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Classic Who S24 • Serial 2 · (4 episodes)

Paradise Towers

Sets:
Doctor Who (1963-1996)
Seventh Doctor

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Novelisation: "Doctor Who: Paradise Towers"

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First aired Monday, October 5, 1987
Production Code 7E
Written by Stephen Wyatt
Directed by Nicholas Mallett
Runtime 100 minutes
Time Travel Future
Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!) Robots
Locations Paradise Towers
Synopsis

The Doctor and Mel decide to visit Paradise Towers, a residential complex that promises a peaceful life to its residents. However, the establishment is far from what its name suggests. A conflict persists among the Kangs, humanesque, multicolour beings who gather in opposing gangs based on which colour of the rainbow they bear. Furthermore, killer cleaning robots prowl the halls, and a secret in the complex's basement poses the greatest threat of all...

4 Episodes:

First aired Monday, October 5, 1987
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Stephen Wyatt
Directed by Nicholas Mallett
UK Viewers 4.5 million
Appreciation Index 61
Synopsis

The legendary Paradise Towers is supposed to be the height of luxury but when the Doctor and Mel arrive, they find it is as far from paradise as possible...

First aired Monday, October 12, 1987
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Stephen Wyatt
Directed by Nicholas Mallett
UK Viewers 5.2 million
Appreciation Index 58
Synopsis

With the Doctor condemned to death by the caretakers and their bizarre rulebook, Mel faces cannibalistic OAPS. Is Pex going to be the true hero of Paradise Towers ?

First aired Monday, October 19, 1987
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Stephen Wyatt
Directed by Nicholas Mallett
UK Viewers 5 million
Appreciation Index 58
Synopsis

Mel and Pex play cat and mouse with the lethal cleaner robots while the Doctor and the surviving Kangs learn all about Kroagnon the Great Architect.

First aired Monday, October 26, 1987
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Stephen Wyatt
Directed by Nicholas Mallett
UK Viewers 5 million
Appreciation Index 57
Synopsis

Meeting up at the pool, the Doctor leads the surviving Rezzies, Kangs and Caretakers as they draw the line together on the 245th floor against the systematic cleansing of all life by Kroagnon and his robotic Cleaners.

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Also featuring:

Pex  Kroagnon  The Cleaners  Kangs