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story name= Paradise Towers |
story name= Paradise Towers |
image=[[Image:MelInPool.jpg|250px]] |
image=[[Image:MelInPool.jpg|250px]] |
series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[TV stories|TV Stories]] <br> [[Season 24]]|
series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[TV stories|TV Stories]]|
number= 24 |
number= [[Season 24]]|
story number= 146|
doctor=[[Seventh Doctor]] |
doctor=[[Seventh Doctor]] |
companions= [[Melanie Bush | Mel]] |
companions= [[Melanie Bush | Mel]] |
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==Synopsis==
==Synopsis==
The Doctor and Mel arrive at Paradise Towers, an enormous luxury apartment complex, but find a dystopic environment of rival gangs of teenage girls, cannibalistic residents, murderous cleaning machines, and a very nasty entity lurking in the basement.
Mel wants to go swimming so the Doctor takes her to a tower block called Paradise Towers where there is reputed to be a fantastic pool. When they arrive they discover that the place is far from being the superb leisure resort they had expected - it is run-down and dilapidated.
 
The hallways are roamed by gangs of young girls known as Kangs; the apartments are inhabited by cannibalistic old ladies, the Rezzies; and the building is managed by a group of dictatorial caretakers, presided over by the Chief Caretaker.
 
The latter is in thrall to the disembodied Great Architect Kroagnon, the building's creator, who is using giant cleaning machines systematically to kill all the occupants as he considers that they are spoiling his creation by living there.
 
The Great Architect eventually manifests himself by taking over the Chief Caretaker's body, but the Doctor and Mel join forces with the Kangs, the Rezzies and Pex - the only young man left in the complex - to defeat him. Pex, however, is apparently killed in the struggle.


==Plot==
==Plot==
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==References==
==References==
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*[[Paradise Towers]], designed by [[Kroagnon]], otherwise known as the Great Architect, won many awards in the [[21st century]].
*Kroagnon was also responsible for [[Golden Dream Park]], the [[Bridge of Perpetual Motion]] and [[Miracle City]].
*The [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] swimming pool was leaking and has been jettisoned.
*There is, according to the Doctor, a spectacular pool on the planet [[Griophos]], although it is for the exclusive use of the [[Gulmeri]], flesh eating octopi.
*The [[Robotic Self activating Megapodic Mark 7Z]] cleaners have [[oxymotive blade]]s.
*The Doctor describes an antique [[phone]] as a splendid piece of [[audioarchitectonicalmetrasynchosity]].
*Kroagnon 'transplants' his brain into the Chief Caretaker's body via [[corporal ectoscopy]].


==Story Notes==
==Story Notes==
''to be added''
*This story had a working title of; '''Paradise Tower'''.
*Julie Brennon, who played Fire Escape, was at the time married to former companion actor [[Mark Strickson]].


===Ratings===
===Ratings===
''to be added''
*Part 1 - 4.5 million viewers
*Part 2 - 5.2 million viewers
*Part 3 - 5.0 million viewers
*Part 4 - 5.0 million viewers


===Myths===
===Myths===
''to be added''
''to be added''


===Location Filming===
===Filming Locations===
''to be added''
*Elmswell House, Nightingales Lane, Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire (Location of the pool)
*[[BBC Television Centre]] ([[List of stories recorded at BBC Television Centre|TC1 & TC8]]), Shepherd's Bush, [[London]]


===Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors===
===Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors===
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==Continuity==
==Continuity==
*The Doctor is once again called an "Old One" by locals, as he was in [[DW]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet]]''.
*The Doctor is once again called an "Old One" by locals, as he was in [[DW]]: ''[[The Mysterious Planet]]''.
*The TARDIS is graffitied again in [[DW]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]''.
*The TARDIS pool last appeared in [[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]''.
==Timeline==
*Paradise Towers occurs after: [[BFA]]: ''[[Red]]''
*Paradise Towers occurs before: [[BFA]]: ''[[Bang-Bang-A-Boom!]]''


==DVD and Video Releases==
==DVD and Video Releases==
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*[http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_7e.htm  Doctor Who Reference Guide: Detailed Synopsis - '''Paradise Towers''']
*[http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_7e.htm  Doctor Who Reference Guide: Detailed Synopsis - '''Paradise Towers''']
*[http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/7e.html A Brief History of Time (Travel) entry for '''Paradise Towers''']
*[http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/7e.html A Brief History of Time (Travel) entry for '''Paradise Towers''']
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*[http://www.doctorwholocations.net/stories/paradisetowers The Locations Guide to Doctor Who - '''Paradise Towers'']
 
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Revision as of 08:44, 23 September 2008


Synopsis

Mel wants to go swimming so the Doctor takes her to a tower block called Paradise Towers where there is reputed to be a fantastic pool. When they arrive they discover that the place is far from being the superb leisure resort they had expected - it is run-down and dilapidated.

The hallways are roamed by gangs of young girls known as Kangs; the apartments are inhabited by cannibalistic old ladies, the Rezzies; and the building is managed by a group of dictatorial caretakers, presided over by the Chief Caretaker.

The latter is in thrall to the disembodied Great Architect Kroagnon, the building's creator, who is using giant cleaning machines systematically to kill all the occupants as he considers that they are spoiling his creation by living there.

The Great Architect eventually manifests himself by taking over the Chief Caretaker's body, but the Doctor and Mel join forces with the Kangs, the Rezzies and Pex - the only young man left in the complex - to defeat him. Pex, however, is apparently killed in the struggle.

Plot

to be added

Cast

Crew

References

Story Notes

  • This story had a working title of; Paradise Tower.
  • Julie Brennon, who played Fire Escape, was at the time married to former companion actor Mark Strickson.

Ratings

  • Part 1 - 4.5 million viewers
  • Part 2 - 5.2 million viewers
  • Part 3 - 5.0 million viewers
  • Part 4 - 5.0 million viewers

Myths

to be added

Filming Locations

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

to be added

Continuity

Timeline

DVD and Video Releases

to be added

Novelisation

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Main article: Paradise Towers (novelisation)

External Links

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