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{{Rename|[[The Kandy Man]], the spelling used in the credits of ''The Happiness Patrol'' and in the novelisation}}
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|race= [[Robot]]
Kandyman Sweet Salvation.jpg|Humanoid
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|appearances= [[DW]]: ''[[The Happiness Patrol]]''<br>[[VD]]: ''[[The Trials of Tara]]''
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|origin      = [[Vasilip]]
|job        = Scientist
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|job3        = executioner
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|appearances = {{il|[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Trials of Tara (short story)|The Trials of Tara]]''|[[COMIC]]: ''[[Party Animals (comic story)|Party Animals]]'', ''[[Happy Deathday (comic story)|Happy Deathday]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[World of Damnation (audio story)|World of Damnation]]'', ''[[Sweet Salvation (audio story)|Sweet Salvation]]''}}
|actor       = David John Pope
|voice actor = Nicholas Rowe
|clip        = The Kandy Man Vs. The Doctor & Ace - Happiness Patrol - Doctor Who - BBC
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The '''Kandy Man''' (also spelt '''Kandyman'''), formerly '''Seivad''', was a [[scientist]] whose [[mind]] was placed into an [[android]] by [[Gilbert M]] to serve as [[Helen A]]'s [[executioner]].


Kandyman The Graphic Designer and Web Celeb - Written by his biggest fan (I copied his bio he had on his site thekillertruth.com)
== Biography ==
=== Human life ===
Seivad, a [[human]], lived on [[Vasilip]] where he worked as a [[scientist]] in the [[capital city]]. He was rivalled only by [[Gilbert M|Gilbert]], the [[chief state scientist]], with whom he was in competition for years before they decided, for the advancement of [[science]], to work together.  


==Bio==
After Gilbert created accidentally created a [[germ]] which wiped out half of the [[planet]], [[king (The Happiness Patrol)|the king]] decreed that he and Seivad were to be killed on sight and they fled to the [[mountain]]s. They made a hiding place which was discovered by a [[vigilante]] who attacked Seivad and left him for [[death|dead]], but Gilbert, returning from foraging food, worked through the [[night]] to save his [[mind]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (novelisation)}})
How y’all doing hmmmmm? Who cares really.Probably thinking “Then why’d you ask?” Answer’s, because that’s what everyone does. Ask how they are doing not giving a damn what the answers going to be. Anyways, my real name is Matthew Ade. “What the f**ck is an Ade”. B*tch im Nigerian. Where you think the smooth chocolate skins comes from? I’m20 years old , born and raised in the mean streets on LA . I’m not about to tell y’all about the past because its just that …the past. So what am i doing now with my life you ask? I’m jack off all trades. I’m an industry graphic designer. Have been doing it for about a year. [http://s219.photobucket.com/albums/cc89/KandymansDesigns/Portfolio/ HERE] is some of my work. I’m an event promoter. Throwing most of the all ages/18+ events in Los Angeles. I dance. Yes b*tch I dance. “Ladies” need a lap dance? You already know who to hit up. I have some skill in recording tracks [http://twiturm.com/89nzu singing/rapping.] Done all for fun. Last but not least I am blogger. As you can see i like to speak my mind through my fingers. So that’s it now you know a lil’ somethin’ , somethin’.


==The Grind ==
=== On Terra Alpha ===
Now, this is the story….all about how….. My life got flipped-turned upside down…..
Gilbert took a flight to [[Terra Alpha]] with Seivad's mind in a [[suitcase]] and was ordered by [[Helen A]] to create a monster from him. His only other choice being [[exile]], he complied and imprisoned Seivad's mind inside of the Kandy Man, an [[android]] he built out of [[sweet]]s as they were the only raw materials at his disposal.([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (novelisation)}}) His mind remained his own, however, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}}) and, forced to serve as Helen A's [[henchman]], the Kandy Man went [[insanity|mad]] with [[anger]] and [[injustice]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (novelisation)}})


& I’d like to take a min so jus sit right & there. & I’ll tell u how I became the Prince of a town called the Net =]
Although most accounts agreed that the body that Gilbert built for the Kandy Man had the appearance of an [[android]] made of sweets, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}}; [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Sweet Salvation (audio story)}}) one claimed that the body was [[humanoid]] with [[sugar]]-based [[skin]] covered in a soft white powder ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (novelisation)}}) just like the body that would later be created for him by [[the Eleven]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Sweet Salvation (audio story)}})


So here’s the deal kids!!! You’ve probably seen commercials & sh*t about how you can make money on the
The Kandy Man was based in the [[Kandy Kitchen]] and was assisted by Gilbert. He made sweets ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}}) which were given out by the [[Happiness Patrol]] as a reward for [[happiness]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (novelisation)}}) performed experiments on those designated [[Killjoy]]s and did Helen A's "dirty work", namely [[execution]]s. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}}) He refused to meet with [[Trevor Sigma]] when he arrived on Terra Alpha to complete a [[census]] and executed [[Andrew X]] with a [[fondant surprise]] six months later. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (novelisation)}})


internet and never leave your house and blah blah bla .. you prolly ignored that sh*t … well I DIDNT ….I heard
After the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Earl Sigma]] sneaked into the Kandy Kitchen, the Kandy Man captured them and prepared to kill them, but the Doctor tricked him into breaking open a bottle of [[lemonade]] and causing his feet to be stuck to the floor, a predicament which Gilbert would not free him from. The Doctor temporarily freed him in return for stopping [[Susan Q]]'s execution and returned a second time with [[Ace]], who helped him force the Kandy Man into fleeing into the pipes. [[Wences]] and [[Wulfric]] then destroyed him by redirecting the fondant surprise and his remains were found by [[Joseph C]] and Gilbert, who decided not to rebuild him. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}})


make money on a muhf**kin computer & got on it. Wakin up early in the morning crazy hours (9-5) for a check wasnt for me. So this is what i did .
=== Rebuilt ===
Long after [[Terra Alpha]], the Kandyman's [[spaceship]] crashed on [[Tara (planet)|Tara]] and he was once again destroyed, but [[Grendel of Gracht]], [[Merrybone]] and [[Claypole]] found him and Claypole, using instructions the Kandyman had hidden inside himself, was able to remake him using [[southern Taran sugarbeet]] and stolen [[sweet]]s. He volunteered his services as [[executioner]] to Grendel, who [[knight]]ed him "Sir Kandyman", and supplied Grendel with advanced [[weapon]]s to attack [[Castle Tara]]. He succeeded in kidnapping [[Strella|Queen Strella]] whilst she was with the [[Seventh Doctor]], but was killed by [[Bernice Summerfield]] when she threw a bucket of [[red wine]] over him. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Trials of Tara (short story)}})


Got up on these poppin ass social networkin sites everyone loved to be on . Started from Myspace ( [http://www.myspace.com/ckandyman23 http://www.myspace.com/ckandyman23 ]) …..back when it was LIVE. ,when
[[File:Party Animals Candyman.jpg|thumb|The Kandyman cowers during a brawl at [[Bonjaxx's Bar]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Party Animals (comic story)|Party Animals]]'')]]
The Kandy Man attended [[Bonjaxx]]'s [[birthday party]] at [[Bonjaxx's Bar]] on [[Maruthea]]. After a drunken [[Meep]] started a fight, the Kandy Man was attacked by [[Ace]] with a [[baseball bat]]. The Seventh Doctor and [[Fred|a future incarnation]] were also in attendance. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Party Animals (comic story)}})


muhf**kas would skip homework, pass up on outdoor activities and ect ect . to chat with they friends online.
The Kandyman became a mercenary who served as the enforcer of several regimes. While in a [[Third Zone]] labour camp, his body was torn apart and consumed by [[Androgum]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Sweet Salvation (audio story)}})


To some people (includin myself) it was like a popularity site . The more friends people see you have the more
=== Humanoid body ===
[[The Eleven]] found the Kandyman, and constructed a new body from spun sugar, that gave him a new, almost human-looking body. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Sweet Salvation (audio story)}})


others would want to be friends with you. I naturally did things that showed my personality to gain friends by
The [[Eighth Doctor]] encountered Kandyman in this new body in [[Rykerzon]] centuries after their first encounter. He assisted the Eleven in his scheme to gain control over the population of [[Colony 23]] by incorporating [[silk]] from the [[Psychic Spider]]'s into confectionery products distributed throughout the world, forming a direct [[psychic link]] from its consumers to the Eleven.


the HUNDREDS.. write stories,tell jokes, make dancing youtube videos etc. SHIT THAT WOULD GET PEOPLES
This body was eventually destroyed when he was pushed by [[Liv Chenka]] into a vat of additives, melting it immensely and becoming "more [[syrup]] than solid", before ultimately sticking to the Eleven and again being knocked from a ledge, this time landing in the nest of a large Psychic Spider. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|World of Damnation (audio story)}}, {{cs|Sweet Salvation (audio story)}})


ATTENTION.
=== Legacy ===
On [[Erratoon]], [[Ace]] described the Kandyman to [[Zara (The Judgement of Isskar)|Zara]] as a "bloke made of [[liquorice]]". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Prisoner's Dilemma (audio story)}})


Call me attention whore but lets be real. Who doesnt like attention? Even the quite muhf**kas be gettin
In the [[video game]] ''[[Happy Deathday]]'', played by [[Izzy Sinclair]] on the [[Time-Space Visualiser]], the Kandyman was among a host of "every single [[enemy]]" that [[the Doctor]] had ever [[defeat]]ed, who were assembled by the [[Beige Guardian]] and pitted against the Doctor's first eight [[incarnation]]s. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Happy Deathday (comic story)}})


attention … You know when people would talk to them n be like “why you so quite, why you so mad , why
== Personality ==
The Kandy Man was a pathological, psychopathic [[android]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Sweet Salvation (audio story)}}) employed as an [[executioner]] by the egocentric [[Helen A]]. It delighted in inflicting [[torture]] and destruction with [[confectionery]]. One of its favourite methods was drowning people in pipes filled with its "[[Fondant Surprise]]", a thick solution composed of boiling liquid [[candy]].


you cryin ect” . But anyways thats how i started becoming popular though the myspace (the internet). I mean
Like most of the members of the [[Happiness Patrol]], it was a sadistic executioner with a very warped sense of [[humour]], speaking with a squeaky, almost child-like metallic [[voice]] and producing a variety of deadly sweets to suit its role of execution for sadness. These sweets were supposed to be so delicious [[human]]s were unable to cope with the pleasure, overloading their senses and killing them. The Kandyman claimed most of its victims in this manner — "with [[smile]]s on their [[face]]s" — but it was perfectly happy to throttle them if they refused to cooperate. The Kandyman would usually flip a coin to make decisions on how to best murder anyone who crossed his path, or otherwise annoyed and irritated him. The Kandyman was easily frustrated and annoyed. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}})


ofcourse iwas a popular n*cca at school but that could only get so far. THE internet is WORLD WIDE. I became what i call a web celeb! People be hatin like this nicca kandyman think he tight he think he a celeb…..but the fact ur sayin that u know what im thinkin is HILARIOUS. You will never hear me be on some super duper cocky shit…..i let others just do it for me =] You dont have to be on television to be a damn celeb! but ne wayz
== Appearance ==
{{Section stub|Info from [[The Happiness Patrol (novelisation)|the novelisation]] of {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}} and {{cs|World of Damnation (audio story)}} needs to be added}}
The Kandy Man's external shell composed of sweets like [[toffee]], [[liquorice]], [[sherbet]], [[marzipan]] and [[caramel]]. The [[Seventh Doctor]] discovered that he could be stuck to the floor with [[lemonade]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}})


The thousands of “friends” i gained with myspace led me into making money throwing parties. I would post a
By the time the Kandyman encountered the [[Eighth Doctor]], he had a new, almost human-looking body. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|World of Damnation (audio story)}})


party in a bulletin then hundreds of people would show up. Did that every f**kin weekn, get it poppin in the
== Behind the scenes ==
[[File:7D 3 Cover A unused.jpg|thumb|Original artwork for [[7D 3]]]]
* The correct variation of the character's name is uncertain. For ''The Happiness Patrol'', [[David John Pope]] is credited as "Kandy Man" (two-word version) on-screen and "Kandyman" (one-word version) in ''Radio Times''.
* After part two of ''The Happiness Patrol'' aired, HB Stokes, CEO and chairman of {{w|Bassett's}}, wrote to complain of the resemblance of the Kandyman to their mascot {{w|Liquorice allsorts|Bertie Bassett}}. An internal investigation by the BBC determined that the resemblance was coincidental and no copyright infringement had been committed. However, Stokes was assured the character would not be appearing in the series again.<ref>[https://recipereminiscing.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/the-history-of-bassetts-liquorice-allsorts-bertie-bassett/ The History Of Bassett’s Liquorice Allsorts & Bertie Bassett]</ref><ref>[https://www.blogtorwho.com/on-this-day-in-1988-the-kandyman-first-appeared/ On This Day… In 1988 The Kandyman First Appeared]</ref><ref>[https://pocketbookuk.com/bertie-bassett/ Bertie Bassett]</ref>
** Thirty years later, the Kandyman was removed from the original cover of ''[[Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor]]'' [[7D 3|#3]]. <ref>[https://twitter.com/ChrisJonesArt/status/1036750460600942593 My newest #DoctorWho print is based one of the covers from my #SeventhDoctor mini-series, but including the #Daleks and #Kandyman as originally intended! (Yes, I'll have these at Long Beach Comic Con #LBCC2018 and New York Comic Con #NYCC2018!)]</ref>
* [[Strax]] actor [[Dan Starkey]] commented that "the Kandy Man was like ''Doctor Who'' trying to do a [[Tim Burton]] movie, but being made in TV Centre and not quite getting it. The idea of it was quite nice, even if the execution wasn't quite as successful as it might have been." ([[DWM 475]], p. 18)


city of LA. SEE how that works? All that time spent on myspace gainin friends built my network and persona
== Footnotes ==
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and turrned it into CASH. Hope your takin notes? Okay where was I?… Olrtye makin money throwin parties….
{{Maruthea}}
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I studied everything to deal with parties and promotions and thought of a way to cut expenses…. This led me
to starting graphic designing! Making my own party flyers / graphics to blast all over the net. I would sit on the
computer and youtube tutorials on how to do this and how to do that. Got my graphics poppin enough to
design my own flyers/ myspace pages and sh*t making my self look 10x more poppin then i really was & thats the
killerTRuth ! People outside of LA started hitin me up like who are you … are you a rapper blah blah blah .. I
started charging people to design myspace pages … flyers , logos , photo retouches for models and rappers
which also built me network becuase i was doin work for rappers in the industry all of that .. which got me to
meet them and hit their studio sessions…. MAkin eassy gwap !!!
I was still in my last semester of Highschool in
07 makin over a 300+ a day easy.. i lived with my parents and had no expences so I was just spulrgin at malls
and stores buyin crazy shit .. My dad didnt know that i was makin that much money so he thought i was
stealing (ive been to jail for stealin before … havent stole a dime since then but thats another story..) so this is
how it is so far . Myspace , built friends to 50,000, started throwing parties then went to graphic designing.
So myspace completly died a couple months ago for non music artist/ models so i looked for the next social
networkin site to get poppin.. FOUND Facebook/ TWITTER =]<br />Promoted myself .. hit up all the emails ive collected throwin parties, and told people to follow me on twitter..
got to like 200 followers.. i was like wtf 200 thats it !!! I googled how to gain followers on twitter..Read an
article on things u shuld do and not to do gain and keep followers .. Top of the list was Be entertaiing .. im like
whoop whooop b*tch thas easy…. I tweeted my jokes and went in on barbies and killed the barbie trend! hahaha Shit blew up and i was
gettin like 10 new followers a Day … Im like damn this is EASY ….i got this … So everyday i would hop on twitter tell jokes…. then i noticed what we call trending topics ….Fabolous was the first person ive seen to start
one…. Then my black ass hoped on real fast! Went in my first ever topic that went str8 to number 1
#NEVERTRUST … word spread that iwas the one who started it so then the followers started rolling in ….. from
10 a day to 50 to 100”s . So i thought All these damn followers had to turn into money just like how all my thousands of
frreinds turned into money on myspace. So once again all i did was google .. how to make money on twitter.. saw a
buncha of sh*t but i f**ked with ( http://bit.ly/Payd2Tweet ) .. Which pays u to post links on your twitter page…. Just like how business pay tv networks to show thier commercials…. thats how websites make money .. a never ending circle of advertisments. So im already doin atleast 6-15 designs a week i charge from $60-$80 which i can all get done in two days …. THrowin the hottest parties in la with my partners … on thurs fridays an sat. makin $0-$600 a night. (so you do the math on how much money i make a week) Making all this money siting on my BED eating #nshit !!! Networkin and sendin messages.<br />I have funnnnnnn being on these sites telling jokes starting games … then goin out on the weekends to see hundreds of people at my events. A good way to show my face to the people who think be at home all day! Im def not lke those wierdos u meet in person that are totally different from how they seem on the net. Im the Life of my own event …dancin up and down the club…… and my 6’3 ass can dance.! BELIEEVE THAT B*TCH haha<br />I love my life and thank god for blessing me with thnx for readin
Don’t have to respect my MIND but you have no choice to respect my GRIND
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Latest revision as of 13:18, 12 August 2024

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The Kandy Man, the spelling used in the credits of The Happiness Patrol and in the novelisation

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The Kandy Man (also spelt Kandyman), formerly Seivad, was a scientist whose mind was placed into an android by Gilbert M to serve as Helen A's executioner.

Biography[[edit]]

Human life[[edit]]

Seivad, a human, lived on Vasilip where he worked as a scientist in the capital city. He was rivalled only by Gilbert, the chief state scientist, with whom he was in competition for years before they decided, for the advancement of science, to work together.

After Gilbert created accidentally created a germ which wiped out half of the planet, the king decreed that he and Seivad were to be killed on sight and they fled to the mountains. They made a hiding place which was discovered by a vigilante who attacked Seivad and left him for dead, but Gilbert, returning from foraging food, worked through the night to save his mind. (PROSE: The Happiness Patrol [+]Loading...["The Happiness Patrol (novelisation)"])

On Terra Alpha[[edit]]

Gilbert took a flight to Terra Alpha with Seivad's mind in a suitcase and was ordered by Helen A to create a monster from him. His only other choice being exile, he complied and imprisoned Seivad's mind inside of the Kandy Man, an android he built out of sweets as they were the only raw materials at his disposal.(PROSE: The Happiness Patrol [+]Loading...["The Happiness Patrol (novelisation)"]) His mind remained his own, however, (TV: The Happiness Patrol [+]Loading...["The Happiness Patrol (TV story)"]) and, forced to serve as Helen A's henchman, the Kandy Man went mad with anger and injustice. (PROSE: The Happiness Patrol [+]Loading...["The Happiness Patrol (novelisation)"])

Although most accounts agreed that the body that Gilbert built for the Kandy Man had the appearance of an android made of sweets, (TV: The Happiness Patrol [+]Loading...["The Happiness Patrol (TV story)"]; AUDIO: Sweet Salvation [+]Loading...["Sweet Salvation (audio story)"]) one claimed that the body was humanoid with sugar-based skin covered in a soft white powder (PROSE: The Happiness Patrol [+]Loading...["The Happiness Patrol (novelisation)"]) just like the body that would later be created for him by the Eleven. (AUDIO: Sweet Salvation [+]Loading...["Sweet Salvation (audio story)"])

The Kandy Man was based in the Kandy Kitchen and was assisted by Gilbert. He made sweets (TV: The Happiness Patrol [+]Loading...["The Happiness Patrol (TV story)"]) which were given out by the Happiness Patrol as a reward for happiness, (PROSE: The Happiness Patrol [+]Loading...["The Happiness Patrol (novelisation)"]) performed experiments on those designated Killjoys and did Helen A's "dirty work", namely executions. (TV: The Happiness Patrol [+]Loading...["The Happiness Patrol (TV story)"]) He refused to meet with Trevor Sigma when he arrived on Terra Alpha to complete a census and executed Andrew X with a fondant surprise six months later. (PROSE: The Happiness Patrol [+]Loading...["The Happiness Patrol (novelisation)"])

After the Seventh Doctor and Earl Sigma sneaked into the Kandy Kitchen, the Kandy Man captured them and prepared to kill them, but the Doctor tricked him into breaking open a bottle of lemonade and causing his feet to be stuck to the floor, a predicament which Gilbert would not free him from. The Doctor temporarily freed him in return for stopping Susan Q's execution and returned a second time with Ace, who helped him force the Kandy Man into fleeing into the pipes. Wences and Wulfric then destroyed him by redirecting the fondant surprise and his remains were found by Joseph C and Gilbert, who decided not to rebuild him. (TV: The Happiness Patrol [+]Loading...["The Happiness Patrol (TV story)"])

Rebuilt[[edit]]

Long after Terra Alpha, the Kandyman's spaceship crashed on Tara and he was once again destroyed, but Grendel of Gracht, Merrybone and Claypole found him and Claypole, using instructions the Kandyman had hidden inside himself, was able to remake him using southern Taran sugarbeet and stolen sweets. He volunteered his services as executioner to Grendel, who knighted him "Sir Kandyman", and supplied Grendel with advanced weapons to attack Castle Tara. He succeeded in kidnapping Queen Strella whilst she was with the Seventh Doctor, but was killed by Bernice Summerfield when she threw a bucket of red wine over him. (PROSE: The Trials of Tara [+]Loading...["The Trials of Tara (short story)"])

The Kandyman cowers during a brawl at Bonjaxx's Bar. (COMIC: Party Animals)

The Kandy Man attended Bonjaxx's birthday party at Bonjaxx's Bar on Maruthea. After a drunken Meep started a fight, the Kandy Man was attacked by Ace with a baseball bat. The Seventh Doctor and a future incarnation were also in attendance. (COMIC: Party Animals [+]Loading...["Party Animals (comic story)"])

The Kandyman became a mercenary who served as the enforcer of several regimes. While in a Third Zone labour camp, his body was torn apart and consumed by Androgums. (AUDIO: Sweet Salvation [+]Loading...["Sweet Salvation (audio story)"])

Humanoid body[[edit]]

The Eleven found the Kandyman, and constructed a new body from spun sugar, that gave him a new, almost human-looking body. (AUDIO: Sweet Salvation [+]Loading...["Sweet Salvation (audio story)"])

The Eighth Doctor encountered Kandyman in this new body in Rykerzon centuries after their first encounter. He assisted the Eleven in his scheme to gain control over the population of Colony 23 by incorporating silk from the Psychic Spider's into confectionery products distributed throughout the world, forming a direct psychic link from its consumers to the Eleven.

This body was eventually destroyed when he was pushed by Liv Chenka into a vat of additives, melting it immensely and becoming "more syrup than solid", before ultimately sticking to the Eleven and again being knocked from a ledge, this time landing in the nest of a large Psychic Spider. (AUDIO: World of Damnation [+]Loading...["World of Damnation (audio story)"], Sweet Salvation [+]Loading...["Sweet Salvation (audio story)"])

Legacy[[edit]]

On Erratoon, Ace described the Kandyman to Zara as a "bloke made of liquorice". (AUDIO: The Prisoner's Dilemma [+]Loading...["The Prisoner's Dilemma (audio story)"])

In the video game Happy Deathday, played by Izzy Sinclair on the Time-Space Visualiser, the Kandyman was among a host of "every single enemy" that the Doctor had ever defeated, who were assembled by the Beige Guardian and pitted against the Doctor's first eight incarnations. (COMIC: Happy Deathday [+]Loading...["Happy Deathday (comic story)"])

Personality[[edit]]

The Kandy Man was a pathological, psychopathic android, (AUDIO: Sweet Salvation [+]Loading...["Sweet Salvation (audio story)"]) employed as an executioner by the egocentric Helen A. It delighted in inflicting torture and destruction with confectionery. One of its favourite methods was drowning people in pipes filled with its "Fondant Surprise", a thick solution composed of boiling liquid candy.

Like most of the members of the Happiness Patrol, it was a sadistic executioner with a very warped sense of humour, speaking with a squeaky, almost child-like metallic voice and producing a variety of deadly sweets to suit its role of execution for sadness. These sweets were supposed to be so delicious humans were unable to cope with the pleasure, overloading their senses and killing them. The Kandyman claimed most of its victims in this manner — "with smiles on their faces" — but it was perfectly happy to throttle them if they refused to cooperate. The Kandyman would usually flip a coin to make decisions on how to best murder anyone who crossed his path, or otherwise annoyed and irritated him. The Kandyman was easily frustrated and annoyed. (TV: The Happiness Patrol [+]Loading...["The Happiness Patrol (TV story)"])

Appearance[[edit]]

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The Kandy Man's external shell composed of sweets like toffee, liquorice, sherbet, marzipan and caramel. The Seventh Doctor discovered that he could be stuck to the floor with lemonade. (TV: The Happiness Patrol [+]Loading...["The Happiness Patrol (TV story)"])

By the time the Kandyman encountered the Eighth Doctor, he had a new, almost human-looking body. (AUDIO: World of Damnation [+]Loading...["World of Damnation (audio story)"])

Behind the scenes[[edit]]

Original artwork for 7D 3
  • The correct variation of the character's name is uncertain. For The Happiness Patrol, David John Pope is credited as "Kandy Man" (two-word version) on-screen and "Kandyman" (one-word version) in Radio Times.
  • After part two of The Happiness Patrol aired, HB Stokes, CEO and chairman of Bassett's, wrote to complain of the resemblance of the Kandyman to their mascot Bertie Bassett. An internal investigation by the BBC determined that the resemblance was coincidental and no copyright infringement had been committed. However, Stokes was assured the character would not be appearing in the series again.[1][2][3]
  • Strax actor Dan Starkey commented that "the Kandy Man was like Doctor Who trying to do a Tim Burton movie, but being made in TV Centre and not quite getting it. The idea of it was quite nice, even if the execution wasn't quite as successful as it might have been." (DWM 475, p. 18)

Footnotes[[edit]]

  1. ↑ The History Of Bassett’s Liquorice Allsorts & Bertie Bassett
  2. ↑ On This Day… In 1988 The Kandyman First Appeared
  3. ↑ Bertie Bassett
  4. ↑ My newest #DoctorWho print is based one of the covers from my #SeventhDoctor mini-series, but including the #Daleks and #Kandyman as originally intended! (Yes, I'll have these at Long Beach Comic Con #LBCC2018 and New York Comic Con #NYCC2018!)
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