pex, the string that it travels on is visible.
STUDIOS:
Television Centre Studio 1
LOCATIONS:
Elmswell House, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks
NOVELISATION:
Paradise Towers
Stephen Waytt
VIDEO:
Paradise Towers
