BBCDVD 3002 Doctor Who - Paradise towers by Stephen Wyatt


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Release details

DetailValue
Catalogue numberBBCDVD 3002
TitleDoctor Who - Paradise towers
Artist(s)Stephen Wyatt
Cover conditionNear mint
Record conditionNear mint
BBC records label code-
Item deleted?No
Released1987
Distributed / printed by2 entertain
Country of originUK UK flag
Media typePrimary
Media genreDramas - Sci-fi
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Run-off codes / Shop bar codesA0101790549-A933 02 IFPI L556 Sony DADC
My rating*****
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Tracks

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Side & trackTrack and ArtistLength
A1Part 124.33
A2Part 224.39
A3Part 324.30
A4Part 424.21
A5Horror of the high rise cast - The making of the series34.04
A6Deleted and extended scenes7.54
A7Continuity3.54
A8Girls! Girls! Girls! - The Eighties21.44
A9Casting Sylvester3.48
A10Photo gallery4.35
A11Radio Times billings [PDF]
A12Coming soon - The sun makers1.10
Total length of media 2:55:12.

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Starring


Sylvester McCoy (Seventh Doctor)
Bonnie Langford (Mel Bush)
Richard Briers - Chief Caretaker / The Great Architect
Clive Merrison - Deputy Chief Caretaker
Elizabeth Spriggs - Tabby
Brenda Bruce - Tilda
Judy Cornwell - Maddy
Howard Cooke - Pex
Julie Brennon - Fire Escape
Annabel Yuresha - Bin Liner
Catherine Cusack - Blue Kang Leader
Astra Sheridan - Yellow Kang
Joseph Young - Young Caretaker
Simon Coady - Video Commentary

Written by


Stephen Wyatt

Produced by


John Nathan-Turner

Directed by


Nicholas Mallett

Synopsis


According to the sales brochure, Paradise Towers is a utopian blueprint for community living, with its fabulous architecture and state-of-the-art facilities. The perfect place for Mel to take a leisurely swim, in fact. But when the TARDIS arrives, the Doctor and his companion discover that the futuristic tower block has fallen into ruin, and a series of unexplained disappearances have the tenants living in fear. As gangs of teenage girls run wild in the hallways, a squad of bureaucratic Caretakers struggle to retain control. To keep the citizens of Paradise Towers safe, the Doctor must confront the resident evil lurking in the basement ...

Background


It is perhaps a blessing that Harry Hill's TV Burp was not a feature of the TV schedules during Season 24. With villainous old ladies in pastel cardigans, Bonnie Langford being harassed in a swimming pool by a bright yellow robot crab, and a zombified Richard Briers sporting a comedy moustache, Paradise Towers presents an easy target for ridicule. But although the show undoubtedly has a few less than triumphant moments, there is still much to enjoy. As the Seventh Doctor's first proper adventure (discounting Time and The Rani, given that he wasn't really feeling himself ...), it offers a taste of how Doctor Who would change under the new script editor Andrew Cartmel.

Gone are lengthy TARDIS scenes and continuity-bound exposition; this is a stand-alone tale, and it comes like a breath of fresh air. Here, as in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Stephen Wyatt creates a fascinating environment that has its own logic and language, and is simultaneously comfortingly familiar and unnervingly strange. In a script tailored to his performance style, Sylvester McCoy starts to make the Doctor his own, doffing his hat to vending machines, baffling the Caretakers with their own rulebook, and generally engaging with his surroundings instead of raging against them like his predecessor. Although it would take the production team a few more stories to get a proper handle on the Seventh Doctor, his genesis is undoubtedly here.

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